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#LightForPets Remember Me Thursday

4 The Love Of Animals

By uniting animal lovers across the world on one very special day, we can help raise awareness about animal adoption, and hopefully save the lives of more pets. Remember to invite friends and family to do the same. ADOPT A PET! Always adopt. Encourage your friends and family to do the same.

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Mexican Activists Staged Protest Early this Month

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MEXICO CITY – Animal rights activists staged a protest against the sale of pets in Mexico City, urging residents to adopt dogs and other animals instead of buying them. Eight of every 10 dogs sold in Mexico end up in the streets, with most of them having been family pets at some point, official figures show.

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ASPCA Go Orange in April!

4 The Love Of Animals

Every April, the ASPCA invites supporters across the country to “Go Orange for Animals” and raise awareness for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month. Become an ASPCA Ambassador and create your own grassroots event, inviting friends and family to sponsor your efforts on behalf of the ASPCA.

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Goliath Herons at Lake Panic

10,000 Birds

Back on the bank it gave itself a doggy shake to dry out and held its feathers slightly raised from its body to help them dry, making itself look even bigger than it already was. As the name suggests, the Goliath Heron is the world’s biggest member of the Ardea family. For no good reason I took the two birds to be father and son.

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Managing Emotional Problems in Rescue Dogs

4 The Love Of Animals

However, that doesn’t mean they can’t make great companions for the right adoptive family. Sadly, however, one of the reasons people are hesitant to adopt these dogs is because of the assumption that such dogs are always “damaged goods,&# and can’t be re-trained. This helped them bond with us.

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Rescue Spotlight: Rabbit Meadows

4 The Love Of Animals

To accommodate the sanctuary rabbits, our adoption center and our compassionate human visitors, Rabbit Meadows plans to build a series of small cottage-like structures among the picturesque fir trees on its grounds. who feel comfortable enough to return to Rabbit Meadows each year to raise their young.

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Rescues and Runways

4 The Love Of Animals

Together with the ASPCA, their Rescues and Runways program hopes to find homes for pets, and raise money for shelters. Families who are facing hard financial times are being forced to surrender their dogs, cats and other pets to animal shelters at an alarming rate. Homeless Pets Need More Help Than Ever Before. Duluth, Minn.

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