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"No More Homeless Pets" Conference Scheduled for October

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Join Best Friends Animal Society for the annual No More Homeless Pets National Conference, October 23-25, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Each year, five million healthy, adoptable homeless pets are still being put down. Make valuable new connections to make your work for homeless pets even more effective!

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Sign ALDF Petition to Help Kentucky's Homeless Animals

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Sounds like it's hell for these animals in Kentucky shelters. According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, things are not going well. Tags: animal shelter management animal shelters Kentucky strays. The State used to provide oversight, but in 2004, they abrogated responsibility to the counties.

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Best Friends to Celebrate 25 Years of Helping Animals

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It’s a celebration befitting 25 years of drastically reducing the euthanasia rate around the country, improving the lives of animals around the world, and setting the stage for a time of No More Homeless Pets. Tags: Best Friends. You can read about organizing local events on their site linked at the top.

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Pretty Paws Giveaway

4 The Love Of Animals

One lucky reader will get their choice of a personalized dog ID tag. The front of the tag has a colorful design, enamelled onto it. Contact information can be engraved onto the reverse of the tags. They offer free shipping on tags worldwide! Even better? Comment before midnight on February 3rd, 2011.

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PurinaOne is Helping Shelter Pets

4 The Love Of Animals

They will donate up to $300,000 to help homeless pets this season, so please visit YouTube.com/PurinaONE and watch a video about their new pet food, beyOnd. Tags: people helping animals. Between now and December 10th, Purina is donating one dollar for each time a video is viewed on their YouTube channel!

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The Blue House Dog

4 The Love Of Animals

A New York Times story that ran in 2001 about a homeless dog wandering around a suburban part of New York City, struck a chord with me. They offered him hand-outs and cared enough about him, not to call Animal Control and risk having him picked up and sent to a shelter where his fate would be doomed. Tags: books guest post.

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Guest Post: Foreclosures Threaten Pets As Well As People

4 The Love Of Animals

While many animal shelters already struggle on a day-to-day basis to care for the millions of unwanted animals that are dropped at their door, the numbers have grown to an almost unmanageable degree over the last few years. The culprit for this surge in animal homelessness is a testimonial to these trying times: human homelessness.

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