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5 Vital Questions When Adopting A Rescue Dog

4 The Love Of Animals

With the growing awareness of pet overpopulation more and more families are choosing to adopt a shelter dog and save a life. Rarely do shelters know anything about the dog’s history when they first come in and the longer a dog lives at the shelter the more impact it will have on their emotional well-being.

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How Pets Can Improve Your Health

4 The Love Of Animals

Expert cites scientifically-proven therapeutic, physical and emotional health benefits of loving and caring for a pet. But, pets also become bona fide family members with which we establish genuine relationships—incomparable emotional bonds that can have extraordinarily positive physical and psychological impacts on humans.

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Pet Foster Care Helps To Smooth Adoption Process

4 The Love Of Animals

There are countless dogs and cats in shelters across the U.S. In fact, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 5 to 7 million pets are taken into animal shelters in the U.S. Patience – Animals in shelters or those who have been moved from home to home are often under tremendous stress.

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Dogtown: So Far So Good

Critter News

My hands-on experience is with small mammals/critters and cats. I remember posting last summer about an abused pit bull mother who was euthanized by our animal shelter for being food-aggressive. In many ways, they are probably easier to change because they don't have the same emotional baggage.

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Sneeze Prone? Top 5 Dogs for Allergy Suffers

4 The Love Of Animals

It was bit of a traumatic experience for me and I vowed to never own an animal again. But as I began my search for a new family member at local shelters, I noticed that something was terribly wrong—I couldn’t hold the dogs I was considering adopting for more than 5 minutes before going into a sneezing convulsion.

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