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Must-Have Apps for the Avid Pet Lover

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The right app can provide more focused, reputable information than a Google search, and they’re available on hand, whenever you need them. When you’re in the beginning stages of adopting a pet, the choice can be nerve-wracking, and going to the shelter without a plan is like going to the grocery store on an empty stomach.

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Managing Emotional Problems in Rescue Dogs

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However, that doesn’t mean they can’t make great companions for the right adoptive family. The no-kill shelter I adopted them from didn’t know too much about them except that they were found half-starved in the Jasper area after Hurricane Rita tore through areas of the east Texas coast.

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Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home Coming to Orlando

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With strikingly honest interviews and rare footage demonstrating the emotional lives and intense family bonds of animals most often viewed as living commodities, PEACEABLE KINGDOM: THE JOURNEY HOME shatters stereotypical notions of farmers, farm life, and perhaps most surprisingly, farm animals themselves.

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5 ways to help the animal rescue efforts in Chile and Haiti

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Veterinarians, technicians and others can volunteer to travel to Chile to help groups such as World Vets. Local shelters and rescue organizations take in animals displaced from earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, house fires, and other tragedies. There is great human need after these natural disasters and it is right to help where we can.

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Guest Post: Susan Wilson

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She has a new book out (which I am reading right now) called One Good Dog. I’m an author, good character names are fair game) joined the family and something rather miraculous happened. My second favorite rescue story is that of Hunter, a beagle-ish dog that my daughter and son-in-law adopted from a shelter in Massachusetts.

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Teaching Kids Animal Compassion

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Choosing the right pet for your child is key. Pick a pet that fits your family’s lifestyle – Look at the purpose the pet will serve in your family. Many mutts you can get from the pound or animal shelter make terrific pets. I strongly encourage people to adopt pound and shelter animals. By Dr. Tim Hunt, DVM.

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Fizzle’s Story

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After talking to Barb’s family, there wasn’t a doubt in my mind that they were anticipating her passing with a sense of weary relief, so I was surprised when the hospice nurse called me on the day of Barb’s death and asked me to come out to the home quickly. Then I noticed that several family members were also nursing bleeding wounds.

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