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Dog boxes help homeless and struggling dog owners

4 The Love Of Animals

Homeless and struggling dog owners in Bristol are set to get some additional support from August, with an innovative new business that gives out free ‘dog boxes’ to those in need.

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Scarlett The Cat: From Homeless To A Hero

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The story of homeless Scarlett is, probably, one of the most touching, unbelievable and heart-stirring over the last decades. Being homeless, at first, this cat became one of the top-figures in press, both newspapers and TVs: even Oprah Winfrey has talked about her in own talk-show!

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"No More Homeless Pets" Conference Scheduled for October

Critter News

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! From a Best Friends email.

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Pregnant & Homeless Dogs Rely on Street Dog Feeders to Survive

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Finding Shelter

4 The Love Of Animals

The film shares how the family has shared love and compassion for the homeless animals in their town. Finding Shelter is an amazing documentary about an English family who found themselves unexpectedly rescuing street animals in Bulgaria.

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Help 7 homeless animals in need today, please help them:

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Ellen Donates a Million Meals to Homeless Pets

Critter News

Very cool of her to do this.

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Shirts to save animals

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Throughout the month of August, Booster is showcasing and supporting t-shirt fundraisers launched by pet lovers to save homeless animals, and to raise awareness and much needed funds for animal-related 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations.

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Fix Nation

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Caring for the homeless cat population in Los Angeles, FixNation , offers free spay and neuter services to caregivers of community cats. The group, founded in 2007, also provides a free, full-time spay and neuter clinic for homeless stray and feral cats, plus low-cost, spay and neuter services for tame pet cats.

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“New York’s Kindest” includes Rock & Rawhide!

4 The Love Of Animals

As the only organization in New York City whose doors are open to any animal in need, AC&C rescues thousands of New York’s homeless, neglected, abused and abandoned animals each year. As a non-profit organization since 1995, AC&C rescues, cares for and finds loving homes for homeless and abandoned animals in New York City.

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Guest Post: Foreclosures Threaten Pets As Well As People

4 The Love Of Animals

The culprit for this surge in animal homelessness is a testimonial to these trying times: human homelessness. 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.

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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. The boy was wounded by his loss, just as the homeless dog was wounded when his owner died. Today we have a lovely guest post from author Deborah Blumenthal.

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Blog the Change

4 The Love Of Animals

Best Friends’ No More Homeless Pets campaign has done so much to help bring shelter and rescue pets into the forefront, but there is still so much to do. Best Friends Animal Society is guided by a simple philosophy: kindness to animals builds a better world for all of us.

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FiXiT Aims to Facilitate 25 Spay Neuters This Week

4 The Love Of Animals

FiXiT is dedicated to coming up with solutions to reduce the number of homeless animals by helping people get their animals get spayed/neutered. Every year 3-4 million dogs and cats die in animal shelters in the United States because there aren’t enough homes for them.

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Dharamsala Animal Rescue

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Dharamsala Animal Rescue helps the thousands of homeless street dogs that roam the streets of Dharamsala. This month they are trying to raise awareness and funds to help end the suffering of animals in Dharamsala, India – please visit them on Facebook to help them reach their goal. Many of the dogs are sick, injured, or starving.

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A tale of two brothers

4 The Love Of Animals

A great perspective for those who are concerned about homeless pets. A tale of two brothers | The Best Friends Blog. Click the photo to read an interesting story about the animal welfare movement.

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Spotted: Better Buddies!

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Better Buddies has several social impact programs in the works and currently donates a 10% of profit to the Best Friends Animal Society, who works on creating a world with “No more homeless pets.” We love a company with heart, especially a company on a mission to help homeless pets!

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PurinaOne is Helping Shelter Pets

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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. 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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My local animal shelter is raising money for homeless pets, if you want to donate, here’s the link

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Springtime Tree Cutting and Wildlife

10,000 Birds

Two families were split up and made homeless by the cutting of one tree. The screech owlet joined the other young screech owls already being cared for at the center, learned to fly and catch prey, and eventually they were released as well. Although they were all successfully released, it was a sad story,” said Michele.

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ASPCA Joplin Adopt a Thon

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“Thanks to the generosity of these wonderful people, the animals left homeless by last month’s tornado are sleeping in new beds tonight.&#. “We’re completely floored by the amazing outpouring of support,&# said Joplin native Tim Rickey, the ASPCA’s senior director of Field Investigations and Response.

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Bowl by Bowl Challenge

4 The Love Of Animals

It’s such an easy way to provide help to homeless pets. The Bowl by Bowl goal for October is to donate 12,500 bowls of food to shelter cats and dogs. Please visit the Purina One Facebook page and take the quiz!

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Shine a Light on a Shelter

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Do you know of a shelter that is doing good work on behalf of homeless pets? Purina ONE® beyOnd® brand dog and cat food and GOOD have teamed up to host the Shine a Light on a Shelter challenge and award a $10,000 grant to an animal shelter doing great work.

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Best Welcome Home Ever

4 The Love Of Animals

About Adopt-a-Pet.com: Adopt-a-Pet.com is North America’s largest non-profit pet adoption website, helping over 11,000 animal shelters, humane societies, SPCAs, pet rescue groups, and pet adoption agencies advertise their homeless pets to adopters. Every month, Adopt-a-Pet.com displays photos and descriptions of adoptable pets to over 1.5

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Bow Wow!

4 The Love Of Animals

We love stories like this that help homeless pets put their best paw forward! We wanted to share this clip from the TODAY Show, featuring animal expert Jill Rappaport helping revamp dogs desperately in need of a good home. Luckily, the story has a follow up happy ending for at least one dog that we know of… read on.

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Salon des Refusés (part 1)

10,000 Birds

While it is laudable to point out the plight of homeless woodpeckers, this is hardly the right subject for an upbeat bird photo contest. Indeed, it would have been a great entry for a contest titled “Lamps in the City”, but a failure for a bird photo contest. Every bird photo should tell a story, not just show a bird.

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Pretty Paws Giveaway

4 The Love Of Animals

Not only does Pretty Paws help you pamper your own pets, but also takes it a step further and help homeless pets as well. She has taken the time to find top quality fashion & luxury accessories for your pets.

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Surf Dog Surf-A-Thon 2010

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What a fun way to spread the word on behalf of homeless pets! The event is held to raise awareness and money for orphaned pets while promoting responsible pet ownership. The funds raised will be used to support all the programs at Helen Woodward Animal Center.

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What To Do If You Find a Pit Bull

4 The Love Of Animals

Like every dog they are vulnerable to homelessness and mistreatment. However, any breed of dog that has been abused, neglected, or homeless may be aggressive to humans or other dogs. Pit Bull Rescue Central (PBRC) is a great resource for pit bull owners and those that find a homeless or lost pit bull.

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Best Friends to Celebrate 25 Years of Helping Animals

Critter News

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. You can read about organizing local events on their site linked at the top.

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The Shelter Pet Project

4 The Love Of Animals

This new campaign, sponsored by The Humane Society of the United States, Maddie’s Fund, and the Ad Council, hopes to reverse this trend and find homes for these homeless, lovable pets. Luckily, The Shelter Pet Project hopes to change this! The campaign has one unified goal, to increase pet adoption.

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Purina ONE Tour For Heroes

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Every time a homeless pet’s photo is shared, Purina ONE will donate $1 – up to $50,000 – to feed pets in need in local communities. You can help too, and for free! Simply log onto tourforheroes.marthastewart.com , then search for an adoptable pet anywhere in the United States and click to share with friends on Facebook.

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NEW LIVES: Stories of Rescued Dogs Helping, Healing and Giving Hope

4 The Love Of Animals

We hope that you will consider donating time, goods, or money, to your local rescue/shelter to help homeless pets. We agree with her, and were really happy to find out that she hosted a contest in the past to help highlight and bring attention to that issue. Would you like a chance to win a copy of this great book? You may comment daily.

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Dosomething.org helps lost pets.

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She will also host her own animal homelessness awareness campaign in her city by posting fliers and information in public places. Sharleen D from Arcadia, CA plans to take pictures of all the lost pets at her local animal shelter and make an album on facebook and share it with her friends.

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Bring Pets Home

4 The Love Of Animals

The site’s primary purpose is to raise money to help shelters care for homeless pets. Bring Pets Home is a great way for pet lovers to raise money to help homeless animals without ever leaving home—and at no cost to them,” says Linda Block of Bring Pets Home. More pets are entering shelters, but donors’ purse strings have tightened.

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DOGTOWN: THE ROAD HOME

4 The Love Of Animals

It’s such an inspiring show, with people who are doing amazing work on behalf of homeless animals. Have you been watching this season of DogTown? If you haven’t, I would encourage you to do so. DogTown is the name of an area of Best Friends Animal Society in Angel Canyon, Utah.

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Star studded Valentine Doggie Dinner Party

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The donation will help support Adopt-a-Pet.com’s mission to find forever homes for homeless dogs. As part of its overall Valentine program, Chef Michael’s donated $7,500 to Adopt-a-Pet.com on behalf of all of the entrants in the Doggie Valentine contest and all of the doggie diners who attended party.

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Paws UP for Union Township Animal Shelter

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When pets have lower stress levels, their personality can shine through the cage which increases their chances of being adopted sooner, which in turn, provides space for another homeless pet to be rescued,” said Sean-Patrick M. Hillman, President and Co-Founder of Rock &Rawhide.

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I am in Greece now and have met thousands of homeless cats. The one on the first page climbed inside my jacket and fell asleep. Most are healthy but some doesn’t have enough food. They are very cute and social and if you go to Greece then please consider adopting a cat to give them a better life.

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Bring Pets Home

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What I love is that you can use BringPetsHome’s “Shop to Help&# page all year long to raise money to help shelters care for homeless pets. If you are like us and shop online often, this is a great way to help animals by doing something you would be doing anyway!

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Rescue Spotlight: Kitten Rescue

4 The Love Of Animals

WHAT: The Kitten Rescue Fur Ball at the Skirball is an annual fundraiser dinner held to support Kitten Rescue’s programs and the Kitten Rescue Homeless Cat Sanctuary. Covey (“Reno 911”), Daniela Sea (“The L Word”), Kent King (“General Hospital”), and Tania Gunadi (“Aaron Stone”) among others.

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Want to Help Feed Homeless Animals?

Animal Ethics

The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily to meet their quota of getting free food donated every day to abused and neglected animals. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on the purple box "Click here to give" to fund food for animals for free. It doesn't cost you a thing.

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Guest post: Dog Adoption

4 The Love Of Animals

These dogs are homeless through no fault of their own, and by rescuing one of them, you may just save their life. Dog Fence DIY will help with all the steps of the process. If you’re planning on adding a dog to your family, it’s possible you’ll find your new family member at the local animal shelter or humane society.