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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! From a Best Friends email.

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Sign ALDF Petition to Help Kentucky's Homeless Animals

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Tags: animal shelter management animal shelters Kentucky strays. The State used to provide oversight, but in 2004, they abrogated responsibility to the counties. According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, things are not going well. Please sign the petition to help them.

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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. Tags: books guest post. Today we have a lovely guest post from author Deborah Blumenthal.

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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. 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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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?

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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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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. Tags: guest post. The rise in foreclosures over the last few years has been paralleled by a spike in the number of animals that are being brought to shelters for what most owners are listing as “moving reasons”.

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