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Pet Foster Care Helps To Smooth Adoption Process

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Serving as a pet foster parent is an excellent way to welcome a new animal companion into your home and help an animal in need. 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.

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Best Friends Animal Society Helps You Protect Your Pets this Independence Day

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Best Friends four-legged Celebrity Ambassador Lassie encourages everyone to protect pets this Independence Day weekend by keeping them in a safe, comfortable place inside the house during fireworks. Ensure that pets are microchipped and wear current identification tags, just in case they accidentally get loose.

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Shelby at the Shelter

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Even tougher though, was moving a bit further away and into an apartment complex that did not allow for me to own any pet other than a goldfish. Shelter work is always a great combination of heartwarming stories, hilarious animal antics and a great vibe of fun people all around. I was heartbroken. What a great opportunity!”

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Must-Have Apps for the Avid Pet Lover

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Keep your pet happy and healthy with these mobile apps. Pets can be a bigger commitment than many people expect, between adoption, health care, training, and environment, there are a lot of variables to consider. Fido Pet Adoptions (iOS, Android). Pet First Aid (iPhone). Pet Master (iOS, Android). Cost: free).

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Is fostering the answer? We think it is.

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NEW JERSEY – Animal shelters are full, they have no space, they often have no money, and they have a small amount of dedicated volunteers. There is an estimated 3-4million pets euthanized each year in US animal shelters. There is a strong lack of homes willing to open their doors to fostering a shelter pet.

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Ladybug Love Run to benefit Rock & Rawhide!

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Sign up for a super fun “run” anywhere in the world with other animal lovers, and help a truly great cause in the process. You can be anywhere in the world to take part, any distance, any way to help shelter animals!! A portion of race proceeds will go to Rock & Rawhide to help shelter animals in need.

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5 Vital Questions When Adopting A Rescue Dog

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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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