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FiXiT Aims to Facilitate 25 Spay Neuters This Week

4 The Love Of Animals

Sponsors Are Able to Contribute As Little as $10 to Help an Animal Get Spayed/Neutered. FiXiT is dedicated to coming up with solutions to reduce the number of homeless animals by helping people get their animals get spayed/neutered. The post FiXiT Aims to Facilitate 25 Spay Neuters This Week appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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Five Surprising Benefits of Spaying or Neutering Your Pets

4 The Love Of Animals

There are major benefits of spaying or neutering your pets. Most of us know that spaying or neutering a pet can help reduce pet overpopulation and prevent an unintended pregnancy. Spaying or neutering your pet completely eliminate the risk of these dangerous cancers. Keep Your Pet Healthy. Reduced Cancer Risk.

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Help with spay and neuter funds

Reddit Animals

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What is the Difference Between Spaying & Neutering Your Dog?

Reddit Animals

submitted by /u/Brianlovescats [link] [comments].

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Breast Cancer in Pets

4 The Love Of Animals

Mammary gland tumors are common in dogs and cats, especially those that aren’t spayed or were spayed late in age. Dogs: • 25% (1 in 4) of un-spayed female dogs will get mammary cancer. Spaying a dog before their first heat will reduce the chance of breast cancer to almost zero. BREAST CANCER IN PETS FACT SHEET.

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Sassy needs a home, more information in comments please spread the word

Reddit Animals

Sassy is dog friendly & deserves a chance, Sassy is currently on the pro 6 HW shot due to having tested positive for HW, she's spayed & utd on shots etc.would do great in a home with kid's, she was raised around them.

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Fix Nation

4 The Love Of Animals

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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False Pregnancies In Dogs

4 The Love Of Animals

If you have no intention of breeding your dog, the best and most responsible thing to do is have her spayed. Having a dog spayed may also prevent any secondary illness and diseases in the future as well. This means, if she can’t become pregnant, she can’t have a false pregnancy either.

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McKee Project Helps Latin America's Strays

Critter News

Tags: animal cruelty spay/neuter latin america strays companion animals.

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Dog Diabetes

4 The Love Of Animals

Treatment for dog diabetes includes: Spaying Females. Lots of owners choose to spay their dogs to help balance hormone levels. This in turn causes extreme thirst, which starts the vicious process all over again. Treatment of Dog Diabetes. Female dogs are more susceptible to diabetes than males. Insulin shots.

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National Feral Cat Day Didn’t Go As Planned

10,000 Birds

“Obviously the Spay, Neuter, Release program is just not working – cause where are the kittens coming from.” I realize the number of those (cats) that are caught relies on volunteers and those that are caught are spayed or neutered and returned to the community, but it still means we have a lot of cats.”.

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McKee Project Expands Work into Guatemala and Other Latin American Countries

Critter News

At the end of 2007, the World Society for the Protection of Animals selected the McKee Project to work on spay/neuter programs in Guatemala. Tags: spay and neuter latin america. Although they are best known for their work in Costa Rica, they also work in Mexico and Panama.

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Mexican Border Town Offers Tax Exemption for Euthanizing Dogs

Critter News

Clearly, there's no spay/neuter program in this place. There's a stray dog problem in San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico. The solution? If you bring in the dog for euthanization, you get a tax exemption.hooray! Sarcasm there of course.

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Pet Photography 101 Giveaway

4 The Love Of Animals

Darlow is also a judge in the Humane Society’s annual photography contest the Spay Day Online Pet Photo Contest. The contest, which helps raise much needed funds for spaying and neutering programs, runs through March 4th. Be sure to check it out.

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No-Kill Conference Already Sold Out

Critter News

Tags: spay and neuter feral cats animal welfare us.

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Financial Resources for Cat Care

Critter News

Tags: spay/neuter cats animal rescue feral cats.

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Beartooth Humane Alliance

4 The Love Of Animals

If you live in that area, be sure to visit their spay and neuter clinic. I love this promotional video from the folks at Beartooth Humane Alliance in Montana! A great sense of humor, and a good cause too! Beartooth Humane Alliance originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on September 9, 2010.

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CATS for Cats

4 The Love Of Animals

CATS for Cats cast members Keith David (Princess and the Frog) who played Old Deuteronomy, along with Emily Jordan, Marlon Pelayo, Candice Fox, Pauline Mata (So You Think You Can Dance), Michael Munday, Destini Rogers (So You Think You Can Dance) and Caitlynn Lawson (So You Think You Can Dance).

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Quantico Has No Compassion for Feral Cats

Critter News

Frizzell has encountered those who trap feral cats with the intent of spaying or neutering them, vaccinating them and then releasing them back into the wild. Tags: spay and neuter quantico military feral cats. It is their belief, he said, that rendering most of the feral cats sexually inactive will humanely decrease their numbers.

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Helping Feral Cats in Your Neighborhood

Critter News

Cory Williams, of the famed "Mean Kitty" YouTube videos (which are really funny), has a good how-to video about doing a trap, spay/neuter, and release of feral cats in your neighborhood. The video was done on behalf of the Stray Cat Alliance.

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What To Do If You Find a Pit Bull

4 The Love Of Animals

In order to find a permanent home for your found pit bull as quickly as possible, PBRC suggests that you do the following: • Get your pit bull spayed or neutered and all of its shots. Resources can be found on the PBRC website, and you may also call 1 (800)-248-SPAY or 1 (800)-321-PET. Advertise your pit bull.

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Kittens!

4 The Love Of Animals

So here is a bit of a reminder to please spay and neuter your pets… it’s so sad that these gorgeous kittens won’t know the fun of having a human servant! We tried to find a rescue group to take the little family so they could hopefully find a loving home. Sadly, shelters and rescues are full of cats and are already full.

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Spaying and Neutering

Animal Ethics

Here is a story about Alley Cat Rescue.

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The Simple Economics of Pet Overpopulation

Critter News

The primary tool for this is spaying and neutering to decrease the population. What we need to do is reach an equilibrium where the supply for pets equals the demand. Many groups and individuals are working very hard on this by trying to decrease the supply.

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

4 The Love Of Animals

All AC&C adoptions include vaccinations, a microchip, spay or neuter, one month of free pet health insurance and a free office visit at a participating veterinarian. From February 25 through the end of March, the adoption fee will be just $20 for cats and rabbits, and $50 for dogs.

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Humane Society Endorses Obama

Critter News

As an Illinois state senator, he backed at least a dozen animal protection laws, including those to strengthen the penalties for animal cruelty, to help animal shelters, to promote spaying and neutering, and to ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption. In the U.S.

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Weekend Adopt-a-thon for Joplin Tornado Pets

4 The Love Of Animals

Adoption fees are being waived for this event, and adoptable animals will be spayed/neutered, micro-chipped, vaccinated, and provided an ID tag free of charge. HOW: Potential adopters should bring with them one government-issued photo ID (i.e. driver’s license, passport, military ID, or non-driver ID) and proof of address.

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On Dominance and Animal Birth Control

Animal Person

When taking the issue to simplest common denominator, spaying/neutering is essentially exercising human dominance over non-human animals. But my stance is also categorized under Gray Matters because, in my perfect world, we wouldn't be spaying or neutering anybody.

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National Dog Bite Prevention Week

4 The Love Of Animals

Spay or neuter your dog. When a carrier comes to your home, keep your dog inside, away from the door in another room. Don’t let your child take mail from the carrier in the presence of your dog. Your dog’s instinct is to protect the family. Neutered dogs are less likely to bite.

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Pahokee Opens for Project Treadstone

Animal Person

They will spay/neuter, vaccinate, tip ears and microchip , and they do not test. The cats are getting harder to trap, and I think even if I finally were able to get the spay RV from up north I don't see how I could trap 30 cats in a day at this point no matter how many people volunteer to help. What's in Pahokee you ask?

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When Is a Dog Unadoptable?

Critter News

One day while I was volunteering I met a little pit bull puppy who was recovering from a spaying. I rejoined my local animal shelter's volunteer program a few months ago (long story as to why I quit in the first place). Very sweet and gentle animal (I have a soft spot for pits.and pugs!)

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Dog Park Dangers

4 The Love Of Animals

Your dog also needs to be spayed or neutered. You never know what your pooch may encounter while sniffing around the edges of the park and he needs to be protected in case he comes across a wild animal (like a squirrel) or simply an unhealthy dog. There is nothing worse than an accidental pregnancy taking place at a dog park.

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10 Reasons Street Dogs Deserve to be Defended

4 The Love Of Animals

Poor countries with lots of trash on the streets and no spay/neuter clinics definitely have more street dogs. But I have a dark, tragic past, and I think that makes me a little more interesting than most dogs, don’t you? Street dogs aren’t someone else’s problem. Yup, I was rescued in Africa.

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Pet Adoption Tips from Adopt-A-Pet.com

4 The Love Of Animals

People can encourage other pet owners to spay or neuter their pet (link to our spay neuter page) to help prevent unwanted births. People can search Adopt-a-Pet.com to find a local shelter, and make a cash donation to that shelter to help them with the costs of housing, feeding and medical care of shelter animals.

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1st Annual Washington DC Week for the Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Myers military and so much more! These events will shine the spotlight on the amazing animals and compassionate people across the DC region who love them and work tirelessly on their behalf.

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Book: Shift Your Habit

4 The Love Of Animals

Most shelter animals are spayed or neutered, have been treated for worms, and have at least their first set of shots. Save the Planet: Adopting a shelter pet not only saves a life, but it reduces demand for purebred animals, which are more likely to have medical problems due to genetic abnormalities.

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Animal Rights Zone Launches Today

Animal Person

The goal is to provide blogospheric content that is easy to find, and from a variety of sources. On the left, you'll see this: Concepts. Project Treadstone. Responsible Policies. More >> Animals. More >> Category. More >> Players. New York Times.

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Good Idea: FlexPet

4 The Love Of Animals

Featured on National Geographic Channel’s show DogTown, Best Friends Animal Society works with members, individuals, humane groups and entire communities to set up spay/neuter, foster, shelter and adoption programs in neighborhoods throughout the country.

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Feral Cats in American Cities

10,000 Birds

… someone who is feeding feral cats would trap them, get them neutered or spayed, and possibly vaccinated against rabies and other diseases, and return them to the outdoors. The ordinance seeks forbid such activities from taking place, such as releasing a spayed feral cat within the city limits and feeding feral cats.

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National Justice for Animals Week

Critter News

ALDF is honoring Adam and all those who came to his rescue with a special video profile that will be available on www.aldf.org.

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Race for the Rescues

4 The Love Of Animals

She says, “The solution, of course, is for everyone to spay and neuter their animals and eliminate the overcrowding that causes so many to end up in city shelters. Carrie Ann Inaba, star of ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars,” also returns to co-host the Race and is passionate about the cause of unwanted pets in our community.

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Yet More Good News for Project Treadstone

Animal Person

Regarding Adam's comment yesterday about low-cost spay/neuter, the reason this particular one is low-cost is that it is subsidized by the county and city (and maybe State, I'm not sure). However, she does have people who can help, and now that Pahokee's open they will focus some time each week on Project Treadstone!

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Powder Puff, RIP, and More

Animal Person

There is a Spay-Around-the-Clock coming up, and I'm signing up to volunteer. And last night, a veterinary surgeon-friend of mine asked for help regarding ferals, and I believe today we are signing up a colony about five miles from me with 50 (!) cats, many of whom are pregnant.