Visitor:
Practical - Index
Companion Animals - Index


Click on "fund food for animals" for free.
Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number
 of daily visits to donate food to abandoned/neglected
 animals in exchange for advertising. Here's the web site!
The Animal Rescue Site

emergency vets in all 50 states: http://veccs.org/hospital_directory.php

In Hope - An animal shelter story.

Sections

Pet FAQs -- From the Animal Rights list of FAQs.
Pet Care -- Diets, adoption, advise, funny bits, facts, essays.
Pet Loss -- Rainbow Bridge. Finding lost pets. Euthanasia and pet loss.
Stories -- Pet stories, quotes, information, miscellaneous.
Wild Animals -- Rehabilitation of squirrels, turtles, baby birds, and other wildlife.

Articles / Websites

Free Spay and Neuter listed by US State
Possible Sources for Financial Aid (for individuals) - veterinary care
Pet Adoption Portal -- When you post your available pets for adoption on this one site it will automatically post your pets onto Petfinders, 1-800-Save-A- Pet and Pets911. This will give your group more exposure without the extra leg work.
Dog Detective - reports lost dogs in your area

Run ToTo, Run - Expose on the American Kennel Club and its puppy mill connections


Finding a Balance Between Pets and Profits - Puppy Mills
Animal Prayers for Children
Do Dogs Have a Sense of Humor?
Amish Country: It’s not just buggies and furniture
Pet Trusts - Ohio Law helps you provide for Fido after you're gone.
http://www.loveyourdog.com/  - teaches children to care for animals
Pets - Safety Tips at Holiday Time
Erase the Pet Overpopulation Problem
What Dogs Try to Tell Cops - pdf file on dog body language.
Dead Dog Walking
Myth: Killing Can Be Kind - Sept 2006.
Gas Chamber Man - Yes, I Gas Dogs and Cats for a Living.
How Should Pets Die? Debate: gas chamber vs. injection.
Pets TV -- Great website for companion animal owners.
Homes 4 Unwanted -- Finding homes for the unwanted. Shelters struggle to find a place for millions of homeless pets.
Parrot Sanctuaries -- For unwanted parrots around the world.
Lost Pets Katrina -- 6 months later, pets still need to find their families.
Lost Pet Plan  -- January 2006. A plan to get our pets back home.
Companion Animals -- Link to DawnWatch.com. Great synopsis of Companion Animal Issues.
Long Live Squirrels (just maybe not where you live), by Constance Young.
Shelter Reality -- A sheltered life? Harsh reality at pounds Workers offer pointers on averting animals' tragedy.
Pet Stores Undercover -- Nov 2005. Animal Protection Institute (API) went undercover to investigate 64 pet stores.
Kill v No-kill -- Oct. 2005. Issue of 'kill' and 'no-kill' shelters not so clear-cut.
Shelter Tricks -- SPCA strives to see that every dog (or cat) has its day.
Pet Owner Shelter -- Stray animals? Put leash on owners.
Reforming Animal Control (.pdf).
Do Pets Grieve? -- by Sarah Newman.
Dogs Laugh -- New research tells you the sound they make.
A Shelter Story -- poignant.
Longest Walk -- A Day In The Life Of A Humane Society Employee, by Teri Campbell.
Life Or Death -- In a Fort Worth Texas Shelter.
Pet Verbiage -- We care for animals, but we don't own them.
Puppy Mills -- United Against Puppy Mills.
Puppy Mill Video - July 2006. video intensifies puppy mill issue.
Pit Bull Profiling
Pit Bull Essays

Videos

The Dog Movie.com - Everything I know, I learned from my dog.
Cute pet video: Patience.wmv (2 mb)
Dogsavesdog.mpg
Shelter.wmv (10 mb)
 

In Hope, An Animal Shelter Story

As a nation, we claim to love cats and dogs. Millions of households have pets, and billions of dollars are spent yearly on pet supplies and food. But as a nation, we should take a hard, sobering look at a different annual statistic: the millions of dogs and cats given up to shelters or left to die on the streets. And the numbers tell only half the story.
     Every cat or dog who dies as a result of pet overpopulation—whether humanely in a shelter or by injury, disease, or neglect—is an animal who, more often than not, would have made a wonderful companion, if given the chance. Tremendous as the problem of pet overpopulation is, it can be solved if each of us takes just one small step, starting with not allowing our animals to breed. Here's information about this crisis and why spaying and neutering is the first step to a solution. Visit http://www.brightlion.com/ for more

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