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Stray Dogs have a Hope With New Judgement of Supreme Court of India

MG SINGH @madan02 (677) 15 Aug

It is a known fact that thousands of stray dogs are floating around towns and villages. Many of them live their life and die, and the corporation is not concerned. Animal lovers petitioned the Supreme Court of India to give a...

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Do you like/love dogs and cats? Then try to read this!

Amber @AmbiePam (120829) • United States 20 Jun 23

I mentioned to @snowy22315 this site the other day, and she hadn’t heard of it, so I thought I’d share about Freekibble. I’d go ahead and add the .com except the last time I added that and the www, it didn’t work. You answer a...

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The government is calling the homeless.

marguicha @marguicha (230350) • Chile 11 Jun 23

We are having minus 0° C where I live. And there are shelters and there are homeless. Homeless people don´t like to go to shelters. Besides giving them food and a bed, they clean them to some extent and they will not accept that...

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Outdoor shelters which helped combat covid restrictions

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382104) • Rockingham, Australia 2 May 23

In some ways, covid forced people to come up with innovative ideas to counteract the problems. Friends of ours who owned a restaurant started offering to deliver meals around the town and this worked out quite well for them. In...

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Bad news where I live.

marguicha @marguicha (230350) • Chile 13 Jul 22

I don´t understand the planet warming. It seems to me that the weather is just insane. We are in winter now and it has been very cold. But the worst will be tomorrow at some part of the day. It seems that we will have snow. Our...

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Wishes and dreams

Cat1993 @Cat1993 (511) • South Africa 16 Nov 18

My wish is to have a lot of money so I can realise my dream of building more shelters fir homeless people and dogs

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I'll Never Understand Why People Give Up Their Pets

pyewacket @pyewacket (43903) • United States 26 Jan 18

Over at Facebook I do a lot of what is called "crossposting" of the urgent cats needing to be rescued/adopted/fostered and usually from the high-kill shelters. I've come across the lame reasons why people "surrender" their pets...

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Remember the fall out shelter.

Alfredo Rossi @amadeo (111937) • United States 18 Jan 18

Good morning.Lovely day still cool. How many remember the days of fall out shelters With the threat from Korea ready to unload one of them in the U.S.mainland. I remember this very well.People was building fall out in the yard...

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Positive News: National Animal Shelter Week

DB @dgobucks226 (37621) 5 Nov 17

November 1-7th has been designated National Animal Shelter Week by www.NationalDayCalender.com. It is a way to recognize shelters who provide care and homes for abandoned and stray pets. From providing a safe place, to...

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Justice for unloved animals

Ramona Baker @Germaoney (30) 8 May 17

Animal shelters are overwhelmed with all the animals getting dropped off, found neglected and abused every day. There are even puppy's in shelters already. These dogs never even had the chance to find out how a loving family feels...

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Do you donate to thrift stores?

librarygeek1980 @librarygeek1980 (3137) • United States 13 Apr 17

So me and my sister were having a fun conversation today over lunch. Now I know many shop the thrift stores, but why the decline in donations? Lots of reasons, including, they can get some money for the donation selling at a yard...

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Four legged friends

Natasha Elsman @tashae12388 (1) • Atlanta, Georgia 28 Jul 16

Why does it seem people lately don't want their pets?? Every day I swear I have one person asking me if I want their cat or dog. I just don't get it. I often help re home but it just makes me upset with how disposable animals are...

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An Absolute Success

Nanette Piotrowski @nanette64 (20363) • Fairfield, Texas 25 Jul 16

Remember my post on Thursday about the animal shelters event to be held on Saturday? 45,000 total animals across the country were adopted. Not just in Texas where I thought the event was only taking place, but across the...

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Animal Shelters Texas

Nanette Piotrowski @nanette64 (20363) • Fairfield, Texas 21 Jul 16

With all the animal shelters filled to capacity across the USA, it's great to hear about a program called Clear The Shelters. For the 3rd year in a row 70 shelters in north Texas will be participating on Saturday, July 23 between...

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Wasn't One Enough

marcyaz @Marcyaz (35316) • United States 9 Jun 16

On July 2, 2013 there was a fire in Yarnell, AZ where 19 firefighters lost their lives. Homes were evacuated and a lot of homes were burned to the ground leaving people homeless. This fire was one of the deadliest wildland...

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Have you watched any of the YouTubes about underground bunkers?

anthony davis @lookatdesktop (27156) • Dallas, Texas 21 Mar 16

I have seen many pictures of underground bunkers and some of them so large you can drive a Semi through it and still have room for a game of frizbee. Then there are the ones that look like a city inside a cave where a house has a...

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How shelters get bad names

Ricki Dillane @ricki_911 (21625) • Toronto, Ontario 7 Nov 15

The girl who is the corrdinator at the shelter wants me to lie when someone adopts an animal to them. A few need their teeth done yet she doesn't want to fork out the vet bills we can afford. Wow! So she basically wants me not...

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do not collect $600,do not pass go..

scarlet_woman @scarlet_woman (23463) • United States 27 Aug 15

so i was talking to a friend on FB about this.. home breeders who put ads in the paper advertising "new breeds".. you know the ones.."peekapood's" "cockabulls" "pug danes" (footstools,much?) asking exorbitant prices for...

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The Importance of Spaying and Neutering

momiecat @momiecat (997) • United States 22 Apr 13

It is readily apparent at this time in our society that not enough spaying and neutering is being done. Every day hundreds to thousands of healthy cats and dogs are "euthanized" in so-called animal shelters due to lack of homes,...

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How did you get your pets?

Porcospino @Porcospino (31365) • Denmark 22 Mar 13

Did you buy them from a breeder or in a pet shop? Or did you buy/get them from a friend or did you get them from a shelter? Did you find them in a different way? My first choice is always a shelter. Before we bought our dog we...

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