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Show Your Local Animal Shelter Some Love
October 20, 2009
The Humane Society of the United States’ National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week(November 1-7, 2009) is a way to honor animal shelters and their dedicated staff across the country. |
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Dog to Dog Q&A: Meet Spock, Puppy Mill Survivor
October 14, 2009
Leading the pack of the 2009 Walk For the Animals were Leslie Barcus and her dog Spock, an approximately 6-year-old German shepherd who was among nearly 700 dogs rescued from a massive Tennessee puppy mill in June 2008. Veteran Walk for the Animals canine reporter Zoey caught up with this puppy mill survivor-turned-parade marshal to help tell his story. |
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Meet the Gang: Update on the San Nicolas Island Cats
October 12, 2009
Sybil, Danny, Mario, Chelsea, and Nick are in good company and glad to be alive. They have found sanctuary at The Fund for Animals Wildlife Center in Ramona, California with 48 of their closest friends, other feral cats who were to be euthanized on San Nicolas Island. |
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Survivors are Stars at Puppy Mill Awareness Day
September 21, 2009
Rescue Ink, a band of tough tattooed animal advocates featured in a new series on the National Geographic channel, and Victoria Stillwell, host of Animal Planet’s “It’s Me or the Dog” were a few of the celebrities present at the 6th annual Puppy Mill Awareness Day in Lancaster, Pa. |
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A Hoodie for Zoie
August 31, 2009
How a little dog named Zoie was comforted by a hooded sweatshirt. |
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Save A Life: Adopt
August 27, 2009
Every shelter dog and cat has a story to tell. Most animals in shelters are there simply because of a little bad luck--usually the result of “people problems” like divorce, foreclosure, and lifestyle changes. As you read this, thousands of dogs and cats of all breeds, sizes, ages, and personalities are waiting for new homes, eager to start a new chapter in their lives. |
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More Than 100 Dogs Rescued From Va. Puppy Mill
August 27, 2009
More than 100 dogs have a new chance for happiness after rescuers with The Humane Society of the United States arrived in southern Virginia to work with Augusta County Animal Control and the Virginia State Veterinarian’s office to remove them from a deplorable puppy mill operation. The removal of the dogs followed an inspection by local authorities with the assistance of the HSUS' Wilde Puppy Mill Task Force. |
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Help For Pets In the City That Never Sleeps
August 19, 2009
Pets for Life NYC, a surrender prevention pet program based in New York, is dedicated to helping people resolve problems that could otherwise lead to surrender, abandonment, or neglect of their animals. |
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Texas Trial: A First-Hand Account
August 19, 2009
A Texas judge recently awarded ownership of all approximately 550 animals rescued during a Kaufman County puppy mill raid to The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). Here is a first-hand account of the trial by Jordan Crump, public relations specialist for The HSUS. |
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Victory in Texas Puppy Mill Rescue Case
August 18, 2009
A Texas judge awarded ownership of all of the approximately 550 animals rescued during a Kaufman County puppy mill raid to The Humane Society of the United States. |
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Happy Endings for North Carolina Puppy Mill Survivors
August 13, 2009
Six months after The Humane Society of the United States assisted Wayne County, N.C., Animal Control in rescuing 283 dogs from a puppy mill, most of the once-suffering dogs are now thriving in the loving care of new families. |
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More Than 500 Dogs Rescued from Texas Puppy Mill
August 13, 2009
The Humane Society of the United States, in conjunction with the Humane Society of Cedar Creek Lake and the Kaufman County Sheriff’s Department, rescued more than 400 dogs and 10 cats from deplorable conditions at a Kaufman County puppy mill. |
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Helmsley Trustees Misdirecting Funds Meant to Help Dogs, Lawsuit Charges
August 11, 2009
Three of the country’s most prominent animal welfare organizations -- in what they are terming the most significant financial litigation in animal welfare history -- have filed suit in New York’s Surrogate Court to intervene in the matter of Leona Helmsley’s $5 billion estate. |
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A Flight For Ferals
July 22, 2009
It was a short flight from San Nicolas Island to Ramona, California, but for 16 feral felines, it was the flight of their lives. |
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Nothing Has Changed At Petland
June 29, 2009
A Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) follow-up investigation has tied puppies from mass commercial puppy brokers to almost all of Petland’s stores. |
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More Than 200 Dogs Rescued from Penn. Puppy Mill
June 25, 2009
Nearly 300 dogs have a new "leash" on life thanks to the diligent efforts of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture and The Humane Society of the United States, who came together to rescue the animals from horrific conditions at a Lehigh County puppy mill. |
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Picture of Freedom
June 12, 2009
Mutts depicts the antics of a group of pets, and often highlights animal welfare issues. This Sunday’s Mutts strip will feature The Humane Society of the United States’ Emergency Services Senior Director Scotlund Haisley. |
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Workin' Like a Dog
June 12, 2009
Take Your Dog to Work Day encourages organizations to show their support for their employees and their pets by allowing staff to bring their dogs to work. |
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Dogs Rescued from Notorious Puppy Store
June 11, 2009
Notorious Florida-based puppy retailer Wizard of Claws filed for bankruptcy, resulting in the shuttering of the store and the seizure by the bankruptcy trustee of the store's remaining puppy inventory. When The Humane Society of the United States learned the bankruptcy trustee intended to auction off the remaining puppies housed at the store, an anonymous donor stepped in to sponsor the dogs, and The HSUS brokered a deal to have all 32 dogs placed for adoption into loving, permanent homes. |
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Never Buy Your Best Friend Online
June 7, 2009
If you buy a dog over the Internet, at a pet store or through a newspaper ad, your new pooch may very well be from a puppy mill—an abusive mass-production facility that churns out puppies under inhumane conditions. |
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