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Featured Lenses - ASPCA 

My Cats Sophie And Tony

I have always loved animals in general and cats in particular. Cats are fun, interesting, and intelligent pets that will show you as much love and loyalty as dogs do. This is an often time unknown fact, so I wanted to pass that on to you readers of t...

The Puppy Kit - What you need to know before you bring home a puppy

So you decided you wanted to add dog to the family. And you decided you wanted a puppy instead of an older, more mature dog. This lens will discuss the pros and cons of getting a puppy and then what you need to sucessfully raise your new baby. It's a...

Dog Rock: A Benefit Concert for Dogs

Organized by: Roxy_Calamari, a Yorkshire Terrier Roxy's Guest Commentator: DrmJ, a Singer/Songwriter and Music Journalist Yup, that's me. My secret's out! I'm a dog. The other day after the Virtual Concert for Charity contest was announced, I threw...

Homemade Dog Treats

What better way to show your dog how much you love him than with fresh baked cookies? I started making my own treats years ago when I had a German Shepherd that was allergic to wheat and dairy. These days, the availibility of books and recipes for ma...

Campaign to put Puppy Farms out of business

"I had no idea about puppy farms - I just fell in love with Alfie and handed over the money." Alfie (a golden cocker spaniel puppy), in his very short life, had to endure 29 visits to the Vet not forgetting the experience he had before Stacey fell i...

Pet Pals and Therapy Dogs

The photo to the left is a certified CGC (Canine Good Citizen), a member of TDI (Therapy Dog International), and an AKC (American Kennel Club) ribbon winner. This pet is so well trained that he is used for demonstration for classes held by our local...

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Petfinder.com - Petfinders Shelters

Petfinder.com is an online database featuring thousands of wonderful pets that need homes. Here are some features of Petfinder.com: Search for a Pet Choose your animal, breed, age, size, sex and gender according to your location. Learn Educate your...

Traveling With Your Dog

Thanks for visiting our lens! This lens is dedicated to traveling with your dog. Shortly after we first got Maxxamillion we decided we were not going to leave him behind anymore after one bad experience with a pet-sitter. We did not want to put him i...

Dog Boarding

Welcome, this lens has information and resources about boarding your dog. sometimes the most difficult thing a pet owner has to deal with is leaving their beloved companion behind while going away on a trip or vacation.

Holistic Dog Health

Welcome! Thanks for visiting Maxxamillion's lens. This lens is about our boy Maxxamillion, and about our holistic approach to his rehabilitation. We share some the the difficulties we face to save Maxxamillion from Cancer. We have also added som...

Maxxamillion

This lens supports the ASPCA in their fight against animal cruelty. Want to help? Come and join us in the fight to end animal cruelty-we want you on our side. Your gift will help the ASPCA alleviate the needless fear, pain and suffering in animals' l...

Adopt A Dog

Welcome to our lens pawed by Maxxamillion to support the ASPCA. Before you go out and buy that puppy check your shelters in your local area. Over 7 million cats and dogs are killed in the U.S. each year. Most of those are in public and private non-pr...

Stray Muses...A Language Unspoken

"My hope is that Stray Muses...A Language Unspoken will make a difference in the lives of shelter animals by giving them a voice. That this book will make it to coffee tables, waiting rooms and bookstores around the world, reaching enough hearts that...

Home Made Dog Biscuits

Welcome! This lens is about making your own dog treats at home. What dog could resist a tasty crunchy dog biscuit. One of Maxxamillion's favorite treats. Home made means healthier fresher treats for your loving canine companion.

ASPCA Video Showcase

Welcome! This Squid Vids lens supports the ASPCA in their fight against animal cruelty. We believe in the ASPCA's mission against the cruelty to animals. This lens features a collection of ASPCA related videos and products in support of the ASPCA.

Featured Lenses - Big Cat Rescue 

Help Us Support Big Cat Rescue!

Big Cat Rescue, a non profit educational sanctuary, is devoted to rescuing and providing a permanent home for exotic (i.e. wild, not domestic) cats who have been abused, abandoned, bred to be pets, retired from performing acts, or saved from being s...

Ligers - Big Cats That Weren't Meant To Be

A Liger, the largest of all cats, is the offspring of a male lion and a female tiger. These hybrids do not occur in nature because Lions and Tigers are two different species and their ranges seldom overlap. Ligers do occur in zoos and wild animal pr...

Big Cat Rescue

Big Cat Rescue is a non profit educational sanctuary located in Florida. They are devoted to rescuing and providing a permanent home for exotic (i.e. wild, not domestic) cats who have been abused, abandoned, bred to be pets, retired from performing a...

Featured Lenses - Chimp Haven 

Wolpertinger - Bavarian Jackalope?

Fun facts about a Bavarian "hero": The famed and fabled horned rabbit/squirrel or whatever animal - the Wolpertinger. In Germany, especially in the Southern Free State of Bavaria, they're called "Wolpertingers". Just like their American counterpart...

Featured Lenses - Epic Farms 

Epic Farms: A small non-profit striving to share the BIG picture

I don't pretend to have all of the answers (shoot, I'm still coming up with questions). Our sites are simply offered as a collection of learning experiences and personal observations that I found fascinating. Of course I find horses in genera...

So You Want to Own a Horse

Since the ripe old age of four I have been obsessed with horses. Having passed the 40-something mark without losing interest (hey, I even kept all my Breyers :o), I think it's fairly safe to declare them a lifelong love. While the other kids in m...

Beverly Horse 90210

I'm not a competetive person; perhaps it's best to say that straight out and right up front. Sure, I participated in shows when I was younger. Did I want to? Sort of. But the morning of the show would always find me in a frantic state over something...

Body Language 101

I'm not an expert by any means, but I consider body language to be the single most important thing we can learn when it comes to being around horses. Horses are inherently honest and forthright communicators and just as we expect them to learn t...

Featured Lenses - Ferrets Unlimited 

Ferrets Unlimited

From this lens you can view the news updates from our rescue, check out some of our current projects, and see the ferrets currently available for adoption. Please visit the Ferrets Unlimited Headquarters here at Squidoo where you may create your own...

Featured Lenses - First Coast No More Homeless Pets 

Bandit the Cat -- Country Club Cat

"Yes, my name is Bandit the Cat and I am the most discriminating cat in Jaguar Julie's household. I've recently not been quite myself as you see Jaguar Julie took over the management of a colony of feral cats. I'm particularly peeved that she's not...

Precious the Cat -- Country Club Cat

"Hello, my name is Precious the Cat and I am the most POLITE cat in Jaguar Julie's household. You may have already met Bandit who thinks he's the most discriminating cat in the house, but that's a guy for ya! He's got no manners, what with all the ba...

Tigger the Cat -- Country Club Cat

"Hi, my name is Tigger the Cat and I am the youngest and most spunky of all the country club cats in Jaguar Julie's household! You've probably already met Bandit and Precious -- they've been around a while and are OK for the most part for older cats!...

First Coast No More Homeless Pets in Jacksonville, FL

Jacksonville, Florida is blessed to have First Coast No More Homeless Pets FCNMHP, a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation. This organization is now working hand-in-hand with the City of Jacksonville, Animal Care and Control, and the Jacksonville Humane Soc...

Featured Lenses - Humane Society of the United States 

Awesome Animal Nonprofits

Animals have a special place in my heart. This lens has been made to help raise awareness and funds for great nonprofits that work hard to take care of all kinds of animals.

My Summer of Love Virtual Concert

My Summer of Love Virtual Concert will benefit our abandoned and mistreated animals. Many of the groups and individual musicians (like John Denver and Marvin Gaye) who will appear at this virtual concert were activists for a variety of worthy causes,...

Our Pets' Stories

Through the years we have had many pets and somehow, in the grand scheme of things, most of them found and adopted us. This is the story of some of the beloved animals that have shared our lives. Though many of them were not with us as long as we wou...

Animals in Sports

Are you a "Bambi-Lover", or someone who loves to go to greyhound races, horse races, and other venues of "animal sports"? This lens has been created in the hopes of having a discussion of the views of both sides of this heated issue. Please particip...

Sookie Stackhouse Vampire Mysteries

Sookie Stackhouse is the unique heroine of Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire Mysteries. She is a beautiful, clever telepathic bar maid with a heart of gold, even for those supernatural beings without a heart beat. Sookie fans have been following her...

Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers

Welcome, This lens is all about the wonderful Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retriever. One of the most unusual breeds of dogs bred in the Little River district of Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia around the beginning of the 20th Century. The Nova Scotia Duck...

Caring For Animals

This lens is a hundred percent dedicated to caring for animals. All royalties made on the lens will be donated to different animal charities and hopefully in the mist of the lens you will find some useful information. When it comes to animals, they...

Featured Lenses - Longhopes Donkey Rescue 

Longhopes Donkey Rescue

Our mission is to rescue, shelter, rehabilitate and find permanent homes for donkeys that would otherwise be destroyed for meat consumption overseas. These animals are often shipped in horrific conditions to processors outside of the US - many die fr...

Mustangs

Does anyone besides me remember the book, "Mustang" by Marguerite Henry?  It was one of a number of wonderful horse books she wrote for young people – back when I was a young people.  Ms. Henry also wrote "Brighty of th...

Featured Lenses - NWF's Alaska Natural Resource Center 

Beer Kits: Finding Homebrew Beer Kits

Having a beer kit is the easiest way to start making your own beer from home. You don't have to try to find out all the supplies you need and assemble them, you simply buy a kit that includes everything you need to get started making beer from home....

American Black Bears In All Their Glory

Here you'll get facts, photos, videos of the American Black Bear in all their glory. There are also informational links for organizations who study them, photograph them or fight to save them. As you can see by the cub in this photo, Black bearscome...

Save Our Bears Headquarters

Save Our Bears is a group of lenses devoted to help change the plight all bear species through awareness and fund raising. All of these lenses show the wonderful nature of bears and many will, at the same time, shine a spotlight on the dangers bears...

Brown Bears (aka Grizzlies and Kodiaks)

Brown Bears, known as Grizzly bears in the Lower 48 states live 20 to 25 years in the wild. in Alaska the bear is known as the Alaskan Brown Bear or Kodiak bear. Here you find facts about their habitat, range, breeding, habits along with photos, vide...

Nest Box Trails for Bluebirds and Others

Lawrence Zeleny's book, the Bluebird How You Can Help Its Fight for Survival, alerted the public about the peril of our native Bluebirds. Now people all over North America are building and maintaining Bluebird Trails. Anyone can start their own trail...

Home Beer Brewing Supplies

Your Go-To place for best home beer brewing supplies Want to know how to make your own beer at home? Here you'll learn how to make beer at home easily with a beer making kit that comes with recipes and all the things you need to get started in home...

Featured Lenses - Polar Bears International & NWF's Alaska Natural Resource Center 

Are You Polar Bear Aware?

Polar bears are affected by habitat loss, destruction and degradation of ecosystems, pollution, over-exploitation and climate change. These factors are among the powerful and persistent impacts on polar bear populations and health. The purpose of thi...

Featured Lenses - Polar Bears International 

Polar Bears International

Polar Bears International (PBI) is dedicated to the worldwide conservation of the polar bear through and education. PBI supports research projects that benefit the world's polar bears. PBI's low overhead is covered by gift shop sales and administrat...

Featured Lenses - Squidoo Charity Fund 

SquidLinks.org

Now that you have created that great lens to help your selected charity, why keep it all to yourself? Share it with the world on Squid Links if you really want to help your charity. Here's directions on how to do just that. I have tried to cater to...

Living with a deaf cat

A genetic anomaly causes blue-eyed white cats to be born deaf. I have not been able to find out what percentage of them are deaf – but it is fairly common. Odd-eyed whites are often deaf on the same side as they are blue eyed! This anomaly is p...

Sponsor A Horse

Welcome to Sponsor A Horse where caring people like you make it possible for us to continue rescuing and rehabilitating neglected, abused, and abandoned horses. If we work together as a team we can save more horses than if we were all working individ...

Featured Lenses - The BuckHawk Center, Inc. Animal Rescue 

The BuckHawk Center, Inc. Animal Rescue

Rescuing an animal in need may be physically demanding, nursing it to health may be time consuming and expensive, retraining it to be a great pet may try one's patience, and saying goodbye to it may be the most painful thing to do. But there is fant...

Featured Lenses - TLC Animal Shelter 

Tender Loving Care Animal Shelter

TLC has served the community as a private, non-profit, humane society, dedicated to the prevention of abuse, neglect, and cruelty to animals. The shelter provides refuge for an average of three to four thousand animals yearly.

Featured Lenses - Wild Animal Sanctuary 

Lucky-Our Rescue Cat

He is a rescue cat. He was rescued with 14 other cats from a person that was neglecting them. The lady that rescued them, nursed them back to health. Two of them did not make it. Lucky made it We named him Lucky. His full name is: All the cat...

The Wild Animal Sanctuary

Saving One Animal May Not Change The World But Surely, For That One Animal... The World Will Change Forever! The Wild Animal Sanctuary provides a safe haven for wild animals rescued from private owners, abusive situations, and others who would other...

Keep Wildlife Wild

People who do not grow up around Wildlife may not realize the importance of keeping our wildlife wild. Interacting with or feeding wild animals can seem like a fun thing to do, but it can have serious consequences for both the animals and the people...

Do-it-Yourself Fundraising | Fundraising Resources for Nonprofit Organizations | How to Raise Money for your Organization

Welcome to the Do-it-Yourself Fundraising lens.  This lens is devoted to providing information and resources on nonprofit fundraising for small organizations such as schools, teams, youth groups and clubs. Check out my other lens about fundraisi...

Pet Adoption

People often do not bother to research the idea of bringing a pet home. They don't think about how the breed will fit in with their environment or family life and unfortunately it's the pet the pays the price. With all the pet mills, spur of the mome...

Featured Lenses - Wildlife Conservation 

Wildlife Forever

It's safe to say that nearly everyone loves the outdoors and everyone loves wildlife. It is wildlife Forever's mission to ensure there will be healthy populations of fish and wildlife for many generations to come. Wildlife Forever is a 22 year...

Featured Lenses - Wildlife S.O.S. 

Saving The Dancing Bears Of India

Here, I'll share with you the tragic story of the Dancing Bears of India and the uplifting story of their ongoing rescue. As you read their story, you may wince and want to stop, but please read on. There IS hope for these mistreated Sloth Bears. W...

Kartick Satyanarayan - Champion of India's Dancing Bears

Co-founder and Director of Wildlife S.O.S. Although Kartick's job titles may sound mundane or safe, in reality, his job is anything but. Here, you'll learn about Kartick Satyanarayan, the "Bear Man" as he's known by some in In...

Sloth Bears - Learn About These Wonderful Bears

Sloth Bears are one of the 8 species of bears worldwide. When I first heard the term Sloth Bear, I immediately thought of Three-toed Sloths. They are not related, however, they were originally classified as "Bear Sloths" because of their Sloth-like c...

BEARS: The 8 Wonders Of The World

This lens showcases the 8 species of bear world-wide. From here, you can go to more in depth lenses about each particular bear with lots of facts, photos and videos. All 8 species of bear are endangered to some degree. Here you'll get facts, photos,...

Bearmeister aka Frankster

A woman has to know her limitations. Ha. Wouldn't that be nice? This lens is my attempt at explaining just who I am and what I'm up to and maybe justify to myself why I'm so darn busy - LOL. It's a Lensography of my Squidoo BEAR lenses and will incl...

Asiatic Black Bears (aka Himalayan, Moon Bear, Tibetan Black Bear)

These bears by any name are near and dear to my heart. They are a beautiful bear and I have here facts, photos, videos and links to organizations with more info and groups saving these magnificent bears from harm. Thousands of them live un-BEAR-able...

Sun Bears (aka Malayan Sun Bears)

Sun Bears or Malayan Sun Bears are the smallest bears in the world. Here I'll share interesting facts, photos, videos and links to bear conservation organizations. As a bear lover, I love this little bear. They are adorable. As with the other bears...

Boycott China For Crimes Against Animals

From the dog culling, brutal bear farms collecting bile, the cat and dog fur trade, dog meat industry, to exterminating cats for the 2008 Olympics, China is committing barbaric and sadistic acts against animals in their country. Although you've no d...

Spectacled Bears (aka Andean Bears)

Spectacled Bears made headlines when Tunk was born in Feb of 2007 during the time Knut, the polar bear cub was gaining fame in Berlin, Germany. Knut overshadowed his cousin in the news but not in the hearts of some bear lovers. I love Spectacled Bea...

SquidActivists October Challenge for Animals

A contest to help raise money for small animal rescue charities. Love animals? Then this contest is for you. To enter, simply create a new lens or change an existing lens to donate a percentage of the royalties to one of the animal rescues listed bel...

Plastic bag alternatives

Facts, figures, recycling ideas, alternative bags, alternative uses, valuable resources and links Each year the world uses 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags. The US accounts for about 380 billions. As shocking as this is, it's even more shockin...

Coastal Pictures Of Alaska

I took many coastal pictures, during my 11 seasons as the Executive Chef of the Driftwood Lodge in SE Alaska. Most of them show the breath-taking scenery when nobody else was around - just me, my ATV and my camera. The coastal area near the mouth of...

Garfield - Feline Extraordinaire

Although Garfield is a cat, the comic strip appeals to cat and dog lovers alike. It's one of my favorite cartoons. Having a house-full of cats, I have known many like him. Jim Davis, the creator, has created Garfield to have the same foibles that we...

Saving Wild Tigers

Despite huge efforts in recent decades, wild tigers remain critically endangered. There are more tigers privately held in zoos, and by individuals, in the USA than there are left in their natural habitats. The pressures on these majestic animals, th...

Polar Bear Posters

Polar bears are arugably one of the greatest species to walk the earth. Yet they are slowing dying and we are not stopping it. You can make a difference though. Get a poster and look at it daily. Whenever you see that polar bear think of what is happ...