Alternatives to Abandoning Your Dog
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I don't want to find one more abandoned dog! Find another option!
Every year more and more dogs are abandoned in the country by their owners. These dogs are frequently hit by cars and then die from their injuries. Dogs that are abandoned from a home have no way of knowing how to take care of themselves in the country. Many times they die from starvation.
If someone finds them, like this poor dog, it is often too late and even with the best of care they don't make it.
Even in the city people dumping their dogs have led to dog packs that are becoming dangerous. These dog packs are attacking other animals and people.
There are many alternatives to dumping your dog off in the country or abandoning them in the city.
I hope to highlight some rescue organizations that will take your dog or if you contact them might help you find a place for your pet if you can no longer keep it.
If you do not need to find another home for a pet, remember all these rescues and shelters generally are nonprofit and continue running on public donations. If the spirit moves you, why not send them a little cash and rescue an animal in your own way!
Before you abandon your dog ~ spend the time and train your dog
Dog Rescues
By state
- Alabama dog and other pet rescue and adoption contacts
- Provides dog and other pet rescue and adoption contacts in Alabama
- Alaska dog and other pet rescue and adoption contacts
- Provides dog and other pet rescue and adoption contacts in Alaska
- Arizona Animal Rescues | Dogs Section
- Arizona Animal Rescues is an online directory of all rescue and adoption groups within Arizona. Shop for all your new pet supply needs for dogs, cats, birds, fish, reptiles or small pets.
- Arkansas dog and other pet rescue and adoption contacts
- Provides dog and other pet rescue and adoption contacts in Arkansas
- California Dog Rescues
- Find a rescue or shelter in California
- Colorado dog and other pet rescue and adoption contacts
- Provides dog and other pet rescue and adoption contacts in Colorado
- Connecticut dog and other pet rescue and adoption contacts
- Provides dog and other pet rescue and adoption contacts in Connecticut
- Delaware dog and other pet rescue and adoption contacts
- Provides dog and other pet rescue and adoption contacts in Delaware
- Florida Pet Shelters and Animal Rescue
- Dog rescues and shelters in Florida
- Georgia Pet Shelters and Animal Rescue
- Georgia dog Shelters and dog Rescue
- Hawaii Pet Shelters and Animal Rescue
- Dog shelters and rescues in Hawaii
- Idaho Pet Shelters and Animal Rescue
- Dog rescues and shelters in Idaho
- Illinois dog and other pet rescue and adoption contacts
- Provides dog and other pet rescue and adoption contacts in Illinois
- Indiana Pet Shelters and Animal Rescue
- Provides dog and other pet rescue and adoption contacts in Indiana
- Iowa Pet Shelters and Animal Rescue
- Dog shelters and rescues in Iowa
- Kansas dog and other pet rescue and adoption contacts
- Provides dog and other pet rescue and adoption contacts in Kansas
- kansas rescue for dogs
- PALS ANIMAL RESCUE
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Does Your Dog Need a New Home?
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If you are trying to find a new home for your pet, take a look at this flyer maker.You just fill in your information and add a picture and it will make up a printable flyer for you.
Very cool.
Thanks Best Friends Pet Sanctuary
National Pet Rescue Societies
- Best Friends Animal Society Home Page
- Best Friends Animal Society runs the nation's largest sanctuary for abused and abandoned animals.
- United States dog and other pet rescue and adoption contacts
- Provides dog and other pet rescue and adoption contacts in the United States
- .::Main Line Rescue::.
- Main Line Animal Rescue specializes in the rescue and placement of abused, unwanted and abandoned animals.
- ASPCA: The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
- ASPCA: American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
“More than 12 million dogs and cats are euthanized in shelters each year. Millions more are abandoned”
Abandoned Dogs are not only a rural problem
there are more and more abandoned dogs in the city
Long ago, before I moved to rural Kansas I lived in Brooklyn, NY. I worked for an assertive community treatment team for people with mental illness. I spent much of my day traversing the projects of Central Brooklyn.That's where I adopted my first abandoned dog. This adorable German Sheperd puppy came walking up to me one day. I gave him a quick pat and then went on my way.
He followed me. I noticed his collar was too tight, and had almost grown into his neck. He would not stop following me, so finally when I got to a busy street I took the strap off my briefcase and used it as a leash, and from then on we've been family.
Scrappy has been a part of my family for almost 13 years now. He's been with me through thick and thin, through 2 husbands and a move to rural Kansas.
He is the most loyal and loving dog. Some days when I see his feet running when he's sleeping and hear him whimper I wonder if he remembers his oil covered, collar grown in, abandoned dog days in Brooklyn.
I hope not. I choose to believe he's chasing rabbits instead. ;)
Don't shop for you dog ~ be part of the solution to puppy mills ~ get your dog at a shelter
Show some dog love ~ wear your allegiance to dogs.
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Amen to dogs
Let's hear your dog story. Have you rescued a dog? How did you find your rescue?
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Afteretc
Jan 18, 2012 @ 3:22 pm | delete
- Dog abandonment is a huge problem in Puerto Rico. I wrote a lens about it - the stray/street dogs are called "Satos" there. So sad.
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Andromedan
Apr 16, 2011 @ 1:10 pm | delete
- Thanks for this lens, we can't have enough of them. I appreciate the work that people do to save these abandoned dogs. It's our responsibility, and we should take that seriously. I saw in a video called 'Earthlings' how in some shelters they just put a lot of dogs in a large box and gas them; absolutely horrid.
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BlueStarling
Apr 5, 2011 @ 9:32 pm | delete
- Great lens on an important subject!
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Nov 7, 2010 @ 9:02 pm | delete
- nice lens, in our country there still so many abandon dog, how i wish each dog can found there home...
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karld0uero
Dec 31, 2010 @ 10:12 am | delete
- Love the lens. Definitely one of the better ones I've seen today
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by JackieLee
My name is Jackie Lee. I live in rural Kansas. Every year we are finding more and more stray dogs running around and sometimes starving to death. They... more »
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