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1. 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...
2. 9 Reasons to Adopt a Dog (From a Shelter) Pets make great companions for anyone of any age, especially dogs. The best thing you could do for the world is adopting an adorable dog from a pet shelter! Here are 9 awesome reasons why you should adopt a pet from an animal shelter. Profits from th...
3. How to Choose the Right Dog for You That doggie in the window tugs your heartstrings and makes you reach for your credit card before you know what hit you... Only later do you find out that the cuddly puppy is destined to be pony size and outweigh you! Oops! Choosing the right dog f...
4. Adopting A Dog - Part 1: The First Things You Need To Know A great many dog owners say that adopting a dog from a shelter or rescue group was the best thing they ever did . . . and that the adopted dog was one of the best pets they ever had If you're thinking about adopting a dog, you are smart to seek out...
5. 6 Ways to Combat Your Dog's Separation Anxiety Separation anxiety in dogs is one of the most challenging behaviors to change. Owner's can actually make things worse by indulging the dog with attention at the wrong time. One of my dogs, Jaz, was a rescue dog, and has been in multiple homes. It was...
6. Adopt a Pet Dog If you are an animal lover, chances are that at some time in your life you will want your own dog. Depending on where you live in the world, you could go to a pet store or dog breeder and get a puppy, not realizing that you can adopt a dog from a pou...
7. Considering Adopting A Shelter Dog By Sharon Stajda, Animals end up in shelters for various reasons. Some are given up due to a families change in a housing situations. Others may become incompatible with the family situation, perhaps due to one of the family members becoming alle...
8. Saving Animals When I became pregnant with Katie, I knew on the fourth day. It was a long pregnancy. When she was born I cried so hard the nurses wanted to give me a tranquilizer. I said, no, I'm not upset, I'm so happy I will never have to be pregnant again. That...
9. Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, London London, capital city of Great Britain, has many lost and stray dogs and cats and there are a number of rescue homes for them, many of them run by the RSPCA and other animal charities. The best known of these is Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, situated...
10. My crazy little black dog I was asked to get up and walk around my house, find the one thing I would save first in a fire, and write about it. So here it is...I can't live without my crazy little mut Romeo! Having a small black dog is so fantastic. He's larger than a taco bu...
11. Alternatives to Abandoning Your Dog 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 count...
12. October Is Adopt A Shelter Dog Month Adopting a Shelter Dog can enrich not only *your* life, but the life of the special dog you take home. They save lives, protect people, they are used to fight crime and wars, they are adorned as service dogs for the handicapped, yet shelters are ful...
13. Adopt Your Dog I have done weeks of work with the official trainer of those who work with the city "pound" dogs. Promoting dog adoption is a passion of mine this year. Actually, I have two passions: - One is dog/pet adoption - Two is dog and owner training My ad...
14. SPCA of Northern Virginia As displayed on their official website:             The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Northern Virginia (SPCA NOVA) is a volunteer-based, non-profit, private organization established by lo...
15. Rescue4theLuvofDogs   There are unwanted dogs that end up in shelters. They most likely will be euthanized because there just aren't enough homes. It's sad that these dogs are tossed aside, they are given up , thrown away, sometimes abused. Why are so many dogs wit...
16. Pets IQ Tests Want to know how intelligent your pet is? Take a couple of IQ tests to you see what a clever (or stupid) your cat or dog is. Have fun!
17. Chapter 7 - Motivating Your Dog To Honor And Obey You What motivates you to do someone else's bidding? A scowling face and the fear of something bad if you don't do the deed? Or a jovial atmosphere of fun and camaraderie? What sort of boss would you work hardest for?
18. Chicago's Pioneer No-Kill Shelter As one of the first no-kill shelters in the US, LSAS has been working to reduce the needless killing of pets through adoption efforts, public education programs, and spay/neuter promotion since 1966. The home of "Dog's Night Out", the Social Event o...
19. Care for Dogs How do you feel when you look at this picture? Hopefully you feel sorry for this dog. I know I do. And it makes me feel even worse to know that there are thousands of dogs just like this one - most even worse - throughout America. There are literally t...
20. Rescuing And Adopting A Dog Before you go to the shelter to adopt your new dog or puppy, brace yourself for some of the most heartbreaking sights you may ever see. You will most likely encounter a dog with an injured face, dogs that look sick and weak, dogs one with a limb miss...