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  • Applications Now Officially Open in the 2012 ASPCA Rachael Ray $100K Challenge

    Applications Now Officially Open in the 2012 ASPCA Rachael Ray $100K Challenge

    The ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) today announced that applications are now open in the 2012 ASPCA Rachael Ray $100K Challenge, with more than $500,000 in prize grants to help shelters save more homeless cats and dogs.

    Beginning at 12 noon ET today, March 13, interested shelters can apply to compete in the Qualifying Heat of the ASPCA Rachael Ray $100K...

  • Cuteness helps lost dog find his way home: Kleenex alert

    Cuteness helps lost dog find his way home: Kleenex alert

    Get ready to cry tears of joy. The good folks at Cuteness.com shared this goosebump-inciting story with us about finding a way home:

    "Recently a gentleman in Heflin, Alabama found a lost Pekingese dog. He visited Cuteness.com thinking he might find the dog on there and subsequently the dog's owner. He found a dog named Delpho from Heflin, AL who looked a lot like the dog he found. He contacted...

  • Paraplegic Dog Needs Help For a Second Chance

    Paraplegic Dog Needs Help For a Second Chance

    Surrendered to the shelter as a stray on February 26th, 4 year old Robert had a ruptured disc, could not walk on his own and was in constant pain.  With lacerations on his head and legs, it was presumed that he was hit by a car.  In the shelter Robert waited four days, with no treatment.  On February 29th, he was scheduled for euthanasia, and Pets Alive, an internationally recognized no kill...

  • February 28th is National Spay Day

    February 28th is National Spay Day

    Did you know THREE Million homeless animals enter shelters each year in the U.S.!

    Preventing overpopulation is the only humane way to halt suffering for millions of dogs and cats and to help the communities that are otherwise unable to humanely address the issues of unwanted animals

    *Cats/dogs can get pregnant at 4 months old – spaying/ neutering prevents litters that cannot be cared for.  Sadly,...

  • Helen Woodward Animal Center Companion Animal Hospital Grand Opening Party

    Helen Woodward Animal Center Companion Animal Hospital Grand Opening Party

    WHAT:

    Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.  (Feb. 3, 2012) – Helen Woodward Animal Center invites the public to a sneak-peak of its brand new, state-of-the-art Companion Animal Hospital funded entirely by local donors.   The elegant, 10,000 square-foot hospital offers nine exam rooms; a dental ward; surgery rooms with observation windows for teaching purposes; isolation areas for infectious cases; a natural...

  • The Humane Society of the United States Forms New Dog Breeders Advisory and Resource Council

    The Humane Society of the United States Forms New Dog Breeders Advisory and Resource Council

    The Humane Society of the United States announced the newly formed Breeders Advisory and Resource Council which is composed of responsible dog breeders from across the country. Council members will advise HSUS on dog health and welfare issues, and talk to the general public about what constitutes proper breeding practices, promoting the health of the parents and the puppies.

    In a first step, the...