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Do Purebred Dogs Need Rescuing?
If your heart is set on a purebred pup, start your search at breed-specific rescue organizations.
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How to Help the Animals Affected by Hurricane Idalia
Rescue organizations are in need of donations and adoptions after the storm.
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What’s Stopping You From Fostering a Pet?
Here are six very good reasons why you should reconsider.
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How You Can Test the Waters of Pet Parenthood
How five aspiring pet parents are getting their feet wet by moonlighting as shelter volunteers and dog walkers.
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How You Can Help the Animals of Maui During These Deadly Wildfires
For starters, you can donate to Maui Humane Society as they help pets on the ground.
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How to Help the Rescue Pets Who Seem to Be Stuck at Shelters Forever
And why the problem of long-term rescue and foster animals persists.
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The Brooklyn Cat Cafe Is Like Something Out of a Hollywood Rom-Com
NYC’s only nonprofit cat cafe is almost too good to be real. Catch their Feline Film Festival this Saturday, June 10.
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You’ve Got Company: How to Cohabitate with a New Dog
Boundaries, right? But if they end up sleeping in bed, that’s cool, too.
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Where Have All the Fosters Gone?
This is the Paula Cole parody that rescue orgs are singing as they struggle to find people to foster pets.
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Heads Up: It’s Officially “Kitten Season”
Hannah Shaw, a.k.a. Kitten Lady, on how you can help with the springtime arrival of orphaned kittens.
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Kate Mara Is Funding the Adoption Fees of 10 Georgia Pups Who Need Homes
The dogs are graduates of Canine CellMates’ alternative sentencing program, which pairs dogs with people charged with felonies in Fulton County, Georgia.
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How Korean K9 Gives Dogs Rescued From the Meat Trade a Second Shot at Life
The rescue’s founder, Gina Boehler, on her mission to help these pups start over.
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6 Ways to Help Local Shelters Without Committing to Full-Time Pet Parenthood
Adoption isn’t for everyone — here are other ways you can be there for animals in need.
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How 6 Rescues Find Joy During the Tough Holiday Season
The holiday season is not so jolly for a lot of pet rescues. Here’s how they help their animals — and their volunteers and staff members — this time of year.
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10 Foster-Fail Stories That Will Tempt You to Do the Same
Adopting a foster pet doesn’t isn’t always the right choice. But for these families, it turned out to be the only one.
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Pups Without Borders: It All Started With a (Dog Named) Storm
Eve Bañuelos on how a pregnant dog and a pandemic layoff inspired her to start an organization that rescues dogs in California and Mexico as shelters overflow.
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The Misunderstood Pit Bull Is at the Top of Yves’s Advocacy List
The model, activist, and musician on his activism philosophy: “I’ve always been drawn to those who have been left behind, forgotten, misunderstood. I relate to them on a very deep, personal level. No matter how different you are, everyone deserves a chance.”
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4,000 Beagles Rescued from a Research Facility Are In Need of Homes
It’s one paw in front of the other for some of these dogs, who are adjusting to what it means to finally be safe.
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Your Ultimate Foster Dog Shopping List
Your foster dog needs love — but they also need stuff.
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Off Broadway: Muddy Paws’ Founder Went From Musician to Matchmaker
Rachael Ziering walked away from a career on Broadway to make the pet adoption process more inclusive.
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Should You Take an Adoptable Pet for a Test Drive?
Some animal rescues allow trial runs for interested adopters. Get the scoop on how foster-to-adopt programs work.
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How to Claim Your Foster Pet on Your Taxes
That’s right, you can write off all those puppy toys (and pee pads).
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A Rescue Kitten Cafe Opens in Venice...and It’s Called Tiny Beans
Adoptable kittens, nitro cold brew, and beach vibes? On my way...
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How to Help Animals Impacted by Hurricane Ida
Hundreds of dogs, cats, and rabbits have been evacuated. These front-line organizations need donations, fosters, and adopters.
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How to Start an Animal Rescue
If you are ready to take the plunge and start your own dog or cat rescue, this guide will help you set up a successful non-profit.
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Picard’s Dog Was Inspired by Patrick Stewart’s Pit Bull Advocacy
The legendary actor fell in love and is now a Pit Bull champion.
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Keeping Finn’s Henry Friedman Calls From the Road to Talk Van Life & Dog Rescue
“I do enjoy this nomadic lifestyle, but we don’t just go to Mexico to enjoy the beaches. We’re there to help dogs, make donations, make a difference — which, for me, adds a lot more meaning to traveling around in a van.”
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The Beagle Freedom Project
Helps ease retired lab Beagles into new lives, and a whole new world.
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