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Best Friends Animal Society
Best Friends Animal Society is working with shelters, rescue groups and our members nationwide to bring about a time when there will be no more homeless pets. Best Friends had its origins in Arizona in the 1970s with a group of animal lovers who were unwilling to accept the conventional wisdom that humane societies and shelters had no choice but to kill their unadoptable animals. Best Friends operates the nation's largest sanctuary for homeless animals; provides adoption, spay/neuter, and educational programs around the country; manages the Best Friends Network, an interactive, online global community; and publishes Best Friends, the nation's largest general-interest animal magazine.
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Puppies Behind Bars
Founded in 1997, Puppies Behind Bars (PBB) trains prison inmates to raise puppies to be service dogs for the disabled and explosive detection canines for law enforcement. The puppies live in prison with their inmate raisers from the age of eight weeks to twenty months. To date, PBB has successfully raised 79 guide dogs, 199 explosive detection canines (including a few personnel/suicide bomber detection dogs) and 17 service dogs that have gone to serve wounded veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and special needs children. Through their work, inmates give and receive unconditional love, take on extraordinary responsibility and embrace opportunities to contribute to society rather than take from it - all while they prepare for their lives post-incarceration.
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Friends of Animals
Friends of Animals (FoA), founded in 1957, works to cultivate a respectful view of nonhuman animals, free-living and domestic. Our goal is to free animals from cruelty and institutionalized exploitation around the world. We inform members about animal advocacy issues and our progress in addressing them through our magazine, ActionLine, our Web site and other reports. We encourage our members to get involved in their own communities as volunteer activists and as representatives of our spay/neuter project. From its beginnings, FoA has administered a unique nationwide spay-neuter program to reduce overpopulation of cats and dogs, facilitating more than 2.5 million procedures.
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Progressive Animal Welfare Society
The Progressive Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) advocates for animals through education, legislation and direct care. A Northwest leader in protecting animals since 1967, PAWS shelters homeless animals, rehabilitates injured and orphaned wildlife, and empowers people to demonstrate compassion and respect for animals in their daily lives. PAWS places 3,000 to 4,000 cats and dogs each year in loving, responsible homes, provides training and education to strengthen the human/animal bond, and works to end animal cruelty and overpopulation. We do this through the operation of a shelter, our satellite adoption facility Cat City, a spay and neuter clinic, lost and found services, as well as by offering animal behavior resources.
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Canine Companions for Independence
Founded in 1975, Canine Companions for Independence (CCI) enhances the lives of people with disabilities by providing highly-trained assistance dogs and ongoing support to ensure quality partnerships. CCI trains four types of assistance dogs to master over 40 specialized commands: Service Dogs, Skilled Companions, Hearing Dogs and Facility Dogs. After completing training, the dogs are teamed with a graduate during an intensive two week training period. 206 teams graduated in 2008.
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Tri County Humane Society
The Tri County Humane Society is a no-kill organization dedicated to saving animals. We try to stop the killing over 45,000 unwanted pets in Broward County, 65,000 in Miami-Dade County, and 60,000 in Palm Beach County each year. We hope to place as many as possible in our no-kill shelter and find them wonderful loving homes. No animal will be killed while in our care. Tri County rescues thousands of pups, cats, dogs and kittens each year that were on death row ready to be euthanized.