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  2. No-kill shelter - Wikipedia

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    A no-kill shelter is a shelter that saves healthy, treatable and rehabilitatable animals and reduces their euthanasia rates by screening and selecting the animals they bring into their care, known as a limited admission shelter. As a benchmark, at least 90% of the animals entering the shelter are expected to be saved. [4]

  3. Animal shelter - Wikipedia

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    Animal shelter. An animal shelter or pound is a place where stray, lost, abandoned or surrendered animals – mostly dogs and cats – are housed. The word "pound" has its origins in the animal pounds of agricultural communities, where stray livestock would be penned or impounded until they were claimed by their owners.

  4. In Georgia, an animal shelter worries it's become a 'foreign ...

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    By soliciting small donations of $5 or $10 apiece, mostly from abroad, she offers shelter and finds new homes for some of an estimated 500,000 neglected animals that wander the streets of the ...

  5. Animal sanctuary - Wikipedia

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    Farmed animal sanctuaries (FAS) provide care, shelter and advocacy of farmed animal species such as chickens, cows, goats, fish, horses, pig, turkeys, and sheep. The farm sanctuary layout tends to resemble traditional farms however functions differently. [7] FAS as a movement began with Gene Baur, the co-founder of Farm Sanctuary, the first ...

  6. Animal Care Centers of NYC - Wikipedia

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    A 2009 report by the Humane Society of the United States entitled "Animal Sheltering Trends in the U.S." found that on average communities spend $8.00 per capita on animal shelters. [8] In November 2010 an investigation by Eyewitness News entitled "Allegations of neglect at city animal shelter" [9] claimed that care and exercise were being ...

  7. List of animal welfare organizations - Wikipedia

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    Animal welfare organizations are concerned with the health, safety and psychological wellness of individual animals. These organizations include animal rescue groups and wildlife rehabilitation centers, which care for animals in distress and sanctuaries , where animals are brought to live and be protected for the rest of their lives.

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