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2. 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.

3. Animal rescue group - Wikipedia

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   An animal rescue group or animal rescue organization is a group dedicated to pet adoption. These groups take unwanted, abandoned, abused, or stray pets and attempt to find suitable homes for them. Many rescue groups are created by and run by volunteers, who take animals into their homes and care for them—including training, playing, handling ...

4. Pet adoption - Wikipedia

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   Pet adoption is the process of transferring responsibility for a pet that was previously owned by another party. Common sources for adoptable pets are animal shelters, rescue groups, or other pet owners. Some organizations give adopters ownership of the pet, while others use a guardianship model wherein the organization retains some control ...

5. Animal Rescuers Get Real About Why Shelters Charge ... - AOL

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   All in all, a pet's adoption fees help to pay for the care they receive while in the shelter. It covers costs like food, blankets, and vet care, as well as the payment for shelter staff members ...

6. Sacramento animal shelter is ‘beyond maximum capacity ... - AOL

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   Front Street Animal Shelter is offering free pet adoptions through Saturday, Dec. 23. Typically adoption fees cost $25 to $150 depending on the animal you adopt. You can see the full list of ...

7. Animal shelters face a potentially fatal pet adoption crisis

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   The “pandemic pet” boom that captured headlines and the public imagination may have been more anecdote than fact, at least for the animal rescue community: Dog and cat adoptions actually ...

8. No-kill shelter - Wikipedia

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   A no-kill shelter is an animal shelter that does not kill healthy or treatable animals based on time limits or capacity, reserving euthanasia for terminally ill animals, animals suffering poor quality of life, or those considered dangerous to public safety. Some no-kill shelters will commit to not killing any animals at all, under any ...

9. Fort Worth animal shelters are overrun. We asked city leaders ...

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   A dog available for adoption looks out from his kennel at Fort Worth’s south shelter, the Chuck & Brenda Silcox Animal Care & Control Center, on October 25, 2023.