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PAWS maintains three sanctuaries for captive wildlife—a 30 acre sanctuary in Galt, California, the 100-acre (0.40 km 2) Amanda Blake Wildlife Refuge in Herald, California and a third, Ark 2000, which comprises 2,300 acres (9.3 km 2) in San Andreas, California. The Galt sanctuary was the first in the United States equipped to care for elephants.
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.
Paws of War is a a nonprofit organization that "assists military members and their pets, rescues and trains dogs to be service dogs, and provides companion animals to veterans and first responders ...
LONG ISLAND (PIX11) — An organization that supports veterans, first responders, and their dogs is getting a new home. Paws of War is opening a new veteran support command center on Long Island.
The first PAWS organization was founded in San Francisco, California in 1987 as part of the response to the HIV/AIDS crisis when volunteers at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation food bank noticed that HIV/AIDS patients had used the food supplied to them to feed their pets. PAWS began with a focus on AIDS patients, many of whom (especially in the ...
Oreo arrived at the shelter with a bloody nose and in a state of shock, Pennsylvania rescuers said. Kids use kitten as ball to play catch, shelter says. Then responding cop adopts him
A humane society is a group that aims to stop cruelty to animals.In many countries, the term is used mostly for societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals (SPCA). In the United Kingdom, and historically in the United States, such societies provide waterway rescue, prevention and recovery services, or may give awards for saving human life (e.g., Glasgow Humane Society and Massachusetts ...
Our companion animals offer hours of joy and fun, as anyone who has played with a cat using a laser pointer, or, for our dog, a water squirt gun (she would try to “bite” the water), knows.