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2. 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.

3. Best Friends Animal Society - Wikipedia

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   The organization's official role post-Hurricane Katrina was that of a primary animal rescue organization [27] [28] overseen by animal specialist and then-Best Friends employee Sherry Woodard. [ 29 ] Also after Katrina, Best Friends helped Pets Alive, an animal shelter in New York state, and rescued around 800 cats from an institutional hoarding ...

4. American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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   The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing animal cruelty.Based in New York City since its inception in 1866, [4] the organization's mission is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the United States."

5. Animal rescue group - Wikipedia

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   A no-kill shelter is a usually private organization whose policies include the specification that no healthy, pet-worthy animal be euthanized; Not-for-profit rescue organizations typically operate through a network of volunteer foster homes. [4] These rescue organizations are also committed to a no-kill policy. Many modern not-for-profit rescue ...

6. Humane society - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

7. Animal shelter - Wikipedia

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   Many shelter policies allow individuals to bring in animals to the shelter, often called owner surrender, or relinquishing an animal. An open admission shelter will accept any animal regardless of reason, and is usually a municipal-run shelter or a private shelter with a contract to operate for a municipality. Municipal shelters may limit ...