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Care and Feeding of Rescued Animals

Contribute to Animal Rescue
Touch the life of an orphaned cat or dog with a gift of $1, $10, $25 or $100. Give back to help the many injured, orphaned or exploited companion animals and wildlife that bring us all so much joy. We will direct your donation to worthy charities benefiting animal health, welfare, and adoptive services.
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Protect 10 Shelter Dogs with Vaccinations
Every year in the U.S., six to eight million dogs and cats will enter shelters. The Bordetella virus (kennel cough) is a highly contagious tracheobronchitis, spreading from dog to dog very rapidly. Protecting shelter dogs from this disease substantially increases their chance at life and adoption. Your $20.00 gift to Petfinder.com Foundation will vaccinate 10 shelter dogs.
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Protect 10 Shelter Cats with Vaccinations
Vaccination is an integral part of fending off contagious diseases, such as Feline herpesvirus, that are so prevalent in crowded shelters. Ensuring that animals are healthy, well-fed, and disease-resistant will greatly increase their chances of being among the number who will find happy homes with adoptive families. Your $20.00 gift to Petfinder.com Foundation will vaccinate 10 shelter cats.
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Feed and Care for a Rescued Horse
Help feed and care for horses rescued in some cases just minutes away from slaughter. The Fund for Animals rescues horses around the country, both wild and domesticated, and gives them a new home and a new life at one of Fund's sanctuaries for rescued animals. $14 provides food for a rescued horse for two weeks, and $25 provides food and also proper veterinary care for a rescued horse.
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Spay/Neuter and Vaccinate a Street Dog in India
Animal suffering is a problem around the world, and just ten dollars U.S. will go a long way towards improving one dog's quality of life, and also help make sure that future generations of dogs are wanted and cared for. Visakha Society For Protection and Care of Animals (VSPCA) works to reduce the overpopulation of street dogs in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh through its Animal Birth Control (ABC) program. VSPCA is a growing and struggling operation that also provides emergency animal care and shelter. No other similar services for injured street animals exist in the area. A donation of just $10 will spay or neuter and vaccinate one of these roaming street dogs against rabies, helping improve and perhaps even save its life.
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Help Animal Victims of Natural Disasters
Help fund emergency response teams aiding animals in the wake of natural disasters, whenever and wherever they occur. Your gift of $1, $10, $25 or $100 helps fund IFAW's emergency rescue teams, animal shelters, food, supplies, and medical care for the next disaster, whether it be an earthquake, flash flood, forest fire, or hurricane.
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Spay/Neuter Four American Pets at a Free Clinic
In the United States, more than 3 million pets are euthanized each year. Spaying or neutering companion animals makes sure the all-too-numerous population of unwanted kittens and puppies doesn't grow, and gives dogs and cats already in shelters the best chance for adoption; but for people already struggling to make ends meet, the cost of spaying or neutering pets may pose a significant obstacle for owners. Your gift of $28 funds surgical supplies and anesthesia for the spay or neuter surgery for four companion animals at a free clinic.
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Help Spay or Neuter a Cat
Help ensure that every cat is loved and wanted! In the United States, more than 3 million pets are euthanized each year. The number of animals entering shelters is greater than the number of people willing to adopt them. $20 helps spay or neuter a cat, helping ensure the all-too-numerous population of unwanted kittens doesn't grow, and giving cats and kittens already in shelters the best chance for adoption.
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Help Spay or Neuter a Dog
Help ensure that every dog is loved and wanted! In the United States, more than 3 million pets are euthanized each year. The number of animals entering shelters is greater than the number of people willing to adopt them. $20 helps spay or neuter a dog, helping ensure the all-too-numerous population of unwanted puppies doesn't grow, and giving dogs and puppies already in shelters the best chance for adoption.
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Feed a Rescued Marine Mammal
Every year, hundreds of sea lions and seals beach themselves along the shores of southern California: ill, infected, malnourished, or suffering from pneumonia, gill net strangulation, or other problems caused by human pollution and interference with the ecosystem. Your $15 gift will feed a seal or sea lion for one day while in the care of the Pacific Marine Mammal Center.
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Care for a Street Animal in India
Despite some of the strictest animal welfare laws in the world, India teems with abandoned, neglected, and abused animals. Baby monkeys are taken from their mothers to be trained as street performers, then abandoned; cows and water buffalo are used for milk and labor, but turned loose or sent to slaughter once their useful life has passed. And the population of dogs and cats loose on the streets leads to the spread of animal diseases such as rabies. The Visakha Society For Protection and Care of Animals is helping hundreds of stray and abandoned creatures, and you can help. Provide food, shelter, and medical care for a cat ($15), a dog ($20), a monkey ($28), or a cow or water buffalo ($35), for an entire month.
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Care for Two Rescued Rabbits
Every spring in the U.S., thousands of bunnies are purchased as live toys for children. Exuberant children and ground-loving, easily frightened rabbits are not a good mix, however. Once the child loses interest and the rabbit grows into adolescence -- including natural behaviors such as chewing, spraying, or digging -- many rabbits are destined to be abandoned on the side of a road. The Rabbit Sanctuary, Inc. exists to rescue and care for these rabbits, as well as ones rescued from laboratories and commercial breeders. $10 will help give two rescued rabbits a "Home for Life."
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Help Raise an Orphaned Moose
A baby moose and its mother have a strong bond, roaming through the forests as a solitary pair until the next calf is born. Because the moose's range covers almost all of Canada and extends down into the northern United States, there are thousands of deadly encounters between moose and cars each year, in addition to natural disasters such as fires or floods. $28 helps the Northern Lights Wildlife Shelter in British Columbia care for a rescued moose for one week, while $110 funds one month of care.
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Help Raise an Orphaned Bear Cub
Baby bears are intensely dependent on their mothers. All too often, the mothers are killed by poachers, automobiles, or natural disasters, leaving the orphaned cubs before they are prepared to fend for themselves. $15 helps the Northern Lights Wildlife Shelter in British Columbia care for a rescued bear cub for one week, while $60 funds one month of care.
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Help a Cat Get to the Vet
You've been helping stray cats in need in your own community for ages now, but you still have more love to give for cats in places where rescue efforts and veterinary services are few and far between. We have a way to help! The International Fund for Animal Welfare's "CLAW" program provides desperately needed veterinary services to cats in need in the poorest communities in the world, such as South Africa and the Caribbean. $20 funds a sturdy carrying box to transport cats in distress safely to reach vet services.
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Feed an Orphaned Baby Elephant
Africa's poaching epidemic affects more than just the animals killed for their tusks and other parts -- it also creates elephant orphans. Intensely dependent on their mothers and herds, and with a very long childhood ahead of them, orphaned elephants are unlikely to survive without a little bit of help. $42 funds a month of age-appropriate food or milk for a baby elephant through International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).
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Help Protect Baby Sea Turtles
Along the eastern coast of India, increasing development, pollution, and poaching have driven the local sea turtles towards extinction. $35 funds a week's salary and expenses for a sea turtle ranger patrolling the beaches along the Bay of Bengal. Rangers drive away predators from turtle mating and nesting sites, rescue baby turtles from plastic bags, dogs, cats, crows, and poachers; and educate local communities and fishermen about the importance of protecting these fragile and important creatures.
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Protect African Animals from Poachers
Despite laws ensuring their protection, many species of African wildlife are still being hunted illegally. Under-equipped and under-staffed African wildlife law enforcement agencies are often outmaneuvered by sophisticated crime syndicates operating freely across national borders. Non-governmental organizations, like the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), are stepping in to help bridge that gap. $42 funds one week's salary for an anti-poaching ranger in Africa, helping reduce illegal trade of animals on a continent-wide basis.
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Feed a Rescued Infant Chimpanzee for a Week
Each year in Africa, thousands of chimpanzees are killed by poachers for the illegal "bush meat" trade, leaving orphaned baby chimps behind. Sold as a roadside attraction or as a pet, some are lucky enough to be rescued and find a safe haven at the Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary in the Uganda, which attempts to prepare the chimps for release into the wild. $21.00 provides a week's worth of nutritious foods for an infant chimp.
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Feed a Rescued Lab Monkey for a Month
Help care for one of the 100+ monkeys who have found a new home, and a new life, at the Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary. $40 provides one month of food for a monkey resuced or retired from clinical research, some after years or decades of isolation, trauma, and pain.
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Rescue Marine Mammals Stranded on Cape Cod
When marine mammals are found in distress along the 700 miles of local coastline, the Cape Cod Stranding Network is there to help. Its trained personnel are able to assess the health of the animal(s) and find the best course of action -- rehabilitation where necessary and possible, relocation, release, and post-release monitoring. $25 helps rescue stranded marine mammals, including whales, dolphins, porpoises, and seals, through the Cape Cod Stranding Network, a project of IFAW.
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Protect Third World Cats and Dogs with Vaccinations
Cats and dogs the world over need our help, and now we bring you an easy way to do it! You can protect cats and dogs both in South Africa and the Caribbean with helpful vaccinations that are often unavailable to them any other way. $100 funds the field work of a team of vets for one day of vaccinating cats and dogs in South Africa or the Caribbean, through International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).
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Protect Baby Turtles in Mexico
Turtles are known for their hard shells, yet baby turtles are extremely vulnerable to harm. Dogs, raccoons, and other scavengers kill many baby turtles, both before hatching and in the moments between hatching and crawling to the ocean. La Tortuga Feliz ("Happy Turtle" in Spanish) is a turtle sanctuary in Juluchuca, Guerrero, Mexico, that locates turtle nesting sites, protects them until they hatch, and helps guide them to the water free from harm. $20 helps 100 baby turtles in Mexico hatch and make it safely to a new life in the ocean.
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One Week's Care for a Rescued Chimpanzee
$48.00 provides a week's care--food, medicine, and any necessary rehabilitation--for a rescued chimpanzee being cared for at the Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary in the Ugandan waters of eastern Africa's massive Lake Victoria. In addition to giving rescued chimpanzees a safe home and ensuring their welfare, the Sanctuary provides a low-human impact environment on Ngamba Island, a high-quality educational experience for visitors, and benefits the island's local communities.
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Feed a Young Chimpanzee for a Month
Rescued from the pet trade yet unable to survive in the wild, many orphaned chimps are cared for at the Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary in the Uganda. There they are able to recover from their captivity, socialize with other rescued chimpanzees, and learn new skills, with the ultimate goal of being re-introduced to the wild. $61.00 provides a month's worth of food for a young chimpanzee.
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Protect American Wolves
Once common throughout North America, wolves have recently been reintroduced to areas where humans and livestock also live. While wolf predation on livestock accounts for less than 1% of livestock losses each year, when wolves do prey on livestock it can mean certain death for a wolf – or even an entire pack. Defenders of Wildlife is leading efforts to reduce livestock losses, foster goodwill among the ranching community and save the lives of countless wild wolves. You can help, starting at just $16.00.
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Hide, Perch & Go Habitats for Shelter Cats
Shelter life can be scary for cats. The transition from home to shelter (or shelter to home) brings many changes in sights, smells and surroundings, often leaving cats fearful and stressed. $15.00 funds three specialized "Hide, Perch & Go" boxes for shelters, in which cats can hide or perch to view their surroundings. Shelters say the cats who are lucky enough to have a Hide, Perch & Go box are friendlier and more likely to be adopted -- and the box even converts to a carrier for the journey to the cat's adoptive home.
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Help Paws With a Cause® Train a Shelter Dog
With their constant attentiveness and loyalty, dogs are the ideal service animal. An assistance dog can alert a deaf parent to the crying of a baby in the next room, or to help with daily independence by opening doors, pulling wheelchairs, transferring a wallet to a cashier and back, and even calling 911 when needed. $20 helps transform a shelter dog into a trained Assistant Dog.
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Care for a Shelter Animal with Special Needs
Shelters and sanctuaries that serve special-needs animals have a rewarding, yet difficult, role. Their residents include dogs who need wheeled harnesses in order to move around, blind horses, cats with feline leukemia, and so many others. The beautiful thing about animals with special needs is that they do not know they are disabled. With some extra attention and, in some cases, thoughtful devices, they can live as fully as any other animal. $15 funds a week of care for a special-needs animal.
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Build a Home for Life for Rescued Animals
Home For Life®, on the Apple River near Star Prairie, Wisconsin, is a different kind of animal shelter -- a place where animals that are considered unadoptable can live out their days in safety and comfort. $18 helps Home for Life® expand its capacity to serve more special-needs animals.
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Spay/Neuter and Vaccinate a Street Dog in Chile
In south-central Chile, the majority of dogs are uncontained, unsterilized, and unvaccinated against common canine diseases. Just $20 U.S. will go a long way towards improving one dog's quality of life in Chile, and also help make sure that future generations of dogs are wanted and cared for.
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awaiin Monk Seals

February 22, 2009 · Filed under Mammals, Seals

It’s been a long time since I’ve written on my blog. I’ve got a great animal to add though!
Hawaiin monk seals are very lucky. They get to live in Hawaii. This means lying on the beach and hanging out in the sun. Only when seals lay in the sun, it’s not suntanning, it’s called basking.
The average monk seal is 7.5 feet long (2.3m) and they can weigh between 500 and 600 lbs.
There are three types of monk seals. Only two still exist. The Mediterranean and Hawaiin monk seals are still alive, but unfortunately the Caribbean monk seal has been extinct since the 1970’s. Hawaiin monk seals live near coral reefs which provide all kinds of different food such as eels, spiny lobster, octopus and fish.
Their Hawaiin name is llio holo lka upua which means ‘dog that runs in rough water’. My grandparents were recently in Hawaii, and they got some awesome pictures of them. They saw them basking on the beach they were swimming on. How cool!

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African Elephants

African Elephants are enormous creatures!
They are threatened but not endangered. Their tusks are very valuable to people who like to collect ivory. Piano keys, pool balls and collectable ornaments used to be made out of ivory, but as people realized that elephants had to die for ivory to be collected, it became illegal. Some people still like to collect ivory though, even though it’s illegal.
These animals can smell a long ways away. Both the female and the male can be very dangerous, especially when it is mating season or calving season. (Baby elephants are called calves)
Elephants live all over Africa. They eats roots, grasses, leaves, fruit and bark. They can eat a lot of food in one day, and a lot comes out the other end too.

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Black Rhinos

Black rhinos are very heavy. They are very protective of their families. They live in part of Southern Africa. They live on dry grasslands where they eat many types of grasses and ground-level plants.
Black rhinos are different from white rhinos. How? Their lips are different. White rhinos are actually named after a south african word that means wide, not white, and it is talking about their wide lip. A black rhino’s lip is pointier.
Their horns on their nose is made of keratin, which is a protein also found in human hair and fingernails. Very weird right? Black rhinos have two horns, and the largest one ever recorded was five feet long. That’s as long as my brother is tall! That’s amazing!
There are three types of rhinos and they are all endangered. This includes: black rhinos, white rhinos and Indian rhinos.

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Sperm Whales

May 2, 2008 · Filed under Uncategorized

Sperm whales are extreme! They are 49 – 59 feet long which is vey close in size to a bus. Wow! They have massive heads, and their brains are the largest of any creature known to have lived on earth. Sperm Whales weigh between 35 – 45 TONS. They eat lots of fish and squid everyday, almost one ton! When they are diving for squid and fish, they can go as deep as 3280 feet under the water. On these dives, they need to hold their breath for up to 90 minutes. When they fight with the giant squid, they can get a lot of wounds from them and have been spotted with suction cup wounds. Sperm Whales live in families called Pods in the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Indian Ocean.

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Beluga Whales

May 2, 2008 · Filed under Uncategorized

Beluga Whales are also called white whales. They live in in groups called Pods in the Arctic Ocean’s coastal waters and are also found in the subartics water. They are treatened. Some times when they are migrating, they become trapped under the freezing ice and die. They are also prey for Polar Bears, Killer Whales the Artic people and commercial fisheries.
Beluga Whales are smaller than a bus but bigger than a person and can weigh between 2000 and 3000 lbs. They eat worms, fish, and crustaceans. When they are born, they are grey or even brown in color. Their average lifetime in the wild is 35 to 50 years. Beluga whales are very social animals and communicate to each other with a language of clicks, whistles, and clangs.

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Thai Elephants

April 16, 2008 · Filed under Mammals · Tagged Elephants

My friend Amanda let me know about some elephants in Thailand that are being helped in a special camp. A nice lady takes care of elephants that have been abused or are really old. People can even go and volunteer there to help take care of them. I would like to do that!

Web site with pictures.

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The Green Sea Turtle

April 15, 2008 · Filed under Green Sea Turtles · Tagged Reptiles, Sea Turtles

I think that Green Sea Turtle’s are very unique! They can grow up to five feet long and wiegh up to 700 lbs! That is really enormous since they mostly eat seagrasses and algae! They can also live for more than 80 years. Green Sea Turtles are the only kind of turtles that cannot pull their heads back into their shells. That is called non retractable. The Green Sea Turtle got its name because of its greenish skin. When people make soup out of it, their soup is also green because of the fat.
Green Sea Turtles live in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. They are endangered. Some of the turtles are being caught in fishermens nets. They also die because of pollution and garbage in the water. (Especially plastic bags which look like jellyfish.) When the eggs hatch, it is very hard for the baby turtles to make it to the water because many crabs and birds eat them on the beach.
There are ways that we can help the Green Sea Turtle:

• It is important to always put your garbage where it belongs so that it doesn’t end up in the ocean.
• If you’re in a restaurant that serves them on the menu as a delicacy, don’t order them
• Fishermen need to be careful where they’re putting their nets, and they shouldn’t use trawling nets.

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The Strange Boto

April 5, 2008 · Filed under Mammals · Tagged Boto, Cetaceans

 
Boto are strange animals. They live in the Amazon River in South America. Boto are freshwater dolphins. They are shaped different than bottlenosed dolphins. These dolphins have small eyes and the water that they swim in is very dirty, but that is OK because they use a sense called echolocation to catch their prey and see what is in front of them.
 There are two zoos in the world with botos, one is in Venezuela and the other is in Germany. Botos are not endangered but are vulnerable. This means that there are still many left but they could be in danger from pollution, damming of their rivers and fishermen who kill them for eating their fish or harming their nets.

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Amazing Okapis

April 2, 2008 · Filed under Herbivores, Mammals, Okapi

 
Okapi are very shy animals. They live in the Congo in Africa. No one found out that they were alive on Earth until 1901. People call them living fossils. They eat plants so you know that means they are herbivores. They are related to giraffes. And the stripes on their legs kind of makes them look like zebras from a distance. They are the only animal that can stick their tongue out and clean their ear! Gross!
Okapi are threatened (not endangered) because of habitat loss and poaching.
www.bristolzoo.org has some great information about these shy, beautiful creatures.

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Bengal Tigers

March 31, 2008 · Filed under Mammals, Tigers

 
Bengal tigers are strong animals.  They are the largest cat in the cat family.  They live in parts of India, Malaysia, China, Kazakhstan, Thailand and areas outside Thailand and more.  They are one of the endangered cat species in the world.  They are 6-ft long, now that is long!  Their averarage life time is 8 to 10 yrs long in the wild.  There are ways to help these beautiful animals.

• by recycling paper and bottle
• learning more about these animals
• support the poeple that destroy their habitat by finding new jobs that does\not hurt the environment