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When Laura Amante’s older Chihuahua passed away, she knew she wanted another dog, partly because her remaining one, Maggie, was so lonely without her buddy. The Shelton, CT, woman knew just where to begin her search: Petfinder, the online database of homeless pets, listing more than 330,000 pets at more …
The Rescue U volunteers had barely completed the meet-and-greet pens at the Humane Society of Jefferson County when the Diaz family stopped by the shelter looking to adopt a dog on Memorial Day. The Diazes meet Charlie. It was only fitting, on this patriotic holiday, that the dad had just …
The Petfinder Foundation‘s Rescue U is here in Jefferson City, TN, renovating the Humane Society of Jefferson County, a shelter that desperately needs our help. The team — students from Tennessee’s University of Knoxville and Pennsylvania’s Delaware Valley College, as well as volunteers from Oklahoma and even one from Michigan …
The Petfinder Foundation’s Rescue U team is heading to Tennessee’s Humane Society of Jefferson County, where from May 22-30, the student volunteers will complete a staggering number of projects to renovate the shelter. The Jefferson County shelter is near and dear to the students’ hearts: Shelter manager Melissa Enck is …
This month we’re helping pet parents get — or keep — their pets fit for life. (Check out our expert pet-diet and weight-loss tips and videos.) But regular exercise with you pet can have mental benefits, as well as the physical ones. For Wallace the Pit Bull, regular exercise helped …
Here’s another great lost-dog reunion story from our partner HomeAgain. You can help lost pets get home again: Sign up to receive lost pet alerts when a dog or cat goes missing in your area. Chen was missing for 20 minutes before HomeAgain called. Chen was running down a busy …
It didn’t take Rita Sears long to realize Trigger was the dog for her. The Eaton Rapids, MI, woman saw him just one day after he was posted on Petfinder by South Bend Animal Care and Control in Indiana. Read Trigger’s story in Rita’s words. “I contacted the shelter on …
Katherine Heigl’s Jason Debus Heigl Foundation and the Petfinder Foundation have awarded San Bernardino City Animal Control $7,000 to vaccinate shelter dogs against bordetella, often called kennel cough. Photo courtesy of the Jason Debus Heigl Foundation “We are very pleased to work with the Petfinder Foundation in our common mission …
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