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ASPCA OUR MISSION: The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals exists to promote humane principles, prevent cruelty, and alleviate fear, pain, and suffering in animals. MAKE PET ADOPTION YOUR FIRST OPTION Each year, up to 60% of dogs and up to 70% of cats that enter shelters will die because there is no one to adopt them. This is why the ASPCA asks that you go to an animal shelter or rescue group in your community if you are ready to get a pet, and see all the great companions waiting to enter your life. The ASPCA and Petfinder.com help community animal shelters across the country post their available animals online. NATIONAL SHELTER OUTREACH Please use the ASPCA's searchable database of nearly 5,000 community SPCA's, humane societies and animal control organizations to find an animal shelter in your area. You can also locate your nearest shelter with Petfinder.com, our online adoptions partner. (To find a community shelter or view dogs for adoption, please visit the Pet Links page on this site to link on to aspca.org or petfinder.com) DONATIONS The ASPCA is the oldest non-profit animal welfare organization in the United States. Your tax-deductible donation can help us save the lives of millions of adoptable animals. Your contribution means greater protection for animals through adoptions, health services, humane education, law enforcement, legislation, and shelter outreach. Please
Mail Your Donations (made out to the ASPCA) to: (Friends who wish to provide an important extra measure of support for the ASPCA's programs with gifts of $500 or more are entitled to membership in the Founder's Society.) BENEFITS TO DONATING Contributing to the ASPCA has its rewards. First and foremost, you will know that you've helped us save the lives of hundreds of thousands of animals by supporting the ASPCA and its programs. Here are some of the ways that you will receive thanks form us for your generous gifts:
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Where They Live "Happily Ever After" 5001 Angel Canyon Drive Kanab, Utah 84741-5000 Welcome to Best Friends - the nation's largest sanctuary for abused and abandoned animals. There are never fewer than 1,800 dogs, cats, and other companion animals living "the good life" at this 3,000 acre sanctuary. Best Friends is located at the heart of the Golden Circle - a short drive from the Grand Canyon, Bryce and Zion National Parks, and Lake Powell. These once-sad little faces come from far and wide, but once they're here, Best Friends staff and volunteers make sure that their bad luck turns to good luck, and that they will never again be hungry, sick, alone, or in pain. 85% of the animals brought to the sanctuary soon got o carefully chosen homes with loving families. But hundreds more are the cats and dogs that most people will never take home: outcast, unwanted, lame, too traumatized by past abuses, too old, handicapped, or ill. For these innocent creatures, Best Friends will be a special home and haven for the rest of their lives. This work of love is made possible through the kindness and generosity of people like you who love and respect our fellow creatures. Please come see for yourself. Your dog and cat friends here at the sanctuary love meeting visitors and volunteers who come to see them from far and wide! OUR FURRY FRIENDS CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU If your travels bring you out to the Grand Canyon area this year, you'll be right in our neck of the woods, so come and visit your furry friends at the same time! Angel Canyon lies right at the heart of the Golden Circle of national Parks which includes the Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce Canyon, The Grand Staircase/Escalante, and Lake Powell National Recreation Area. Nearly 20,000 animal lovers like you pay a visit to Best Friends each year! The Welcome Center is open every day except Christmas, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. There are several guided tours of the sanctuary each day. Tours take about an hour or so and you need to call ahead for reservations. You can also watch a video about Best Friends, browse our gift shop, or just relax in the Wishing Garden where you can plant a special wish for the animals and for your loved ones. EDUCATION, ADOPTION, RESCUE and NETWORKING! The work of Best Friends travels far beyond the sanctuary itself. Through education programs, traveling spay/neuter clinics, fundraising efforts, wildlife rescue, and of course, adoptions, we reach millions of people with the simple message that kindness to animals helps make a better world for all of us. ADOPTION People visit the sanctuary from far and wide to adopt a furry friend (or two!). For those folks who can't visit us, Best Friends volunteers coordinate Mobile Adoption Days at cities within reach of the sanctuary. BEST FRIENDS NETWORK Best Friends Network is a nationwide network of people just like you who are helping animals in their own communities. When we hear about a situation that needs help, we notify network members nearby and ask if they'd like to help. When an old resort in the Catskill Mountains went bankrupt, hundreds of stray dogs and cats who used to hang out around the grounds were suddenly faced with starvation and freezing temperatures. While a nearby sanctuary struggled to rescue as many animals as possible, a member of the network e-mailed Best Friends, 2,400 miles away, to see if we could help. The next day, we called, wrote, and e-mailed Best Friends Network members. Soon, an organized effort was under way to help feed and foster the abandoned animals. Through the Best Friends Network your generous support provides a lifeline to individuals and groups, all over the country, who are working to end the suffering of homeless animals and helping to bring about a time when there will be "no more homeless pets". LEND A HAND Everyone is welcome at the sanctuary. Indeed, volunteers come from all over the world, just like the animals! We have dog lovers from California and Massachusetts, cat lovers from Arizona and New York, and folks from just about everywhere in between. "HOW CAN I HELP?" "How can I become part of this wonderful place?" It's a question we hear every day from visitors and kind folks all across the country. When it comes to helping the animals you have many options:
Best Friends receives no major corporate or government funding. Our obligation is to the animals and to you, our sponsors and members. Best Friends' accounts are fully audited and our annual IRS Form 990 is available upon request. Your donation to the work of Best Friends can work a small miracle. And together with the donations of all our members, sponsors and contributors, it can help work very large miracles, indeed! (For more information or to view dogs for adoption, please visit the Pet Links page on this site to link on to bestfriends.org) NSAL
Each year, North Shore Animal League America rescues tens of thousands of pets from death's door. And we never, never kill a healthy pet. But the problem of homeless and abandoned pets continues to grow and we urgently need your help! We don't believe in "putting down" animals under our care. We're proud to be the world's largest "no-kill" animal adoption organization. This means that we will keep an animal until we find it a home. We never give up. Since our founding in 1944, we have placed more than 800,000 pets in loving homes. If a pet is hard to place because it is disabled or has emotional problems, we make an interim home for it at our shelter. And we shower the animal with love and attention while we continue to try and find someone who can offer a permanent, loving home. We know you care about the animals who trust and rely on us and who give so generously of their love and companionship in return. We urgently need you to help save their lives by supporting North Shore Animal League America today. A donation of any amount will really help and it would be greatly appreciated. When you donate to North Shore Animal League America, you'll help us send our Rescue Vans to save unwanted puppies and kittens from shelters where they would otherwise have to be put to sleep. You'll help us deliver expert medical treatment o more than 150 pets a week at our Alex Lewyt Veterinary Medical Center where dozens of veterinarians and technicians lovingly nurse pets back to health 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. You'll help us promote spaying and neutering to reduce the number of unwanted cats and dogs, as well as helping us provide low-cost spay and neutering services. At the League, we provide free spaying and neutering to every pet in our care. Most of all, you'll help us find good homes for these cats, dogs, kittens and puppies who deserve a chance to be happy, healthy and loved. We are renowned for our screening and education process. The fact is that we reject nearly one third of those who come to us looking for a pet. It would be easier to accept everyone, but we are committed to the animals in our care, and we won't release them to a home that's not prepared to give them what they need...a lifetime of love, care, and safety. Each year, we place almost 25,000 "unwanted" animals into loving homes. And by networking with thousands of shelters and animal organizations in our world-wide Pet Adoptathon, we have found homes for more than 100,000 additional animals since we began this event in 1995. (For more information or to view dogs for adoption, please visit the Pet Links page on this site to link on to nsalamerica.org)
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