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Help Us Keep 10,000 Shelter Pets Cool this Summer!

As part of Petfinder’s Summer Pet Safety campaign, we’re challenging Petfinder.com visitors to help us raise $10,000 to help keep 10,000 shelter pets cool and safe this summer. (Donate to keep shelter pets cool here.) The funds raised will go towards Summer Cooling grants to help shelters purchase misters, sun shades and other cooling devices. We visited the first grant...
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Tippy Sits in the Grass

A Maltipoo Is Thrown Over a Shelter Fence

When Tippy the Maltipoo was thrown over a shelter fence onto concrete, our grant from Orvis — which matches donations dollar-for-dollar up to $30,000 — arrived just in time for k9.5 Rescue in Greenville, S.C., to save her life. “She was literally on the verge of death, with a heart rate of 36,” k9.5 President Allison Rathert tells us. “During...
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Sunny is available for adoption

Saving a Pregnant Pit Bull and Her Puppies

When Utah Animal Adoption Center in Salt Lake City rescued a very pregnant Pit Bull from an abusive situation, our grant from Orvis — which matches donations dollar-for-dollar up to $30,000 — helped pay for the mother’s and her seven puppies’ medical care. “Sunny was extremely malnourished,” Resource Development Director Samantha Johnson tells us. “You could see her ribs.” Despite...
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Displaced Cat in Kennel

Helping Animal Victims of the Colorado Wildfire

We’ve rushed $3,000 in disaster aid to Colorado Springs, Colo., where the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region is caring for 358 cats, dogs, birds, pocket pets and other animals displaced by the raging Black Forest fire. “We’re working around the clock,” Grants and Corporate Relations Manager Marsha Wayman tells us. The fire is the most destructive in the...
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Lisa Walks Nina the Adoptable Dog

Delivering a Grant — and Meeting Shelter Pets — in Tucson

Once in a while, we like to deliver a grant in person. So this week we headed to one of our local Tucson shelters, Pima Animal Care Center (PACC), to present a $1,000 Summer Cooling grant. The funds will be used to install a misting system in the shelter’s meet-and-greet yards and outdoor dog runs to make both more comfortable...
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