"Kids who ride horses at the New Horizon Stables are being called heroes after firefighters say they ran into a burning barn to rescue 18 horses. All the horses were rescued and thankfully no-one was injured." - CBS Channel 6 News (Videos included)

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Get involved to save our world.

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Rescuing dogs (greyhounds) has its rewards!

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This might more appropriately have been titled "Loosing Sheep". Poor little lamb had to experience a court battle over whose pet it was. Fiction doesn't get better than this.

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"Authorities this week said they are moving closer to identifying whoever wrappped a dog in duct tape and left it for dead in a trash bag in a remote wooded area of (upstate New York.)" -Times Union

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"As offers for rewards roll in, the owners of a dog found duct-taped and left to die in the woods say they're overwhelmed by the compassion shown their pooch." - WNYT.com (Video of Daisy included.)

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Updated information and photos of beagle duct taped and left to die in woods: The beagle, Daisy, is home from the vet and continues to recover. While not included in the news story, the local humane society is offering a $2500 reward for information leading to an arrest.

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"A dog who had been missing for nearly three weeks has been found in a wooded area...in the northern Saratoga County (NY) town of Providence." "Police say the dog, a beagle, was covered in duct tape, placed in a bag and dumped in the woods."

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When Thompson first started the rescue mission, she envisioned she would take in eight to 10 dogs at a time, a small enough number that each could be spoiled--even within the hours left over after her day job in the office of a motor shop.

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"After hesitating a few seconds in front of the people who came to watch, Ahinoam the female wolf scampered out of her cage.

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CAMPBELL COUNTY - Nearly 40 firefighters worked in frigid temperatures for more than an hour Wednesday to rescue a horse stuck in a frozen pond in rural Campbell County.

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House Rabbit Society (HRS) is delighted to announce that PETCO has decided to cease its sale of rabbits in all PETCO stores.

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The e-mails started around 8:30 a.m. Nov. 5, the morning after Barack Obama's presidential election, or more importantly, his victory speech.

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Allie Conrad heads up Canter Mid Atlantic, which rescues former racehorses from what could be a horrific end in a killing shed.

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This baby bushy-tailed "Ike" was rescued during Windstorm Ike.

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Three years ago today, Bourbon nearly lost his life in Hurricane Katrina. His owners fled, leaving the 10-month-old cream-colored Spitz mix alone as rain and wind pounded his home in New Orleans. When the levees broke, the home filled with muddy toxic water.

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Frankie's eyes drooped with fatigue. With grimy fur and nails a half-inch long, he wobbled on his paws after apparently spending most of his life in a wire cage in a West Virginia puppy mill.

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The Amish and Puppy Mills

This article is in response to another article about the Amish people. I wrote a separate article so my opinions would not detract from the uplifting tone and tenor of his story.

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WARREN COUNTY A volunteer at an exotic animal farm had his lower leg amputated Monday after a tiger attacked him Sunday on his first day of work.

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It took animal rescuers, neighbors and a concerned pet owner 15 days — and one trip to the psych ward — to save a 7-year-old kitty that was trapped in a narrow shaft in a Carroll Gardens apartment building. The part-Persian, part-American short-haired cat — named Rumi in h …

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WARNING! Some of the pictures at the beginning of this article are graphic and disturbing. They illustrate the result of cruelty to dogs. Here is Clementine, a Southern girl, whose rescuer writes --

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Lily is a [large] female dog who was rescued. She is nursing a few litters of kittens. She cleans them and makes sure they don't stray from their nest too far. :) Watching something like this...doesn't it just give you hope for humans? It does to me.

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Scrambling to prevent a mama mallard from walking 11 newly hatched offspring across the busy downtown thoroughfare from their nest in a sidewalk planter, animal rescuers whisked the babies off to a Baltimore County wildlife shelter - leaving their frantic mother to fly off alone.

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HONOLULU -- Snickers is only eight months old. But the cocker spaniel already has spent three months adrift on a 48-foot boat and survived four months on a tiny Pacific atoll where his owners, Jerry and Darla Merrow of California, left him when they were rescued by a cargo vesse …

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This distrubing video from animal welfare activists in North Carolina captures footage of a man beating, choking, kicking, and throwing chained dogs in his yard.

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