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Ready ... Set ... Strut!
Join Best Friends Animal Society, our local rescue partners and fellow animal lovers in a leisurely, scenic morning walk to raise money and support our mission to achieve a world of No More Homeless Pets®. Afterwards, stay and enjoy a doggie-themed festival for pets and their people that includes free massages and pampering for your pooches, training demonstrations, doggie yoga, the hottest products and accessories, free treats, music, food, contests and much more!
Strut Your Mutt from Coast to Coast
New York City – Sunday, September 26
Pier 84/Hudson River Park
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OPIN and the Stamford Animal Care & Control shelter wishes to thank all the Sponsors, Visitors and the many compassionate Volunteers who made our 5th annual Pet Adoption Day a success on June 26, 2010. We raised roughly $2,500 to support the shelter animals.
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Join our Domestic Violence Foster Program |
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Pet Shelter for DV Victims
There are many reasons a victim of domestic violence may opt not to go to a shelter or safe house, but now the fear of abandoning a pet doesn't have to be one of them. Thanks to a newly-formed partnership between the Domestic Violence Crisis Center and Outreach to Pets in Need (OPIN), foster care services will be available for pets whose owners enter the DVCC's SafeHouses in Stamford or Norwalk... learn more here.
Keeping Women and Their Pets Together Through the Crisis of Domestic Violence
Diamond is a happy 9-month-old Pomeranian who recently spent three days in foster care. The pup didn't know it, of course, but that foster home—and the people who moved swiftly to arrange it—was a key factor in keeping her human guardian safe from harm, and possibly the reason she didn't end up in a shelter. (Read the full story here.)
Learn more about how you can help!
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