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  2. Animal shelter - Wikipedia

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    An animal shelter or pound is a place where stray, lost, abandoned or surrendered animals – mostly dogs and cats – are housed. The word "pound" has its origins in the animal pounds of the agricultural communities, where stray livestock would be penned or impounded until they were claimed by their owners.

  3. Pet adoption - Wikipedia

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    Online pet adoption sites have databases, searchable by the public, of pets being housed by thousands of animal shelters and rescue groups. A black cat waiting to be adopted. Because of the superstitions surrounding black cats, they are disproportionately more common in shelters than in the general population and less likely to be adopted than ...

  4. North Shore Animal League America - Wikipedia

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    The League is also home to a National Shelter Rescue and Humane Education Team. The League has a mobile adoption program, adoption counseling, training and foster care for pets with special needs. [citation needed] In 2005, a documentary series titled Animal House: A Dog's Life on the Animal Planet aired 13 episodes about dogs and workers at ...

  5. Peninsula Humane Society - Wikipedia

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    It is an animal rescue (including wildlife rescue), [1] rehabilitation and adoption operation with two locations. The Tom and Annette Lantos Center for Compassion, where adoptable animals are housed, is in the city of Burlingame and the older physical plant, which serves as the intake shelter, is located at Coyote Point in the city of San Mateo.

  6. Woodgreen Pets Charity - Wikipedia

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    2 years after the announcement of their new strategy in 2020, the charity rebranded as Woodgreen Pets Charity. The decision to merge their title into one word was a way for the charity to acknowledge its origins whilst allowing them to appeal to more people across the UK.

  7. Black dog syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Initial research at one location identified a longer period experienced by black dogs before adoption, but subsequent studies considered to be more robust (as conducted in a larger number of geographically spread shelters) have shown that when shelter visitors video-recorded their walk through the adoption area, they spent equal amounts of time looking at every dog, regardless of coat color. [4]