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  2. Petfinder - Wikipedia

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    Petfinder operates the largest online pet adoption website serving all of North America. [2] [3] The company reports that it currently lists “more than 315,000 adoptable pets from nearly 14,000 animal shelters and rescue groups.” [2] A commercial enterprise founded in 1996, it is now owned by Nestlé Purina PetCare Company and reports that it has facilitated more than 22 million pet ...

  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. Animal rescue group - Wikipedia

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    Animal shelters often work closely with rescue groups, because shelters that have difficulty placing otherwise healthy and pet-worthy animals would usually rather have the animal placed in a home than euthanized; while shelters might run out of room, rescue groups can often find volunteers with space in their homes for temporary placement.

  5. Dog Survives 50-Foot Fall From Cliff at Connecticut Quarry - AOL

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    The post Dog Survives 50-Foot Fall From Cliff at Connecticut Quarry appeared first on DogTime. In a Facebook post, the North Canaan Animal Shelter touched upon the rescue of a Terrier mix named Rippy.

  6. List of mammals of Connecticut - Wikipedia

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    The animal was first identified in Darien, Connecticut, in 1840 by Reverend James H. Linsley, but not seen again for 100 years. In 1941, George Goodwin, assistant curator of mammals at the American Museum of Natural History , in New York City, found one in Westbrook at the edge of a saltgrass meadow.

  7. Groton, Connecticut - Wikipedia

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    Groton used to include what is now the town of Ledyard, which separated from Groton in 1836. The original center of Groton is still known as Center Groton at the present-day intersection of Route 184 and Route 117, now in the north-central part of town, due to the departure of Ledyard to the north. Groton Center was the location of the town's ...

  8. Groton (city), Connecticut - Wikipedia

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    The village of Groton incorporated as a borough in 1903, and the residents of the borough of Groton reincorporated as the city of Groton in 1964. It is the only remaining city in the state of Connecticut that is not governmentally consolidated with its parent town. [1] The city is part of the Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region. The ...

  9. Noank, Connecticut - Wikipedia

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    Noank (/ ˈ n oʊ æ ŋ k / NOH-ank) is a village in the town of Groton, Connecticut, United States.This dense community of historic homes and local businesses sits on a small, steep peninsula at the mouth of the Mystic River and has a long tradition of fishing, lobstering and boat-building.