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Animal shelters nationwide to compete for chance at $600,000 in prize grants for saving more animals NEW YORK, Jan. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) today released the names of the 50 animal shelters that will compete in the 2013 ASPCA Rachael Ray $100K Challenge, with a total of $600,000 in prize grants up for grabs to help shelters save more homeless cats and dogs. (Logo:...
Shelters compete to save more lives, earn more than $500,000 in prize grants NEW YORK, Oct. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) today announced that 33,185 pets were adopted or reunited with their owners during the first two months of the 2012 ASPCA Rachael Ray $100K Challenge. Fifty animal shelters from across the country are working to increase adoptions in order to win a piece of the more than $500,000...
Shelters Compete to Save More Lives, Earn More Than $500,000 in Prize Grants NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) today announced that 19,114 pets were adopted or reunited with their owners during the first 30 days of the 2012 ASPCA Rachael Ray $100K Challenge, a three-month competition where 50 animal shelters from across the country will work to increase adoptions in order to win a piece of...
Shelters Compete to Save More Lives, Earn More Than $500,000 in Prize Grants NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) today officially kicked off the 2012 ASPCA Rachael Ray $100K Challenge, a three-month competition where 50 animal shelters from across the country will work to increase adoptions in order to win a piece of the more than $500,000 in ASPCA prize grants, including a grand prize...
HARRISBURG, Pa., July 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- All 187 dogs voluntarily forfeited from a Columbia County home on July 19 have been placed in animal shelters across the state. The dogs, which are mostly Chihuahuas, will eventually be put up for adoption to good homes. "This is one of the worst cases of animal hoarding we've seen in Pennsylvania, but through the efficient work of dog wardens, state and county animal response teams and local animal shelters, the dogs are one...
PORT ORANGE, Fla., March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Animal Control Management today announces an aggressive expansion of their nuisance wildlife removal services by offering protected territory franchise opportunities. Long established as a leader in the humane removal of annoying, pest-category wildlife in Central Florida, Animal Control Management handles all types of animal removal and exclusion using proprietary, state of the art materials and techniques that permit them to offer an...
Cats removed and transported to temporary shelter with assistance from local, national agencies NEW YORK, Feb. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®), at the request of the Madison County Sheriff's Office and Madison County Animal Control in northern Florida, is managing the removal and sheltering of hundreds of cats living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions from a non-profit cat sanctuary known as...
"Rachael's Rescue" Joins the Effort; Animal Welfare Organizations Encouraged to Apply NEW YORK, June 9, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) today announced that it has established the ASPCA Disaster Fund and is accepting disaster grant applications from qualified shelters and other animal welfare organizations in states affected by or responding to recent severe weather incidents. (Logo:...
NEW YORK, Jan. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The ASPCA(R) (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals(R)) has appointed Tim Rickey as Senior Director of its newly created Field Investigations and Response team, effective January 4, 2010. Rickey was formerly the Director of the Animal Cruelty Task Force and Disaster Response team for the Humane Society of Missouri (HSMO), where he recently led the largest dog fighting raid in U.S. history, covering eight states and seizing...
A North Dakota animal control officer said calls about dogs are commonplace, but a report of a dog on the roof of a house was a first for him. Dick Schnell, an animal control officer with the Minot Police Department, said he responded to a call Tuesday about a dog that had apparently scaled the snow banks in the backyard of its home to reach the roof of the house, the Minot Daily News reported Thursday. Just when you think you've seen it all, Schnell joked after the incident Tuesday. Schnell...
