Recently, Facebook gave Page administrators the option to change the way that comments appear under posts on Facebook pages by allowing replies to specific comments. Pages that chose this option soon found that the comments under individual posts and photos are no longer defaulted to appear chronologically. Instead, they are ranked by popularity. This change is affecting numerous rescue and shelter pages because administrators are having difficulty communicating the status of at-risk animals in timely fashion....

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Bryson is available for adoption through Pit Crew Pit Bull Rescue in Raleigh, NC   If you foster a dog you may be eligible for tax deductions. Foster pet parents in the United States who would like to claim expenses on their personal taxes now have a much clearer set of guidelines thanks to one woman who sued the Internal Revenue Service in court and won. Jan Van Dusen fosters feral cats out of her...

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A dog owner is distraught after his 18-year-old dog was accidentally euthanized at a shelter after he claimed him. A week ago, Bow Wow, the Calhoun Collie mix of Patrick Morris got out of his gate. Patrick and his wife Kimberly put up flyers all around their neighborhood in Baton Rouge, Louisiana hoping someone would see their dog. It turns out someone did see Bow Wow, as animal control came and picked the senior dog...

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A Golden Labrador Retriever who nipped a child nearly a year ago has growing support from animal lovers who say the dog has been unjustly sentenced to euthanasia.  The 3-year-old dog named Phineas was seized from his home in Salem, MO last June after animal control learned that the dog had bitten a child while she was visiting the dog's home. In March of this year, Phineas was judged to be a "vicious dog" and...

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Rufus, a one year-old Beagle, has been freed to go home to his family after a month-long battle to save his life after he bit a child. Last month, Rufus was celebrating his first birthday and was given a special soft food treat. Chaz, Nikki West's 4-year-old boy entered the kitchen while Rufus was excitedly eating and the dog bit Chaz on the lip. Nikki filled in the necessary paperwork after the animal bite, and...

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Forty-seven malnourished dogs - mostly Dachshunds - were saved from a Florida home after police went to investigate possible drug activity at the home in Auburndale. What Polk County Sheriff's deputies found shocked them. Cages were stacked on top of one another and filled with urine and feces. The dogs appeared to not have any food or water and the home was in deplorable condition.  Deputies arrived at the home and talked with Randall Huggins....

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DC Shiba Inu Rescue is taking the month of May to promote Puppy Mill awareness and focus on the plight of puppy mill dogs throughout the United States. Here is the first video in a series of posters, links, videos and documents we will be posting in order to educate the public. Some of the material and images may be graphic and/or disturbing. We feel it is important to realistically depict what is happening right...

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A 10-week-old Boxer Shepherd mix is recovering after he was rescued from the hands of a violent abuser. Police saved the puppy from an Oklahoma City apartment complex after they received an anonymous call from a Good Samaritan. When police arrived at the apartment they heard what they thought was a cage being thrown. When they went inside they found the puppy bleeding and his lip nearly torn off. The suspect, Deneoval Derrick, was arrested...

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A man whose beloved husky was attacked with battery acid is campaigning for Michigan state to create a registry of animal abusers. ***Warning. Graphic images below may be disturbing to some readers.**** Matt Falk went to let his Husky, Logan, out of his outdoor kennel where he regularly slept on the morning of March 13, 2012 only to discover an unknown assailant had attacked Logan sometime during the night. Logan had been sprayed with battery...

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A Manassas man has been charged with stealing two of his neighbor's dogs and abusing and killing one. Prince William County Police say that Khanh Hoang Hong broke into his neighbor's home and stole two West Highland Terriers on April 17. The dogs' owner came home and found blood throughout the home and believes the intruder had broken in through an unlocked sliding door in the basement. Police believe Hong duct-taped the dogs' legs and...

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Recently, Facebook gave Page administrators the option to change the way that comments appear under posts on Facebook pages by allowing replies to specific comments. Pages that chose this option soon found that the comments under individual posts and photos are no longer defaulted to appear chronologically. Instead, they are ranked by popularity. This change is affecting numerous rescue and shelter pages because administrators are having difficulty communicating the status of at-risk animals in timely fashion....

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Colorado may soon be the first state in the United States that would require law enforcement officers to take training in animal conflict. The Senate Bill was proposed after several high profile dog shootings by police in recent years. The Senate voted unanimously Tuesday on a measure that would require sheriff and police departments to offer three hours of online training for deputies and officers on how to recognize dog behaviors and employ nonlethal methods...

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