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Category: Animal Companions

Animal Companions
How Can $15 Save Thousands of Lives?

We’re making 2015 a happier new year for cats and dogs by offering local residents the deal of the year: $15 spay-neuter surgeries all month long.

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Animal Companions
Calvin and Hobbes Are Ready for Their Next Adventure

These two cats have one New Year’s resolution—to find a home.

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Black calf in a barn
Animal Companions
See the Faces Behind Your Donations

The lives of these animals were forever changed for the better, thanks to your support.

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Animal Companions
Update: From a Little Box to the Big City

A puppy who was confined for weeks to a 2-foot-by-2-foot box is adopted by a Washington, D.C., couple.

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Animal Companions
How Did One Grateful ‘Dog’ Celebrate Newport News’ Chaining Ban?

A Newport News, Virginia, council member challenges supporters of an anti-chaining ordinance not to forget about humans in need, so PETA steps up to the plate.

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PETA CAP worker with Midnight, a black dog
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Thankful: Meet Some of the Dogs PETA Helped Over the Holiday Weekend

Chained dogs never get a holiday, so PETA’s fieldworkers were out over Thanksgiving weekend delivering lifesaving doghouses, straw, and food.

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Animal Companions
Finally! Michael Vick’s Hometown Bans Chaining (Graphic)

A victory nearly 10 years in the making: Newport News, Virginia, restricts the chaining of dogs.

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Hopeless No More: Meet Some of the Animals PETA Helped Last Month (Graphic)

From delivering doghouses to alleviating suffering to putting the brakes on animal births, it was a banner month for PETA’s fieldworkers and mobile clinics.

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Animal Companions
FOX Will Give Thanks for Mutts on Thanksgiving Day

You already know that rescued dogs make the best friends—now everyone who tunes in to FOX on Thanksgiving night will know it, too.

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Chained Dog? A Chilling Tail (Sidewalk Stencil) PSA
Animal Companions
Chained Dogs—A Chilling Tail

If your community lacks an ordinance against chaining, demand one—and if you see dogs chained outdoors, help them.

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Save 200 Animals Every Year by Going Vegan
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Animal Companions
Boss ‘Hires’ New ‘Staff’

The dog who had the worst flea infestation we’ve ever seen is now living the high life in New York City.

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Animal Companions
How Did Holly Berry Go From Chained to Champion?

Holly Berry, a dog who was emaciated and chained before PETA rescued her, wins first place in her new family’s heart—and in a 5K race.

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Animal Companions
Rest in Peace, Peaches—Your Abusers Are Behind Bars (Graphic)

A man and his daughter are given jail time for a horrific case of chaining abuse.

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Animal Companions
With New French Law, Animals Are No Longer Considered Furniture

A new law just passed by Parliament elevates domestic and farmed animals to the status of “living beings capable of sensitivity.”

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Animal Companions
Nobody Puts Pickles in a Box

Can we make you a “dill”? We’re giving one lucky person a lifetime supply of Pickles.

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The first World Day for Laboratory Animals protest in the U.S., 1980
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“Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights?”

— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind

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