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Monday, November 5, 2012

Saving Animals a Part of Rescue Plan for Sandy

It's About Time Rescuers Treated Pets Like the Family Members They Are

Around here, we see signs hurriedly stapled to telephone poles fairly often. Lost cat. Lost dog. Please help. Reward. Now imagine how many of those signs could go up in the line of Hurricane Sandy. Even as hundreds, perhaps thousands, are still displaced from their neighborhoods, an act-alike Facebook page has caught the attention of the media, and a warning — it's equally touching and heartbreaking to visit. Hurricane Sandy Lost and Found Pets, established the day before Sandy made landfall in the U.S., doesn't recommend any particular charity deserving your dollars, nor take donations. (Refreshing a week before Election Day, isn't it?) It exists solely to create a place where people can post photos of lost and found pets in affected …

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