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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Best Friends Animal Society First Responders Assessing Animal Rescue Needs in Flood-Ravaged Tabasco, Mexico

A aggregation from Best Friends Animal Society has accustomed in the Mexican accompaniment of Tabasco to appraise the aftereffect of contempo floods on the abominable population.

Tabasco, Mexico (Vocus/PRWEB ) November 7, 2007 -- A aggregation from Best Friends Animal Society has accustomed in the Mexican accompaniment of Tabasco to appraise the aftereffect of contempo floods on the abominable population. The bearings is evocative of Hurricane Katrina, with hundreds of bags of abandoned residents. One address adumbrated that as abounding as 100,000 beasts and added calm animals and tens of bags of ancestors pets are abandoned by the floods.

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We are abashed by the abridgement of advice in the media on this disaster's appulse on animals We’ll do a absolute appraisal and broadcast our allegation ASAP, so added all-embracing organizations can actuate how best they can help. It's one of the affliction accustomed disasters in the history of the country. Kindness to animals builds a bigger apple for all of us. “We are abashed by the abridgement of advice in the media on this disaster's appulse on animals,” said Paul Berry, arch controlling administrator of Best Friends Animal Society. “We’ll do a absolute appraisal and broadcast our allegation ASAP, so added all-embracing organizations can actuate how best they can help.”

Best Friends helped save 6,000 dogs and bodies during the after-effects of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and has back become one of the added acclaimed animal rescue groups based in the United States.

Rich Crook, accelerated acknowledgment administrator for Best Friends, met today with Mexico’s Minister of Health to altercate accepted accretion plans. And Crook will accommodated with aggressive admiral on Wednesday and bout the adversity across by aggressive helicopter to actuate what is bare to advice animals survive the calamity conditions.

Estimates are that hundreds of bags of Tabasco association are abandoned and active in shelters. Another 80,000 others are said to be trapped in limited areas of the state. Many association are aggravating to get to their homes to abolish accouterment and claimed belongings, including pets that may accept been stranded.

In a British Broadcasting Corporation article, President Felipe Calderón alleged the bearings “extraordinarily grave.” Then in a afresh televised abode he said: "It's one of the affliction accustomed disasters in the history of the country.”

As the bearings develops, Best Friends will abide to amend its associates and the account media on the advance of its abominable accomplishment activities. For added advice and to accumulate up with developments, visit: www.bestfriends.org.

About Best Friends Animal Society
Located on 33,000 acreage in Kanab, Utah, Best Friends Animal Society operates the country’s better altar for abandoned pets and is home, on any accustomed day, to about 1,500 dogs, cats, horses, rabbits, birds and added animals. Best Friends works globally with abominable shelters and accomplishment groups to accompany about a time if there will be no added abandoned pets. Best Friends advances initiatives civic that advance association approaches to accomplish the apple a bigger abode through affection to animals, including adoption, spay/neuter, and accommodating apprenticeship programs.

“Kindness to animals builds a bigger apple for all of us.”

6 Small Steps to No More Homeless Pets®

Best Friends Offers Networking, Resources; Urges Local Involvement to Address 'Foreclosure Pets' Issue We started the No More Homeless Pets® affairs about two decades ago to allotment assets and advise humans how they could be allotment of the solution. We accomplished that our altar in a limited allotment of southern Utah could not possibly crop in the millions of animals who charge help. We are seeing the call now added than anytime of all of us alive calm to break the abandoned pets problem Here is what we apperceive at Best Friends: the humans in this country accept an amazing adeptness to ability out and help. How abounding times accept we apparent humans about-face out in force afterwards a blow or tornado? Yes, these are abnormally difficult times, but Best Friends knows that analytic the abandoned pets affair is a abnormality of abounding baby choices None of us can break this alone. Do one baby affair and get your accompany to do one baby thing, too. It's amazing how fast these baby sacrifices add up.

(Vocus/PRWEB ) March 26, 2009 -- Best Friends Animal Society offers networking, resources; urges bounded captivation to abode 'foreclosure pets' issue. The way to action the bread-and-butter armament which are active up the amount of abandoned pets absolutely may be in your own backyard, an able at one of the nation's better abominable abundance organizations says.

Since the mid 1980's, the amount of abandoned pets euthanized annually in this country alone from some 17 actor to about 4 million, but the accepted access in foreclosures through which humans are affected to abandon their pets to shelters, accumulated with drops in donations to abominable accomplishment groups abuse to drive the amount of abandoned pets higher.

The statistics alter above the country, but the adventure is the same. Every day the civic advice board at Best Friends Animal Society receives hundreds of burning requests from accomplishment groups disturbing to break open, humans accident their jobs and no best able to acquiesce their pets, shelters that cannot accumulate up with breeze of animals into their shelters, and letters of bodies and dogs larboard abaft to bulwark for themselves afterwards a foreclosure.

Liz Finch, administrator of Best Friends' Community Assistance Department said, "We started the No More Homeless Pets® affairs about two decades ago to allotment assets and advise humans how they could be allotment of the solution. We accomplished that our altar in a limited allotment of southern Utah could not possibly crop in the millions of animals who charge help."

"We are seeing the call now added than anytime of all of us alive calm to break the abandoned pets problem," Finch said. "Here is what we apperceive at Best Friends: the humans in this country accept an amazing adeptness to ability out and help. How abounding times accept we apparent humans about-face out in force afterwards a blow or tornado?"

"Yes, these are abnormally difficult times, but Best Friends knows that analytic the abandoned pets affair is a abnormality of abounding baby choices," Finch continued.

Finch categorical six simple accomplish humans can crop to advice abandoned pets in their community. "None of us can break this alone. Do one baby affair and get your accompany to do one baby thing, too. It's amazing how fast these baby sacrifices add up."

6 simple accomplish to advice abandoned pets:
1. Make a baby donation to your bounded accomplishment accumulation or apartment and get 5 of your accompany to do the same. Small amounts add up fast.
2. Volunteer at your bounded apartment or accomplishment group.
3. Foster a abandoned pet and advance it for adoption.
4. Spay/neuter your pets. If you can acquiesce to do so, accord the amount of a spay/neuter for a acquaintance who cannot pay to accept their pet altered.
5. If you can, accede adopting one added dog or one added cat.
6. Donate to the bounded pet aliment case (in abounding communities there are organizations committed to distributing pet aliment and some acceptable aliment banks aswell axle pet owners).

To acquisition out added about how you can advice on a bounded akin and get complex with the fastest growing online association of humans alive to advice abandoned pets, appointment the Best Friends Network at http://network.bestfriends.org. Take action by application the online resources: bang on the assets tab in the No More Homeless Pets® community: http://network.bestfriends.org/nmhp.

Contacts:
Barbara Williamson (435) 689-0200 (cell) (or) barbara (at) bestfriends (dot) org
John Polis (435) 644-2001, ext. 4858 or johnp (at) bestfriends (dot) org

About Best Friends Animal Society:
Celebrating its 25th celebration in 2009, Best Friends Animal Society advances civic abominable abundance initiatives by alive with apartment and accomplishment groups about the country. Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in southwestern Utah is the nation's better ability for abused, abandoned and appropriate needs accompaniment animals. On any accustomed day the altar is home to about 1,700 dogs, cats, horses, rabbits, birds, and added animals. The association publishes Best Friends magazine, the nation's better accepted interest, pet-related annual with about 300,000 subscribers. For added advice on Best Friends Animal Society, visit: http://www.bestfriends.org/.

Worldwide Candle Lighting December 11 Unites Families Mourning Children

With the difficult holidays aloft us, beggared parents and families accept a day all their own, the additional Sunday in December, to bethink all accouchement who accept died. The Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting, with abutment from affiliated organizations, churches, burial homes, and caring individuals, is accepting captivated Sunday, December 11 at 7 p.m. bounded time about the globe. Tens of bags of families will participate. More than 300 academic casework were captivated in the United States abandoned endure year, an access of about 100 percent in the accomplished two years.

Oak Brook, IL -- United in their adulation for a adolescent who has died, hundreds of bags of families about the apple will accompany calm Sunday, December 11 to ablaze candles in afterthought of all accouchement gone too soon, behindhand of age, could cause of death, religion, or aboriginal origin.

The Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting, captivated annually the additional Sunday in December at 7 p.m. bounded time, unites ancestors and accompany about the apple who ablaze candles for one hour to account and bethink accouchement missing from their lives, but not from their hearts. Observances are captivated throughout the day. This is the event’s ninth year.

“The Worldwide Candle Lighting is one way that we try to accompany ablaze out of black during the holidays, a time of the year that is difficult for a lot of beggared families,” says Patricia Loder controlling administrator of The Compassionate Friends, the nation and world’s better self-help afflication organization. “Like a ring, this amphitheater of ablaze surrounding the apple represents that there is no alpha and no end for the adulation we backpack for our children. It exists for all eternity.”

The amount of academic Worldwide Candle Lighting contest submitted to The Compassionate Friends civic website has added about 100 percent over the accomplished two candle lightings, beyond 300 endure year in the United States alone. Services are planned not alone by capacity of The Compassionate Friends, but aswell by affiliated organizations, burial homes, churches, and caring individuals. In addition, bags of breezy candle lightings are accepting captivated in homes with accompany and ancestors in areas area no academic candle lighting is planned, or bodies are clumsy to attend. Known services, including those in added countries, are listed on The Compassionate Friends civic website at www.compassionatefriends.org.

For all who ambition to leave a bulletin in anamnesis of a adolescent who has died, a “Remembrance Book” will be accessible December 11 at The Compassionate Friends civic website.

The Compassionate Friends has about 600 TCF capacity in the United States with locations in all 50 states, as able-bodied as Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico. The alignment has a attendance in an estimated 29 countries about the world. For added information, appointment The Compassionate Friends civic Website or call, toll-free 877-969-0010.

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Best Friends Animal Society Announces Paul Berry to Leave CEO Post

Best Friends Animal Society Schedules Nationwide Executive Search to Fill Top Leadership Position We acknowledge Paul for his abounding contributions to the organization, alpha as arch advice administrator and in the accomplished three years as arch controlling officer Paul led Best Friends' massive abominable accomplishment efforts during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and contributed mightily against authoritative us added arresting as a civic abominable accomplishment alignment and advocate for accompaniment animals. Our aggregate ambition is to ensure a bland alteration and to accomplish abiding that our agitative plan on civic abominable abundance initiatives and the accomplishments that we accept accomplished abide to expand The final date of this bit-by-bit plan was to crop a abutting attending at the controlling akin of Best Friends and the blazon of administration bare as we move forward These discussions resulted in the acceding amid Paul Berry and the axle for Paul to cease activity as CEO.

(Vocus/PRWEB ) January 13, 2009 -- The Board of Directors of Best Friends Animal Society appear today that by alternate acceding amid the axle and Paul Berry that Mr. Berry would no best serve as arch controlling administrator of the civic abominable abundance organization, a position he has captivated back the bounce of 2006. The axle is in altercation with Mr. Berry about a accessible approaching role with the organization.

"We acknowledge Paul for his abounding contributions to the organization, alpha as arch advice administrator and in the accomplished three years as arch controlling officer," said John Fripp, admiral of the Best Friends axle and one of the organization's founders. "Paul led Best Friends' massive abominable accomplishment efforts during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and contributed mightily against authoritative us added arresting as a civic abominable accomplishment alignment and advocate for accompaniment animals."

Berry aswell was active in the discussions and action that resulted in Best Friends extenuative the lives of the 22 pit beasts from the Michael Vick dog angry case by bringing them to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, amid in southwestern Utah. He aswell has championed Best Friends attack to save the acceptability of the American pit balderdash terrier, and helped the alignment abide the alteration from a unique, founder-operated altar to a civic animal rescue organization.

Fripp said Best Friends would anon activate a civic seek for a new controlling director, and in the acting an controlling team, in affiliation with the axle of directors, would baby-sit circadian operations.

"Our aggregate ambition is to ensure a bland alteration and to accomplish abiding that our agitative plan on civic abominable abundance initiatives and the accomplishments that we accept accomplished abide to expand," Fripp added.

Best Friends has been in the bosom of an alignment restructuring affairs that began four years ago with a revamping of the organization's all-embracing anatomy and bit-by-bit transitioning of the 22 aboriginal founders of the alignment out of the organization's circadian operations. The additional stage, which involves a move against a added accepted alfresco axle of directors, begins Jan. 24 if a capricious axle is put in place.

"The final date of this bit-by-bit plan was to crop a abutting attending at the controlling akin of Best Friends and the blazon of administration bare as we move forward," Fripp added. "These discussions resulted in the acceding amid Paul Berry and the axle for Paul to cease activity as CEO."

Best Friends' plan with accompaniment animals accustomed aberrant media advantage in 2008, alpha with the accession of the Michael Vick dogs at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, bidding foreground page account at the New York Times and added civic media outlets.

Also in 2008, the National Geographic Channel television alternation "DogTown," which chronicles Best Friends' plan with dogs at the sanctuary, fabricated its debut. Eight episodes accept aired on the civic cable network, and addition 10 new episodes are appointed to activate airing March 20.

More about Best Friends Animal Society:
Celebrating its 25th celebration in 2009, Best Friends Animal Society is one of America's foremost abominable accomplishment organizations. Best Friends advances civic abominable abundance initiatives by alive with apartment and accomplishment groups about the country. On any accustomed day Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, the nation's better ability for abused, abandoned accompaniment animals amid in southwestern Utah, is home to about 2,000 dogs, cats, horses, rabbits, birds, and added animals. The association aswell publishes Best Friends magazine, the nation's better accepted interest, pet-related annual with about 300,000 subscribers. For added information, appointment www.bestfriends.org.

John Polis
Manager of Public Relations
435-644-2001 ext. 4858

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Best Friends Working with Supervisor Antonovich to Eradicate Puppy Mills in Los Angeles County

Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich is assuming abundant administration in calling for added absolute laws to anticipate capricious dog ancestry in Los Angeles County, according to one of the nation's arch abominable abundance organizations. We acclaim Supervisor Antonovich for his motion which will be heard by the Board of Supervisors this advancing Tuesday. If this motion is embraced, it will actualize an befalling to accomplish across-the-board changes and anticipate tax payers from address the amount of capricious breeding attack we accept been able to accession acquaintance in the greater Los Angeles across about the affiliation amid puppy mills and pet stores. Best Friends has helped pet food move to a accommodating business archetypal of alms rescued dogs for adoption, rather than affairs puppy comminute dogs. Supervisor Antonovich's motion addresses the amount issues accompanying to alleviative puppies like a contemporary appearance item Investigative plan by Last Chance for Animals (another accomplishment accumulation partnering in the assignment force) has baldheaded at atomic 10 puppy comminute operations in the canton that aftermath bags of puppies anniversary year We attending advanced to alive collaboratively over the next few months with Supervisor Antonoivch and our colleagues in the assignment force. We are hopeful that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors as a accomplished will accompany Antonovich and us in acknowledging these latest efforts to already and for all end this adverse branch agriculture of dogs

Los Angeles, Calif. (Vocus/PRWEB ) March 3, 2009 -- Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich is assuming abundant administration in calling for added absolute laws to anticipate capricious dog ancestry in Los Angeles County, according to one of the nation's arch abominable abundance organizations.

"We acclaim Supervisor Antonovich for his motion which will be heard by the Board of Supervisors this advancing Tuesday. If this motion is embraced, it will actualize an befalling to accomplish across-the-board changes and anticipate tax payers from address the amount of capricious breeding," said Elizabeth Oreck, LA Programs Manager for Best Friends Animal Society.

"Through Best Friends' "A Puppy-Store-Free" attack we accept been able to accession acquaintance in the greater Los Angeles across about the affiliation amid puppy mills and pet stores. Best Friends has helped pet food move to a accommodating business archetypal of alms rescued dogs for adoption, rather than affairs puppy comminute dogs. Supervisor Antonovich's motion addresses the amount issues accompanying to alleviative puppies like a contemporary appearance item," Oreck said.

Antonovich's motion calls on the Board of Supervisors to absolute the Chief Executive Office to plan with the Department of Animal Care and Control, the Department of Public Works, the Department of Regional Planning, and the Department of Public Health, in appointment with County Counsel and the District Attorney, to analysis the absolute County regulations administering the location, admeasurement and operation of dog kennels and dog ancestry facilities. It aswell includes authoritative recommendations, including proposed authorization amendments, for convalescent the above of affliction for the animals and for ensuring amenable and safe dog breeding.

Best Friends has been alive carefully with the assorted departments on these recommendations, and was active in the conception of a assignment force fabricated up of volunteers, canton agents and assembly from abominable abundance organizations and accomplishment groups. This assignment force came calm afterwards the Antelope Valley apprehension of World Kennel in May 2008 area board baldheaded brimming conditions.

"Investigative plan by Last Chance for Animals (another accomplishment accumulation partnering in the assignment force) has baldheaded at atomic 10 puppy comminute operations in the canton that aftermath bags of puppies anniversary year," Oreck added. "That amount is up decidedly from just a few years ago. So Los Angeles County has been on its way to acceptable the puppy comminute basic of the west. If something is not done about this botheration the amount could sky rocket uncontrollably.

"Not alone do these dogs and puppies abide in abhorrent altitude but they generally accept medical and affecting issues. Their puppies are awash through bounded pet food and through the Internet. Many of these dogs eventually accomplish their way to bounded shelters which are already overburdened and it's the taxpayers who end up paying.

"When the Last Chance board baldheaded the puppy comminute operation of World Kennel, the canton told the owners to abbreviate their ancestry operations by hundreds of dogs in a abbreviate period, which abounding a bounded apartment with added abandoned dogs to manage.

"We attending advanced to alive collaboratively over the next few months with Supervisor Antonoivch and our colleagues in the assignment force. We are hopeful that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors as a accomplished will accompany Antonovich and us in acknowledging these latest efforts to already and for all end this adverse branch agriculture of dogs," Oreck said.

CONTACTS:
Barbara Williamson (435) 689-0200 (cell)
John Polis (435) 644-2001, ext. 4858

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New Garden Friends School to Collaborate with International Nonprofit for Conflict Resolution

New Garden Friends School, an absolute preschool through 12th-grade educational academy in N.C. affiliated with the Quaker faith, has been called the aboriginal bookish hub for Boston University-based Axis of Hope, an all-embracing nonprofit adherent to battle prevention. New Garden agents will be certified to advance Axis of Hope workshops and will use the organization's class in their classrooms. They aswell will alternation added educators in the techniques the foundation uses to advice kids understand, administer and anticipate conflict. We chose New Garden Friends School not alone because of its bookish arete and accelerating teaching techniques, but aswell because of its charge to Quaker ethics that adjust with our foundation's mission Students are accomplished to account anniversary other, seek for the truth, boldness battle affably and accept the accent of community, administration and the environment. If we go into a academy disturbing with assemblage abandon or added annihilative behaviors, we activate by accepting the acceptance to focus on a above battle in the Middle East, Africa or some added all-around hotspot - far removed from the classroom Then they are bigger able to footfall aback and administer what they've abstruse to the battle in their own lives. That's the magic. Peace is one of the fundamentals of the Quaker acceptance and underpins how our agents and acceptance plan calm to anticipate and administer battle in the classroom Through our amalgamation with the Axis of Hope, we apprehend to body on that acquaintance and to advise acceptance the abilities they charge to become leaders in an added circuitous world.

Greensboro, NC -- Today New Garden Friends School appear a new collaborative affiliation with the celebrated Axis of Hope Center for International Conflict Prevention based at Boston University. New Garden agents will be certified to advance Axis of Hope workshops and will use the organization's class in their classrooms alpha September 21, International Peace Day. They aswell will alternation added educators in the techniques the foundation uses to advice kids understand, administer and anticipate conflict.

New Garden Friends School is an independent, preschool-12th brand educational academy affiliated with the Quaker acceptance community. It is the aboriginal alignment to be called by the Axis of Hope to abutment and extend its work.

"We chose New Garden Friends School not alone because of its bookish arete and accelerating teaching techniques, but aswell because of its charge to Quaker ethics that adjust with our foundation's mission," said drillmaster Carl Hobert, architect of Axis of Hope. "Students are accomplished to account anniversary other, seek for the truth, boldness battle affably and accept the accent of community, administration and the environment."

The plan of the Axis of Hope is ashore on the simple apriorism that it is best to advice kids apprentice to administer battle during their determinative years, afore they become accustomed by activity experiences. Through creatively-designed workshops offered in elementary, average and top schools about the globe, acceptance role-play and get hands-on convenance in defusing and managing airy situations. "If we go into a academy disturbing with assemblage abandon or added annihilative behaviors, we activate by accepting the acceptance to focus on a above battle in the Middle East, Africa or some added all-around hotspot - far removed from the classroom," Hobert said. "Then they are bigger able to footfall aback and administer what they've abstruse to the battle in their own lives. That's the magic."
David Tomlin, arch of New Garden Friends School, says the accord with Axis of Hope extends initiatives that are already underway at the school.

"Peace is one of the fundamentals of the Quaker acceptance and underpins how our agents and acceptance plan calm to anticipate and administer battle in the classroom," he said. "Through our amalgamation with the Axis of Hope, we apprehend to body on that acquaintance and to advise acceptance the abilities they charge to become leaders in an added circuitous world."

Training for the New Garden Friends School agents will get underway during September. For added advice on the Axis of Hope, appointment www.axisofhope.org. For added advice on New Garden Friends School, appointment www.ngfs.org.

About New Garden Friends School

Founded in 1971, New Garden Friends School is allotment of a centuries-old attitude of Quaker apprenticeship and is committed to the Quaker testimonies of peace, equality, truth, integrity, simplicity, association and stewardship. An interdisciplinary, hands-on access to acquirements is advised to advice acceptance bare their strengths, accurate themselves absolutely and become breath association leaders.

New Garden Friends School serves pre-kindergarten through 8th graders from a lower-middle academy on the Guilford College campus and 9th-12th graders from an high academy on Pleasant Ridge Road. The alignment is a affiliate of the Friends Council on Education, an affiliation of added than 80 Friends schools above the nation committed to arete in education.

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