Poszukuję dobrego materiału na temat bezdomności psów po angielsku

[LadyS]

Szukam w sieci i nie bardzo wiem, jak się do tego zabrać - trzeba mi ciekawy, przekonywujący artykuł o bezdomności zwierząt, losie zwierząt w schroniskach, ale w języku angielskim - ma ktoś może coś takiego lub wie, gdzie to znaleźć?

[mistwalker1006]

Artykol z The Toronto Star z lipca tego roku


After a month at overnight camp in the great outdoors, Aries is thriving. He has a hearty appetite, gets plenty of exercise and fresh air, and has a pile of new friends.
Just what camp is supposed to be all about – even if it is for canines.
Aries is a 4-year-old German shepherd. Not long ago, he was in a shelter, stressed and barely eating. Then, last month, he became the first "foster camper" in a program started by Dogs at Camp, a business that provides year-round, cage-free, overnight and daycare services for dogs in a country setting.
Dogs at Camp, which pre-screens animals for behaviour issues and charges about $40 a night, has decided to dedicate three of the 40 spaces at each of its locations to dogs who are homeless or abandoned. The camp has sites in Uxbridge and Cookstown and is about to open a third in Ottawa.
"There's a huge need for this," says Dogs at Camp founder Glen Kowarsky. "There are so many dogs being rescued and sitting in shelters."
At the same time, he adds, shelters are chronically short of space and rescue networks don't have enough foster homes for animals waiting to be adopted.
Dogs at Camp allows the animals to spend the days hiking, swimming and romping in fields with counsellors, and sleep in a refurbished barn. Opening it to homeless dogs gives them a chance to exercise, frolic and socialize with people and other pets in a setting that will showcase the animals for possible adoption.
Kowarsky launched Dogs at Camp eight years ago when he didn't want to leave his dog, a Labrador mix named Abby, in a kennel. The new foster camper program was also inspired by Abby, who had been abused and neglected before Kowarsky adopted her.
"Foster campers" like Aries will come from rescue groups that operate through the volunteer network Helping Homeless Pets. He is at the Cookstown site and is one of four dogs currently in the program.
"Aries is a great dog. He's doing so well," says Cassandra Jackson of Precious Paws Rescue in Barrie, who rescued him from a Toronto-area pound where he was at risk of being euthanized.
Jackson says during his stay at Dogs at Camp, Aries has put on weight, become calmer and is interacting with the other dogs.
"It's a great program and without it, we wouldn't have been able to save him."

[mistwalker1006]

[B]Community rallies to save homeless dog[/B]

[COLOR=#999999][B]By Tyler Kula, Sun Media[/B][/COLOR]

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[B]Thanks to public donations, the Sarnia and District Humane Society will be able to save George, a three-year-old chocolate Lab hit by a car 11 months ago. (Sun Media/Tyler Kula)[/B]
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SARNIA, Ont. -- A homeless dog that needs a leg amputation will get the operation thanks to an outpouring of community support.
George was brought to the Sarnia and District Humane Society two weeks ago after he was found wandering the streets.
After checking with a local veterinarian, shelter staff learned a three-year-old chocolate Labrador retriever had been hit by a car 11 months earlier.
The front right leg never healed properly, and an estimate put the amputation cost at $2,500.
But a story in The Observer about George prompted community donations to come in totalling more than $5,000. And a veterinarian has agreed to perform the operation, plus neutering, for less than $800.
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“We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the community for their concern and support for George’s welfare, and for the support for many more animals in the future.”
The fund will be named Wanda’s Wish, after a dog abandoned and left to die in 2005 before being rescued. Wanda was deemed unfit for adoption but lived at the shelter for a year before dying of natural causes.
An earlier fund set up in her name quickly ran dry.
“We’re hoping that the community will continue to support this fund as it will allow us to help animals in emergency situations that otherwise may have died,” Holmes said.
George’s surgery is scheduled for Friday at a local veterinary clinic and he will receive ongoing medical attention at the shelter, Holmes said. He could go into foster care before going up for adoption, she said. “There’s no reason to expect he won’t have a full recovery.” [URL="http://ad.doubleclick.net/click;h=v8/392c/0/0/%2a/y;44306;0-0;0;35463253;29678-460/99;0/0/0;;~aopt=2/1/42/2;~sscs=%3f"][IMG]http://s0.2mdn.net/viewad/817-grey.gif[/IMG][/URL]