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The Animal Rescue Site focuses the power of the Internet on a specific need -- providing food for some of the 27 million unwanted animals given to shelters in the US every year. Over 10 million animals are put to death every year in the US alone because they are unwanted, abandoned, or abused.

Open your eyes to the vision of a world where cruelty has no home. Release your mind to a 50-year-old history of veterinary science and intrepid field operations. And open your heart to the plight of suffering animals and to a global force of heroes dedicated to healing their pain. If ever there was a time to care that time is now.

Our highly trained Disaster Animal Response Teams rescued thousands of animals in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. In addition to ensuring that these animals were safely sheltered, we've worked to reunite as many pets with their owners as possible in partnership with a broad array of national and local animal protection groups. We're also committed to helping rebuild the animal protection capacity of the region.