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10 ANIMAL CHARITIES 1. ASPCA 2. Friends of Animals 3 PetSmart Charities 4. Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) 5. D.E.L.T.A. Rescue 6. American Humane 7. Best Friends Animal Society 8. Wildlife Conservation Society 9. Humane Farming Association 10. The Marine Mammal Center

UNWANTED ANIMALS The ASPCA’s (Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) National Rehoming Survey, states that pet problems are the most common reason that owners rehome their pet. • There are approximately 200,000 unwanted horses annually in the United States. Many are shipped to slaughter, enter rescue facilities, or are held on federal lands.

• More than 1 million animals die each day on roads in the United States. Road mortality is the leading cause of vertebrate deaths in the United States. AMERICA’S MOST ENDANGERED SPECIES Examples include: the red wolf, pygmy racoon, H.J. Franklin’s bumblebee, the California condor, the Vancouver marmot, the pygmy raccoon, the Oahu tree snail, Kemp’s ridley turtle, the panther, the Columbia basin pygmy rabbit, the Eskimo curlew, the Ramsey Canyon leopard frog, the dusky gopher frog, the smalltooth sawfish, the Mitchell’s satyr butterfly, the bog turtle, the gray fox. DID YOU KNOW? • Animal charities receive less money than charities that help humans. • Each year, animal charities carry out vital work in helping to work toward improving animal welfare through raising awareness of animal cruelty and directly providing care to animals in need.

• Helping animals is good for your emotional, physical, and mental health.

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