Dog Days of Summer

Animal Welfare Charities
The following organizations are the selected recipients of your participation in the Dog Days of Summer promotion. The top three winners can select the organization that will receive a donation equal to the cash prize of $1200, $600 and $300 for 1st, 2nd and 3rd, respectively. Additionally, if you purchase a copy of the book you enter 25% of the sale price will also be donated to charity.

ASPCA
Founded in 1866, the ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) was the first humane organization established in the Americas, and today has more than one million supporters throughout North America. A 501 [c] [3] not-for-profit corporation, the ASPCA’s mission is to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the United States. The ASPCA provides local and national leadership in animal-assisted therapy, animal behavior, animal poison control, anti-cruelty, humane education, legislative services, and shelter outreach.
Web site: www.aspca.org

Canine Health Foundation
The Canine Health Foundation, founded in 1995 by the American Kennel Club, is the largest organization in the world focusing solely on canine health research. We support scientists and veterinary professionals in innovative research that concerns the origins of canine illness, diagnosis of canine diseases, development of effective treatments, and the identification of disease prevention strategies. We work to raise the awareness and funds necessary to support non-invasive, innovative health research that helps dogs and their owners live longer and stronger. We have been successful at selecting quality research proposals from across the world with the goal to improve the health of dogs and, through comparative medicine, improve the health of their owners. More than $22 million have been allocated to over 500 research projects which benefit all dogs.
Web site: www.akcchf.org

Petfinder
The Petfinder.com Foundation is a public charity that supports the 12,500+ Petfinder.com adoption partners with aid in times of stress or disaster as well as resources for problem-solving and fundraising. The Foundation’s goal is to eliminate euthanasia of adoptable pets by increasing public awareness of the availability of loving, adoptable pets and increasing the effectiveness of pet-adoption programs. Petfinder.com is an online, searchable database of pets who need homes and a one-stop directory of more than 12,500 animal shelters and adoption organizations across the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Each year, Petfinder.com helps more than 2 million pets find their new families. Petfinder.com also helps facilitate the return of lost pets and provides a range of training and outreach services to adoption groups.
Web sites: www.petfinderfoundation.com and www.petfinder.com

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