Animal rescue or pet rescue may refer to:
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Animal rescue group
An animal rescue group or animal rescue organization is a group dedicated to pet adoption. These groups take abandoned, abused, or feral, stray pets and attempt to find suitable homes for them. Many rescue groups are created by and run by Volunt ...
, organizations dedicated to the rescue of animals, including pets, from shelters, to homes
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Animal Rescue Foundation, San Francisco Bay Area based charity dedicated to pet adoption and other animal welfare works
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Animal sanctuary
An animal sanctuary is a facility where animals are brought to live and to be protected for the rest of their lives. In addition, sanctuaries are an experimental staging ground for transformative human–animal relations. There are five types of ...
, sites dedicated to caring permanently for rescued wild or domestic animals
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Animal welfare
Animal welfare is the quality of life and overall well-being of animals. Formal standards of animal welfare vary between contexts, but are debated mostly by animal welfare groups, legislators, and academics. Animal welfare science uses measures ...
, a general term for the well-being of animals, more specifically the idea of activism towards increasing the well-being of animals
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International Animal Rescue
International Animal Rescue (IAR) is a British Wildlife conservation, wildlife protection and conservation Nonprofit organization, non-profit organization. IAR aims to protect and mitigate the threats to wildlife and habitats.
The IAR perform ...
, international organization dedicated to animal welfare
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Pet adoption
Pet adoption is the process of transferring responsibility for a pet. Common sources for adoptable pets are animal shelters, rescue groups, or other pet owners. Some organizations give adopters ownership of the pet, while others use a guardi ...
, adoption of pets that have been abandoned by previous owners
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Rescue dog
Pet adoption is the process of transferring responsibility for a pet. Common sources for adoptable pets are animal shelters, rescue groups, or other pet owners. Some organizations give adopters ownership of the pet, while others use a guardian ...
, dogs placed in homes, from shelters
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Wildlife rehabilitation
Wildlife rehabilitation is the process of caring for injured, sick, orphaned, or displaced wild animals with the goal of releasing them back into their natural habitat. It involves medical treatment, temporary housing, and specialized care for a ...
, the process of caring for wild animals, with the intent of returning them to their natural environment
Entertainment
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RSPCA Animal Rescue'', Australian reality TV series
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''Pet Rescue'' (TV series), British reality TV series
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''The Drop'', previously titled ''Animal Rescue'', 2014 film
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"Pet Rescue" (''My Hero''), a 2002 television episode
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Pet Rescue Saga'', a mobile game
See also
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Animal rights
Animal rights is the philosophy according to which many or all Animal consciousness, sentient animals have Moral patienthood, moral worth independent of their Utilitarianism, utility to humans, and that their most basic interests—such as ...
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Animal shelter
An animal shelter or pound is a place where stray, lost, abandoned or surrendered animals – mostly dogs and cats – are housed. The word "pound" has its origins in the animal pounds of the agricultural communities, where stray livestock w ...
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Rescue (disambiguation)
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