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Animal welfare is the viewpoint that animals, especially those under human care, should not suffer unnecessarily, including where the animals are used for food, work, companionship, or research. This position usually focuses on the morality of human action (or inaction), as opposed to making deeper political or philosophical claims about the status of animals, as is the case for an animal rights viewpoint. For this reason animal welfare organizations may use the word humane in their title or position statements.
History of animal welfare
Systematic concern for the well-being of other animals probably first arose as a system of thought in the Indus Valley Civilization as the religious belief that ancestors return in animal form, and that animals must therefore be treated with the respect due to a human. This belief is exemplified in the existing religion, Jainism, and in varieties of other Dharmic religions. Other religions, especially those with roots in the Abrahamic religion, treat animals as the property of their owners, codifying rules for their care and slaughter premised mainly on hygiene concerns for humans.
Welfare in practice
As in the case of animal rights, the secular forms taken by animal welfare concerns, policies and action have each been pioneered in the UK, where an early industrial revolution first created the modern separation between popular experience and animal husbandry, opening a space for popular sentimentality towards animals. More on [ Animal welfare ]
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Animal Welfare :: Society and Culture
A Cause for Paws - Volunteer network of foster homes taking in strays and adopting them out. Photographs and descriptions of their animals, volunteer training class schedule, adoption application, and donation information.
Bobbi and the Strays - Wish list, volunteer needs, information on upcoming events, rescue news, photographs of cats and dogs in need of homes, and contact information.
Loving Touch - Photographs of available animals, success stories, list of upcoming events, sponsorship opportunities, lost and found listings, and rescue news.
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Mighty Mutts - An all-volunteer, no-kill organization dedicated to the rescue, care, and placement of stray animals. Photographs of cats and dogs in need of homes, adoption application, and updates on animals already adopted.
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Muffin's Pet Connection - Adoption/listing service and a low cost spay/neuter organization.
New York Pet-I-Care - Grassroot non-profit program providing shelter, medical care, training and socialization to many abused and abandoned strays. Photographs of pets in need of homes and contact information.
