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Adopt a Senior Pet Month

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November is National Adopt A Senior Pet Month–a month dedicated to helping older pets find loving forever homes. Shelters and rescues across the country hope those looking to adopt a new furry friend will consider adding a senior pet to the family this month. If you care about sweet senior animals, help spread the word throughout November. We can help older pets find homes together. Here’s what you should know about older pets during Adopt A Senior Pet Month. Senior Pets Have Trouble Finding Homes: Many people walk into a shelter or scour a rescue’s website hoping to adopt a new puppy or kitten, completely overlooking the perfectly adoptable older dogs and cats in kennels and cages in their search. In many cases, the absolute most difficult group of homeless pets to place are older dogs and cats. Senior pets tend to spend the longest amount of time at shelters or rescues before finding their forever homes. That’s if they find one at all. Canines and felines of...

T-Bird, an Excerpt from Second Chance

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There once was a Chihuahua named Tia And she had a sister named Mia She went by many names  And she loved to play games  My little dog, Tia Now Tia was afraid of thunder And she’d find something to hide under She loved her treats and she loved to eat And she loved everyone she did meet My little dog named Tia Water was her enemy And bath time was always a tragedy She would always sleep on the bed And she wanted to be a human instead Our little dog, Tia  Second Chance, formerly known as Rescue Me is gathering stories and poems to relaunch the series. If you submitted before to one either of the published anthologies or one of the few that never made it to print, you will need to resubmit your pieces if you'd like them to be included. We are also accepting new submissions as well. Details below.