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	Website hopes to save dogs slated for death

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10-14-2007 3:50 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/736cd6da-86c7-4816-9bdc-36198e87ad1a/1BEC9D4D-E874-4C2A-918B-BB4D838D5132/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071013/canine_countdown_071013/20071013?hub=SciTech" href="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071013/canine_countdown_071013/20071013?hub=SciTech" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ctv.ca</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071013/canine_countdown_071013/20071013?hub=SciTech"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ctv.ca/img/B7EB0CB1-4D0C-4FB6-81A5-FC4F28EBD606" alt="Sandy,' who is scheduled to be put down on Oct. 16, 2007 unless she is placed with an owner, is seen on a computer screen in New York, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2007. (AP / Verena Dobnick)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071013/canine_countdown_071013/20071013?hub=SciTech">Sweet William, a young black Labrador retriever in Illinois, has two days to live.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071013/canine_countdown_071013/20071013?hub=SciTech">Sandy, a golden female Jindo in New York, also has just two days left. Kate Hepburn, a tan female boxer in California, has 18 days to live.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071013/canine_countdown_071013/20071013?hub=SciTech">On Saturday, these were some of the dogs in shelters across the country slated for death -- their fate posted on a website that aims to save their lives by offering them for adoption.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071013/canine_countdown_071013/20071013?hub=SciTech"><P>Each is tagged with a death date set by a shelter -- and a countdown clock showing the days, or hours, until the animal is destroyed. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071013/canine_countdown_071013/20071013?hub=SciTech"><P><A target="_blank" href="http://www.dogsindanger.com/" linkindex="45">Dogsindanger.com</A> works with more than 120 shelters countrywide that destroy dogs. How much time the dogs get before death varies from state to state. If the dog is found on the street, it must be kept a minimum number of days, while animals abandoned at a shelter by their owners can often be put to death immediately. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071013/canine_countdown_071013/20071013?hub=SciTech"><P>About four million dogs are put to death each year in the United States, by injection or gas. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1BEC9D4D-E874-4C2A-918B-BB4D838D5132/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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