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Mayfel’s Dog Days of Summer Fundraiser begins at Mayfel’s Restaurant & Courtyard Bar in Asheville on May 16 and will run until August 29.

The program is designed to help out 16 different local animal welfare organizations. Just come into the Restaurant each Thursday and a percentage of the cost of your meal and drinks will go to help a different organization each week.

You can check out their Facebook page to see which animal organization is up next. May 16 will raise money for Find A Pet Society. Special for the day is $3 micro-brews and Maple glazed salmon.

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What’s more fun than spending the summer hanging out with your best friend? Answer: Nothing. If that BFF has four paws, though, visitors could be worried about finding a kennel or friend to animal-sit while they take in Delaware and the region. For the coninuation of the story on Delaware Online…

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Each year thousands of animals are killed in animal shelters in West Virginia and surrounding states. There has been a recent push by some groups to find ways to lower those numbers. Part of that effort includes looking for out of state rescue organizations that have space to take in animals until they can find a permanent home.

Dog Bless is a rescue group that has saved over 600 dogs from the Kanawha Charleston Animal Shelter in the last year. Part of their work includes sending dogs from West Virginia to other rescue organizations across the country. Group leaders say volunteers screen the rescues to make certain animals that go to the locations will be handled safely. They regularly send vans full of dogs on transport missions to the approved rescues. But occasionally they get the opportunity to put the dogs on planes to get them there faster.

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