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Briggs Animal Adoption Center

Briggs Animal Adoption Center Provides More Than Just Shelter

July, 2016 Tagged With: animal welfare, Briggs Animal Adoption Center, National Human Education Society

Anna Reynolds was born in D.C. in 1909; her father died when she was three. Her mother was too poor to care for her children, so Anna was placed in an orphanage for four years, then farmed out to an aunt, and finally returned home at 13. She considered her life a parallel to the way animals in a shelter feel. And during those early years, she longed for an animal companion, eventually finding one in an abused dog that she nursed back to health. Read the Full Story >>

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