Ellen Animal Rescue Stamp
Celebrity vegan Ellen DeGeneres partners with USPS to release animal-rescue shelter stamp collection.
By Abigail Wick
The United States Postal Service has teamed with Ellen DeGeneres and her company, Halo, Purely for Pets, to release Animal Rescue: Adopt a Shelter Pet commemorative postage stamps meant to promote adoption from rescue shelters and encourage responsible care for animal companions. DeGeneres announced the stamp collection, which features five cats and five dogs who have been adopted from a shelter, on her day time talk show. The official stamp dedication ceremony will take place at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in Hollywood on April 30, when the stamps are released. As part of the campaign, DeGeneres has pledged to donate 1 million meals to shelter animals.
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Posted: Apr 23 2010 08:32AM By margie himmel
Animal rescue groups do not support HSUS. Money given there will not go to animals in shelters. HSUS's 2008 tax returns revealed that less than 1/2 of 1 percent of their budget funds a traditional (dog/cat) shelter..
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