If you care about animals, you can find a shelter that helps with stray animals.

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"We detected between six to seven entry points through which dogs or other stray animals were able to intrude on the circuit, " Askari Zaidi told the BBC.

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The rescue centre, which is run by Ms Hartley and twin sister Jane Wright, takes in stray animals, including horses, goats, sheep and llamas and is currently looking after 15 dogs.

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"They're getting all the action because they made the effort, " said real-estate agent Robert Herskovitz, who lives with three dogs and volunteers with Mighty Mutts, a nonprofit that finds home for stray animals.

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Animal welfare charity Blue Cross said it dealt with 1, 530 stray and abandoned animals this year, compared with 1, 027 in 2010 - a rise of nearly 50%.

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On the way home, Majid saw birds and other animals goats, chickens, stray dogs writhing on the ground.

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While the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Cat Protection League re-house about 125, 000 stray or unwanted cats a year, the League guesses that there may be about 1.2m feral cats in Britain.

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