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"Group Education To Protect And Defend Animals"
(501c3) since July 2004

... where we focus on improving the lives of
defenseless, suffering and abandoned animals.
We support all animals - engaging to abolish severe
distress situations;  promoting education for humane
animal welfare in the USA/Internationally; and
establishing a compassionate, loving, caring
environmental lifestyle for all animals alike"

"Why It's Our Passion"

Once I was a lonely dog, just looking for a home.
I had no place to go, no one to call my own.
I wandered up and down the streets, in rain, in heat and snow.
I ate whatever I could find, I was always on the go.

My skin would itch, my feet were sore, my body ached with pain.
And no one stopped to give a pat or to gently say my name.
I never saw a loving glance, I was always on the run.
For people thought that hurting me was really lots of fun.

And then one day I heard a voice...so gentle, kind and sweet,
And arms so soft reached down to me and took me off my feet.
"No one again will hurt you" was whispered in my ear.
"You'll have a home to call your own where you will know no fear."

"You will be dry, you will be warm, you'll have enough to eat.
And rest assured that when you sleep, your dreams will all be sweet."
I was afraid I must admit, I've lived so long in fear.
I can't remember when I let a human come so near.

And as she tended to my wounds and bathed and brushed my fur
She told me 'bout the rescue group and what it meant to her.
She said, "We are a circle, a line that never ends.
And in the center there is you protected by new friends."

"And all around you are the ones that check the pounds,
And those that share their home after you've been found."
"And all the other folk are searching near and far.
To find the perfect home for you, where you can be a star."

She said, "There is a family, that's waiting patiently,
and pretty soon we'll find them, just you wait and see."
"And then they'll join our circle they'll help to make it grow,
so there'll be room for more like you, who have no place to go."

I waited very patiently, the days they came and went.
Today's the day I thought, my family will be sent.
Then just when I began to think it wasn't meant to be,
there were people standing there, just gazing down at me.

I knew them in a heart beat, I could tell they felt it too.
They said, "We have been waiting for a special dog like you."
Now every night I say a prayer to all the gods that be.
"Thank you for the life I live and all you've given me.

But most of all protect the dogs in the pound and on the street.
And send a Rescue Person to lift them off their feet."

-- Arlene Pace (September 18, 1998)
Group Education to Protect and Defend Animals
"COMPANIONS TO NONE"
An Informative Heart Rendering Documentary Film

THIS IS A 1 AND 1/2 HOUR FILM THAT IS A MUST SEE TO  EXEMPLIFY WHAT
HAPPENS TO THE  MEXICAN ANIMALS BELOW OUR BORDERS AND WHY THEY
REQUIRE OUR HELP NOW:
(NON GRAPHIC) FEATURED ON ANIMAL PLANET/DISCOVERY CHANNEL

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FEATURES GENTA POR LA DEFENSA ANIMAL  MEXICO'S PRES.  MONICA PINEDA  
GEPDA USA, DIRECTOR NITA ANDERSON IN CREDITS

GEPDA Mexico, our sister organization was selected as the  
Animal Advocate by the HSI (Humane Society International)
and we want to congratulate them for such a stellar
performance in their efforts to perform kind  and humane
animal rescue in Mexico City.
Why would one want to abandon their loyal best friend when moving?
Reconsider, they depend and love their master unconditionally...