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The Voting is over!

We have a winner! With an overwhelming majority,

the winner is... posted on our home page.

Sorry, that's our little teaser. But click on over to the Focus site and you'll see the winner. Hey, I've got to show you the other photography that we do here at Focus somehow....

Our mission is to provide temporary care and shelter for stray, abandoned and relinquished animals, and to place as many as possible into responsible and caring homes. The Animal Refuge League also works to create awareness and support for the humane treatment of all animals and to end animal overpopulation through education and the promotion of spaying and neutering.

The Top Prize!

Available at Fetch! (who donated all our prizes), the Crypton Custom Designed Pet Bed is truly the most fashionable of all pet cushions. Choose separate fabrics for top, bottom, middle, and piping, and let your furry friend luxuriate in designer bedding.

Our Host - Focus Photography

Focus Photography is locate at 305 Commercial Street in the great city of Portland. We photograph people in all the ages of their life, and Furry Friends during special events like this!

About the ARL

The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland (ARL) is a private nonprofit animal shelter established in 1911. The vast majority of our funding is made through the generosity of the general public.

The ARL is first and foremost an adoption agency. Every year, we take in more than 4,000 stray, abandoned or owner surrendered animals. Our goal is to care for them as humanely as possible until we can reunite them with their owners or until someone chooses to adopt them. Our adoption process is extremely thorough in order to ensure that our animals are placed into a loving home for life. All animals adopted from the Animal Refuge League are spayed or neutered either before or at the time they are adopted from us. This progressive program also allows us to spay or neuter animals as young as eight weeks old.  Pediatric spaying or neutering is enthusiastically endorsed by the American Humane Association.

Contrary to misguided beliefs, the ARL does not have a time limit on how long an animal may stay with us. In many cases, healthy and well-adjusted animals stay until a home is found for them. More than 80 percent
of the animals that come to us find their way to a home. In addition, the Animal Refuge League saves hundreds of injured and ill animals each year by arranging for care with local veterinarians.

The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland is located at 449 Stroudwater Street in Westbrook.

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Sponsored by Fetch

Fetch is a real brick and mortar store in Portland, Maine, located at 195 Commercial Street in Portland's Old Port, just 2 blocks from Focus Photography, where you'll be getting your Furry Friend Portraits taken. Why not walk down and get a free dog biscuit after your photo shoot?

Fetch wants to provide dogs and cats (and their people) in Portland with a high quality of life, which means that we take fun (and nutrition) seriously.

We offer the freshest, most imaginative toys and gear as well as what we think are the best all-natural foods, supplements and litters.

The best pet store on the planet!
“Most pets display so many humanlike traits and emotions it's easy to forget they're not gifted with the English language and then get snubbed when we talk to them and they don't say anything back.”
~Stephenie Geist

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All image on these pages are copyright Focus Photography, and registered with the Library of Congress.

Focus Photography is located at 305 Commercial Street, Portland, Maine 04101, or you can call us at (207) 772-4274.