Animal

Animals are a vital part of the lives of human beings. Whether kept as pets or for work, the roles of animals are intertwined with ours.

Pets are animals kept for companionship and enjoyment. Dogs, cats, horses, and birds are some of the most popular pets. 63 percent of all households in the United States own pets. Families who are looking for a new pet might want to steer away from the cute kittens and puppies in the pet shops and consider adopting from an animal shelter.

Some animals are used primarily for work. Draft animals are those with great physical strength, such as elephants, horses, and mules, and they are used in countries all around the world. Other animals that have sharp senses or instincts are used for hunting, herding, and even helping humans (such as seeing-eye dogs).

On the internet, blogs about animals are extremely popular. Everyone loves sharing pictures and stories about their pets, or getting advice from other pet lovers. "I Can Has Cheeseburger" is one of the most popular blogs online, with people submitting pictures of cats and adding funny, misspelled "quotes" from the animals themselves.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Animal”

• Non Prescription Cats Eye Contact Lenses – Animal Attraction!

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  Long gone are the days when a set of contact lenses were the domain of the visually impaired. These days, non prescription lenses are available to all, even if you are blessed with 20:20 vision. In fact, most of the special effects lenses available on the internet have 0.00 power, which means that they do [...]
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• The Beauty And Joy Of Owning A Dog

  
  My K9 Land — Authority: 144
  My family run an animal sanctuary in Birmingham, England. Even though we love what we do, we feel that some people need to realise that a pet should be a long term commitment. They should not be seen as just a bit of fun which they can then get rid of when they get bored.I [...]
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• NZ farmers accept carbon trading as inevitable

  
  Carbon Offsets Daily — Authority: 542
  | Sourced From ABC.net.au | New Zealand farmers say they’re resigned to being included in a carbon trading scheme. New Zealand’s planned trading scheme will include direct agriculture emissions from 2015. An estimated 90 per cent of the country’s farmers object to plan, claiming it will hurt export ...
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• Animal Collective Tours Down Under, Plus Panda Bear Euro Dates

  
  Sun On The Sand — Authority: 443
  Animal Collective will be supporting the release of the Fall Be Kind EP (out digitally on 11/23) with some tour dates in the continent of Australia. They will start out with a date on December 8th in Auckland, New Zealand, and then proceed to play six shows throughout the country of Australia. Band member Noah [...]
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• Animal love: Hot-blooded elephants, guppy love, and love dogs

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  Recently I wrote about grief in animals  showing that many animals anguish over their losses and that were not the only animals who bereave, display deep sadness, or who engage in rituals after losing close friends or loved ones. Now lets consider love, a troubling and mysterious emotion. People dont hesitate to say ...
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• Agriculture permanently exempt from ETS

  
  Australian Climate Madness — Authority: 140
  This is a huge backflip for the government. Agricultural emissions were to have been included in the ETS from 2015, but it is now being reported that such emissions will be permanently exempt, with farmers no longer being required to buy permits. The Coalition has been calling for the exemption – and the ...
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• Juan Lives On The EXTREME

  
  Cell Phone Offers — Authority: 164
  Author: Omgeadroopz Keywords: Animal Planet Sage Kimali Juan Cell Phone Natural Habbitat Outside Fall Leaves Added: November 14, 2009
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• Special, and special needs kitties need homes

  
  Paws 'n' Claws — Authority: 135
  P&C friend Margaret at the SPCA of Westchester is putting out a special plea for these special kittens. I hope there’s someone out there who can help. Now bear with me and read this through before you say no way. There are four kittens — two had to have one eye removed and one had to have both removed due to ...
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• Deer escapes from lion’s enclosure at National Zoo

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Washington DC, Nov 14 (THAINDIAN NEWS) It was quiet a heroic chase in the National Zoo at Rock Creek Park. A small deer probably a baby deer jumped into the lion’s enclosure and was gently even stroked by the lion. Then the animal instinct woke up in the lion and the deer also felt that [...]
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• ‘Miracle’ dog Oreo euthanized Friday in New York

  
  Pet Tales — Authority: 429
  All we can say here at Pet Tales is that we hope it was a quick and relatively painless end for Oreo, a pit bull that survived a 6-story fall from a building only to be euthanized for her aggressive behavior. The plight of this pit bull mix is not uncommon. Abused, injured and troubled, the dog had little chance of a ...
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• Has Armageddon Begun in Ukraine?

  
  MATADOR NINETY-FOUR — Authority: 423
    Powered by Max Banner Ads   The biggest story on the Planet today is the outbreak of a very serious Advanced Biological War virus in Europe, more precisely Ukraine. The second biggest story on the Planet is the suppression of this story for almost two weeks by the corporate owned mainstream news mediaRelated ...
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• Sponges Recycle Carbon to Give Life to Coral Reefs

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 735
  Its hard to think of a sponge as an animal, especially if you have a dried up non-synthetic one in your bathtub. Living sponges dont have circulatory, digestive or nervous systems, and they can often regenerate themselves from small fragments. ...
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• First Footage of Giant Stingray

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 786
  [YouTube - Link ] It is one of the rarest creatures of the ocean’s deep, and it has been caught on film for the first time ever.  The species, smalleye stingray, is the largest of all stingray species, and is seen off the coast of Mozambique. – via news From the Upcoming ueue , submitted by Geekazoid .
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• Pink & White Poodle 15″- Make Your Own *NO SEW* Stuffed Animal Kit

  
  Most-Gifted-Toys.com — Authority: 155
  Pink & White Poodle 15″- Make Your Own *NO SEW* Stuffed Animal Kit This un-stuffed plush poodle kit comes with the 15″ poodle animal skin, necessary fill, a birth certificate and a wishing star insert. With this kit you get to stuff your own plush animal, make a wish that stays inside forever, and [...]
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• Forget About Locking Your House. Just Make Sure Your Dog Is Healthy and Free From Animal Joint Pain

  
  My K9 Land — Authority: 144
  Recently I heard a great story. She was quite old but her owners took good care of her. She began showing signs of dog joint pain so they took her in to see an animal nutritionist a few years ago and the advice and pet arthritis products really did wonders for her. This guy took [...]
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• All babies love a mud puddle, even this baby elk!

  
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• Digital Scrapbooking (Freebies) found on Sat, 14-Nov-2009 ---> Cat(s)/Dog(s)/Bear/Bird/Butterfly/Any other Animal Theme Freebies

  
  Creative Busy Hands Digital Scrapbooking Freebies Search — Authority: 160
  Cat(s)/Dog(s)/Bear/Bird/Butterfly/Any other Animal Theme Technorati Tags: Digital Scrapbooking  |Freebies  |DigiFreebies  |Scrapbooking Please, dont forget to say thank you to the designer when you download any of the freebies in the designer blog, and tell where you found them (the links in this blog take you ...
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• Animal Collective video for In The Flowers + 2 other lovely lo-fi videos

  
  Indyish — Authority: 436
  This lo-fi pretty video for Animal Collective’s In The Flowers is trancey, nauseating at times with the spinning, and nostaglically beautiful and auditorally a bit addicitive – great for anxiety-busting, at-home interpretive dance (not that we would know anything about that.) The music video from Animal ...
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• Animal papercraft: Emperor Penguin paper model

  
  PaperCraft Art Creative — Authority: 119
  Emperor penguin papercraft model with free printable template by Canon Creative Park.Far away in Antarctica where no living being in sight except few animal species which adapt perfectly with the extreme environment. Among them, there is this species of penguin called emperor penguin. It is the largest penguin in the ...
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• Winnie- the-Pooh royalties in dispute

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 507
  The fictional offspring of the most famous animal in Canadian history -- a certain black bear named Winnipeg -- has landed at the centre of a renewed legal battle over profits from Winnie the Pooh merchandise sold in Canada and the U.S. since the 1960s.
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