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• Pet shops to be certified

  
  Cats and Stuff — Authority: 113
  Thanks to yskat for this article on how people running pet shops will soon have to undergo a compulsory training programm e. While this is a good step in terms of hopefully at least impressing about pet shop owners what they should do, and how the animals should be treated while under their care, the real issue is ...
  14 hours ago

• Euthanasia is NOT the Answer

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 131
  Elisa D’Ortenzio As the year 2009 comes to an end, over 4 million dogs and cats will have been euthanized in the United States alone due to over population in animal shelters. Dogs and cats that do not end up living in shelters often live as strays on the street. Television commercials such as those from the ...
  14 hours ago

• Last Chance to Support Colony Cats and Enter to Win a Set of Curve Perches from Urban Pet Haus

  
  moderncat — Authority: 552
  Just one more day left to make a donation to Colony Cats and enter to win a set of Curve perch shelves from Urban Pet Haus !  This wonderful organization is working hard to help improve the lives of cats in Central Ohio. Every donation will help to ensure that they can continue their good work. We are currently ...
  14 hours ago

• Grace in Small Things – 216

  
  http://kikipotamus.wordpress.com — Authority: 132
  The fact that when we need good energy sent our way, we have all of you good people to turn to. Please send healing thought energy in Sylvain’s direction tomorrow (Monday). We are in London for 2 days for another lithotripsy. I don’t presume to have any clue whether the four people arrested are guilty or innocent ...
  15 hours ago

• Five Documentaries Everyone Should See (slideshow + videos)

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 548
  I’ve always loved documentaries, not just for their subject matter, but for their ability to completely open your eyes to something you may have never known before, generally in under 90 minutes. Any time I lecture, inevitably someone asks me if there are any films on environmental subjects that I would recommend. ...
  21 hours ago

• Disgusting Animal Abuse Case in Lithuania Leads to the Potential for Stricter Punishments for Animal Abuse

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 131
  Irina Knopp Recently, the shocking video of a dog being thrown from a bridge has circulated the internet.   Svajunas Beniuk from Kaunas, Lithuania was the culprit.  Svajunas, who was joined by at least two other people who filmed the event, took a neighbor’s dog and threw it from a bridge.  The dog had ...
  22 hours ago

• Paww

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 507
  A great man once said “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”, that man was Gandhi. There are many ways that a person can get involved with helping animals. There are plenty of animal shelters out there that need volunteers are various items including: ...
  1 day ago

• The Utopian Suggestion of Natural Predator Reintroduction

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 131
  Jonathan Vandina The deer population in the Northeast has exploded. Some maintain that one of the reasons is due to the previous housing boom. During the boom, thousands of acres of land were cleared with the intentions of building homes that were never built.  This cleared land permitted sunlight to hit the ...
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• Exotics Lose in Florida

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 131
  Marjorie Levine Last month, a red-bellied piranha was caught by a 15-year-old boy.  The next day, fish and wildlife officials caught two more in the same lake.  No, this didn’t take place in the Amazon; it happened in West Palm Beach, Florida , The Piranha is not a Florida native, but, like the New York ...
  1 day ago

• The cautionary tale of The Whale | SE Smith

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  The killing of a blue whale by a research vessel off the Californian coast raises larger questions about marine protection Fort Bragg , with a population of 7,000, is a ragged former timber town on the northern reaches of the California coast. It is in some ways the epitome of idealised small town America: the kind ...
  2 days ago

• Pork Industry Tries to Deal with Public Image

  
  Critter News — Authority: 133
  Every time I get depressed about animal issues (every other day it seems like), I see an article like this. Now, it may see like it would add to more depression, but it actually makes me feel a little better. Its an article about the pork industry having to address the increasingly positive media image of pigs as ...
  2 days ago

• Where Have All The Rational People Gone?

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 131
  [The following post is written by one my Animal Law students who prefers to remain anonymous --dnc] I read an article recently that really offended me. The article was written on November 21, 2009 by Gary Steiner and was published in the New York Times Op-Ed section (Steiner’s piece has already been discussed  ...
  2 days ago

• The Cutest Darn Thing (That You May Be Wearing)

  
  Not Quite Cookie Cutter — Authority: 130
  Just look at these little guys- They are raccoon dogs, and honestly too darn cute.  I want a few, apparently they aren’t a vicious bastion of evil (like say, Chihuahuas).  Admittedly I wasn’t sure what exactly a raccoon dog was in an incredibly depressing story I was reading . So you know, if you don’t ...
  3 days ago

• Video: Thirsty camels lay siege to Australian town

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Feral camels have caused havoc in the small Australian town of Docker River as they search for drinking water
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• No Humane Slaughter? No Problem (because) No Standing

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 131
  David Cassuto The 9th Circuit recently decided Levine v. Vilsack , a case challenging the  ongoing failure of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to include birds under the auspices of the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act (HMSA).  The case was brought by a group of plaintiffs in 2005, ...
  3 days ago

• Camel cull angers Australian campaigners

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Campaigners urge trigger-happy Australian government not to shoot 6,000 camels causing chaos in Docker River In pictures: feral camels facing mass cull Animal welfare groups have accused the Australian government of being "trigger happy" over plans to shoot 6,000 camels that invaded an outback town in search of ...
  3 days ago

• Before turkeys became cheap table fare…

  
  Retrieverman's Weblog — Authority: 141
  Thanksgiving ham was the main course. The pigs were butchered as soon as the coolness of November settled in. Of course, the winters now are so mild that November isn’t the best month to butcher hogs. Of course, that also assumes that people still keep pigs to fatten for their own use. It’s now much cheaper to ...
  4 days ago

• What Breed Is Your Dog?

  
  Fast Press Releaser — Authority: 136
  It has been estimated that there are over 400 breeds of dogs in the world, this does not include mixed breeds. In the past it has been almost impossible for mixed breed owners to know exactly which breed types make up their dog. This is only possible through DNA analysis as this is where the [...]Related posts: ...
  4 days ago

• Should Obama have pardoned all the Thanksgiving turkeys? | Poll

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  Martha Stewart has spoken out against the meat industry and will be enjoying a vegetarian Thanksgiving meal today. Should Barack Obama have followed a similar theme and pardoned all the turkeys, not just one?
  4 days ago

• Turf kicked up in government U-turn

  
  Sheepdrove's Weblog — Authority: 117
  Grass-fed livestock… animals that the Lancet forgot! A government u-turn was swiftly undertaken yesterday, following a report published in The Lancet. Embarrasing conflicts of opinion emerged from different UK goverment departments.  The health department funded a study which proposed we should eat less ...
  4 days ago

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