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Pain in Fibromyalgia is linked to Changes in Brain Molecule

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ACTION ALERT! DOG MURDERED BY POLICE OFFICER!
Animals  (tags: action alert, dogs, death, AnimalCruelty, killing )

Cory
- 20 seconds ago - animalattraction.com
Sally lay for about 45 minutes dying after Damien Allen shot her, just 3 feet from her family's front door. (Sally left behind 9 puppies)

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Help Stop Amazon.Com From Selling Illegal Animal Fighting Material!! Take Action!!
Animals  (tags: animal fighting materials, HSUS, Amazon.com, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection )

Cher
- 51 minutes ago - community.hsus.org
Let Amazon.com CEO Jeffrey Bezos know that now is the time for him to abandon his support of animal fighting thugs, comply with federal law, and stop selling animal fighting paraphernalia on Amazon.com!

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Earthjustice Files its Legal Challenge to the Wolf Killing

Dear SUE,

Wolf 253M (also known as "Hoppy" or "Limpy"), one of 1,500 gray wolves that lost federal protections, was killed on March 28th
Photo courtesy Steve JustadJust moments ago, Earthjustice attorneys filed our case to stop the wolf slaughter in the northern Rockies. And we aim to win!

Earthjustice has been called upon by a coalition of environmental and animal rights groups -- including the Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Defenders of Wildlife, and the Humane Society -- to use our legal expertise to stop the killing now and compel the federal government to reinstate Endangered Species Act protections for wolves until true recovery is achieved.

As soon as the federal government officially delisted the northern Rockies gray wolf from Endangered Species protections, we filed a mandatory notice of intent to challenge the decision. Our notice went unanswered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Now it's time for our day in court.

The USFWS failed to take into account basic principles of conservation biology, disregarded its own policies, and departed from past practice in delisting the wolf.

As we go to court today, Earthjustice will argue that the Service:

• used an outdated and biologically inadequate standard for determining the number of wolves that must be protected in order to maintain a genetically viable population;
  
• ignored the agency's own requirement that wolves in the northern Rockies' core recovery populations must be connected and interbreed before they can be deemed recovered; and 
  
• failed to take into account that state laws that currently govern the fate of the wolves in the absence of federal protections allow unregulated wolf killing.

At this moment, at least 20 wolves have already been killed in the northern Rockies and around Yellowstone National Park.

Earthjustice is using all the legal tools at our disposal to stop this tragedy as quickly as possible. Now that the Service has issues its final decision, the courts are the best way to stop the slaughter and get adequate protections reinstated for the wolves.

Learn more about what we're doing to save these magnificent, iconic animals.

Sincerely,

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Alaska Finds New Excuse to Kill Wolves Animals (tags: AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, wolves, hunting, slaughter, death, wildlife )
Anita
- 36 seconds ago - friendsofanimals.org

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 Cat Found Hanged With Dog Leash - Castleford, EN (UK)
The sickened officers found an adult female grey-coloured cat hanging by the neck from a metal choke chain-type dog lead, which had been knotted around a tree and tied to an adjacent branch...

Hoarding 30 Cats - Paisley, FL (U
When deputies and Animal Services responded to Brandli's property on Pine Valley Drive, they found 30 cats living in a five-room trailer. The floors were caked with a foot of solidified feces, urine, and cat litter, and the trailer was overrun with roaches...

Four Dogs Shot With .22 - Thermal, CA (U
Witnesses said Mireles shot the four dogs with a .22 caliber rifle, police said. One witness saw Mireles fire a shot, and confronted him, to which Mireles allegedly pointed the rifle at him and replied, "I'll kill all those dogs."...

Cat Shot With Arrow - Sweet Home, OR (U
A cat was apparently hit with an arrow somewhere near Liberty Road outside Sweet Home. A man called the sheriff's office Wednesday to report the injury. He said the animal didn't belong to him but it had been hanging out with his barn cats...

Dogs Malnourished, Fighting Suspected - 26 Seized - Archer, FL (U
We have our suspicions that the dogs were used in dog fighting. However, those suspicions were not great enough that we could back that up to get prosecution on dog fighting at this time," Flagler said.  Flagler said while animal services ...

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 Toy Poodle Found Dead in Canal - New Orleans, LA (U
SPCA officials said a toy poodle was found floating in the Bayou St. John Canal on Thursday, March 6. In the case involving the toy poodle, a medical examination revealed that the poodle was approximately 3-5 years old and had been dead for..

Cat Weighted Down With Bricks, Drowned - New Orleans, LA (U

Cockfighting - Over 200 Birds Seized - Corralitos, CA (U
after receiving a report about a neglected cow. He obtained a search warrant before Wednesday's raid, which included seven officers, including a California Fish and Game warden who found an illegal animal trap and several bobcat skins...

Puppy Mill - 26 Dogs Seized - Monroe, CT (U
Officials said they discovered pure-breed Bijons with scratches and cuts, pregnant lhasa apsos and boxers that had never been on a leash before. In addition they said a few of dogs are need of medical attention. "The place is a nightmare...

Puppy Mill - 84 Dogs Seized - Dexter, WI (U
He said 75 of the dogs were toy breeds and had been kept in a room 20 feet by 20 feet with two or three dogs in each cat-sized kennel...

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After they "Cull" wolf cubs (which could be neutered as well - as we know from dogs) and neuter the adult population we aim for "culling" Elk because they damage the fauna and over graze etc causing decline in other animal species which we then again have to re-introduce and then we need to re-introduce the wolf, since the later has taken overhand again ..... blaaa blaaa blaaa - Again full circle! When will they finally learn and listen to Bioligists, Enviromentalists ... common sense people? Seems the only thing that counts is the $$$$$$

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Wolves generally cull the weak and less able to survive and in return make a stronger herd.  People need to study scientific studies before they start the killing.  Learning to live with brother and sister wolf is a better way.  Understanding first is an even better way.  I always remember, too, that if not for the wolf, we would not have dog.  Bless you wolf and I will pray to the Creator to find ways to defend you and yours.

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Today I went for a walk, a new ritual I have started in my life. As I was walking I bumped into a man who has spent his entire life paying taxes and saving his country. He stood behind his pick up truck whose tailgate was dropped down and you could see the bed was filled with food. He was holding a sign for all to see written on a large piece of what looked like paper bag material,"This is what your electric company does for you." I stopped to talk to the gentleman to see what it was all about and he told me his story. " The local electric company had shut off his electricity, now you may think, well he should have paid his bill, right? That isn't the point, because I too have to be part of the same electric company. This man's bill was only 98 dollars, when the due date rolls around, they are not like most companies who allow a thirty day grace period, no, you only have three days after the due date to pay it; and if you don't pay it they shut you off. It doesn't matter if it's the dead of winter and you have kids they shut you off anyway. Some companies will work with you and let you make payments but this one still wants it paid by the due date. There are places that will help those who need it but others who don't fit the critiera go without. The man also told me that on one occasion when they came to shut him off, the company even asked for four armed officiers to come to his property and shut off the electricity and he said one employee who worked for the electric company sat in the company truck and waited for the temp till it went below freezing then gave the gentleman a crappy evil grin and pulled his meter, what is up with that?

Now tell me, we pay taxes we contribute in some way or other to our communties, cities, states and the US government, but yet somehow the Constitution and the government is no longer by the people and for the people; it is by the government for the government, to hell with the people just as long as they line their bloody pockets.

Can we ever imagine a day when your word and a hand shake was all that was necessary., where our input was needed and wanted to make a change

Just the other day I was sent a petition that concerned gentleman who was on a resperator and the electric company shut off the electric that was so vitally important to keep him alive, his family ventalated him by hand! come on that's ridiculous! Another case of a woman who also was on a resperator in Florida whose electric was shut off and she died. That company in my opinion is guilty of murder!!! Since when do we allow the government to go behind our backs and incorporate laws that we know nothing about ! Since when has monetary issues become more important than lives?!

America we need to wake up and take it back !!! We have lived too long with blinders on as we slowly become a communist country. Our rights are being slowly taken away one by one. We are dancing with death. Do not continue to let this happen. The government is for the big man the little man doesn't count! Stand up for your rights stand up for yourself !!!

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Glezela
- 21 seconds ago - buffalofieldcampaign.org

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MCMINNIVILLE, Tenn. -- McMinnville police said they are looking for a man who beat his pet dog almost unconscious, but it's what the animal had to endure that shocked and sickened animal activists who have seen it all

http://www.care2.com/news/member/101651844/651691

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