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	<title>Care2 Causes &#187; Aimee Gertsch</title>
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		<title>Video Games For Pigs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aimee Gertsch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It turns out that humans and pigs have one more thing in common! We both enjoy playing video games. When researchers at the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU) and Wageningen UR set out to help address the need to curb boredom in pigs, they discovered that they could do so in a very playful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Cat Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aimee Gertsch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that there are now more tigers living in captivity than there are in the wild? The big cats of the world are disappearing at alarming rates. National Geographic Society and Explorers-in-Residence Dereck and Beverly Joubert, launched the Big Cats Initiative to help spread the word and hopefully save these majestic animals. “We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Sharks Misunderstood?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aimee Gertsch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered if sharks are misunderstood? A group of expert divers, scientists, and underwater cameramen explore and test myths about sharks. This will all take place with nothing between the people and the sharks! Will they find that sharks are indeed misunderstood after all? Nat Geo WILD puts some common theories and preconceptions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Penguins in Sweaters Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aimee Gertsch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may all remember the photos of real penguins sporting hand made knit sweaters. Not only were the sweater wearing penguins adorable, but the plea for help to knit sweaters to help save them after an oil spill went viral, and now they have inspired a new kind of penguin wearing sweaters! Flip and Peggy, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trick Or Treat for Big Cats</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aimee Gertsch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would you like to help save big cats while you are having fun gathering your Halloween candy? The Trick-or-Treat for Big Cats initiative, from National Geographic, combines a fun activity kids love with the opportunity to learn more about and make a difference in the environment. It&#8217;s a sad fact that lions, tigers and other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday Pet Food Drive</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aimee Gertsch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second annual Pet Food Drive is kicking off October 30, 2011, just in time for the holiday season. This is a special pet food drive, the goal of which is to gather 400,000 pounds of food! All food collected during the food drive will be donated to food banks in each local community to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Adopt A Shelter Dog Month!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aimee Gertsch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s October, and that means it is Adopt A Shelter Dog Month! Do you have room in your heart and home for a shelter dog? Visit Petfinder.com. Petfinder.com is a wonderful resource where you can search for adoptable pets near you. Not only can you search in your area, but you can look up dogs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shelter Dogs to Help Veterans</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aimee Gertsch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States House of Representatives has passed a wonderful bill called the Veterans Dog Training Therapy Act. The bill establishes a program where shelter dogs receive training from service members suffering from PTSD. The shelter dogs, once trained, will then go on to become service dogs for disabled veterans. It&#8217;s a win win situation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Founder of American Dog Rescue Helps Raise $1 Million for HSUS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aimee Gertsch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; During The Humane Society&#8217;s To The Rescue Gala, philanthropist Arthur E. Benjamin, founder of American Dog Rescue, helped raise $1,000,000 for HSUS. It&#8217;s no wonder people have dubbed him &#8220;the little guy with a big heart&#8221;! The founder of American Dog Rescue, a non-profit organization dedicated to the mission of “No Healthy Dog Without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Friends to Operate a Lifesaving Center in Los Angeles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 19:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aimee Gertsch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The homeless animals in Los Angeles won a great victory when the City Council passed a proposal by Best Friends Animal Society in an 11-1 margin! &#8220;Our goal in the first year alone is to place 3,000 homeless pets from the other city shelters in good new homes and to fix 6,000 dogs and [...]]]></description>
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