Over the years we have received thousands of letters and phone calls from people who have lost a believed animal companion and are plunged into even deeper sadness by insensitive remarks and actions. We decided to ask readers of our Angel Animals Story
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]]> Plants Toxic To Animals
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]]> If you're like us, you absolutely love your pooch. You love everything about him. The way he barks, the way he wags his tail, the way he perks up whenever he sees you coming. And, like a good pet parent, you want your baby to always be in good health.
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]]> The Dalai Lama was enthroned age 5 in Lhasa Tibet in February 1940. Since then there has been 68 years of unelected rule in which the Tibetan (and since 1959 the Tibetan exile community) has had ONE political and religious leader who cannot be questioned.
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]]> The Food and Drug Administration is once again holding an “information gathering” public meeting on nanotechnology, a powerful new technology for taking apart and reconstructing nature at the atomic and molecular level.
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]]> A major credit card reform bill (HR 5244) is ready for a vote on the House floor. But the banking lobby wants to delay it. With so little time left, any delay at all could put the bill back months or even kill it.
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]]> Pet owners who evacuated for Hurricane Gustav are helping national humane organizations care for more than 1,100 dogs, cats, birds, snakes, hamsters and hermit crabs housed at a shelter in Shreveport.
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]]> Louisiana has recognized how important people's pets are to them and has made official provisions in the Critical Transportation Plan to evacuate them to shelters close enough to their owners so that they can provide care.
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]]> And today, we're keeping a close eye on Gustav as it moves toward the Gulf Coast. Our entire animal rescue team has been put on standby to deploy at a moment’s notice, but only because your support keeps them operating.


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]]> Investigating the paranormal can be hazardous to your health. It can follow you home and destroy your life. TV doesn't tell you that. So we will.
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]]> Please help. Friends there say they need donations/help
ALL ARNO VOLUNTEERS ARE OFFICIALLY DEPLOYED
TO ASSIST WITH CAEP (City Assisted Evacuation Plan) PET/PEOPLE EVACUATIONS as per our MOU with Louisiana SPCA to assist Homeland Security ORLEANS PARISH
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]]> "That's why organizations like the PDA have to organize and energize." The big question, of course, is: Exactly what do progressives want? For many, the short answer is: Quick and unconditional withdrawal from Iraq...bigger government role in health care.
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]]> The FDA has OK'd the irradiation of lettuce and spinach. Irradiation uses ionizing radiation to destroy bacteria and viruses. Tell the FDA to clean up feed lots instead of creating more deadly problems. Read about solutions and contact them here!
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]]> This is featured as the latest true internet buzz on Snopes.com There is a recall of Four Paws' Pimple Ball with bell toys due to actual reported injuries to dogs. Do not let your dog play with the toys listed here. You can send it in for a replacement.
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]]> Desperate for attention, McCain plays the gender card, chooses a woman who offends both feminests and the barefoot & pregnant crowd. An innexperienced and inneffective 2 electoral vote gov. in trouble for trying to get her exbrother-in-law fired.
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]]> Sixty six dachshunds are looking for a new home in Pennsylvania today after being rescued from a puppy mill in Parkersburg, West Virginia.Dona Show, Pennsylvania's lead representative from Dachshund Rescue of North America, picked up the dogs on Wednesd
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]]> Two painters are being hailed heroes after catching a baby dropped from the third floor of a burning building in Philadelphia's Kensington section Tuesday.The drama unfolded at about 10:30 a.m. when flames broke out.Two painters working down the street s
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]]> The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released an official complaint stating that the contract laboratory investigated by PETA in 2002 and 2003, which was employed by pet-food manufacturer Iams, “has shown a lack of good faith.”
The government complain
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]]> It's a classic childhood scene: Mom says you need to eat your veggies, and you create intricate plans to make them disappear–to anywhere but your mouth. Maybe there's a baked potato skin you can hide them inside. Dogs are built-in disposals. And there'
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]]> A dog who was left for dead is up and walking around now after being rescued by a Good Samaritan.
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]]> EDMONTON --Nine polar bears found swimming 20 to 100 kilometres off the northwest coast of Alaska last week represent another sign that the rapid retreat of ice in the Arctic is forcing bears to make dangerous, long-distance swims to get
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]]> A puppy mill in West Virginia is shut down for good this week, as other organizations discover what Best Friends has long known – that miracles happen when you work side by side to save the animals:
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]]> Mylie, Buck, Roscoe, and Hugo—four dogs who starved to death at the end of their chains—had their day in court. Their abusers, unlike so many others, got jail time, fines, and bans on possessing animals.
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]]> FIVE AMERICANS DETAINED AFTER DISPLAY NEAR NATIONAL STADIUM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 20, 2008
The detained activists are Americans Amy Johnson, 33, Sam Corbin, 24, Liza Smith, 31, Jacob Blumenfeld, 26, and Lauren Valle, 21.
WHERE ARE THEY????
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]]> Tibet activists unfurled a banner spelling out “Free Tibet” in English and Chinese in bright blue LED lights in Beijing’s Olympic Park tonight. The five were detained by security personnel THEIR WHEREABOUTS ARE UNKNOWN!!
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]]> In the fashion world, the conversation has been going in circles for months. "What happened to all the black models?" "Let's round them up in a special edition of Vogue." "Why are the runways so pale?" "Let's trot out Naomi at the February shows."
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]]> Italian animal rights campaigners are urging Pope Benedict to stop wearing ermine on his hats and robes, appealing to his reputation as a cat lover.The Italian Association for Defense of Animals and the Environment, which has a white bunny logo, has start
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]]> The plants will cover 12.5 square miles of central California with solar panels, and in the middle of a sunny day will generate about 800 megawatts of power, roughly equal to the size of a large coal-burning power plant or a small nuclear plant.
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]]> A report on three heart transplants involving babies is focusing attention on a touchy issue in the organ donation field: When and how can someone be declared dead? For decades, organs have typically been removed only after doctors determine that a donor'
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]]> A police crackdown meant to quell militants in China's rugged frontier of Xinjiang has failed to prevent a surge of attacks, and analysts say Beijing's tactics may actually be encouraging more violence among the region's usually moderate Muslims.
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]]> Frogs and other amphibians are dying at an alarming rate. CNN's Dan Simon reports.
• Planet in Peril: Environmental Coverage - Special Reports from CNN.com
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]]> Looks like viruses can catch colds just like the rest of us ; )

Now a new piece of evidence supporting that viruses may be somewhat "alive" has been added -- viruses can catch a virus.
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]]> The tropical rain forest ecosystems are one of the most important ecosystems on earth. If we do what we can to prevent bio-networks, such as rain forests from being destroyed, then we are fighting for the protection and survival of mother earth.
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]]> This video by James Kever puts a human face to a problem we'd like to think doesn't exist, the euthanization of America's stray pets.
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]]> Yesterday, eight more Tibet activists took action in Beijing to speak out for Tibetan freedom and human rights. Five activists blockaded the front entrance of the Chinese Ethnic Culture Park, which prominently features an exhibit of Tibetan culture,
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]]> Unanimous Decision of New Jersey Supreme Court Results in Precedent-Setting Victory for Farm Animals

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]]> Sacred Earth is written and photographed by Martin Gray. Sacred Earth is the culmination of 20 years of travel to more than 1000 sacred sites in over 80 countries. The book features nearly 300 beautiful color photographs with concise descriptions
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]]> The Historical Record of Planet Earth speaks of ongoing contact with extraterrestrials as found in oral traditions, tablets, stone monuments, petroglyphs, and art forms found throughout the planet.Get Conscious, Save Our Earth, and Yourself.
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]]> A study looking into the extinction of Australia's prehistoric animals has dispelled scientific beliefs that climate change drove their disappearance.
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]]> BUSHco wants to hand over regulatory powers in the act to federal agencies to determine if development, logging or other activities would negatively impact endangered wildlife. No independent scientific reviews by qualified biologists would be required.
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]]> Responding to growing consumer anxiety, California lawmakers are considering enacting what could be the first statewide restrictions on a chemical found in plastic baby bottles and infant formula cans.
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]]> After the first few days of the Beijing Games, some cracks have appeared in China's perfect party — empty seats at the venues, disappointing crowds at the Olympic grounds, ticket scalping, a lack of buzz around the city and even official acknowledgment
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]]> A grandmother's kidnapped garden gnome was returned to her doorstep seven months later - along with a photo album picturing him in the 12 countries he had visited with his abductor. In a replica of a scene from the film Amelie, Eve Stuart-Kelso was stunn
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]]> Video on how China's worker's are being exploited, worked to the bone, and how they pay the price of Western Business' competing against one another.
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]]> FT08.TV is SFT's new online video channel, designed as a one-stop news and analysis resource for Tibetans, Tibet supporters, and others concerned about human rights connected to (and during) the Beijing Olympics. The channel is filled with must-see
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]]> No. Imagine that. This newspaper allows reader comments with registration. There is no short supply of idiot rednecks already commenting on how they did the right thing and ignoring that the whole wolf kill program is stupid & wrong. Please comment there.
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]]> HUNDREDS of baby whales have been discovered in a bay in the Kimberley, making it one of the world's biggest humpback whale nursery grounds.
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]]> The body of a whale has been dumped at a landfill site at Bognor Regis in West Sussex despite calls for it to be kept.
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