A WA woman who rescued 25,000 pets across the nation has been nominated to win the Young Woman of the Year Awards.

Michelle Williamson created the charity website PetRescue.com.au to link stray and homeless pets with families across Australia.

Sinc
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]]> POLICE officers who zapped a runaway sheep which was blocking traffic with a high-voltage Taser stun gun are to be investigated by the RSPCA.

Motorists trapped in the traffic jam caused when the sheep got out of a field in north Wales in Britain were h
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]]> The butchered carcass of an endangered American crocodile was discovered last week in a canal on the University of Miami campus.
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]]> Records of the recently deceased are to be shared with law enforcement and credit agencies in the government's latest attempt to wipe out identity theft.
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]]> An 11-year-old Alabama boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog that just may be the biggest pig ever found.Jamison Stone’s father says the hog his son killed weighed a 1,051 pounds and measured 9-feet-4 from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail.
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]]> So says the American Academy of Pediatrics, which warns parents that many of the "easy" pets—the ones that don't shed, don't need to be walked, and don't throw up on the sofa—pose serious health threats to young children.
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]]> A tiger killed a railway employee and mauled two others in Uttar Pradesh Saturday, an official said.
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]]> Faint, fossilized tracks of an ancient aquat­ic crea­ture sug­gests an­imals walked us­ing legs at least 30 mil­lion years ear­li­er than had been thought, some sci­en­tists say.
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]]> As the guys at Lehmans were holding out the begging bowl,for public funds,they were giving fat pay offs,to the execs,who had steered the company's luxury liner onto the rocks of failure.How is it,that the people aren't much angrier ?
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]]> Despite the Miracle of the Sacred Bailout, the world economy is shattering & sinking. Now the Federal Reserve has a new brainstorm: "Hey kids, let's buy vast amounts of unsecured short-term debt that companies use to finance their day-to-day activities!"
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]]> Beautiful wisdom from an elder. How America has come and is destined to go.We and the trees are made of the same DNA. The first World War in America occurred when Columbus landed. The message is simple. Live in harmony with your mother, the Earth.
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]]> Once upon a time, the US government closed the doors to every bank in the nation. The year was 1933 and it was called a "bank holiday."Here's what it looked and sounded like seventy-five years ago.

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]]> This video chronicles the history of Earth, of human beings and of all Life on Earth from the very beginning to today, as humanity rapidly approaches and experiences the transition from one great age of evolution to the next,
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]]> The government is urging consumers to thoroughly cook frozen chicken dinners after 32 people in 12 states were sickened with salmonella poisoning. The health warning by the U.S. Department


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]]> Ground-level ozone pollution is contributing to hundreds of deaths a year in the UK - and climate change could help make the situation worse, a report from the Royal Society warned today.
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]]> The acai berry is sold as a super food, and it definitely has some good attributes, but it is not a solution to all diseases.
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]]> The most expensive and dangerous cheese in the world
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]]> This video needs to be seen by everyone in America. Yes, I know, its 10 minutes. But its 10 minutes that anyone with a 401k, Pension or IRA should be willing to spend. Send it around, then keep checking at http://fedupusa.org
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]]> For a long time -- the first 15 years that we knew about global warming and did nothing -- there were no pictures. That was one of the reasons for inaction.


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]]> Their transport may be rustic, their manners less than polished, but much has been invested in the orang-utans of Nyaru Menteng. It takes £12,000 and eight years to raise these Indonesian orphans to the stage where they can be reintroduced to the wild, to
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]]> Shame...shame, crime against animals are going on here in India & we needs central Govt. strict laws to prevent cow slaughter / cruel animal transportation....
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]]> An unusual tourist - one that may be 8 feet long and weigh 1,000 pounds - has been visiting Cape Cod recently. A manatee, normally a denizen of waters much farther south, has been sighted in Harwich, Dennis, and Yarmouth, an official at the Cape Cod Stran
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]]> A resident of the US state of New Jersey has admitted that he tortured and drowned 19 cats, some of which were kittens, after adopting them from local feline lovers.
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]]> There is only one place on earth where wild tigers live in a mangrove swamp. At 10,000km2 the Indian and Bangladeshi Sundarbans is the biggest and most bio-diverse mangrove forest in the world, and home to the tiger.
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]]> In a series of continuous crimes of the American occupation hateful occupation forces at dawn on Sunday killing a family of 11 people, mostly women and children in an attack on the house of debtors in the city of Mosul.

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]]> Warned the Director of Water Babil province Engineer Saad Abdul-Amir Al-Hilla River pollution oily spots, said it had begun to affect the drinking water may be carcinogenic, demanding the Iraqi government to intervene to deal with pollution.
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]]> Seven employees of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's administration have agreed to give statements in the state Legislature's investigation into her firing of the state's public safety commissioner, the attorney general and lawmakers involved in the probe said
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]]> Seven aides to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin have reversed course and agreed to testify in an investigation into whether the Republican vice presidential nominee abused her powers by firing a commissioner who refused to dismiss her former brother-in-law.
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]]> "McCain's campaign announced a plan to turn a page on the financial crisis, distract with dishonest, dishonorable assaults against Barack Obama," the ad says."Struggling families can't turn the page on this economy."




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]]> An underfunded, compromised commission of which many of those most affected are not pleased is reason enough to stop belittling people and support a new investigation.
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]]> EESA greatly expands Treasury and Federal Reserve powers...Ignored is their criminal fraud. The harmful fallout to many millions, and the fact that $700 billion (now $850 billion) is a down payment with trillions more to come...Mainstreet beware! 10/6/08
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]]> Please have a look ....... related laws & the punishments for their violation needs review / amendments at once.
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]]> Green Gadget...
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]]> Lindsey Williams talks about his first hand knowledge of Alaskan oil reserves larger than any on earth. And he talks about how the oil companies and U.S. government won't send it through the pipeline for U.S. citizens to use.
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]]> A mixture of animals and people was present Saturday for the annual Blessing of the Animals Service at a church in Dallas, Texas.
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]]> Beautiful photos !!
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]]> Wells Fargo branch hit by 'The Hard Hat Bandit' and 'The Chatty Bandit'
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]]> It was near midnight Tuesday when the woman was shocked awake in bed by the howling scream of her pet cat from under the bed.

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]]> Three road crash victims in China were captured on camera playing cards in the midst of a chaotic accident scene.
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]]> A carpet python has been operated on by Gold Coast vets to remove four golf balls from
its intestine.
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]]> Don't try to kill them – and don’t try to catch them.

That’s the top advice from professional snake handler and catcher Joel Keady.

The fact is, we share the Coast with thousands of love ‘em or loathe ‘em snakes of many species and they have as much
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]]> KAMPALA: A new family of mountain gorillas, one of the world’s most endangered species, is ready for interaction with tourists, the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) said on Friday.

“There is a new group of 13 members that has been habituated,” UWA spoke
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]]> A kennel owner lost his license to operate Thursday and was charged with animal cruelty after officials found hundreds of animals crowded into a filthy, foul-smelling compound and dozens of puppy carcasses in a freezer.
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]]> A ROGUE three-legged bull crocodile suspected of killing Arthur Booker will be "sent to stud" after being X-rayed for signs of human remains.

The 4.3m saltwater crocodile was trapped after displaying highly aggressive, territorial behaviour close to th
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]]> If you screw up entering your id & password information enough times, Gmail will lock up your account - and there's no one to call. Same for Microsoft & Yahoo, unless you are a premium paying customer. What to do?
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]]> You may already know how food manufacture contributes to global warming—it's had its fair share of coverage lately, though the actual numbers have varied. In 2007, climate change experts pegged agriculture as producing 10 to 12 percent of global emissions
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