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Animals News tagged with AnimalWelfare

Backyard Chicken Flocks... Is It Really a Good Idea?
Animals  (tags: environment, animals, AnimalWelfare, chickens, protection, suffering, habitat )

Cher
- 24 minutes ago - all-creatures.org
And while we do believe having chickens as companions opens up hearts and minds, giving people access to a new world, we want to ensure that the cost is not the lives of more chickens, that the benefits are in the chickens' favor, not humans.
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Fight Against the Human Consumption of Cats and Dogs in South Korea ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, dogs, cats, human consumption, killing, protection, pets, suffering )

Cher
- 59 minutes ago - change.org
In spite of a 1991 law that prohibits the human consumption of dogs and cats, a flourishing industry exists within the markets of South Korea.
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The Agony in Your Pillow and Jacket: Time to Ditch the Down
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, birds, feathers, AnimalCruelty, environment, protection, suffering )

Cher
- 1 hour ago - animalrights.change.org
Despite the fact that down and its victims do not generally get as much attention as other animal products and animal victims, animal activists have been stepping up and standing up for these birds noticeably recently. First, Ari Solomon wrote an
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L.A. City Council Committee Asks for Ordinance Banning Cat Declawing
Animals  (tags: animals, cats, AnimalWelfare, declawing, environment, pets, protection, suffering )

Cher
- 1 hour ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
The Los Angeles City Council's Public Safety Committee voted unanimously Monday to recommend that City Atty. Carmen Trutanich draft an ordinance banning cat declawing within city limits.
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Film on the Dolphin Hunt Stirs Outrage in Japan
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, Japan, slaughter, dolphins, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, killing )

Cher
- 2 hours ago - all-creatures.org
For years, dolphin hunts off the seaside town of Taiji, which turn coastal waters red with blood each winter, have drawn the ire of Western activists. But few among the Japanese public seemed to care, or even know, about the slaughter.
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A Special Kind of Hero
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, dogs, death, protection, environment )

Cher
- 2 hours ago - fortheloveofthedogblog.com
Last week, one of the FBI working dogs, Freddy, was killed in the line of duty while federal agents raided the hideout of men suspected of involvement with an organized crime ring and who were also allegedly part of a radical Islamic sect.
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Tell Coach House Gifts to Stop Selling Frogs Inside Tiny Plastic Boxes
Animals  (tags: animalcruelty, animalwelfare, cruelty, pets, wildanimals, sadness )

Tierney
- 3 hours ago - peta.org
Coach House Gifts--one of the largest gift chains in the nation--is known for selling unique gifts and home décor, but now the specialty store is peddling live animals as desk decorations. PETA has received multiple complaints that Coach House Gifts is cur
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Tell USDA to Protect Veal Calves From Abuse -Take Action !
Animals  (tags: abused, AnimalWelfare, animalrights, animalcruelty, sadness, suffering )

Tierney
- 3 hours ago - secure.humanesociety.org
An HSUS investigation at a slaughter facility in Vermont shows stomach-turning cruelty to veal calves.
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Andre the Dog Gets Some Fancy New Limbs
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, dogs, pets, rescued, GoodNews )

Maria
- 3 hours ago - msnbc.msn.com
A sweet-natured, jet-black Alsatian-Rottweiler mix, Andre survived a nightmare in the woods near his home in Wasilla, Alaska, last May. He went for a walk on his own and stepped into an illegal hunting trap, which snapped around his left front and back
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Biodiversity Loss Shows No Signs of Slowing Down - IUCN
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, biodiversity, loss, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 6 hours ago - wildlifeextra.com
The latest update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species should cause alarm over the continuing unprecedented loss of species and the failure so far of mechanisms to arrest biodiversity loss, according to WWF.
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USA: Limit Use of Non-Therapeutic Antibiotics in Food Animals ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, antibiotics, environment, protection )

Cher
- 6 hours ago - change.org
Championed for over 10 years by the late Senator Edward Kennedy, the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (PAMTA), H.R. 1549/S. 619, is a federal bill that would phase out the common practice of constantly feeding antibiotics to food
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Ritual Slaughter in Australia
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, slaughter, sheep, Australia, environment, protection, suffering )

Cher
- 7 hours ago - animalsaustralia.org
In Australia there are approximately 32 million sheep killed each year for human consumption (both domestic and export). They are mostly pre-stunned in accordance with the relevant Australian Standard, and in line with State legislation
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Stoughton Animal Control Officer Fired for Giving Away Lost Dog
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, dogs, pets, rescued )

Maria
- 7 hours ago - boston.com
Janet Torren sensed something was wrong when the animal control officer didn't return her calls. When she reached the officer, it seemed peculiar that her story changed with each question, she said.
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Former Iraqi Dog Nubs on Today Show
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, dogs, pets, rescued, GoodNews )

Maria
- 7 hours ago - ohmidog.com
Nubs, the one-time Iraqi street mutt -- so named by American soldiers for the stubs where his ears used to be -- appeared on this morning's Today Show, along with the Marine major who rescued him.
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A Letter for Lily
Animals  (tags: animals, cats, AnimalWelfare, Pasado's Safe Haven, environment, protection, pets )

Cher
- 7 hours ago - pasadosafehaven.org
Our sweet Lily bloomed here at the sanctuary. Losing her recently to cancer was unspeakably painful, but in her memory, we are inspired to continue our work of giving second chances to the old, the incontinent, the blind, deaf, and arthritic...
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