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Animals News tagged with exotic animals

PETA Gets Kudos for Rescue of 26,000+ Exotic Animals in Texas
Animals  (tags: AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, rescued, suffering, exotic animals )

Animalib
- 1 day ago - digitaljournal.com
It's not often People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is praised. The organization, which advocates vegetarianism, recently helped shut down an exotic pet store in Texas where the animals were poorly handled.
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ACTION ALERT: Pledge to Shed Exotic Skins From Your Wardrobe!
Animals  (tags: exotic animals, wild animals, massacred, skins, wild animal protection )

Simone
- 4 days ago - action.peta.org.uk
Think you'd look cool in that leather jacket? How cool would you feel if you knew that you could be wearing the skin of baby goats--or even the skin of a dog? Millions of animals - including zebras, bison, water buffaloes, boars, deer, kangaroos, elephant
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Thousands of Exotic Animals Seized From Warehouse
Animals  (tags: exotic animals, kangaroos, wildlife, seized, warehouse, investigation )

Simone
- 6 days ago - nbcdfw.com
Authorities spent hours removing more than 20,000 animals, dead and alive, from the U.S. Global Exotics warehouse on Tuesday in what may be the biggest animal seizures in the country. Arlington Animal Services served a civil seizure warrant on U.S.
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Tiger, Lion and Bear Form Unusual Friendship
Animals  (tags: rescued, drug barons, exotic animals, drug raid, tiger, lion, bear, cubs, friendship, bonding )

Simone
- 15 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Rescued eight years ago during a police drugs raid in Atlanta, Georgia, the three friends were only cubs at the time and barely two months old. They had been kept as status symbol pets by the drug barons. Delivered to the Noah's Ark animal rescue
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Lions, Tigers and Drug Lords: Refuge for Abandoned Wild Pets
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, exotic animals, refuge, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 36 days ago - 3news.co.nz
Exotic animals that once belonged to Colombia's drug-traffickers are finding refuge no matter how close to death the creatures may be. Police deliver the wild animals to Ana Julia Torres after raids on drug-traffickers' large country estates.
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Be a Superhero for Animals
Animals  (tags: exotic animals, wild animals, not pets, protection, animal victims )

Simone
- 86 days ago - bornfree.org.uk
Spread the word that exotic animals don't make good pets! The Daily Telegraph reports that the Mwanza flat-headed rock agama (a beautiful and colorful species of lizard) looks set to become the latest victim in a long line of crazes for exotic pets,
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Exotic Animals Intelligent and Dangerous, Chimps Do Not Belong in Human Homes
Animals  (tags: animals, chimpanzees, exotic animals, pets, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 258 days ago - stltoday.com
Again, the tragic peril of pet chimpanzees -- and Missouri's lax regulation of exotic animals -- is splashed across the headlines. On March 30, a 9-year-old chimp named Timmy was on the loose near his Winston, Mo., home when a Daviess County deputy shot
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Wylie Refuge Sees Cost of Neglect in Arrival of 3 Exotic Cats
Animals  (tags: exotic animals, neglected, emaciated, seized, tigers, lion, rescued, animals, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 274 days ago - dallasnews.com
Two tigers and one lion arrived at In-Sync on Sunday after being seized by federal Department of Agriculture agents. Because the seizures are linked to an ongoing investigation, officials won't disclose their source.
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Ban Private Ownership of Exotic Animals ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: exotic animals, pets, ban, Texas, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 274 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Please TEXAS REISDENTS ONLY Sign this petition, your signature is greatly appreciated! I will be forwarding the results to the appropritate government officials.
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Exotic Animals Trapped in Net of Mexican Drug Cartels
Animals  (tags: exotic animals, Mexico drug trade, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 280 days ago - vancouversun.com
The global illegal trade in live species and animal parts -- used for luxury accessories, Asian medicine or folk remedies like aphrodisiacs -- is estimated to be worth up to $20 billion a year, Interpol has said.
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Big Cat Fanatics Claw at Tippi
Animals  (tags: exotic animals, Tippi Hedren, breeders, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 296 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
From Shambala, the California-based sanctuary for unwanted big cats she established more than 25 years ago, she is preparing to confront the $100m-a-year (£70m) business of exotic animal breeders, who have already threatened her life.
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Think Twice Before Making An Exotic Animal Your Pet
Animals  (tags: exotic animals, pets, wildlife, wildanimals, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection )

Cher
- 300 days ago - weblogs.wpix.com
With wild pets making headlines, animal activists are campaigning for change. PIX's Tamsen Fadal went to the Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport, Connecticut to learn about why certain animals should not be domesticated and do not make great pets.
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Precisely What Is A Designer Pet?
Animals  (tags: exotic animals, pets, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection )

Cher
- 307 days ago - examiner.com
These animals have been a topic of controversy for quite some time. Some people love the idea, and some people just cannot come to terms with the fact that there are people out there selling exotic animals, and animals cross-bred with exotic animals.
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Exotic Animals Trapped in Net of Drug Trade
Animals  (tags: tragedy, mexican drug trade, exotic animals, suffering, imprisoned, white tigers, black market endangered, cruelty )

Simone
- 319 days ago - reuters.com
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - From the live snakes that smugglers stuff with packets of cocaine to the white tigers drug lords keep as exotic pets, rare animals are being increasingly sucked into Mexico's deadly narcotics trade. Drug gang leaders like
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Ringling Bros-Stop the Use of Animals in Your Circuses- PLZ SIGN PETITION
Animals  (tags: exotic animals, wild animas, banned, no animal circuses, big cats, elephants, ringling bros circus, animal cruelty, animals abused, imprisoned, spirits broken )

Simone
- 324 days ago - action.bornfreeusa.org
The use of animals in the circus is an unnecessary and inhumane practice that is harmful to both the animals and the public. Wild animals are trained to perform unnatural tricks to entertain crowds through the use of barbaric tools - including bullhooks,
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