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USDA: Regulate Unlicensed Puppy Mills! TAKE ACTION!
Animals  (tags: puppy mills, dogs, petition, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, cruelty, dogs, crime, death, habitat, ethics, law, pets, protection, suffering, sadness )

Lindsey
- 8 days ago - secure.humanesociety.org
In response to concerns about thousands of dogs who are denied basic humane care at large-scale commercial breeding facilities, The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has published a proposed rule that would close a gaping loophole in the..
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Prevent Kangaroo Island Seal Cull - The Petition Site
Animals  (tags: SouthAustralia, fur seals, Kangaroo Island, cull, petition )

Thubten
- 13 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Once hunted to the very edge of extinction, the South Australian fur seals have made a comeback, notably on Kangaroo Island. In fact, the seal population has recovered so much that certain interests are pushing for a cull.
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Deceptive 'Animal Rescue Act' Will Endanger Animals in Florida! SIGN!
Animals  (tags: peta, petition, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, Florida, dogs, animals, humans, investigation, pets, protection )

Lindsey
- 112 days ago - secure.peta.org
PETA PETITION - A dangerous bill has been introduced in the Florida legislature. Misleadingly named the "Animal Rescue Act," Senate Bill 818 (SB 818) and its companion bill in the house, House Bill 597 (HB 597), if passed, would put homeless and unwanted.
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Petition Presses China To End All Tiger Trade
Animals  (tags: chinese government, petition, banning tiger trade, protection )

Simone
- 184 days ago - prlog.org
The Environmental Investigation Agency today endorses a new petition calling on Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to adopt a zero-tolerance policy on tiger trade.
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TAKE ACTION: Stop Thailand's Illegal Dog Meat Trade | LAAR
Animals  (tags: street dogs, abandoned community animals, dog meat trade, Thailand, slaughter, animal abuse, animal cruelty, animal rights, animal advocates, protest, petition )

Sylvie
- 184 days ago - legalaction4animalrights.net
Animals Asia Foundation -- Every day over 1,000 dogs are transported from Thailand to neighboring countries where they are cruelly and inhumaly butchered. However, the Soi Dog Foundation and the Thai government are working to end this cruel practice...
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Stop the Mass Killing in the Ukraine, Kharkov - The Petition Site
Animals  (tags: wildanimals, ukraine, petition, mass killing )

Thubten
- 202 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Stop mass killing of dogs and cats in general and in preparation for the UEFA European Football Championship 2012. We mean the problem of stray animals number regulation and coexistence of animals and humans. An adequate solving of this problem is...
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Animals Petition: Live Bull To Be Set On Fire,Spain: Urgent Action Needed
Animals  (tags: bull, torture, animal rights, inhumane, Spain, petition )

Thubten
- 203 days ago - change.org
Jeering mobs ~torture~ a bull with balls of burning tar or turpentine (called "pitch") attached to his horns. A bull's horns, body and eyes are scorched. Some try to escape hours of agony by smashing into walls.
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Take Action: It's Time To Ban the Battery Cage | Help Australian Laying Hens | Animals Australia
Animals  (tags: laying hens, Australia, battery cages, ban, petition )

Sylvie
- 204 days ago - animalsaustralia.org
For the millions of hens confined in battery cages unable even to spread their wings, the 'Code of Practice' that permits this cruelty was not scheduled as planned for government review last year. It should be done so that battery cages are banned asap.
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TAKE ACTION: Help Protect Rhinos! Deadline Is 30 October.
Animals  (tags: take action, petition, abuse, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, animaladvocates, animalrights, animalcruelty, animals, animalwelfare, death, endangered, environment, ethics, extinction, humans, habitat, killing, law, protection, suffering, wildanimals, wildli )

Ira
- 210 days ago - secure.humanesociety.org
Help Protect Rhinos - Respond to New Government Consultation! Please sign and fwd as soon as possible!
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Support to Make Animal Cruelty a Crime in Pakistan! TAKE ACTION!
Animals  (tags: petition, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, cruelty, death, crime, animals, wildanimals, wildlife, suffering, pets, protection, sadness )

Lindsey
- 221 days ago - change.org
Honorable Madam, In Pakistan, cruelty to Animals is very common, there is an urgent need of amendment in Pakistan Prevention of Animal Cruelty to Animals Act and its strict implementation.
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Utah: PLEASE Ban Animal Gas Chambers!!! Take Action!
Animals  (tags: utah, gas chambers, petition, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, cats, dogs, cruelty, death, sadness, protection, suffering, pets )

Lindsey
- 221 days ago - change.org
Euthanizing companion animals by gas chamber is senseless and cruel. These animals suffer horrendous terror losing bowel and bladder control, and often drown in their own vomit. Contrary to popular belief, is not humane. Further these tanks can leak
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U.S.: Tell the U.S. Government to Declare All Chimpanzees "Endangered"
Animals  (tags: chimpanzees, us, fish and wildlife service, petition, captivity, threatened, endangered, environment, abuse, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, animals, cruelty, conservation, ethics, habitat, GoodNews, law, protection, pets, society, suffering, wildlife )

Chaplain
- 225 days ago - secure2.convio.net
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is considering a petition to change the status of chimpanzees born in captivity in the United States from "threatened" to "endangered." The petition, filed by animal and environmental advocacy groups, the American
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Remove Sugar Gliders From Exotic Pets List! Sign!
Animals  (tags: sugar gliders, petition, exotic pets, AnimalWelfare, wildlife, wildanimals, pets, endangered, ethics )

Lindsey
- 232 days ago - change.org
Sugar Gliders are sold at many trade shows and malls in Fairfax. The people selling these creatures do not give accurate care instructions to the purchasers and they do not advise the buyers that these animals are illegal in their jurisdictions.
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End Slaughtering Horses For Meat! Take Action!
Animals  (tags: petition, horse, slaughter, society, suffering, wildanimals, sadness, killing, investigation, AnimalWelfare, animalrights )

Lindsey
- 232 days ago - gopetition.com
Horses slaughtered for their meat come from many sources, and horses of all types"wild horses, pet horses, racehorses, miniature horses"have been used for this purpose. The number of wild horses rounded up and killed has depended on the legal protection.
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Justice for Mother Orangutan Killed in Borneo! Sign!
Animals  (tags: petition, orangutan, abuse, abused, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, animals, conservation, crime, cruelty, death, endangered, environment, habitat, killing, law, protection, sadness, suffering, wildanimals )

Lindsey
- 233 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
TREMBLING with fear and tethered to the floor of a squalid cage, tiny orangutan Peni clings to her mum's tortured body. Our shock picture captures the last tragic minutes of the adult ape's life - after a frenzied mob beat her, pelted her with rocks.
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