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New Law Increases Penalties for Watching Animal Fights
Animals  (tags: government, law, police, society, safety, death, corruption, dishonesty, activists, violence, sadness, pets, protection, suffering, dogs, endangered, animalwelfare, animalcruelty, AnimalWelfare, AnimalCruelty, abuse, abused, cruelty, death, crime )

Kim
- 1586 days ago - metrowestdailynews.com
The law toughens penalties for spectators at animal fighting events - the source of profit for animal fighting trainers and fight organizers. It was spearheaded by state Rep. Louis Kafka, D-Sharon, and co-sponsored by state
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Pet Adoption Gives Abused Dog Chance Another Chance
Animals  (tags: sadness, humans, culture, dogs, pets, love, crime, pet adoption, sa ved, police, violence, safety, death, corruption, AnimalCruelty, animaladvocates, animalwelfare, animals, dogs, protection, pets, abuse, rescued )

Kim
- 1586 days ago - mlive.com
SAUGATUCK -- He was beaten with a stick, hung by his neck over a tree branch and poisoned with anti-freeze, police said. The abuse should have been enough
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Chesapeake Man Sentenced for Killing Dog With Sword
Animals  (tags: jail time, society, news, ethics, crime, abuse, safety, violence, sadness, animalcruelty, animalwelfare, endangered, dogs, death, animals, suffering, killed, abused )

Kim
- 1588 days ago - hamptonroads.com
Deep Creek man was sentenced Tuesday to 12 months in jail for killing his pit bull with a sword last summer. Circuit Court Judge Bruce Kushner sentenced
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Humane Society Dedicates Walk to Emerson
Animals  (tags: crime, dogs, humane society, ethics, humans, safety, police, sadness, women, violence, dogs, animalcruelty, animalwelfare, animaladvocates, animals, rescued, protection, pets )

Kim
- 1595 days ago - timescall.com
Meredith Emerson adopted her dog, Ella, from a rescue organization. Emerson, a Longmont native, disappeared Jan. 1, 2008, during a hike in Georgia. Emerson was killed Jan. 4, 2008.
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Cats in the Cradle of Compassion
Animals  (tags: family, ethics, society, violence, safety, death, sadness, news, interesting, GoodNews, endangered, AnimalWelfare, animalcruelty, animalwelfare, animals, dogs, pets, wildanimals, protection, animaladvocates, cats, suffering, rescued )

Kim
- 1624 days ago - philstar.com
Carolle has always had her heart on abandoned cats. As a young woman of 19 working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris, she would find in the 19th arrondissement where she lived cats wandering around, hungry and thirsty. She would leave food and
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Woman Who Left Dog to Die Gets Jail
Animals  (tags: death, government, ethics, crime, corruption, women, sadness, violence, dishonesty, abuse, protection, sadness, endangered, dogs, death, animalcruelty, animalwelfare, abused, pets, killed, killing, law )

Kim
- 1624 days ago - floridatoday.com
For nine months, Theresa Clifton has rallied with roughly 50 other protesters who attended each hearing for a woman accused of moving out of her home and leaving behind her dog to starve to death, calling for nothing but the maximum yearlong jail sentenc
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Pet Cat Basil, Sawn to Bits and Dumped in Mackay, Queensland
Animals  (tags: society, violence, crime, cat violence, cruelty, sadness, Australia )

Chrissy
- 1650 days ago - news.com.au
WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO? A BELOVED cat was sawn to pieces and dumped at a primary school oval in Queensland on Thursday. Four-year-old Basil was discovered decapitated and sliced up by horrified students.
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End Whale Bloodbath In Danish Faeroe Islands
Animals  (tags: destruction, politics, Sustainabililty, conservation, violence, habitat, slaughter, wildanimals, extinction, animalcruelty )

Katia
- 1656 days ago - newhopeartistsunite.blogspot.com
Every year between 2,000 and 3,500 pilot whales are corralled by men in boats and forced into bays in the Faeroe Islands, a North Sea Danish Protectorate mid-way between the Shetland Islands and Iceland. Make your voice heard and put this to an end..
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Stop Nepal Sending Monkeys To Labs
Animals  (tags: abuse, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, animalrights, cruelty, death, ethics, extinction, rescued, sadness, slaughter, scientists, research )

Asli
- 1670 days ago - britches.org.uk
Nepal is the latest country to be exploited by American research institutes desperate to get their hands on primates for vivisection. Please sign the petition: www.petitiononline.com/anpo/petition.html
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New Prison Program in Burgaw Allows Inmates to Train Dogs
Animals  (tags: humans, dogs, animalwelfare, AnimalWelfare, protection, pets, GoodNews, rescued, animaladvocates, interesting, government, society, rights, ethics, violence, dogs )

Kim
- 1691 days ago - wect.com
Burgaw, NC (WECT)-- A new prison program in Burgaw is aimed at helping inmates and animals. Pawsitive Partners enables inmates to train dogs. The inmates had to go through an interview process to earn the job
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Australian Tortures Kangaroo
Animals  (tags: violence, ethics, crime, abuse, wildlife, animals )

Julia
- 1709 days ago - reuters.com
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian animal welfare authorities launched a nationwide hunt on Thursday for a man filmed punching and kicking a kangaroo unconscious.
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South Florida Police Dogs Who Died on the Job
Animals  (tags: abuse, crime, humans, police, sadness, violence, animals, animalwelfare, dogs, death, killing )

Susan
- 1762 days ago - sun-sentinel.com
March 11, 2008: Miami Police Officer Rondal Lardy Brown, 49, of Miami, is charged with starving his police dog to death in a November 2007 case in which investigators found the deceased animal's body to be half its normal weight.Nov. 1, 2006: Astro, K-9
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Kartick Satyanarayan - Champion of India's Dancing Bears
Animals  (tags: animals, bears, sloth bears, animalcruelty, animalwelfare, endangered, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife, culture, ethics, interesting, humans, society, violence, rights, conservation, environment, nature, protection, wildlife )

Frankie
- 1779 days ago - squidoo.com
The amazing story of Kartick Satyanarayan, the "Bear Man" and how he is saving the Sloth Bear from the barbaric, centuries-old tradition of being enslaved and trained as Dancing Bears AND enriching lives and changing the culture. Great photos & videos.
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Elephant Set on Fire By Mob, Horrible Cruelty
Animals  (tags: elephant, cruelty, torture, fire, asia, habitat encroachment, abuse, ethics, environment, society, violence, abused, AnimalCruelty, animalcruelty, cruelty, ethics, habitat, investigation, suffering, wildanimals, wildlife )

Echo
- 1790 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Its entire body in flames, the elephant ran wildly in all directions looking for water. But the mob beat drums and threw firecrackers to block its escape routes. Blinded with pain and disoriented, it would crash to its knees, struggle to its feet and run
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Stop Govt Funding Bullfighting Torture Schools in FRANCE
Animals  (tags: france, spain, portugal, culture, crime, death, corruption, abuse, ethics, society, politics, law, violence, abuse, abused, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, animaladvocates, animalcruelty, animalrights, animals, animalwelfare, crime, cruelty, death, ethi )

Echo
- 1807 days ago - iwab.org
Please I beg you to write the contacts listed on this page, do not turn away, some of it is not pretty, but it is REALITY, Please, go to this page, inform yourself and there are many contacts to write to, please forward and corsspost this information !
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