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Dog Mistakenly Euthanized At Animal Shelter
Animals  (tags: animalrights, animalwelfare, dogs, death, humans, sadness )

Ronda
- 2 hours ago - wreg.com
Rita Leone picked out a 10-month old Golden Retriever mix at the shelter December 26. "He was very sweet, very friendly easy-going, calm dog," said Leone.
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House of Blues Rocks New Cage-Free Egg Policy
Animals  (tags: house of blues, cage free eggs, no battery hens, animal welfare )

Simone
- 3 hours ago - humanesociety.org
Concert venue chain House of Blues has hatched the entertainment industry's first-ever exclusively cage-free egg policy for the food it serves customers. This initiative will be effective January 1st.
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Dogs Rescued From Illegal Taiwanese Meat Factory Brought to B.C.
Animals  (tags: taiwanese animal meat factory, dogs slaughtered, dogs rescued, animal advocates, brought home to BC )

Simone
- 3 hours ago - dose.ca
In her four years of life, Vixen has seen a lifetime of horror. The chubby Siberian husky, now in foster care in Duncan, B.C., was being fattened up as a Taiwanese dinner delicacy when she was rescued from an illegal meat factory by an extreme group
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Wild Horse Advocates Call Upon President Obama to Stop Calico Round-Up
Animals  (tags: wild horse advocates worldwide, protests, wild horse roundup, president obama )

Simone
- 3 hours ago - examiner.com
Wild horse advocates have launched a national campaign across the internet asking Americans to take a moment and write a short letter to President Obama asking him to ground the two helicopters rounding up herds of wild horses. The public is also asked
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Victory! Texas Tech Drops Cruel Cat Lab
Animals  (tags: victory, texas tech university, stop cat testing cat experiments, offical )

Simone
- 3 hours ago - blog.peta.org
A few weeks ago, we were thrilled to report that Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) agreed to stop using homeless cats obtained from Odessa Animal Control in deadly medical training exercises, but we weren't sure whether or not Texas
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Clip Syndicate Video: Firefighter Risks Life In Daring Animal Rescue
Animals  (tags: horses, rescued, burning barn, fireman, hero )

Lone
- 3 hours ago - clipsyndicate.com
-- Thirteen horses were trapped inside a boarding stable after fire broke out at the Greenmoor Commons Equestrian Center in Cecil Township at about 9 p.m., Monday
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Tigress on Fast at New Home Dies
Animals  (tags: sadness, zoo, tigress, died, 10 day fast, investigation )

Simone
- 4 hours ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
The 17-year-old tigress Radha at city's new Pradyumn park zoo died after a 10-day fast on Wednesday. She had stopped eating since she had been moved to her new home from Aji zoo and was being injected glucose intravenously.
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Rare Rhinos Relocated From Czech Republic to Kenya
Animals  (tags: animals, endangered, animalwelfare, wildanimals, protection, humans, wildlife )

Cal
- 5 hours ago - enn.com
This month, conservationists in the Czech Republic and Kenya launched an audacious bid to save one of the world's rarest animals. Four of the last eight known northern whites in the worldwere packed into wooden crates and sent from a Czech zoo to Kenya, w
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Story in Photos: DNA Identifies Wolf Serial Killer Suspect
Animals  (tags: dna, wolf, murdered, killed, vicious crime, italy, wolf serial killer, identification )

Simone
- 5 hours ago - news.discovery.com
Today at Discovery News you can learn how forensic DNA was used to identify a wolf serial killer suspect. It is the first time that DNA has helped to reveal a possible wolf killer. The suspect, a man living in the Liguria region of Italy, is still on
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Zoo Staff Defended in Death of Jaguar
Animals  (tags: controversy, brevard zoo, jaguar death, operating table, sadness, tragedy, investigation )

Simone
- 5 hours ago - floridatoday.com
The Brevard Zoo won't know more for weeks about why its 7-year-old male jaguar stopped breathing during a routine physical and eventually died, but its director of animal programs says the staff response to the crisis was "textbook."
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ACTION ALERT: Save The Elephants of the Kerala Rainforest!!!
Animals  (tags: kerala rainforest, elephants, wild elephants, slaughtered, asian elephants, protection )

Simone
- 5 hours ago - thepetitionsite.com
A 2.5 kilometer wide corridor that connects the two Indian states of Kerala and Karnataka (located in the Western Ghats mountain range) is also the last unbroken forest leading the largest population of Asian elephants from wet season to dry season
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Calling Volunteers in Cordoba/Seville
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, pets, protection, dogs, environment )

Cher
- 5 hours ago - galgonews.com
This is a plea for help, from a guy who lives with his parents and has a young galga hidden at home. He lives in a village, he has no car, there is no vet, but it looks like she has a broken paw. At this rate he will have to put her back on the street.
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Elk Hunt Ends After Herd Was Cornered, 7 Killed
Animals  (tags: bow hunters, elk, fenced in, slaughtered, controversy, cruelty, officals )

Simone
- 5 hours ago - seattletimes.nwsource.com
The killing of about seven elk cornered in a farm pasture in eastern Skagit County has spurred state officials to close the elk archery season in the area and angered others who either witnessed or heard about the killings.
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Asia's Wildlife Trade
Animals  (tags: asia wildife trade, wildlife crime, smuggling, trafficking, endangered animals dying, business, greed, humans, destruction )

Simone
- 5 hours ago - ngm.nationalgeographic.com
On September 14, 1998, a thin, bespectacled Malaysian named Wong Keng Liang walked off Japan Airlines Flight 12 at Mexico City International Airport. He was dressed in faded blue jeans, a light-blue jacket, and a T-shirt emblazoned
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2010 Animal Trends: Reducing Your Carbon Paw Print
Animals  (tags: animals, environment, protection, pets, carbon paw print )

Cher
- 5 hours ago - animalwelfare.change.org
"Reducing Your Carbon Paw Print" was identified as a top trend in 2009 by the American Pet Products Association, and I predict it's up for an encore year in 2010. This is a prediction that's almost too easy to make -- both environmental awareness and
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