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Offbeat News tagged with AnimalWelfare

Your Morning Adorable: San Diego Zoo's Giant Panda Cub Is Growing Up (and Will Soon Have a Name)
Offbeat  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, pandas, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 18 hours ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
The San Diego Zoo reports that its male giant panda cub, born in early August, is "definitely hitting all the panda milestones," making gains in weight (more than a pound in just the last week, for a current total of 11.7 pounds) and length (24.8 inches
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Winter Preparation
Offbeat  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, pets, protection, winter, environment )

Cher
- 20 hours ago - pasadosafehaven.org
Hot summer days and warm autumn afternoons have waned to frosty mornings and chilly nights. With the approach of winter weather, remember that your animals will need preparation for the cold months ahead. Even with coats of feathers, fur, or hair, they
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How Do We Get Rid of a Persistent Magpie?
Offbeat  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, birds, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 2 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
We have attracted the interest of a rather unwelcome visitor, a persistent magpie who has decided that he - or she - rather likes our balcony.
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Sabertoothed Males Were Pussycats
Offbeat  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, sabertoothed cats, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 2 days ago - dukenews.duke.edu
Despite their fearsome fangs, male sabertoothed cats may have been less aggressive than many of their feline cousins, says a new study of male-female size differences in extinct big cats.
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Mane Attraction: Getting (a Little Too) Up Close and Personal With the Kings of the Jungle
Offbeat  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, big cats, zoos )

Cher
- 2 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
As an enormous lion lumbers onto the bonnet of the jeep and begins tearing up a piece of raw meat, you would expect to see fear etched on the faces of these tourists. But rather than showing any signs of terror, the group are smiling broadly - safe from
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Marginalization in the Mainstream, Commiseration in the Community
Offbeat  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, animaladvocates, environment, protection, wildlife, pets )

Cher
- 3 days ago - animalrights.change.org
There are occasional days when, as an animal rights advocate, all you feel capable of doing is burying your face in the pillow and screaming out your frustrations. And such days are why it's important for vegan animal rights advocates to seek out and
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Remember, Remember Your Animals This November
Offbeat  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, pets )

Cher
- 5 days ago - rspca.org.uk
The number of complaints to the RSPCA about firework related incidents fell to its lowest level in four years in 2008, with hopes for even fewer this year.
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Reduce Your Pet's Exposure to Toxins During October's National Pet Wellness Month
Offbeat  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, protection, toxins, pets, environment )

Cher
- 9 days ago - examiner.com
October is National Pet Wellness month. As a veterinarian and animal health care advocate, my recommendation to pet owners is to view their pet's wellness as an ongoing daily priority. I dedicate my veterinary practice, California Pet Acupuncture &
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Earth Picture Galleries
Offbeat  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, photos, environment, habitat, wildlife, protection )

Cher
- 9 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Animal pictures of the week: 30 October 2009
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Cat Survives Fall of Six Storeys
Offbeat  (tags: animals, cats, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, pets, protection )

Cher
- 9 days ago - nzherald.co.nz
A pet cat escaped with only three broken teeth and a fractured jaw after falling six storeys from an apartment balcony on Auckland's viaduct.
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PETA Protests Oregon Wildlife Park's Car-Washing Elephants
Offbeat  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, elephants, car wash, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 9 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
The car-washing elephants at an Oregon wildlife park don't really get your car very clean -- but that's not the reason PETA wants the park to stop using them.
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Adopt a Black Cat This Halloween
Offbeat  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, black cats, adoptions, environment, protection, pets )

Cher
- 9 days ago - rspca.org.uk
The RSPCA is calling on cat lovers to get into the spirit of the season this Halloween and take home a black cat.
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Kids Mistake Leopard Cub for New Pet Kitten -- Paw Nation
Offbeat  (tags: unusual, animals, kitten, children, animalwelfare )

Barbcat
- 11 days ago - pawnation.com
Children in the Indian village of Bhatavar brought home a new kitten one night last week and played with the fuzzy feline throughout the following day. That is until they heard the kitty growl. "It was only when we heard it growling that we realized.."
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Help Spread Awareness of The Big Black Dog Syndrome Take Action!!!
Offbeat  (tags: big, black, dogs, discrimination, animalrights, animalwelfare, petition )

Barbcat
- 13 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Big black dogs in shelters countrywide, face life behind bars or in cages or no life at all. Their euthanasia rates are alarmingly high. There are many misconceptions with size; just being big and black! Please sign the petition today!!
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