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Offbeat News tagged with animal welfare

Portraits of Consumption: The Art of Chris Jordan
Offbeat  (tags: art work, animal welfare, different, unwanted animals, chris jordan )

Simone
- 11 hours ago - animalwelfare.change.org
If you've never seen the work of artist Chris Jordan, prepare to be shocked. Take Charlie Brown and Snoopy, for instance. The picture is created completely out of dog and cat collars -- 10,000 of them -- to portray the average number of unwanted cats
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A Little Nudism in the Name of Animal Welfare...
Offbeat  (tags: maryland homeless animals, nude calendar, animal welfare, donations )

Simone
- 9 days ago - weblogs.baltimoresun.com
Members of the SOB Motorcycle Club have stripped off their leather -- and everything else -- to help Pet Rescue of Maryland. Ken Shapiro, who winkingly calls himself king of the club, sent me a preview of their 2010 Semites On Bikes calendar, which
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3rd Fiesta De Galgos - 6th December - Malaga - A Great Day Out
Offbeat  (tags: animals, fiesta de galgos, dogs, protection, animal welfare, environment )

Cher
- 20 days ago - galgonews.com
Announcing the 3rd FIESTA de GALGOS 6th December 2009 10am - 5.30pm Venue - El refugio de Burrito Fuente de Piedra Antequera, Malaga
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Couldn't Attend Let Live 2009? Catch Up Online
Offbeat  (tags: let live conference, online, foundation, animal welfare, interesting )

Simone
- 28 days ago - animalrights.change.org
Here's something I've been meaning to tell you about: The 2009 conference put on by the Let Live Foundation in Portland, Oregon, can now be experienced online. Head on over to Vimeo, where you'll find a library of 30-plus videos from not only the various
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In the Blogs: Fur Farms, Reforms, Strategies, Shelters, and More
Offbeat  (tags: blogs, animal welfare, fur farms, strategies, shelters )

Simone
- 33 days ago - animalrights.change.org
Prepare yourselves: now that I've found the above perfect image, I may have to use it regularly. Anyway... on to the roundup! It's a long one.
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Lowe's Can No Longer Claim Traps Are Humane
Offbeat  (tags: animals, traps, Lowes, suffering, death, animal welfare )

Cher
- 37 days ago - blog.peta.org
Last year, PETA filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against Motomco, the glue trap manufacturer that supplies Lowe's with its sticky death traps. Our complaint stated that Motomco was selling misleadingly labeled glue traps designed
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World Animal Week Reaches the UN
Offbeat  (tags: animals, animal welfare, UN, World Animal Week, environment, protection, pets )

Cher
- 40 days ago - wspa.ca
WSPA, alongside key governments supporting the development of a Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare (UDAW), hosted a series of meetings at the United Nations during World Animal Week. Together we highlighted the vital link between animal welfare and
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Mayor to Animal Rights Group: Leave Us Alone
Offbeat  (tags: animal rights groups, mayor, horse fighting, animal welfare )

Simone
- 46 days ago - newsinfo.inquirer.net
Philippines -- Leave us alone! This in essence was the message Mayor Christobal Cadungon of Antipas, North Cotabato, sent to animal rights advocates who had slammed the penchant of his constituents for horse fighting.
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A Day of Beauty
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, protection, animal welfare )

Cher
- 52 days ago - pasadosafehaven.org
The Stella Center recently hosted an event of beauty, benevolence, and bliss - and donated every dime to help save lives! We can't think of a better way to celebrate inner and outer beauty or to be thankful for the generosity of
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Stop Gassing Animals in South Carolina !!!
Offbeat  (tags: sadness, dogs, cats, gassed, crying, clawing, trying to escape, crime, animals, Animal Cruelty, Animal Welfare, petition worldwide to save these sweet i )

Barbaroca
- 67 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
To read the discription of how they gas these sweet innocents will rip your heart to bits. I could hardly get through it for my tears. Please sign this petition, mine was only the 49th signature. Thank you.
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City to Deport Over-Affectionate Seal
Offbeat  (tags: sadness, seal, Animal Welfare, deported, hawaii )

Barbaroca
- 67 days ago - lemondrop.com
The Hawaian island of Molokai has a lovable, living mascot swimming in their waters...too bad it's a SUPER-DEADLY BABY SEAL.
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Surfin' Dogs for a Cause - VIDEO
Offbeat  (tags: animals, dogs, surfing, animal welfare, pets, protection )

Cher
- 72 days ago - fortheloveofthedogblog.com
Thousands of people and hundreds of dogs turned out yesterday in Del Mar for the 4th annual Surf Dog Surf-a-Thon. It's hard to tell who was having the most fun, the pooches or people and on top of all the fun, it was all for a great cause; to benefit
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Bullfighting Barbie Banished!
Offbeat  (tags: spanish bullfighting barbie, banned, banished, doll, animal welfare )

Simone
- 88 days ago - helpinganimalsworldwide.blogspot.com
After a hard-hitting campaign spearheaded by SHARK, Mattel stopped production of the "Spanish Barbie." This doll, dressed as a matador, glorified the despicable murder of bulls, to young children no less! After a public campaign by SHARK that took the
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'Leave Only Footprints...': Curious King Penguin Tempts Viewers to This Year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Offbeat  (tags: animals, photos, wildlife, competition, interesting, animal welfare, environment, protection )

Cher
- 97 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
It is one of the sneak previews from this year's Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, revealed by London's Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine.
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Animal Art Explored in Ottawa Exhibit
Offbeat  (tags: animals, artistic creativity, exhibition, animal welfare )

Cher
- 99 days ago - cbc.ca
A contemporary art gallery in Ottawa is balancing a playful look at the artistic creativity of animals with an ethical discussion about exploitation in a new exhibition.
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