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

Simone
- 3 days 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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Double Standards in Animal World
Offbeat  (tags: animals, companion animals, farm animals, humans, different, standards, attitudes )

Simone
- 40 days ago - all-creatures.org
WHY are humans so totally inconsistent, particularly where animals are concerned? On Sunday at Barwon Park in Winchelsea _ the place where in 1859 the un-smart Thomas Austin decided to release 12 pairs of imported rabbits simply for the pleasure of
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Dog Adoption Music Video With a Twist
Offbeat  (tags: musical video, dog adoptions, different, unusual )

Simone
- 45 days ago - examiner.com
This is the first time one of my pet rescue stories has ever recommended a music video, but a unique band called "You Scream I Scream" recently joined forces with the SPCA in Nantucket, MA. to produce an interesting video about pet adoption with a remark
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New Cat Litter Is First to Use Organic Soybean Meal
Offbeat  (tags: cat litter, organic, soybean meal, different, unusual )

Simone
- 49 days ago - examiner.com
If you've gone green or are in the process of doing so to help save the earth and reduce the number of chemicals that make their way into your household, here's a new organic cat litter you might want to try out.
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Join Me on Everywun!
Offbeat  (tags: animals, different, fun, petitions )

Barbaroca
- 55 days ago - everywun.com
Here's another site that caters to animals and you can even sign petitions!! Check it out!!
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Facebook Stalking No Longer Limited to Humans Only
Offbeat  (tags: facebook, wildlife, gorilla, networking, different )

Simone
- 88 days ago - independent.co.ug
On September 24th, as part of Uganda's contribution to the UN's 'Year of the Gorilla' Uganda's Wildlife Authority will introduce the largest-ever family of habituated gorillas into the wild. The Wildlife Authority now plans to leverage the event using
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Heathcliffe, the Giant Burrowing Cockroach, Is Among
Offbeat  (tags: cockroaches, heaviest, world, pets, different, neat )

Lone
- 89 days ago - dailytelegraph.com.au
MEET Heathcliffe, the giant burrowing cockroach, and contender for the title of world's heaviest insect. And before you go "Euwwww yuk, a cockie", Heathcliffe and his kind are not your average dirty, imported roaches.
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Bad Hair Day? Dogs Can Blame Genes
Offbeat  (tags: genetics, study, bad hair days, dogs, genes, different, unusual )

Simone
- 91 days ago - theaustralian.news.com.au
HOWEVER much their owners may crimp or comb them, in the end a dog's coat - curly, shaggy, wavy or smooth - is controlled by just three genes. What's more, all the tiny variations of those genes -- which mix and match to create the distinctive coats
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The Most Addictive, Must-Email Animal Videos Around
Offbeat  (tags: cute animal videos, different, fascinating, emailed, most watched )

Simone
- 191 days ago - oprah.com
The African Queen Meet Jessica, the housebroken hippo with a special brand of hedonism: snacks, naps, rubdowns, snacks...and did we mention snacks?
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Blackfoot Feline Gives Birth to Two-Faced Kitten- VIDEO
Offbeat  (tags: blackfoot cat, birth, two faced kitten, unusual, different )

Simone
- 247 days ago - localnews8.com
An oddity in nature will teach school children about DNA. A Blackfoot family got quite a surprise last week when they found their cat gave birth to a two-faced kitten. These are pictures the Rawson family took after they discovered the kitten. You
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History .. Minus the Dull Bits
Offbeat  (tags: history, interesting, humans, different, world, humor )

Cathryne
- 795 days ago - mirror.co.uk
Were your history lessons a good chance to catch 40 winks while the teacher droned on about dusty old dead people? They should have been telling you about the 38-minute war, the Nazi search for a subterranean race of superhumans and Delia Smith's role
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