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Disabled Puppy Rescued From Trash Inspires Many
Offbeat  (tags: disabled pit bull puppy, harper, courageous little fellow, rescued, inspiration, survivor )

Simone
- 233 days ago - globalanimal.org
Harper the puppy was rescued after being found discarded in a trash bag. The gray pit bull puppy has a handicap that even the shelter volunteers thought she wouldn't overcome, but to everyone's delight, Harper is a happy young dog.
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A-Bomb Survivor in Fukushima Likens Nuclear Plants to Nuclear Bombs
Offbeat  (tags: war, death, Japan, nuclear weapons, hibakusha, atomic bombs, nuclear power plants, look back, reflects, survivor, Fukushima, nuclear crisis, radiation, twice )

Naoko
- 293 days ago - mdn.mainichi.jp
"Who would think we would be threatened by radiation twice in our lives? I had never thought nuclear power on Aug.6 until now. This year is different, though. We have to think not only about why atomc bomb was dropped, but why we built nuclear power >>
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Galloway Park's Oldest Captive-Born Lynx Turns 21
Offbeat  (tags: scotland, oldest living captivity lynx, survivor, birthday, 21 years old, frank celebration )

Simone
- 333 days ago - bbc.co.uk
A cat thought to be the oldest captivity-born Eurasian lynx living in the UK has celebrated its 21st birthday in southern Scotland. The lynx, named Frank, came to the Galloway Wildlife Conservation Park near Kirkcudbright eight years ago.
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A Will to Live, Aurora's Story
Offbeat  (tags: aurora, hoarder, rescued, survivor, courageous, sanctuary )

Simone
- 367 days ago - all-creatures.org
Don't let Aurora's small stature fool you - her spirit is strong. She is one of 140 hens, roosters and chicks rescued from a hoarder. The story was featured on Animal Planet's Confessions: Animal Hoarding. Lost in the human-centered show were the chicken
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Abused Dog Inspires World With His Survival
Offbeat  (tags: abused dog, patrick, courageous, survivor, recovering, worldwide )

Simone
- 411 days ago - globalanimal.org
Patrick, a pit bull found in a trash can in Newark around Saint Patrick's Day, inspired hundreds of people with his miraculous recovery. The dog was 30 pounds underweight after months, if not a lifetime, of neglect and abuse. Thankfully, he is on the road
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Sweat Lodge Witness: 'I Asked the Angels to Help Me' - CNN.Com
Offbeat  (tags: survivor, humans, news, bizarre, health )

Mary Patr
- 449 days ago - cnn.com
Several participants in a 2009 "sweat lodge" ritual that left three people dead were collapsing and "having issues" in the superheated environment, a survivor testified Thursday in an Arizona self-help guru's manslaughter trial.
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Fasano: Domestic Violence Law Should Include Pet Abuse
Offbeat  (tags: legalisation, include animals into domestic violence l, protection, elderly dog, survivor )

Simone
- 532 days ago - www2.tbo.com
Little Horatio still wears the evidence of the abuse he suffered at the hands of his former owner's son five years ago. Now going on 8 years old, the Catahoula leopard dog took so many beatings to the head prior
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Pit Bull Who Was Set on Fire and Beaten Attends His Abuser's Parole Hearing
Offbeat  (tags: animal abusers, no parole, abused dog, courageous, survivor, star witness )

Simone
- 640 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
A scarred but friendly pit bull named Louis Vuitton was the star witness Tuesday as an Alabama state board denied parole for the man convicted of spraying him with lighter fluid, setting him on fire and beating him with a shovel.
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Better Red Than Dead! Baby Nutkin Grows Up...and Goes Wild
Offbeat  (tags: red squirrel, mischevious, survivor, tough, rescued )

Simone
- 650 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, the squirrel dubbed 'Baby Nutkin' shows how he has made a remarkable recovery since he was abandoned to the mercy of predators just a few months ago. The tiny red squirrel kitten, nicknamed after Beatrix Potter's much-loved
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Antiwar Director, 98, Still Carries Message
Offbeat  (tags: war, antiwar, film director, Japan, opposition, 98-year-old, Kaneto Shindo, Hiroshima, atomic bomb, destruction, beautiful city, Genbaku no Ko, survivor )

Naoko
- 659 days ago - search.japantimes.co.jp
Kaneto Shindo is driven by his strong opposition to war and nuclear weapons, and the award-winning director and scriptwriter is still shooting films despite now having to use a wheelchair.
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Michael's Fight For Life
Offbeat  (tags: michael, rescued goat, icon, peaceful prairie sanctuary, kidneys, illness, fighting for life, survivor )

Simone
- 745 days ago - all-creatures.org
Michael has been a Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary Icon for years now. He has graced the home page of PeacefulPrairie.org since it's its inception. Visitors to the sanctuary have been greeted by him and welcomed into his herd once he checks them out and gives
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Gray Whale, Extinct for Centuries, Sighted in Mediterranean
Offbeat  (tags: gray whale, exciting sighting, extinction, mediterranean, survivor )

Simone
- 746 days ago - treehugger.com
It's really not too often that there's some good news on the endangered species front, but this is one of those times. At the least it's really intriguing. The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society reports that there's been a sighting of a gray whale
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Aging A-Bomb Survivor Determined to Continue Telling Story to Children Worldwide
Offbeat  (tags: hibakusha, a-bomb, survivor, radiation, storyteller, Nagasaki, children, determination, aging, pain )

Naoko
- 764 days ago - mdn.mainichi.jp
"I'm in pain. But the truth about the A-bomb and the survivors must be told to the children of the next generation." So says 89-year-old Kazuko Yamashina, a survivor of the nuclear attack on Nagasaki and n A-bomb "storyteller."
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Paintings on Tokyo Air Raid Passed Down for Posterity
Offbeat  (tags: paintings, Great Tokyo Air Raids, 65th anniversary, death, survivor, killed, horror, U.S., B-29, bombing )

Naoko
- 774 days ago - asahi.com
When U.S.B-29 Bombers destroyed wide areas of Tokyo with its incendiary bombing berore dawn on March 10, 1945, young Nobuaki Muraoka and his family escaped through a sea of flames and hid in bushes at a park until morning. When they emerged, the survivors
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Film on Double Hibakusha in Works
Offbeat  (tags: hibakusha, Atomic bombing, nagasaki, hiroshima, double, film, New York Peace Film Festival, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, James Cameron, United Nations, death, survivor, cancer )

Naoko
- 784 days ago - search.japantimes.co.jp
NEW YORK - A 20-minute trailer for a film about Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who survived the atomic bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki and died in January, was shown during the recent New York Peace Film Festival. "I think he must be so happy, just as he was
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