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Vets Install Pacemaker in Search-and-Rescue Dog
Animals  (tags: animals, dogs, goodnews, protection, rescued, society )

Elaine
- 578 days ago - www6.comcast.net
Molly was scheduled to return home Friday and be confined to her crate for two weeks. She will have limited activity for the next two months, but should be able to return to full-time rescue work after that, Allen Brown said.
Report Says Nation's Wildlife Refuges Underfunded
Animals  (tags: AnimalWelfare, conservation, endangered, environment, habitat, law, protection, wildlife )

Elaine
- 578 days ago - www6.comcast.net
The cooperative is recommending Congress increase funding for fiscal year 2009 to $514 million and that full funding be reached by 2013. The House and Senate are expected to take up the issue in coming weeks.
GM Monkeys Are Bred To Die of Brain Disease
Animals  (tags: AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, cruelty, death, suffering )

Elaine
- 584 days ago - commondreams.org
Huntington's is a hereditary condition caused by a single rogue gene which causes nerve cells in the brain to waste away. Within ten to 15 years of the first symptoms, most patients die from pneumonia, heart failure or choking.
Survey Shows US Honey Bee Deaths Increased Over Last Year
Animals  (tags: death, endangered, extinction, habitat, protection )

Elaine
- 597 days ago - www6.comcast.net
"For two years in a row, we've sustained a substantial loss," he said. "That's an astonishing number. Imagine if one out of every three cows, or one out of every three chickens, were dying. That would raise a lot of alarm."
Cayman Islands Investigating Slaughter of Blue Iguanas
Animals  (tags: abused, AnimalCruelty, crime, death, endangered, extinction, investigation, killing )

Elaine
- 597 days ago - www6.comcast.net
Feral cats kill young blue iguanas, and adult iguanas are sometimes killed by dogs. But humans were almost certainly behind the weekend massacre, which wiped out more than half of the adult breeding iguanas at the facility, Burton said.
Idaho Team Readies Artificial Beak for Wounded Bald Eagle
Animals  (tags: AnimalWelfare, animals, conservation, endangered, protection, wildlife )

Elaine
- 599 days ago - comcast.net
he 15-pound eagle was found in 2005 scrounging for food and slowly starving to death at a landfill in Alaska. Most of her curved upper beak had been shot away, leaving her tongue and sinuses exposed. She could not clutch or tear at food.
Sea Lions Shot Dead on Columbia River as Salmon Battle Rages
Animals  (tags: abused, AnimalCruelty, animalwelfare, crime, death, environment, habitat, killed, wildlife )

Elaine
- 599 days ago - comcast.net
State and federal authorities were investigating the shootings, and the area was being treated as a crime scene by state and federal agencies, said Brian Gorman, a spokesman for the National Marine Fisheries Service.
Watching Wolves, Moose _ and Heat _ on Michigan Island
Animals  (tags: animals, environment, habitat, wildanimals )

Elaine
- 613 days ago - comcast.net
the eight gray wolves seemed as harmless as your beloved pooch cavorting with its pals in the yard. Trotting along Siskiwit Bay, they playfully nipped and pawed each other, pausing occasionally to roll in the snow
'Tick Riders' Guard US From Deadly Pest, One Cow at a Time
Animals  (tags: animals, environment, protection, law )

Elaine
- 615 days ago - comcast.net
But Garza's not looking for drug smugglers, human traffickers or illegal immigrants. He's looking for stray livestock that might be carrying a tick, a tiny pest with a deadly disease, into the United States.
Five Orphaned Bears Get a New Life in Russia; Satellite Tracking Will Monitor Survival.
Animals  (tags: AnimalWelfare, animalwelfare, animals, environment, habitat, protection, rescued, wildanimals, wildanimals, wildlife )

Elaine
- 619 days ago - enn.com
One of these bears will be monitored using a satellite collar, a step forward in evaluating post-release behavior and survival of the bear cubs orphaned by the cruel winter den hunt in Russia.
 
 
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