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Bloggers Unite For Human Rights challenges bloggers everywhere to help elevate human rights by drawing attention to the challenges and successes of human rights issues on May 15.

News sources state that three of the dogs were in the fetal position and had apparently frozen to death while 10 were chained--some for so long that their collars rubbed the hair off their necks--

Thoroughbred racehorses are over-bred, over-trained, over-used, and treated like money making machines. If they don't produce, they are cast aside like disposable commodities. Until they are treated like the intelligent, magnificent creatures that they

A leading exile discusses why many see the cyclone as divine intervention. Where is the military? The military isn't moving quickly, despite the fact that there are 400,000 soldiers. Sadly, the death toll will continue to rise, due to disease and lack o

When a Welsh resistance leader was captured and brought before the emperor in Rome, he said: "Because you desire to conquer the world, it does not necessarily follow that the world desires to be conquered by you." Today one could offer an echo

For stopping traffic on Highway 512 during the busy morning commute so that a mother mallard and her ducklings could cross the busy road, Lakewood Police Officer Dustin Carrell will receive PETA's Compassionate Officer Award.

Puppy mill dogs are settling in to temporary digs, getting medical care in Los Angeles. What a difference a week makes. At this time last week, forty little dogs were sitting in their cages in Lancaster County, CA with a bleak future at best. Their

Few of us who have the luxury of reading the daily paper over a cup of coffee and a piece of toast slathered with rich butter and marmalade have ever gone hungry intentionally, unless we succumbed to some ridiculous crash diet.

According to her trainer, Falon the Canadian peregrine falcon is a little confused. “She was raised as a human imprint, which basically means she thinks she is human,” said Emma Stainton, an outreach program educator with the Canadian Peregrine

a compound present naturally in grape skin, can protect against the cellular damage to blood vessels caused by high production of glucose in diabetes, according to a recently published paper in the science journal Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism.

Feral cats. Locally, the latest outcry against these misunderstood and often persecuted felines is from a neighborhood in the Pleasant Valley section of Methuen (The Eagle-Tribune, April 25). However, you will find feral cats in virtually every urban,

For one of the horses living at Best Friends’ Horse Haven, last Sunday marked a new beginning, free of the pain that has been plaguing her for quite some time. Riley was loaded into a trailer and transported to Sheridan, Wyoming, where she will have her

The government is set to miss over half of the green targets it has set since 1997, a new report has claimed today. The report added that two-thirds of key climate change targets appear unlikely to be met, while 88 per cent of biodiversity targets

I'll admit it: the biggest things that come to my yard in Beaverton are the daily parade of squirrels. Still, deer are clearly a problem in lots of places. Not only do deer damage plants and flowers, they can also create havoc with your dogs.

Foreclosure package approved yesterday, despite presidential veto threat.

Once on the fabled Silk Route and now the gateway to central Asian countries with which China has struck gas pipeline deals, Xinjiang has received heavy investment but the region’s indigenous Uygurs feel the Chinese are wiping out their culture.

Now that the sun is shining in Michigan, two former Iraqi dogs – who Best Friends helped bring to the U.S. – are finally enjoying the outdoors. Mama, a black Labrador mix, and Boris, a white-and-brown spotted puppy, were brought to a Detroit suburb in

It is painful to watch defenders of Barack Obama tying themselves into knots trying to evade the obvious.

Once a perceived cat crusade in the making, humane solutions abound Randolph was the eye of the storm a few months ago when the media glommed onto a “bounty” being offered for unwanted cats. Best Friends contacted the Mayor, and made the inroads to tu

All charges against six men, laid in 2006 after an undercover Ministry of Natural Resources investigation into coyote hunting, have been stayed.

Hayley Alderman, a 14-year-old Michigan girl, seemed to have a strategic purpose for appearing at a John McCain town hall meeting; however, it had nothing to do with supporting his stance in the election. Face to face the teen challenged him.

Twenty-two years ago, it was a striking chestnut colt named Ferdinand who claimed that victory. Ferdinand was born and raised on the lush green rolling hills of Kentucky’s famed Claiborne Farm, home to generations of blue-blood racing champions.

Soaring temperatures this week suggest that summer is on the way - which means dogs could potentially die or suffer from heat stroke if left in their owners’ cars, says the RSPCA. Each year the charity receives around 6,000 calls

Spells to Be Cast at Anti-Marine Rally in California

Obama Now Takes The Lead in Superdelegates Too

In Toronto, it is getting as hard to get an appointment with a bicycle mechanic as it is to get one with a doctor. Susan Krashinsky writes in the Globe and Mail:

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has authorized the removal of two wolves from private land near the Middle Fork of the Dearborn River, west of Bowmans Corner. The two are in addition to three removed from the same pack last year. Wednesday night,

The northern hairy-nosed wombat is more rare than China's giant panda, Indonesia's Sumatran tiger and Central Africa's mountain gorilla. At last count, in 2005, there were just 115 alive