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Sea Lions Killed, But Columbia Salmon Toll Rises
Animals  (tags: Sea lions, killed, AnimalCruelty, salmon )

Lone
- 23 minutes ago - news.yahoo.com
Killing or removing 25 California sea lions over the past two years has not reduced the toll on salmon at the base of Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River.
700 Cats Rescued in Shanghai Nov. 2, 2009
Animals  (tags: animalwelfare, animalrights, rescued, cats )

MARY
- 40 minutes ago - care2.com
The 700 cats that were rescued on Nov 2nd 2009 in Shanghai are yearning for your help in any way!
West Africa's Last Giraffes Make Surprise Comeback
Animals  (tags: west africa, endangered, giraffes, surviving, numbers, populations, conservation )

Simone
- 1 hour ago - google.com
A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil. The tallest animals on earth are here, the guide says, somewhere amid the scant green bush on one
CRITICAL WEEK AS EUROPE DECIDES FUTURE OF LAB ANIMALS
Animals  (tags: monkeys, labratories animals, monkey breeders, savage evil cruelty, experiments, vivisection )

Simone
- 2 hours ago - ad-international.org
Trialogue meeting to consider steps to end the capture of wild monkeys by dealers Over the next few days the European Commission, European Parliament and Council of Ministers are holding trialogue discussions on new rules for animal experimentation
Paw Nation Tweets
Animals  (tags: dogs )

Glenda
- 2 hours ago - pawnation.com
Dog reunited with owener
Bear Death Prompts Formation of Animal Rights Group
Animals  (tags: bears, killed, wildlife league, formation, bear killers, controversy, wild animals, black bear )

Simone
- 2 hours ago - vcreporter.com
The Ojai Wildlife League is criticizing Fish and Game officials for euthanizing a wild bear last month, as the head game warden defends his role in killing the 400-pound animal .
Los Angeles and Beverly Hills Join San Francisco in Moving Toward Cat De-Claw Bans
Animals  (tags: cats, welfare, legalisation, banning declawing, protection, laws )

Simone
- 2 hours ago - examiner.com
The Los Angeles City Council today, in a preliminary action, voted unanimously to ban cat de-clawing, the Los Angeles Times reports. The council is scheduled to take a final vote on the measure on November 17, Similarly, on Thursday evening, the
Animal Abuser Sentenced. But Was Justice Served for Katrina Dogs?
Animals  (tags: animal abuser, investigation, dogs, starved to death, caged, imprisoned, katrina dogs, justice )

Simone
- 2 hours ago - examiner.com
Tammy Hanson was sentenced in Arkansas' Baxter County District Court on November 4, 2009 for 20 misdemeanor counts of cruelty to animals. The judge imposed a 1-year sentence in the county jail and $10,000 in fines. So who is Tammy Hanson and what
ACTION ALERT: ANIMAL RESEARCH POSING AS RESCUE OR TRANSPORT-
Animals  (tags: fake rescue organisation, animal research, labrotaries, dogs, cats, homeless, experiments )

Simone
- 2 hours ago - groups.google.com
Many of you are already aware that there are groups associated with animal research who pose as Rescue and/or Transport Groups periodically with the full intent of stealing the animals in transport and delivering and/or selling them for animal
Born Free USA United With Animal Protection Institute:
Animals  (tags: AnimalCruelty, animalrights, suffering, habitat )

Leslie
- 2 hours ago - secure3.convio.net
Help Stop Trapping on National Wildlife Refuges
ACTION ALERT: ORANGUTANS NEED YOUR HELP!!!
Animals  (tags: orangutans, homes destroyed, palm oil industry, endangered, extinction )

Simone
- 2 hours ago - thepetitionsite.com
Orangutans used to live all across east Asia, but now have been restricted to just the small Islands of Borneo and Sumatra in South East Asia. This is mainly due to logging in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra, which used to cover vitrually all of
DEPUTIES: Dog Beaten With Baseball Bat, Burned On Trash Pile-Two Charged With Dog's Death
Animals  (tags: scums, inhuman, beat dogs to death, evil sadistic, scums, cruelty, authoriites )

Simone
- 3 hours ago - www2.wnct.com
Deputies say a dog was killed with a baseball bat, and then burned on a trash pile. Now two people are under arrest for animal cruelty. Onslow County deputies have charged Michael Gibson and Jessica Magdalenski, both of Mitchell Lane in Maysville,
It's Shocking That Animal Cruelty Still Exists in Today's World
Animals  (tags: animal cruelty, wordwide outrage, horses slaughtered, killed, investigation, horse slaughter black market )

Simone
- 3 hours ago - thebarrieexaminer.com
Animal lovers everywhere were once again shocked by the news of another horse mutilation in the state of Florida. The discovery of a thoroughbred mare's remains on a rural road in the Miami-Dade area has brought the grisly total to 21 related deaths
Training for Where the Wild Things Are
Animals  (tags: mexican wolves, learning, survival, endangered, wild animals )

Simone
- 3 hours ago - theolympian.com
Fiona, a Mexican gray wolf, slowly curled her long, red tongue, but the rest of her sleek body was almost motionless. Wildlife biologists and students had swaddled Fiona, who was deep in an anesthetic-induced sleep Thursday morning, with blankets as
About 50 Wolves Killed in Montana Hunt So Far
Animals  (tags: wolves, massacred, montana, wolf killers, slaugher, tragedy, humans, cruelty )

Simone
- 3 hours ago - flatheadbeacon.com
About 50 wolves have been taken so far in Montana's wolf hunting season. Carolyn Sime, wolf coordinator for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, says the state may reach its quota of 75 by the time the season ends Nov. 29. This year's gray wolf hunt,
Do Wolves Kill for Sport?
Animals  (tags: wolves, survival, endangered, massacred, tragedy, wildife )

Simone
- 3 hours ago - slate.com
During this fall's inaugural wolf-hunting season in Montana, hunters killed the matriarch of a Yellowstone wolf pack that researchers had been studying for more than a decade. Park officials suspect that her mate and three other pack members were also
BANK AUTHORIZES KILLING OF RESCUE ANIMALS
Animals  (tags: wildife, rescue animals, sanctuary, closing down, bank, authorisation, animals, killed, refuge )

Simone
- 3 hours ago - australia.to
The Witter Wildlife Refuge which has rescued injured and orphaned wildlife for almost 10 years has been forced to close it's doors due to lack of funding. The refuge has taken in hundreds of animals over the years with no state or federal funding.
Reward Offered for Western Slope Ram Poacher
Animals  (tags: reward, find killer, big born sheep, ram slaughtered, killed, investigation )

Simone
- 4 hours ago - denverpost.com
Energy companies working on Colorado's Western Slope have offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the person who poached a bighorn sheep ram. The quarter-curl ram was shot north of De Beque, Colorado Division of Wildlife
ACTION ALERT: Stop Foxhunting!
Animals  (tags: fox hunting, foxes, torn apart, savagely chased, killed, cruelty )

Simone
- 4 hours ago - thepetitionsite.com
The disgraceful and barbaric sport performed by the so-called gentry of the British Aristocratic Society dressed as idiotic clowns on horseback and accompanied by trained foxhounds to rip apart an unfortunate fox that has been chased till exhausted,
ACTION ALERT: Help Animals Have a Voice in the White House.!!!
Animals  (tags: white house, goverment, animal welfare, animal protection, animal legalisation )

Simone
- 4 hours ago - animalrights.change.org
"We have developed a change agenda for animals, which outlines 100 immediate steps the Obama Administration can take to help animals--including millions of pets, farm animals, laboratory animals, and wildlife. With your help, we can ensure the Administ
World's First Video of the Elusive and Endangered Bay Cat
Animals  (tags: big cats, endangered, bay cat, shy, habitat loss, survival, extinction, wildife )

Simone
- 4 hours ago - news.mongabay.com
Rare, elusive, and endangered by habitat loss, the bay cat is one of the world's least studied wild cats. Several specimens of the cat were collected in the 19th and 20th Century, but a living cat wasn't even photographed until 1998. Now, researchers in
ACTION ALERT: Ask Administrator Bolden to Stop the Use of Monkeys in Space Radiation Studies!!!!
Animals  (tags: monkey experiments, nasa, outdated, cruel, sadistic, space radiation studies, animal advocates )

Simone
- 4 hours ago - secure2.convio.net
Please take a minute to let NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Jr. know that you support efforts to stop the use of monkeys in space radiation studies. We have provided text for you, but if you decide to write your own message, please be polite and
ACTION ALERT: Letter to the President on BLM Horse Management
Animals  (tags: wild horses, protection, mustangs, conservation, goverment )

Simone
- 5 hours ago - friendsofanimals.org
Dear President Obama, We, the members and supporters of Friends of Animals, located in every state and in several countries, firmly oppose the Bureau of Land Management's proposal to round up and remove yet more of free-roaming wild horses and burros
Heartbreak Highway- Disaster for Florida' Panthers
Animals  (tags: floridas panthers, endangered, endangered, highways, road kills, humans, invasion )

Simone
- 5 hours ago - defenders.org
It's 10:35 a.m. on an April day at the headquarters of Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida. A woman in a gray uniform is busy dispatching personnel to the scene of a car accident in the preserve that occurred just moments before I walk in the door.
'Tradition Is Not An Excuse for Cruelty'
Animals  (tags: bull, south africa, torn to pieces, horrific savage cruelty, barbaric, sadistic, worldwide outrage )

Simone
- 6 hours ago - blog.peta.org
In Spain, the bullfight is on its way out. In Britain, it was fox hunting, which is now illegal. In the U.S., we have our own shameful traditions, including slavery, to dwell on. And in South Africa, apartheid may be a thing of the past, but another
Hands Off the Adorable Monkeys, NASA
Animals  (tags: monkeys, protection, nasa, experiments, cruelty, authortitres, outrage, animal advocates )

Simone
- 6 hours ago - blog.peta.org
You may remember that years back, PETA was instrumental in getting NASA out of the monkey business when we successfully pushed the agency to cancel plans to launch straightjacketed, electrode-implanted monkeys into space. So, as you can imagine,
Ad Exposing Pound Seizure in Texas City Rejected
Animals  (tags: gateway to hell, cats, pound seizure, odessa animal control, homeless cats, cat experiments )

Simone
- 6 hours ago - blog.peta.org
For more than two decades, Odessa Animal Control has sold homeless cats to the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) for use in painful intubation exercises. A spokesperson for Odessa Animal Control has stated, "We don't have a problem
Prevent Thanksgiving Problems With Your Pets
Animals  (tags: thanksgiving, holidays, pets, animals, dogs, cats, hazards )

Kristy
- 6 hours ago - examiner.com
There are a few hazards that can cause problems during the holidays. Visiting friends and relatives and food are the most common hazards. Some common ingredients in our traditional Thanksgiving Day feast are toxic to our pets.
Bali's Dogs at Risk Again
Animals  (tags: animals, animalcruelty, abuse, cruelty, dogs, pets, sadness, suffering )

Maria
- 6 hours ago - wspa.org.uk
A recent outbreak of rabies on this otherwise idyllic island has seen government authorities rush headlong into a mass elimination programme - except they're focussed on eliminating dogs, not rabies.
ACTION ALERT: Stop Horse Racing!!
Animals  (tags: two year old racing, jump racing, cruelty, horse slaughter, horse abuse )

Simone
- 6 hours ago - all-creatures.org
Many horses are forced onto the track at two year old of age, before they are fullly matured and are really only 'babies' then they are raced endlessly, repeatedly damaging their soudness, their hearts until they are burned out or broken down by 3 yo.
 

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