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Economic Troubles in Portugal Lead to More Abandoned Animals

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From the Portugal News Online.sad stuff. Thousands of pets are being abandoned across Portugal, either being dumped at the gates of charitable associations or simply taken far from home and left behind, as owners struggle to make ends meet due to the continuing financial crisis.

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Some Good News In NJ Farm Animals Case

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“Although the court noted that these practices are controversial and that downed animals ‘suffer greatly,’ it found the record on appeal insufficient to warrant striking the regulations at this time,” explains an article from the Environmental News Service.

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A Dietary Alternative for Feral Cats?

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A possible solution may be hidden in recent news from New Zealand. An abandoned kitten nicknamed Frankie had staked out a McDonald’s restaurant as its feeding grounds, and for more than a year, subsisted mainly on handouts from employees and customers. And the TNR/exterminate debate rages on.

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An Animal Welfare First in Spain

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From Spanish News - RTN (Round Town News). Loa was six years old at the time she was abandoned, with her papers left with her. Nacho Paunero, President of El Refugio, notes that this is the first time in Spain that someone has been fined for abandoning their animal at the doors of a refuge. No need to click.

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Sell your House with Birds!

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House prices which were already starting at high have now progressed past stupidly high and eye-wateringly high and are now at the point where I’m contemplating abandoning civilisation and living in a cave in Siberia. Which is terrible news for me, as I do want a place with a garden, but will I be priced out?

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King Wood Rails on the compost heap.

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Interactions between birds and Man are not news to many of you. Art has since been abandoned, but the memory abides of birds taking advantage of Man’s labours and the pleasure to be found as they become very approachable into the bargain. My mother’s favourite sight is a tractor being followed by gulls as it ploughs the autumn fields.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 6)

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I saw them at Ayers Rock which while I was there had the worst floods in memory (my parents in Germany thought I must be traveling under a bad star, as they heard about these floods in the German news and knew I was there at that time). Good to finally see them outside of cages. I think this is a juvenile Grey Fantail. ” ( source ).

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