Critter News

JULY 31, 2009

From the Seattle P-I (yep, the online newspaper!). If approved, those measures would be in effect from 2010 to 2015 for the Navy's training area in the Pacific Ocean off the Washington, Oregon and Northern California coasts. Tags: seattle navy marine life whales pacific northwest. On the negative side.

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Critter News

APRIL 16, 2009

Here in Seattle, NARN (Northwest Animal Rights Network) has been staging protests at a local restaurant that serves foie gras. Tags: animal cruelty california foie gras food. They've caught a lot of grief over it. They get laughed at by patrons and they are criticized by local paper The Stranger.

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

Someone told us it involved Seattle Purebred Dog Rescue. Snopes has it originating in California. Tags: Cookie and Coco. Since our site comes up number two in Google, they find out the story from this website. Or at least a version of it. Either way, the story is OLD.

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Critter News

JULY 10, 2009

I grew up in the Central Valley of California and my mother owns a home there in Gustine. I've always known that the Central Valley is one of the poorer areas of California. And my husband thinks so too, and he's from Seattle. Tags: california. This is not totally animal-related, but I'll share anyway.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Tags: animal shelter management seattle State of Washington King county. The vet setback is the latest for King County Animal Care and Control, which has come under fire in the past year for running understaffed, overcapacity shelters with high euthanasia rates. When is King County going to clean up its act?

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