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The Animal Legal Defense Fund Public Registries

4 The Love Of Animals

In 2008, an earlier version of this bill passed the Tennessee Senate, but stalled in the House of Representatives. We operate shelters in the hopes of giving abandoned pets a second chance at a loving home, not subjecting them to lives of continued abuse and neglect,” Florez said. The current bill’s sponsors are Rep.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Sadly, the situation in Puerto Rico is replicated in countries around the world where hundreds of millions of dogs live as strays, abandoned by the humans they have come to depend on for food, shelter and companionship. Allan Kornberg Boston, March 11, 2008 The writer is executive director of the World Society for the Protection of Animals.