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Can Birds Be Safe? If Only.

10,000 Birds

Another product has been invented that could cut down on the number of wild birds killed by domestic cats. Birdsbesafe was invented in 2009, has a website filled with testimonials, and has received high praise from St. The testimonials all credit Birdsbesafe with reducing the number of birds killed by pet cats.

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Pigs Used in Explosives Tests in Britain

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I wish we could stop killing animals for reasons related to killing humans. Some 119 pigs were used in the research at the Government's military research laboratory Porton Down, near Salisbury, between 2006 and 2009. He said 25 pigs were used in 2006, 19 in 2007, 40 in 2008, and 35 in 2009.

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University of Utah Continues Getting Bad Press

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Investigative journalism by the Salt Lake Tribune, following-up on allegations levelled by PETA against the University of Utah's Comparative Medicine Center and the Cardiovascular Research & Training Institute laboratories revealed the two laboratories had used 190 dogs and cats in 2009, all obtained from shelters.

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Raptors of Mexico and Central America: A Book Review

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The illustrations of bird behavior–a Laughing Falcon with a kill, Swainson’s, a Crested Caracara with its head thrown back–offer opportunities for a little individual style to shine through. The Species Accounts are the research-at-home section. John Schmitt, Oxford Univ. Its organization can be challenging.

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Adopt-a-Pet.com Guest Post

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Sadly there are 4 million healthy adoptable companion animals killed in shelters each year due to overcrowding. This was a major initiative that took many months to research and program into the site, and it is being well-received within the shelter community. We are like an ad agency for shelters and shelter pets.

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Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry

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March 2009 Contact: David Cantor, 215-886-7721 or RPA4all@aol.com Arriving at all 50 states’ governors’ offices in mid-March, a special request: Get our land-grant universities (LGUs) out of the meat industry. -- if you'd like assistance or more information. Thanks and best wishes! Many say you can’t eat meat and be an environmentalist.

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

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Marc Hauser, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard University, recently opened his own such research lab and has 1,000 dogs lined up as subjects. If it did, the licking often prompts it to vomit up some of that kill for the other members of the pack to share. Others lashed out and were killed. and Europe. Going to the Dogs.

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