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Adopt A Turkey!

4 The Love Of Animals

Funny lady Ellen DeGeneres and rescue group Farm Sanctuary both want you to Adopt-A-Turkey this Thanksgiving! So, this Thanksgiving instead of eating a turkey, please join me in adopting one from Farm Sanctuary’s Adopt-A-Turkey Project and you can give a turkey something to be thankful for.” Start with Thanksgiving.”.

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Teaching Kids Animal Compassion

4 The Love Of Animals

Having pets at a young age instills kids with a sense of confidence that they can take care of an animal and help it to live a thriving life. Have you ever seen a kid talk to a pet and the animal responds by wagging its tail or purring? Animals are unbiased companions, just what many kids need.

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Quantico Has No Compassion for Feral Cats

Critter News

Quantico Military Base is really behaving cruelly when it comes to the feral cats on its base. They've prohibited feeding and want the animals trapped. If they are not adoptable, oh well, kill them. It is NOT the animals' fault that they have been abandoned to miserable lives. (Of Whiskers" or "Frisky?"

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A Trip to an Animal Lab

Critter News

In a brief tour of a particular biotech research company, I was taken to the animal lab. Interesting that many of the grants this place gets specifically say they can't experiment on any domesticated animals (cats and dogs I guess.). It reminded me of an adoption poster at the animal shelter. Weird, weird, weird.

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How Pets Can Improve Your Health

4 The Love Of Animals

Pet Care, spotlights many of the well-proven therapeutic and health benefits of pets, as reported on www.HelpGuide.org : The average domestic pet, such as a dog, cat—even a goldfish—can provide many therapeutic and health benefits. Many also learn responsibility, compassion, and empathy from having pets. guest post'

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On THE DOG WHO COULDN'T STOP LOVING

Animal Person

And I received confirmation of something I've known since 2004, when we adopted retired racing greyhound, Violet Rays: That there's sort of a critical period for dog-behavior acquisition, and if it's missed, the dog isn't likely to mature into the type of loving being whose behavior we've come to associate with "pet" dogs. And he details why.

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Conserving the Future: Bold Bird Ideas

10,000 Birds

The results will inform a vision document to be adopted in July 2011 at a national conference to guide the NWR system for wildlife protection into the next decade and beyond. OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more! Thanks for visiting! Wicked, right?

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