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Mexican Town Opposes Bullfighting

Critter News

From Latino Fox News. Mexico's first "anti-bullfighting" town has signed a petition calling on the United Nations to approve a universal declaration on animal welfare. Teocelo, a town of 15,000 inhabitants, last month became the first Mexican municipality to ban bullfighting and other events that involve animal mistreatment or cruelty.

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The Parable of the Goat Mites

10,000 Birds

And so, the foxes and shrikes endemic to the island began to suffer as the greenery went. And so the Friends of Animals took them to court, demanding an injunction and a return to live-trapping. And so, most had been neutered, adopted out to soft-hearted landowners as odd pets, conversation pieces. And so, the U.S.

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Mexican Senators Look at Banning Bullfights

Critter News

Mexico is notorious for its bullfights and lack of animal rights. From Fox News (blech). Senators from the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, are working on legislation to ban bullfights and guarantee animal rights in Mexico, a lawmaker said. And not very optimistic. But, still, I can't dismiss it.

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Race for the Rescues

4 The Love Of Animals

5K Run/Walk, Kid’s Fun Run and Adoption Celebration. Animal lovers Jane Lynch (Julie & Julia) and Carrie Ann Inaba (Dancing with the Stars) will help The Rescue Train host its 4th Annual 5k Run/Walk (3.1 The animals need us now more than ever!”. 4th ANNUAL “RACE FOR THE RESCUES” FUNDRASIER.

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Finally. Jasmine the Greyhound

Animal Person

In an act of kindness, the police took the dog, which was a Greyhound female, to the nearby Nuneaton Warwickshire Wildlife Sanctuary, run by a man named Geoff Grewcock and known as a willing haven for Animals abandoned, orphaned or otherwise in need. They named her Jasmine, and they started to think about finding her an adoptive home.

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Tom Regan on the Animal-Rights Movement

Animal Ethics

It is simply projustice, insisting only that the scope of justice be seen to include respect for the rights of animals. The animal rights movement is not for the faint of heart. How we change the dominant misconception of animals—indeed, whether we change it—is to a large extent a political question.

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My Favorite Release

10,000 Birds

“I’ve really been wracking my brain because for me releasing is very traumatic,” said Cara Petricca, with Bluebird Farm Animal Sanctuary in Cheshire, MA. I still think about and worry about so many of the animals I’ve worked with. When I release an animal I immediately want to pull them back to me.