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Paws UP for Union Township Animal Shelter

4 The Love Of Animals

Rock & Rawhide , a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that aims to increase adoptions for dogs and cats in shelters by providing toys and other items that serve as a form of distraction therapy, reducing the stress and noise levels. Research has shown that if noise and stress are reduced, adoptions go up!

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“New York’s Kindest” includes Rock & Rawhide!

4 The Love Of Animals

Rock & Rawhide , the charity that helps increase adoption levels of dogs and cats in shelters, announced today that it is included in Animal Care & Control of NYC (AC&C)’s latest advertising campaign, “New York’s Kindest” for their donations and assistance in increasing adoption levels through distraction therapy.

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Utah's Shelters Providing Strays to Labs for Research

Critter News

University officials say they only collect animals from shelters willing to participate and pound animals are steered toward nonlethal experiments. They say cats and dogs at the lab get excellent veterinary care and survivors are placed into a volunteer-run adoption program.

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Organizations Putting Animals First

4 The Love Of Animals

Led by professionals who have experience with organizations such as the Humane Society of the United States, the group is definitely not new to the issues surrounding animals worldwide. From medical assistance to fundraising, education and adoption events, PAC 911 does all it can to improve the situation of animals in its area.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. As Cocker writes in the Introduction , “It is only when whole societies collectively believe in the goal that it is attainable.”

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Is Charles with Lars Axl Fokker?

Animal Person

In all of the lovely messages we've been getting, I've noticed two trends: 1) Death is a communal experience as well as an individual one. Some speak of a collective consciousness, and others speak of reincarnation. Charles' untimely death brings to mind everyone's past pain and joy. somewhere.

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Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America: A Review by a Sparrow Fan

10,000 Birds

It will be interesting to see if the proposal is adopted and this guide becomes the first to employ the new official usage, or if it sparks other bird guide authors to revolt against the system. Rick Wright agrees. Personally, I find the lack of an apostrophe-s easy to adapt to in writing, but strange when I say it out loud.