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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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Organizations Putting Animals First

4 The Love Of Animals

Formed in 2007, this organization seeks to promote the humane treatment of animals by promoting effective animal sanctuary management. 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.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. 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. Think about their image.

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Chock Full of Celebration

4 The Love Of Animals

Kyla Duffy is a foster parent for MidAmerica Boston Terrier Rescue and Breeder Release Adoption Service. Her business, Happy Tails Books , collects stories from people who have fostered and adopted dogs and compiles them into books that inspire others to get involved in the fight against animal cruelty.

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To Tick or Not to Tick – Exotic Birding in Miami

10,000 Birds

But its not just parrots that are doing well in their adopted city. The species is recorded in the form of a published photograph or a specimen archived in an ornithological collection. The population is not directly dependent on human support. Sufficient offspring are being produced to maintain or increase the population.

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Is Charles with Lars Axl Fokker?

Animal Person

Some people seem to think that animals' souls are different from those of humans, while others think they're the same. Some speak of a collective consciousness, and others speak of reincarnation. Charles and Lars had a similar, playful energy, and I must say I like the idea that they're playing together somewhere. somewhere.

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Tom Regan on the Animal-Rights Movement

Animal Ethics

To overcome the collective entropy of these forces-against-change will not be easy. It is to be hoped that the publication of this book will play some role in advancing this great movement, the animal rights movement, toward the third and final stage—the stage of adoption. The animal rights movement is not for the faint of heart.