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How Pets Can Improve Your Health

4 The Love Of Animals

Even watching fish in an aquarium can help reduce muscle tension and lower pulse rate. Caring for a pet can bring pleasure and help boost your morale and optimism. Pet owners have lower triglyceride and cholesterol levels (indicators of heart disease) than those without pets.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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of Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Jon Gassett has indicated that if enough people write in protest, the proposed hunting season–due to start this December– will be reconsidered. Hunters and fish and wildlife departments having a stake in Sandhills is a great thing. We can fight them back in Kentucky, too. Kentucky Dept.

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Battle Creek Cellars: Unconditional Pinot Noir (2017)

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Ever the moral perfectionist, Franklin argued that the turkey was a much more honorable and determined fowl, and suggested the bird – as an “original Native of America” – would make a decidedly more fitting avian mascot for the United States (seemingly implying – incorrectly – that the Bald Eagle is not an indigenous New World species).

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