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The Shelter Pet Project

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This new campaign, sponsored by The Humane Society of the United States, Maddie’s Fund, and the Ad Council, hopes to reverse this trend and find homes for these homeless, lovable pets. The campaign has one unified goal, to increase pet adoption. Luckily, The Shelter Pet Project hopes to change this!

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Organizations Putting Animals First

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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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The Animal Legal Defense Fund Public Registries

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Shon Rahrig : While living in Ohio in 1999, Rahrig allegedly adopted several cats and a puppy from local shelters and tortured them sadistically. Rahrig was forbidden to own an animal for five years, but he was subsequently seen at an adoption event in California. His whereabouts are unknown. About the Animal Legal Defense Fund.

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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 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.

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Dog Collars

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Archaeology has demonstrated that humans were crafting collars for their animals at least 7000 years ago and the possibility that this is a conservative estimate is large. Middle class adoption of dog ownership required affordable collars, just like today’s mass marketed collar industry. By Augie Berings, Bering’s Hardware.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Specifically, the increasing meat-consumption trend could be reversed if consumers paid the true price for meat. If these policies were adopted, small-scale animal agriculture would be a more economical model, and people would eat less meat. Note from KBJ: The author of the New York Times story describes human beings as "carnivores."

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

10,000 Birds

Long before that time Mexican domesticated Turkeys had been adopted by Native Americans in the American Southwest as well. Early research suggested that “Fragmented distributions and population bottlenecks due to human activities appear to have increased genetic differentiation among populations” (Leberg 1991).

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