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Humane Society Puts Pressure on South Carolina's Bear Baying

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Animal rights advocates say it's cruel to the nearly defenseless bears and harms them psychologically. Statutes banning animal fighting have a specific exemption for dog training. And while South Carolina's attorney general says animal cruelty laws prohibit bear baying, he hasn't prosecuted any cases.

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Supreme Court to Review Legality of Animal Abuse Videos

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The justices said they would review, at the request of the federal government, an appeals court decision that said Congress's broad attempt to discourage animal cruelty by outlawing its depiction violates the First Amendment. Thanks to Animal Law Online for the catch. I am incredibly angry at the last statement. That's just BS.

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Monkey Rescued in India

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an animal can be psychologically traumatized, why in the world do we still wonder if it has any intelligence? Tags: India animal cruelty macaque zoochosis. They don't know what they are going to do with it because it is so severely traumatized and probably can't be released back to the wild.

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Student Researcher Says "Hooray for Animal Research"

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and counseling to ease off the psychological dependence on food. Another young person indoctrinated by the animal researchers. Tags: university research animal experimentation animal research animal cruelty. , exercise (walk more!)

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What Friends are For

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How ridiculous is it that " On the Psychological Continuum ," to say nothing of an article against rabbit fur, is on the same page as Gabriella's Fur Den? The ads I see today have nothing to do with animal cruelty--the opposite is true. So this was in my e-mail box this morning. Perhaps there is a filter of some find at work.

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