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82-foot-long “Rescue Rig” on Way to Missouri

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Following the devastating tornado that ravaged Joplin, Missouri, American Humane Association has mobilized its famed Red Star Animal Emergency Services™ team to help the animal victims there. The Red Star team will also be assisting at the Emergency Animal Shelter. About American Humane Association.

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Like American Dog Rescue, Help Pets!

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American Dog Rescue has a generous donor who is willing to give $1 to Missouri animal tornado victims for every Facebook fan up to $10,000. Benjamin will donate $10,000 to the Missouri Humane Society and Joplin Humane Society, as a way to assist pets that were injured or displaced by the devastating Joplin tornado in May.

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Who Wants To See a Greater Prairie Chicken?

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The human world is on the move to where the money is. But birds and all animals need proper habitat. The ways we have developed since the end of WWII are not working. They are not working for people or wildlife. Central and South Americans are coming here, Syrians and millions of others are flocking to Europe’s stable nations.

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Weekend Adopt-a-thon for Joplin Tornado Pets

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ASPCA , Joplin Humane Society to Host Weekend Adopt-a-thon for Joplin Tornado Pets. WHERE : Emergency Animal Shelter located next to the Joplin Humane Society (140 E. Adoption fees are being waived for this event, and adoptable animals will be spayed/neutered, micro-chipped, vaccinated, and provided an ID tag free of charge.

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Introducing the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge

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Russell National Wildlife Refuge , more than a million acres of prairie, badlands, coulees, and the massive Fort Peck Reservoir on the Missouri River. Like the Rockies, though, this is a harsh beauty, not an ideal climate for the human animal by any means. Even off the refuge, the ranches are by necessity few and far between.

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Albino Squirrel

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Albinism is a congenital condition whereby the animal is unable to produce pigmentation from its melanocytes (colour cells). An interesting speculation is put forward in response to the success of white squirrels in places like Brevard County in North Carolina and Marionville in Missouri. Are they restricted to Kent UK?

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From Today's New York Times

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20): Blake Hurst, a former hog farmer and president of the Missouri Farm Bureau, cautions that “we can’t ask the pigs what they think.” I think it is safe to say that yes, an intelligent animal is unhappy, even downright miserable, being confined to a crate two by seven feet for months on end. Farm Animal Welfare, ASPCA New York, Feb.