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Giveaway: The Lost Dogs

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Called the “Vicktory Dogs” by many, the 47 pit bulls who survived Michael Vick’s cruelty have struck a chord with the nation. We read this amazing book when it first came out, but it has now been updated with a new afterword that tells the story about some of the dogs! Would you like a chance to win the book?

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The Kirtland’s Warbler: The Story of a Bird’s Fight Against Extinction and the People Who Saved It: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

There has been a lot written about Kirtland’s Warbler, it is one of the most studied birds in the world, but, as far as I know this is the first book that tells its many-faceted story as an adventure tale that can be enjoyed by all of us. And, this is a good book that I think 10,000 Birds readers will enjoy. photo by Lynn C.

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Welcome Home Mama & Boris: How a Sister’s Love Saved a Fallen Soldiers Beloved Dogs

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If you are looking for a heartwarming, uplifting story, then you really need to add Welcome Home Mama and Boris: How a Sister’s Love Saved a Fallen Soldier’s Beloved Dogs to your reading list. Here is just a little taste of what you will find inside the book. What a lovely story, with such a great message.

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The Why of Ferrets

10,000 Birds

Audubon painted this new creature and wrote up a brief description, which went into his posthumous book and so out into the world. Then, in Meeteese, Wyoming, the Hogg family’s ranch dog Shep found something. It was the taxidermist who realized what the dog had stumbled upon and alerted the wider world.

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Vile Practices at Tulare County, CA Animal Shelter

Critter News

Cookson were accused of participating in an “off the books” arrangement wherein Harmon and Cookson carried out unauthorized mass euthanasias at the Tulare County, California shelter – reportedly using nonstandard and painful methods – by falsifying records to cover their actions. From the ALDF blog. Arrested in June 2007, Michael J.

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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

Animal Person

In a manner that’s Malcolm Gladwell meets Freakonomics, which is the fascinating part, Herzog investigates our beliefs and actions regarding nonhuman animals (anthrozoology). Much of the book deals with topics vegans have likely pondered, likely frequently. He watched cockfighting and killed and skinned animals, but won’t eat veal.

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind. Brian Hare, assistant professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University, holds out a dog biscuit. See Pictures of Dogs Learning New Tricks. No one in the room–neither dog nor human–can tell which cup hides the biscuit. See a video on how dogs think like us.

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