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A Snowflake’s Chance

10,000 Birds

Up on Higgins near the book store it’s just the occasional bit of fairy floss angling down across my vision. They shelter and shade, feed and bind. As I bird, walk the dog or run errands, puffs of white float down on the breeze. The cottonwoods, a division in the larger clan of poplars, are named for these unmissable seeds.

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The Blue House Dog

4 The Love Of Animals

They offered him hand-outs and cared enough about him, not to call Animal Control and risk having him picked up and sent to a shelter where his fate would be doomed. It took nine years for my picture book, THE BLUE HOUSE DOG, (Peachtree Publishers/August 1, 2010) to come out. Tags: books guest post. See the trailer: [link].

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Guest Post: Susan Wilson

4 The Love Of Animals

She has a new book out (which I am reading right now) called One Good Dog. I’m an author, good character names are fair game) joined the family and something rather miraculous happened. My second favorite rescue story is that of Hunter, a beagle-ish dog that my daughter and son-in-law adopted from a shelter in Massachusetts.

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On SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

This book has so many great quotes that I'm going to have to write a couple of posts about them. Would intelligent beings riot over the out come of a soccer game? And perhaps my favorite: "[I]f healthy, homeless humans were rounded up and killed, no one would call the killing facilities 'shelters'" (55).

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Happy “Howl-a-days”!

4 The Love Of Animals

They are collecting sweaters to help dogs in shelters keep warm in the winter months. If dogs have to be in a shelter, at least they will be more comfortable. Know of a shelter that could use some help? pet supplies company, has generously agreed to donate $3 million worth of Hartz pet supplies to animal shelters in the U.S.

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