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The Animal Legal Defense Fund Public Registries

4 The Love Of Animals

ALDF points to the following examples for why a registry is needed to help animal guardians, law enforcement and shelters protect their animals: Robert Rydzewski : In 2004, the then 29-year-old upstate New Yorker shot his neighbor’s dog in the face twice. Two months later, he killed another neighbor’s Welsh Corgi with an ax.

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What to Do at High Island When the Winds are South

10,000 Birds

As a talked to a couple from Boston, new to birding, I spotted a Clapper Rail walking close behind us. Many birders left at the first drops, but I crowded with a few other birders under the shelter of the volunteer kiosk. I did bring my spotting scope with me, but it really wasn’t necessary here. Clapper Rail.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Sadly, the situation in Puerto Rico is replicated in countries around the world where hundreds of millions of dogs live as strays, abandoned by the humans they have come to depend on for food, shelter and companionship. Allan Kornberg Boston, March 11, 2008 The writer is executive director of the World Society for the Protection of Animals.