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Group Seeks to Ban Chinese Fur Trade with Australia

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The dog's fur is used to make Ugg boots, a popular fashion brand in Australia, to line the inside of the shoe. However, the fur is passed off as sheep skin. What angered the society were reports that Chinese workers skinned the dogs while still alive.

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The Famous Grouse: Smoky Black Blended Scotch Whisky

10,000 Birds

Admiring Nature in her wildest grace, These northern scenes with weary feet I trace; O’er many a winding dale and painful steep, Th’ abodes of covey’d grouse and timid sheep…. Sheep may timidly graze but these Black Grouse are another matter altogether. Black Grouse by English artist Edward Lear (1812-1888).

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