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Outdoor/Feral Cat Problem? Call the SWAT Team

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Thanks to groups like Alley Cat Allies, outdoor and feral cats have become above the law. Enough hand-wringing, enough taking butchered birds to exhausted, emotionally drained wildlife rehabilitators. This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats.

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Horse Slaughter Could Start Up Again in One Month

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Horses could soon be butchered in the U.S. Congress lifted the ban in a spending bill President Barack Obama signed into law Nov. that butcher horses for human consumption now, but if one were to open, it would conduct inspections to make sure federal laws were being followed. Read the complete article at pantagraph.com.

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Dutch May Ban Kosher Slaughter of Livestock

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In a move aimed at further defusing the controversy over the proposed ban, deputy prime minister Maxime Verhagen gave an undertaking no new legislation would be signed into law until approved by the senate.

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When Feeding Birds Runs Amuck

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The area has a law in place to prevent attracting deer, you can have a bird feeder, but you can’t offer food on the ground. Granted, the law is written poorly, but the man was given several warnings and insisted on feeding birds on the ground and attracted huge flocks of ducks and no doubt raccoons at night.

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On the Renewed Debate Over Horse Slaughter

Animal Person

As the economy continues to falter, law enforcement officers in Kentucky and throughout the country are seeing major increases in the number of unwanted and neglected horses, some abandoned on public land, others left to starve by their owners.". Butcher (no joke) from Montana: " “No one has to send a horse to a processing plant.

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Birding Protection Island, Washington

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at least one Bald Eagle is required by law to sit on this sign for an hour every day young Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus While waiting for the salmon to spawn the eagles have an easy life, occasionally raiding the gull colony for fat young birds, and otherwise loafing on and around the island.