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Military Used Pigs in Brain Injury Research

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troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. car companies used live animals, including pigs, for crash tests until the early 1990s. For an 11-month period that ended in December, researchers subjected pigs and rats to about 200 blasts, according to Pentagon documents and interviews. Roadside bombs are the top killer of U.S. Did you know this?

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

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Pets In Iraq – Excerpt from Mama & Boris. So when Peter calls and excitedly tells us stories about a small pack of five dogs that has started coming around the base—a mother and her four pups—I laugh and think, of course he has pets in Iraq. What a lovely story, with such a great message.

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Service Members Get a Second Chance with Service Dogs

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“We were so impressed with Freedom Service Dogs full circle approach of fostering the partnership between humans and their canine counterparts,” said Jason Watson, CEO and Founder of Dublin Dog Company and Foundation. “It About The Dublin Dog Foundation. FSD was founded as a 501c3 non-profit organization in 1987.

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Birding Shanghai in February 2023

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By the way, if you google “Black Kite”, the very first result you get even before the Wikipedia entry on the bird is a company named Black Kite. The best eBird can offer in terms of plumage color is “dark”, and even that seems a bit of an exaggeration.

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