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82-foot-long “Rescue Rig” on Way to Missouri

4 The Love Of Animals

Following the devastating tornado that ravaged Joplin, Missouri, American Humane Association has mobilized its famed Red Star Animal Emergency Services™ team to help the animal victims there. The team is just coming off its rescue efforts in Memphis, where floods of historic proportions affected uncounted numbers of domestic and wild animals.

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Travis the Chimp is the Victim

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The bizarre incident in April 2001 began when the trio of apes broke out of Mike and Connie Casey's compound, the Missouri Primate Foundation. Tags: chimpanzees animal cruelty Stupid us. In addition to running a business that supplied simians for parties, the couple bred and sold chimps, sources say. Cruel and insane.

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Weekend Adopt-a-thon for Joplin Tornado Pets

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WHAT : The Joplin Humane Society and the ASPCA® (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) are hosting a major adoption event on June 25 and 26 for nearly 600 animals who need permanent homes after being displaced by the May 22 tornado that tore through Joplin.

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