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Beyond Companionship: How Pets Can Help Your Health

4 The Love Of Animals

It’s believed that blood pressure can be reduced to a level that is equal to an individual changing to a low salt diet or cutting out alcohol by owning a dog. Psychological benefits. Pets have also been shown to reduce stress levels in the workplace and help people improve their productivity and organisation. Social benefits.

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Service Members Get a Second Chance with Service Dogs

4 The Love Of Animals

The Dublin Dog Foundation (DDF) has partnered with Freedom Service Dogs, Inc. The DDF will be raising $20,000 for the training and care of a service dog (including medical bills, training and food) which will be donated to one lucky war vet from the FSD group. About The Dublin Dog Foundation.

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Sibley Birds East & Sibley Birds West: A Review

10,000 Birds

And, although these days I like to switch it around, sometimes using National Geographic or Stokes or a specialty guide or my Sibley phone app, that creased, dog-eared, red library tape bound book is still the field guide I keep in my car or slip into my suitcase for a trip to anywhere east of the Rockies.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

Or new markets could be found among the countries of the world where meat consumption is slight; more need for meat could be produced among nonvegetarians and dogs and cats. Eating meat from animals fed on waste products would be a way of saving grain that could be shipped to the hungry people of the world. KBJ: I’m speechless.