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Walk for Farm Animals Scheduled for this Fall

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July 28, 2011 – This fall, thousands of people in more than 35 cities across North America will gather for the 2011 Walk for Farm Animals, a series of fun, community-focused events that promote kindness to animals and raise vital funds to support the lifesaving work of Farm Sanctuary, the nation’s leading farm animal protection organization.

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On Mainstreaming Veganism

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And last night I volunteered at an event benefiting the Office Depot Foundation (which provides backpacks for kids loaded with school essentials, among other things) and someone asked me if there were any vegan desserts!

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November is Senior Pet Month

4 The Love Of Animals

Laid-back lifestyle. Tags: events guest post. You know how as we age, we are said to look distinguished? The same is true for our pets. I think senior cats project an air of peaceful dignity. And who can resist the precious gray muzzle of an older dog? For kittens and puppies, most any time is play time.

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The Power of Pets Initiative

4 The Love Of Animals

Exercise is a vital component of a healthy lifestyle, and research suggests that owning a pet helps increase levels of physical activity. Tags: events. . &# The Power of Pets™ program is the perfect way for us to share this research and really bring these benefits to life. A recent survey of 1,000 U.S. Headquartered in McLean, Va.,

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Do Snowy Owls really belong in genus Bubo?

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They go so far as to suggest that the Snowy Owl’s “[g]enetic similarity to the Great Horned Owl, which was suggested by Wink and Heidrich (1999 and 2000), could be a secondary event, or the result of parallelism.”

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Housecat Housecall

4 The Love Of Animals

From unruly behavior to lifestyle adjustments, Housecat Housecall features real cats, real people and real veterinarians working through a wide range of common cat behaviors.

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

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date the split of those branches to 88 million years ago, well before the extinction event that wiped out all non-bird dinosaurs and many other forms of life about 66 million years ago (the K-Pg boundary). Now we move on to the Neognathae , which also has two very deep branches that lead to all the other living species of birds. Jarvis et al.

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