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Pet Foster Care Helps To Smooth Adoption Process

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Fortunately, pet foster parents offer a solution to this issue by allowing pets the time to adjust to a home life with human companions before they find their forever home. Although the medical care is usually paid for, there will be a time commitment if you need to make several trips to a local veterinary clinic.

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Debbie Souza-Pappas: Our Trapped Golden Eagle

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Newer devices have been further ‘tweaked’ to fit veterinary medical needs. This process is known as distraction osteogenesis. Ilizarov would be thrilled to see how far his initial inventions have morphed into amazing medical works of art. We anticipate removal of the device around the end of March.

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Biomedical Foundation Launches Campaign to Show Animal Research is Grrrrrrreat!

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Since 2004, public support for humane animal research to advance human and animal health has fallen 10 points. As we went out and talked with the public, we realized many people truly don't understand why animals are such a critical part of the scientific process.

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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

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They would realize that wild owls fly silently through the night and grab unwary rodents, not unsuspecting packages of processed cow meat. And like humans, if a wild animal is injured he needs to be treated by a licensed medical person, not a well-intentioned accountant, plumber, or six year old child.

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Is Cheap Meat Endangering Our Lives?

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It's a simple, horrible process. But this has triggered an arms race with bacteria, which start evolving to beat the antibiotics – and emerge as in the end as pumped-up, super-charged bacteria invulnerable to our medical weapons. The only way to keep animals alive in such conditions is to pump their feed full of antibiotics.

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Smoking is (good) for the birds

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I remember taking an advanced seminar in plant-animal interaction, in preparation for my own study of human-plant interactions. Some of our greatest human pleasures come from those toxins, and I’m not just talking about various narcotics, though there is always that. Insects ruled. One way to do that is to be toxic.

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Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act Passed House Judiciary

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The American Quarter Horse Association, American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP), American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) and National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA), among many others, oppose the bill. Lovely quote. It's all about private property, not living things.

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