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Good News for Greyhounds

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We who want humans to stop using sentient nonhumans have few victories to celebrate. Rhode Island's only dog track, Twin River, will be "suspending" dog racing. Mooney Rhode Island. Here are a couple recent bits of good news. I urge everyone to read and circulate " Heartbreak at 45 mph " by Michael J.

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5 things to know about pets and pests

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Ticks may be transferred to humans. Be aware of areas where Lyme disease (a common tick-borne illness) is prevalent: the eastern coastal states and the north central states, especially parts of Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Wisconsin and northern California.

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It may be hard to swallow, but Bumpus could get bumped to the back burner

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They are a commensal species, meaning that they are a wild animal that lives in close association with humans, not as a pet or as a farm animal but more like a parasite, to the extent that it is hard to find them in truely wild settings, and it is hard to find human settlements without them.

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The Animal Legal Defense Fund Public Registries

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Such bills have been introduced in the past by elected officials in Rhode Island, Colorado, and Tennessee, and the first-ever bill for a statewide registry in California was today announced by its sponsor, State Senator Dean Florez. But it’s not just about how animal abusers end up also hurting or killing humans,” said Wells. “It

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

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Other birds with webbed feet, including ducks and geese, have only three webbed toes; the hallux (which in birds is usually the “hind toe&# and in humans, the “big toe&# ) is free. For all of recorded history, humans have classified other living things by their physical characteristics. Feeding Frenzy at Jamaica Bay.Or

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

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You can designate it thus; you can legally call it a Rhode Island Red chicken if you want, but no whooping crane on this planet is nonessential. All of them had successfully learned the skills we taught them to forage in “safe&# areas and avoid humans. It flies on. Not when we have but 400 to spare. I think not!

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