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APRIL 27, 2009

Lilly Tomlin is in Seattle and spoke out about the conditions of elephants at the Woodland Park Zoo on behalf of the Northwest Animal Rights Network (NARN). Addressing supporters and the media at the Phinney Ridge Neighborhood Center, Tomlin said elephants in zoos across the country are suffering in confinement.

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MARCH 7, 2012

Stanwood is right near where we live in Seattle and, sadly, home to Pigs Peace Animal Sanctuary which rescues all kinds of animals. A new report in the Staug News of St. I can only imagine how they feel. From the Sky Valley Chronicle. Augustine, Florida doesn’t mince any words when it comes to what’s afoot in the Stanwood area.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

I live in Seattle and I am always skeptical of how the UW treats its lab animals. News to me. Full story in the Seattle Times. I had never heard of the use of ferrets in medical research though.

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APRIL 22, 2010

From the Seattle Times. A gray whale that died after stranding on a West Seattle beach had a large amount of trash in its stomach, ranging from a pair of sweatpants to a golf ball, said biologists who examined the animal. Tags: seattle whale marine life pollution. Starvation was not considered a major contributor to its death.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

Ringling Brothers is coming to Kent, WA, and I'm happy to know the Northwest Animal Rights Network will be protesting (we live in nearby Seattle by the way.).

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Excerpted from the Seattle P-I. A Seattle law firm is taking on dairies, claiming that a price-fixing scheme has consumers paying too much for milk. The group turned to Seattle attorney Steve Berman, who filed the suit claiming more than half a million U.S. If the dairy companies were doing this, well, that's cold!

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JULY 24, 2009

Right in my own home of Seattle. Tags: sea gulls seattle animal cruelty marine life. Most rednecks wouldn't be so cruel or so stupid. I hope the allegations turns out to be false.

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JULY 18, 2011

An article in today's Seattle Times about Woodland Park Zoo's attempts over the last 20 years to breed elephants. Very controversial with organizations such as In Defense of Animals, PETA and the Northwest Animal Rights Network. They say it's cruel. The zoo claims it's to preserve the species.

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JUNE 22, 2011

His pictures have been displayed in Chicago and Seattle and sell for $265 dollars a shot. Cooper also has pounced onto various television programs including, Animal Planet’s MustLoveCats, The Today Show in Australia, and the Q13 news. A starving cat artist, he is not.

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MAY 12, 2009

I live in Seattle where Woodland Park Zoo is located. Tags: conservation seattle woodland park zoo elephants endangered species. I just don't know what to think. On the one hand, Woodland Park is very proud of its elephant conservation program and its elephant residents. I'm definitely open to feedback.

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AUGUST 1, 2011

They have them here in Seattle. Can crashes into carriage. Just so inhumane and dangerous. I just hate them, although it sounds like NYC is particularly bad.

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MARCH 8, 2009

This article was actually on the first page of the soon-to-be-exclusively online Seattle PI. Tags: chained dogs seattle legislation us. While I know that sometimes people have little choice when it comes to keeping their animals outdoors, you can still tell when the animal is cared for. And he is simply one of many.

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JANUARY 15, 2010

From the Seattle P-I: A Japanese psychiatrist with a home in Seattle is facing poaching and gun-possession charges following allegations that he poached several black bears and tried to smuggle gallbladders back to Japan. So, it's not just rednecks in Washington State who are doing this.

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JULY 31, 2009

From the Seattle P-I (yep, the online newspaper!). A new set of rules might be in the works for the U.S. Tags: seattle navy marine life whales pacific northwest. The Navy has been able to get away with using it for "national security" reasons. Navy's use of sonar off the Washington and Oregon coasts.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2012

The one found in West Seattle was a California sea lion, protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Investigators say they do not know who is responsible. KING says one of the Nisqually casualties was a Steller sea lion, protected under the Endangered Species Act.

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JANUARY 18, 2009

This story comes out of Gold Bar in Snohomish County, north of Seattle (where we latte-sucking liberals live.) Tags: seattle puppy mills. Adult dogs and puppies were found living in crates and small pens filled with large accumulations of feces and heavily soiled shavings, said Vicki Lubrin of Snohomish County Animal Control Services.

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AUGUST 25, 2011

The new ads will begin running this fall, with the debut image landing the September issue of W. The Seattle-based company supplies “the finest, most luxurious and exclusive ranch-raised natural black mink.” The black and white image to the left shows Jackson in a catsuit, looking fierce as ever.

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JUNE 17, 2011

I live in Seattle and, while I don't always agree with PETA, I hate the UW's animal research practices. I don't believe these animals get the quality of care they deserve for the suffering they undergo. If you "humanize" the animal and grow attached, how can you conduct experiments on it? You have to objectify them and they suffer for it.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2011

I'm surprised that Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle didn't make it. San Antonio Zoo (Texas) Edmonton Valley Zoo (Canada), Buttonwood Park Zoo (Mass.), Central Florida Zoo (Fla.), Niabi Zoo (Ill.), Topeka Zoo (Kan.), Honolulu Zoo (Hawaii), Wildlife Safari (Ore.), York's Wild Kingdom Zoo (Maine) tied with Southwick's Zoo (Mass.),

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MARCH 26, 2010

When they tried to ban circuses in Seattle about 10 years ago, there was this big outcry. I absolutely despise circuses. The campaigners claim polls show 90 percent of the public would support such a ban. Hmmmm.sounds awfully high to me. It was actually pretty weird.

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MAY 6, 2010

Here's a good article in the Seattle Times about BP corporate misbehavior. I had no idea. You really have to hand it to their PR people.

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JUNE 28, 2010

Tags: seattle pacific northwest farm animal welfare chickens.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Tags: chimpanzees seattle State of Washington animal sanctuary.

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JULY 30, 2009

"Sick Vick" is on his way to a new team. If it's the Seattle Seahawks, I may have to move. Who will it be? Early rumors swirled around the Patriots or the Steelers.

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MARCH 19, 2012

From the Seattle PI. A federal government decision to allow a Wyoming tribe to kill two bald eagles for a religious ceremony is a victory for American Indian sovereignty as well as for long-suppressed religious freedoms, the tribe says.

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AUGUST 25, 2011

It was a bad winter storm in Seattle. Our neighborhood–one of the oldest in Seattle–lost power, and we didn’t get it back. If only I had known… We were the last neighborhood in Seattle to be reenergized. And then disaster struck. One of them was ours.

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AUGUST 15, 2009

I wish the Seattle weeklies would at least try to cover the University of Washington's Primate Center. Sounds like there can be a whole lot of drama surrounding the Willamette Week's attempts to report about this place. Here's an example.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Alex Washoe is a freelance writer and bookseller in Seattle, WA. A reporter on one of their news shows asserted that Woody was actually based on the Acorn Woodpecker and when several listeners questioned that another reporter — who at the time was the official All Things Considered bird commentator ( ed note: guess who?

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Tags: seattle State of Washington gall bladders poaching bears asia.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

Having cared for guinea pigs at the Seattle Animal Shelter, I can tell you that guinea pigs are certainly cute. The latest movie to prompt this kind of behavior is G-Force. The heroes are a pair of guinea pigs. Here is a CBS article that at least explains basic care for guinea pigs. They are also the messiest animals on the planet.

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DECEMBER 29, 2009

From the Seattle PI: The killing of about seven elk cornered in a farm pasture in eastern Skagit County has spurred state officials to close the elk archery season in the area and angered others who either witnessed or heard about the killings.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2008

David Horsey is the brilliant political cartoonist for the Seattle P-I. This cartoon summarizes Sarah Palin to a "T.".

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FEBRUARY 28, 2009

Luckily, I have a coworker who volunteers with Seattle Purebred Rescue. Apparently, she had received the same email from someone else and she had contacted Seattle Purebred Rescue to speak to the Lab rep for help. So many people are being evicted and my boss received the email from someone he knew so it had to be true right????

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Tags: seattle animal cruelty animal rescue puppy mills.

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MAY 5, 2009

I'm starting a new mini-feature in which I'm posting about the results of my research into some of the groups I support. We live in Seattle and I think it's very important to remember our oceans and the life that reside there. Anyway, they received three out of four stars. Here is a snapshot of their 2007 budget breakdown.

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

Someone told us it involved Seattle Purebred Dog Rescue. People keep forwarding this chain email around. Since our site comes up number two in Google, they find out the story from this website. Or at least a version of it. Snopes has it originating in California. Either way, the story is OLD.

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JANUARY 24, 2009

We live in Seattle, which is part of King County. What a mess. Up north are Snohomish County and Skagit County where two puppy mill raids have led to the rescue of almost 600 pregnant dogs, about 80 percent of whom are pregnant. (We We blogged about the Gold Bar, Snohomish County, raid last week).

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