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Hard for Russian Veterinarians to Use Anesthesia Due to Russian Drug Laws

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After eight years of fighting a strict law that virtually bans an anesthetic essential for their work, Russia's veterinarians say they have nearly reached the end of their tether. It is really painful for your pets to undergo operations [without ketamine]," Aristov said. "It Oleg Aristov, who runs a veterinary clinic in St.

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Putin an Animal Lover?

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Vladimir Putin, former President and current Prime Minister of Russia, just got a tiger cub for his birthday. In August, Putin had occasion to pet a full-grown female Ussuri tiger after shooting her with a tranquilizer gun. Tags: tigers russia. He'll be donating it to a zoo or a wildlife preserve.

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November is. Awareness Month

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I am a vegan who has adopted a diabetic greyhound who eats vegan food ( Natural Balance ), and who is adopting a boy from Russia. As a vegan, part of what I believe is that bringing animals onto this planet to use them as food or as pets isn't ethical. China has more girls available and Russia has more boys. Others don't.

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Awkward Fostering

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One of the recent developments, which caught an eye of many pet-lovers, is an adoption of three newly born tigers by German shepherd in Chinese Reserve on January 2012. Especially it is associated with dogs, which may raise kids of other species and even of scary and dangerous representatives of wildlife!

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