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Don't Buy Animals For Your Kid Because You Saw it in a Movie

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

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Washington Town to Become Horse Slaughter Capital?

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

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University of Washington Allows Primate to Starve to Death

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I went to graduate school at the University of Washington here in Seattle. The primate, a 3-and-a-half-year-old pig-tailed macaque, “had been found dead due to malnutrition resulting in a loss of 25 percent of its body weight,” the report said. I've been hearing nightmare stories about the Primate Center for years.

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Week 26: San juan Islands

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Such is the case when we got a call from our good friends Scott and Monica, inviting us to travel with them by sailboat up to the San Juan Islands, north of Seattle. This is also the location of the great Pig War of 1872. Therefore, I am jumping at every opportunity to explore a new area, and subsequent birds that might be there.

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