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On Project Treadstone and Welfare, OED-Style

Animal Person

Project Treadstone If anyone in Palm Beach County wants to get involved in the Trap/Neuter/Return (TNR) of feral cats, now is the time, as the county's Spay Shuttle is back in business (but for a whopping $40/cat rather than the original $15), and Pahokee ($25/cat) is open as well. worldes welfare and my goddesse. 1718 Free-thinker No.

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Feral Cats in American Cities

10,000 Birds

… someone who is feeding feral cats would trap them, get them neutered or spayed, and possibly vaccinated against rabies and other diseases, and return them to the outdoors. The ordinance seeks forbid such activities from taking place, such as releasing a spayed feral cat within the city limits and feeding feral cats.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

” (Editorial Observer, July 30) is not economic but rather that creating a one-size-fits-all law such as mandatory spay and neuter is not a workable, enforceable solution to reduce the diverse demographics of the state’s shelter population.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Sadly, the situation in Puerto Rico is replicated in countries around the world where hundreds of millions of dogs live as strays, abandoned by the humans they have come to depend on for food, shelter and companionship. As one animal advocate put it, “we need to work together and keep the finger in the side of government.”

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Event: Save a Stray for the Holidays

4 The Love Of Animals

Each location will reduce adoption fees, including microchip and spay/neuter surgery fees, for the special program. The Found Animals Foundation ( www.foundanimals.org ) is a privately funded Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization dedicated to animal welfare issues and led by business and medical professionals.

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Humane Society Endorses Obama

Critter News

As an Illinois state senator, he backed at least a dozen animal protection laws, including those to strengthen the penalties for animal cruelty, to help animal shelters, to promote spaying and neutering, and to ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption. In the U.S.

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