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Stray Dog Rescued in Mumbai

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An old stray dog was wounded in the Mumbai attacks and rescued. Sadly, he is the lucky one in a city filled with starving strays. Sheru was a stray dog hit by an errant bullet when two gunmen opened fire in a crowded railway station during the first night of the assault.

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Texas Stray Dog Finds Forever Home After Living on the Streets

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Adopting a Stray Dog - Challenges and Rewards

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Stray dog chilling near small market [oc]

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Texas Stray Dog Problem: How We're Helping Dogs on the Street

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A Monkey Defended A Puppy From Stray Dogs And Became Its New Parent

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Mexican Border Town Offers Tax Exemption for Euthanizing Dogs

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There's a stray dog problem in San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico. If you bring in the dog for euthanization, you get a tax exemption.hooray! Mexican border town has a big dog problem, and it’s not sure what to do about it. There are about 70,000 stray dogs roaming San Luis Rio Colorado in northern Mexico.

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'It's irritating, frustrating': Mayors catch stray dogs, people release them from traps -- "Mayors have started catching stray dogs and cats one village at a time to help control a stray population of 25,000 to 60,000." [Guam, United States of America]

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Documentary Spotlights Plight of Mexican Dogs

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The hourlong film is an unflinching commentary on the overpopulation of stray dogs in Mexico, who even outnumber us humans in some regions. Macho culture, argues {Dallas-based director Bill} Buchanan, goes some way to explaining why Mexicans are so reluctant to sterilize their male dogs. You can watch the trailer at [link].

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Hope For Paws and Planet Blue

4 The Love Of Animals

The rescue group who helped Fiona, Hope for Paws, is teaming up with Planet Blue to help spread the word and raise awareness of the overwhelming population of stray dogs. Follow the details below for a chance to change the lives of dogs in need, and win a shopping spree at the same time!

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Why Humans Are the Only Ones with Rights

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Do you care about the stray dog or the almost extinct tiger? That it gives us more responsibility than simple dominion. However, then you get into the argument of whether creatures only deserve stewardship at the species level or the individual level. What laws should be in effect, blah, blah (I could go on and on. ).

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Selena Gomez Auction For the Dogs of Puerto Rico

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We've blogged quite a bit here about the poor conditions for stray dogs in Puerto Rico. She is currently having an auction to benefit Island Dog Inc. Here is a documentary on Youtube narrated by actress Selena Gomez. I'm glad that this will get more publicity for the issue.

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The Blue House Dog

4 The Love Of Animals

The homeless dog, once called Bones, renamed Blue, who played a “hide and seek game” with Cody, to protect himself and stay alive, ends up at Cody’s side. “I At the end, the dog catcher doesn’t come to their neighborhood anymore because there are no stray dogs there anymore. See the trailer: [link].

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Searching for vultures in India

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The disappearance of vultures has allowed other species such as rat and [stray] dog populations to grow. A vulture’s metabolism is a true “dead-end” for pathogens, but dogs and rats become carriers of the pathogens. Oddly, I saw no rats, only a mongoose or two and a few stray dogs.

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Awkward Fostering

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The most spectacular case was in Krasnoyarsk Zoo (Russia), where people could watch the life of very interesting and strange family, consisting of four puma cubs, stray dog Mary and baby-badger. Puma rejected her children and they were given to Mary.

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New Place in Costa Rica, New Yard List

10,000 Birds

Back in the old place, there were more birds in the nearby coffee farm but it wasn’t easy to bird because I couldn’t see it from my door and there were stray dogs. My recent move may have been a few kilometers away but it is lower, warmer, and it came with a few differences.

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Forget About Equal, How About Alive

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We here in America claim we love dogs. But if a video must be made (and I realize this video wasn't made in the US, but we have the same issues here) to get people thinking about stray dogs as deserving of a life free of persecution and suffering at the hands of others, what hope is there for cows and other animals we have deemed "food?".

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Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans

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In each instance they start with a striking anecdote — my particular favorite took place on the University of Montana campus, where in 1964 an American Crow learned to call and taunt stray dogs into causing perhaps the most adorable college riots of the decade.

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Chilling out with Rollers and Hoopoes

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Black-headed Gulls somehow managed to build 31 nests on a few dead tree trunks left in the water, but Common Terns require bare soil and not having any on inner dykes – which were a safe haven, they build 16 nests on the higher outer dyke, a place exposed to foxes and stray dogs.

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“Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman

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E.g. I remember trying to enter my local scrubland once, just across the car park behind the last apartment building and there, awaiting me, was a territorial pack of stray dogs barking at an intruder – me. What I mostly look for in this book is how to understand those behaviours, how to interpret them. How did I know that?

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We Got the Wrong Starling

10,000 Birds

An Indian city is chock full of disturbances, not just an endless stream of people walking down the street, but random packs of stray dogs poking about and trucks whirling by seemingly free from any semblance of traffic laws, so this happens frequently.

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All my patches

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, and at the same time not grumpy enough to make them draw their guns (yep – it’s a true story, but do not trust the first impression: they were rough on the outside and soft on the inside, e.g. being fiercely protective of stray dogs and cats – that particular guy kept about five dogs and 15 cats, and they all lived together peacefully).

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