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JANUARY 24, 2009

She says that northwest Washington is a refuge for puppy mills because regulation up there is particularly lax. Tags: animal cruelty animal rescue puppy mills. One of my coworkers is heavily involved in puppy mill issues. If the regulation in this area is worse than puppy mill regulation in general, it must be REALLY bad.

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JANUARY 18, 2009

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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MARCH 8, 2010

Sorry, another Washington State story. Tags: State of Washington salmon Stupid sea lions dams endangered species. Sea lions are killed here for eating salmon. About 60 have already been identified as nuisance animals with the possibility of future trapping and euthanization. It really makes me angry.

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MARCH 8, 2010

She is a US Senator from our home state of Washington. Tags: State of Washington legislation humane society congress us. My husband worked for her years and years ago, when she was just a State representative. The Society also noted Cantwell’s work on climate change.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Tags: chimpanzees seattle State of Washington animal sanctuary. This is now one of my favorite organizations. The silent auction is set for October 1, 2010, and details are here. You can donate too even if you can't attend the auction.

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JANUARY 25, 2010

Tags: elk wildlife crime State of Washington poaching national parks. This guy is a real piece of work. Click on the link and see the picture. It says it all.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Tags: chimpanzees State of Washington animal sanctuary primates. Here is a Thanksgiving video of the seven chimpanzees at Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest. Very heartwarming.

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JANUARY 15, 2010

So, it's not just rednecks in Washington State who are doing this. Tags: wildlife trafficking gall bladders bears. 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.

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MAY 21, 2010

The conference is to be held from July 23-26 in Washington, DC. Tags: humane society conferences. I recently received this email announcement. Someday, I hope to attend one of these conferences.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Today is George Washington’s birthday! First Pet, 1789-1791): In addition to horses and hound dogs, George Washington owned a parrot. Polly actually belonged to Martha Washington. It’s said the George Washington and the parrot didn’t get along! Tags: random tidbits. Socks the cat. Polly the parrot.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

The winner will get a trip to Washington DC to lobby for it with HSLF staff. Tags: HSUS. The Humane Society Legislative Fund is having a contest where you can submit your idea for a new law protecting animals.

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JUNE 1, 2009

It's a Washington State organization, but the information is still useful anywhere. Tags: animal cruelty. Here is a link to a PAWS (Progressive Animal Welfare Society) web page with signs of what to look for.

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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. Tags: university research animal experimentation animal research primates medical research. 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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JANUARY 20, 2009

This is a nice story about the care of abused birds at a Washington, DC, Buddhist temple. Tags: birds animal abuse animal rescue buddhism animal sanctuary parrots.

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MARCH 2, 2009

The National No-Kill Conference scheduled for May 2-3 in Washington, DC is ALREADY sold out. Tags: spay and neuter feral cats animal welfare us.

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

In Washington State, Adam Karp is your man. Tags: animal law. But, he also has a list of referrals for lawyers in other states that do this kind of thing.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

After all the brewhaha about improving the conditions at the King County animal shelters in Washington State (where we live), I'm still seeing this kind of stuff. Tags: animal shelter management seattle State of Washington King county. When is King County going to clean up its act?

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JULY 31, 2009

Navy's use of sonar off the Washington and Oregon coasts. If approved, those measures would be in effect from 2010 to 2015 for the Navy's training area in the Pacific Ocean off the Washington, Oregon and Northern California coasts. Tags: seattle navy marine life whales pacific northwest. On the negative side.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

The name and town of the owner were engraved on a metal tag. The states which have essentially banned leghold traps are Florida, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Arizona, Colorado, Massachusetts, California, and Washington. Later Astrid and I met in the woods with shovels and a pickaxe and broke the chain and yanked the trap from the ground.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

This is a good article about the puppy mills operated by a Western Washington woman and her parents. Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty puppy mills animal welfare us. She kept being given "one more chance" with the end result of about 600 dogs finally being seized from the establishments.

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OCTOBER 23, 2008

District Court in Washington, D.C. Tags: animal cruelty circus elephants. employee, claims the defendants inhumanely and illegally mistreat their Asian elephants and have done so for decades. The anticipated three-week, non-jury trial takes place in U.S.

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JANUARY 11, 2010

Montira Pongsiri, an environmental health scientist at the US Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, says that previous transitions in human history have had a devastating impact in terms of the spread of disease. Tags: global warming disease climate change environment.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

From the Washington Post. Tags: dolphin. Knowing now how highly intelligent these animals are, I am very resistant to "using" them for therapy. The dolphin-therapy business has been booming, fueled in part by the rapid growth in diagnoses of childhood mental disorders such as autism.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

District Court in Washington, D.C., Tags: Gray Wolf. It's in response to a lawsuit filed by several environmental groups, including The Humane Society of the United States. says the 2007 decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was not supported by the federal Endangered Species Act.

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JANUARY 30, 2009

Wildlife conservationists say the freeze will delay and possibly prevent the removal of gray wolves from the federal endangered species list in Montana, Idaho, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, and also in portions of Washington, Oregon, Utah, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The author is Nick Cooney and he's the Director of The Humane League, an animal advocacy non-profit with offices in Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington DC. Tags: advocacy. It's called "Change Of Heart: What Psychology Can Teach Us About Spreading Social Change." In the author's words.

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JUNE 5, 2009

A prominent researcher in the specialized field of animal laughter, Jaak Panksepp of Washington State University, said it definitely goes farther back than that. "I Tags: animal behavior primates. I personally think that a credible laughter concept can, and already has been, extended to mammalian species as lowly as the rat.".

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JANUARY 5, 2009

There are people who are saying, ‘This is just ridiculous,’ but that’s not how the general public sees it,” {Washington agricultural correspondent Jerry} Hagstrom says. Tags: farm animal welfare us agribusiness. The recent passing of a proposition in California to strictly manage how laying chickens are kept serves notice, he says.

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MAY 11, 2009

to Washington D.C. The winner of the raffle will be announced at the close of the ride in Washington, D.C. Tags: giveaways. Kicking off on the 4th of July, the 2009 Let Freedom Bark Ride will be a 24 hour-a-day, 400 mile charity ride on the official Dublin Dog Dream Bike and Sidecar from Charlotte, N.C., About Dublin Dog.

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DECEMBER 9, 2008

Judge Michael Mosman’s ruling means Washington, Oregon and Idaho can shoot or remove up to 85 sea lions next year. Tags: salmon sea lions. Portland judge said Wednesday the Northwest states can kill hungry sea lions on the Columbia River. The animals eat salmon as the fish try to pass Bonneville Dam each spring.

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AUGUST 17, 2008

Efforts for such a ballot initiative in Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, New Hampshire and Vermont have failed but efforts are currently underway to establish similar legislation in Colorado and Washington. Tags: california farm animal welfare factory farm us.

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DECEMBER 28, 2009

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JULY 15, 2010

In the Washington metro area, we have a BIG deer problem. Tags: Activism Ethics Language Cayuga deer hunting. A comment left yesterday on a two-year old post, by None Please presented a phrase I've never heard before and I'd like to address it. "In

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

For it’s first year the program will premiere in YMCA locations in Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C. – Tags: events. Mars Petcare is collaborating with the YMCA in 5 cities to start, to bring pet-friendly health and physical activity education and programming to communities. New York City; Nashville, Tenn.; Portland, Ore.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2013

That one or two or a few might still exist somewhere “incognito,” perhaps in the company of doves or rock pigeons, maybe even somewhere deep within the Olympic Rain Forest of Washington State. Gene Stratton-Porter ( Photo used with the permissions of the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites ).

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JULY 30, 2009

to Washington, D.C., by passionate dog owner Jason Watson, Dublin Dog is the creator of the original “All Style, No Stink&# 100% waterproof dog collar, as well as a complete line of colorful and stylish leashes, dog tags, and fashion-forward t-shirts for owners. Tags: news. Founded in 2007 in Charlotte, N.C., and abroad.

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AUGUST 13, 2013

After three years of observation at a Bald Eagle nest in Washington state, I believe that young birds do, in fact, learn to fly — and they appear to learn much the same way we do. It really looked like a game of tag. Growing up, you may have been told that a baby bird doesn’t need flying lessons.

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