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Animal Rescue Month

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“Animal rescue and animal welfare continues to be a top cause for our volunteers and actually served as the genesis for the founding of our organization,&# said The Volunteer Advantage’s Merritt Friedman. These points are then redeemed for rewards, discounts and coupons from local and national businesses.

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Can we talk about Cecil the Lion?

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Animal rights is concerned with individual animals, and their suffering and welfare. I’m not unsympathetic to concerns about animal welfare, really. Reasonable people can disagree on the conservation impacts on hunting, on the benefits and costs, and on the morality and wisdom of using it as a conservation tool.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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Dr. David Lavigne, Science Advisor to the International Fund for Animal Welfare, co-authored Gaining Ground: In Pursuit of Ecological Sustainability 5. This principle reaffirms that animal welfare is an integral part of modern conservation. Capturing wild animals for live trade and captivity should not be permitted.

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Second Annual National Family Pack Walk

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The Cesar Millan Foundation is dedicated to promoting animal welfare by supporting the rescue, rehabilitation and re-homing of abused and abandoned dogs and by delivering community humane education programs, including the Mutt-i-grees Curriculum. Visit www.cesarsway.com/packwalk to sign-up for the D.C.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

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He writes, "The dog remained a vital tool in biomedical research for more than 300 years and was the vehicle for a remarkable run of medical breakthroughs.". But there is a significant contingent who is not as enamored with the Laboratory Animal Welfare Act as he is. It does not make them more or less a "tool." Maybe on paper.

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Birding for the Curious: A Book Review

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It doesn’t take much digging to see that there are any number of concerns facing wild places and wild things in the world today……To love birds and birding is to be intimately involved in their welfare. There is no longer any place to hide from the unpleasant truths about their future. (p.

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Rescue for the rescuer.

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“As an animal welfare worker (professionally or as a volunteer), you know what it feels like when you make a positive difference in the life of an animal. Understanding the animal’s history, wants & perspectives is a powerful tool toward a successful adoption & transition to the animal’s permanent home.

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