It's hard to believe someone would throw a puppy over a six-foot fence.
But that's exactly what some people are doing at the Odessa Humane Society.
They're the cries of injured animals. These puppies sit bruised and scared after
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]]> A Hezbollah weapons depot exploded in South Lebanon today, 12 miles from the Lebanon-Israel border. The Lebanese president is complaining of Israeli military incursions into Lebanese air space and violations of UN Security Council Resolution 1701
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]]> PETA recently learned that the New York City Department of Education—which is the largest school district in the U.S. and manages nearly 1,500 public schools—uses glue traps to kill rodents in its buildings. We've informed district officials of the
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]]> After pleading guilty to charges of animal cruelty and attempted burglary on Wednesday, 17-year-old Cheyenne Cherry confronted a row of animal activists outside the courtroom. Cherry stuck out her tongue and told the activists that the kitten named Tiger
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]]> SPANA is a charity that works in some of the poorest countries, improving the lives of working animals and the people who depend on them.
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]]> This week officials at the Panna Nature Reserve in the state of Madhya Pradesh, the so-called tiger state, revealed that there were no longer any of the big cats in the entire park. After forest officials reported not sighting any of the animals for
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]]> Wild animals attack. Some experts say the animals are losing their fear of humans, causing them to see humans as prey. Others insist the increase in human-predator interaction has more to do with human encroachment into their habitat, and the animals are
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]]> AUSTRALIA'S largest wool buyer, China's Sunshine Group, has demanded Australian wool growers abandon mulesing.
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]]> I have been working on finding ways to save around 20 hippos that have been roaming freely in the area of the now deceased drug baron Pablo Escobar's old hacienda. These hippos have been breeding since 1982 and are now moving into adjoining wetlands and
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]]> A Cal-Maine industrial egg facility in Texas caught fire last Thursday. The facility was damaged but fortunately, no one was hurt. Oh yeah, and 800,000 hens died.
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]]> Rising demand for pangolins, mostly from mainland China, compounded by lax laws is wiping out the unique toothless anteaters from their native habitats in Southeast Asia, according to a group of leading pangolin experts
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]]> The European Coalition to End Animal Experiments (ECEAE), urged members
to prioritise the replacement of animal experiments and to promote a
modern humane science policy following today's announcements of the
newly elected European Parliament.
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]]> The butterfly has seen the biggest drop of all UK butterflies in recent years, with numbers down 80 per cent since the 1980s to just 35 surviving colonies.

A £430,000 project aims to bring back the butterfly by preserving habitat in its last stronghold
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]]> Swamp wallabies Mia and Parker have been inseparable since their mothers were killed on the road within a few days of each other.


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]]> The bears and bobcats temporarily reside at Safe Haven Rescue Zoo, a rural Northern Nevada animal sanctuary Sugasa established in 2006. The 50-year-old woman and three interns work to rehabilitate the animals and prepare them for release back into the
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]]> The United States is the only nation that still uses chimpanzees in large-scale, invasive research. Many countries have banned research and testing on chimpanzees because of a growing awareness of the scientific problems with these experiments.
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]]> Studies of the population and conservation requirements of the Critically Endangered Jerdon's Courser have been stepped up again, after three years in which resources had to be diverted to a successful campaign against the construction of the Teluga
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]]> Experimenting with tiger farming is too risky and could drive wild tigers further toward extinction, according to the World Bank.
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]]> Florida hunters will soon have a new prey. Starting Friday, ten hunters will take part in the first ever python hunt in the state. The permitted hunters will head into state wildlife management areas in South Florida to search out and destroy as many
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]]> U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson called Tuesday for organized hunts of thousands of pythons believed to be living in the Everglades to kill the snakes and prevent potential attacks.

Nelson's request came in a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who got a
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]]> Leadbeater’s possum is an endangered marsupial that can be found in the Central Highlands of Victoria. Prior to 1961, this animal was thought to be extinct. Leadbetter’s possum is the official faunal emblem of Victoria State.

The current decline of
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]]> Whether you are looking for an organization to donate funds or to donate your time, you should do a little research before you make your decision. Hampton Roads has many to choose from, and one may be a better fit for you. The following information
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]]> Petunias, roses, hibiscus – snake.

A St. Augustine man was rushed to the hospital after he was bitten by a pygmy rattlesnake while shopping in the garden section of a Wal-Mart.

Jeriel Joiner, 27, said the snake locked onto his right index finger
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]]> A major brouhaha over zoos spilled over onto Beacon Hill Monday. Lawmakers scrambled to respond to claims from Zoo New England that a $4 million gubernatorial budget cut could force the shutdown of two local zoos.

Worse, Zoo New England officials said
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]]> Please revive John Kerry's S. 1880, H.R. 3219, and H.R. 3327 (the Dog Fighting Prohibition Act and the Federal Dog Protection Act) by strengthen the penalties for illegal dog fighting and also prohibit the possession of fighting dogs and attendance at
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]]> Sam Neill's fossilizing career now has him plugging the consumption of artery-clogging meat from abused cows, pigs, and other animals in commercials for Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA).
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]]> ST. LOUIS - The authorities seized more than 400 dogs on Wednesday and charged 26 people from seven states in what officials called one of the largest crackdowns on dogfighting in the United States...
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]]> Tell Fairfield's Conservation Commission to end deer hunting and educate the public about humane ways to have deer and humans live together.


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There is new video in the case of a Jasper area pet named "Boost" that was euthanized before its owner could retrieve it from the Walker County Humane Society. http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1184508478?bclid=1184468497&bctid=29241846001
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]]> Each year, in the name of national security and good medicine, 8500 animals get stabbed, shot, burned and amputated. Over in the chemical casualty program, vervet monkeys get tormented with drugs whose effects have long since been banned on the field of
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]]> Household cats exercise this control with a certain type of urgent-sounding, high-pitched meow, according to the findings.
This meow is actually a purr mixed with a high-pitched cry. While people usually think of cat purring as a sign of happiness,
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]]> Should the 2010 mulesing deadline be extended?
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]]> No one fishes for krill off the West Coast, and federal fisheries managers want to keep it that way so the tiny shrimp-like creatures remain as plentiful as possible as food for whales, salmon, and seabirds.
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]]> This African Leopard was caught in a gin-trap and died an agonisingly painful and horrific death of dehydration and sepsis, then left there to rot. This is an accepted and common practice of Wool, Red Meat and Ostrich farmers in the Uniondale district
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]]> Marksmen hired by the National Parks and Wildlife Service are patrolling the North Head park in Sydney at night following the attacks by dogs or foxes
Infrared cameras and traps have also been set up to catch the killer - or killers - of the
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]]> Animal rights activists are laying the groundwork to sue the state over the manner in which it kills adult mute swans, using a bolt-cutter-like device to snap the birds' necks.

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]]> The owner of a house in Lakemore was unable to keep up with the rising cost. He went into foreclosure and left - without his 118 cats.
Eric Schickendantz has been an animal rescuer his whole life but he's never seen conditions quite like this
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]]> The government-ordered killing of a hippopotamus that escaped from the ranch once owned by the late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar has raised an outcry among Colombian animal rights groups.
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]]> Sea Shepherd is very concerned for the safety of this whale shark and demands its release back into the ocean immediately. The timing is excellent, as divers have reported several recent sightings of whale sharks off the coast of the United Arab Emirates
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]]> David Horton’s indefatigable energy and excellent public speaking skills for animals is well known right around Australia. Here he speaks with Claudette Vaughan on how to live the non-violent animal rights philosophy.
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]]> These vile people should be locked up NOW so they are not able to put anymore animals at risk of severe cruelty and ultimate death. Please keep all correspondence polite. We must do everything we can to protect these animals from further evil abuse by
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]]> Pet Airways offers jet-set pets travel with furry frills, from boarding lounge and pre-flight walks to onboard lunch and loo breaks
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]]> A man repeatedly kicked a dog he had with him at the North Beach Oasis on Sunday, according to bystanders who spoke to police.
A woman told police that a man with a pit bull on a leash kept kicking the dog.
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]]> Fifty-one tiny puppies were rescued last week from the truck they had spent over 4 miserable days in after people passing by heard them crying and called the police. The truck had just made a delivery of 10 dogs to Elite Puppies in the Boston area.
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]]> Two rescuers in southern Colorado are trying to save the lives of 17 horses taken from a woman in Fremont County.
Last week Fremont County Sheriff's deputies issued 64-year-old Geraldine Rem a summons for 22 counts of cruelty to animals.
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]]> I am a volunteer for my local animal shelter. Unfortunately, this is a "KILL" shelter. There were more than 300 animals euthanized in this shelter in the past year alone. That is statistically one or more than one a day.
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]]> Bolivian President Evo Morales has signed the world's first law prohibiting the use of both wild and domestic animals in traveling circuses.
This is the first national law to ban the use of both domestic and wild animals in circuses.
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]]> Please read the article. I sent them an email myself asking about this & they told me that they are barely hanging in. I've got a fundable for them at http://www.fundable.com/groupactions/groupaction.2009-07-08.9949308628
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]]> Are Beijing Zoo caretakers animal haters? Kids pat a goat; then watch it airborne and seconds later torn from limb to limb by starving lions. This is not a natural kill by suffocation – it is torture for bucks. What message for the kids?
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]]> KERHONKSON - A man and woman have been charged with animal cruelty after two dogs and a cat were found at a Kerhonkson home Saturday severely emaciated.
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