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Caring for community's abandoned cats
They are feral — wild and possibly dangerous. But they are also scared, hungry and in danger. They get a little help from people who spend hours feeding the stray cats around the city and even trap many in a practice called catch, neuter and...
Tags: Social Issues, Pets, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
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Effort to protect California egg law in House farm bill fails
WASHINGTON—Congress to California: Here’s bit of egg on your face. A bipartisan group of lawmakers failed to kill a provision in the farm bill that blocks California from requiring that eggs imported into the state come from hens who have...Tags: Justice System, Jeff Denham, Dianne Feinstein, U.S. House Committee on Rules, Crime, Law and Justice
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Name your 'purr-fect' adoption price for humane society cat, kitten
The Humane Society of Harford County has introduced a new way to adopt a fun-loving feline - the "Pick Your Purr-Fect Price" cat adoption program, in which the humane society's intention is to unite even more fabulous felines with new families. Last...Tags: Social Issues
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U.S. proposes new protections for captive chimps
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday proposed extending tough new protections for chimpanzees in captivity, a shift that would place strict limits on primates' role as human surrogates in biomedical research. In reclassifying chimps as...
Tags: Lincoln Park Zoo, Duke University, Research, AIDS, Endangered Species
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Horse slaughterhouse accuses USDA of IRS tactics
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A southeastern New Mexico company's plans to convert a cattle plant into a horse slaughterhouse has hit another roadblock, this time over an environmental dispute that the company's attorney blames on the Obama administration...Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Congress, Water Pollution
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Government moves to wrap up gray wolf recovery
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Federal officials are declaring victory in their four-decade campaign to rescue the gray wolf, a predator the government once considered a nuisance and tried to exterminate. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on...
Tags: Bill Clinton, Endangered Species, U.S. Congress, Science and Technology, Environmental Issues
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Which comes first: California's egg rule, or everyone else's?
WASHINGTON — Congress this year will deal with a host of profound issues: A confrontation over raising the nation's debt limit. Budget battles that will determine whether more cuts are made in government services. And the most ambitious attempt to...
Tags: Justice System, U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, Jeff Denham, Dianne Feinstein, Laws
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Business people - June 9
Small Business Development Center of the Eastern Panhandle MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Christina Lundberg, business coach and center manager at the Small Business Development Center of the Eastern Panhandle in Martinsburg, recently was named Minority...
Tags: Realty, Small Businesses, Real Estate, Business, Sales
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Andi Kola: Put spay-neuter program to vote
At a local Broward shelter, cats and dogs were lined up in a hallway today as they awaited their turn to go into the kill room. The same dogs that just a day ago could be seen playing with shelter volunteers were surprisingly quiet as their sixth sense...Tags: Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Politics, Pets, Voting, Broward County
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Wayne Pacelle: Humane Society becomes a big political target
Rep. Blaine Leutkemeyer, R-MO, is right that the IRS should not target any charitable organization solely on the basis of its ideology. Yet that's exactly what he's asking the IRS to do in his factually unfounded attacks on The Humane Society of the...Tags: Pension and Welfare, Politics, Internal Revenue Service, Charity, U.S. Congress
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The Front Burner: Breed-specific regulation: Not new and not working
We all want to live safely, including with dogs. With that purpose in mind, we should adopt policies that have succeeded, and avoid ones that failed. Breed-specific regulation did not originate with pit bulls. Long Branch, N.J., banned the Spitz in...Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Pets, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Health Organizations
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A new breed of pet-friendly rentals
When John and Sara Kanive wanted to find a way to make their Chicago apartment stand out in order to sublet it in March, their solution was right in front of them, wagging his tail. Otis, their Great Dane-German shepherd mix, very obligingly parked...
Tags: Animals, Tribune Company, Rentals, Apartments, Pets
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