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US: Activists are trying to stop another cruel coyote killing contest in Oregon

By: Alicia Graef From Care2 Wildlife and animal advocacy organizations are calling on officials in Oregon to shut down an upcoming coyote killing contest, and to make these horrific events illegal throughout the state. These contests, which are also known as drives,…

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Fisherman risks his life to save a humpback whale

By: Laura Goldman From Care2 As they headed back toward the central California coast after fishing for slime eel in the Pacific Ocean, Sam Synstelien and Nicholas Taron made a troubling discovery: a humpback whale was entangled in a buoy’s…

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Animal cruelty is a gateway crime to mass shootings

By Laura Goldman From Care2 Prior to killing 17 people at a Parkland, FL high school earlier this year, Nikolas Cruz had tried to mutilate his neighbor’s pot-bellied pigs and crushed animals trapped in rabbit holes. Kip Kinkel, who in 1998…

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Another invasive species found on Grand Cayman during Green Iguana cull

A second invasive lizard species has turned up during the Department of Environment’s (DoE) ongoing hunt for Green Iguanas. This Knight Anole (Anolis equestris – see attached photograph) was discovered last week at Vigoro Nursery on Agricola Drive in Lower…

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US VA continues cruel dog experiments despite defunding threat

By: Laura Goldman From Care2 In horrific experiments, researchers at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities around the country implanted dogs’ stomachs with electrodes that made them vomit repeatedly. They placed pacemakers and catheters in dogs’ hearts, which forced the dogs to…

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David Attenborough’s latest nature show has a brilliantly original twist

BY SAM HAYSOM From Mashable An iguana desperately fleeing a horde of snakes. A bird struggling to find love. A giraffe fending off a lion in a heroic bid for freedom. When it comes to nature documentaries, it tends to…

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Woman jumps into canal on Cayman Islands to rescue drowning chicken

By Ben Hooper From UPI Nov. 7 (UPI) — A visitor to a yacht club in the Cayman Islands captured video of a woman jumping into a canal to rescue a struggling chicken. Vicky McClenaghan was filmed by a witness…

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Death Valley’s iconic burros are being rounded up and adopted out

By Laura Goldman From Care2 Burros have been a familiar sight in Death Valley going back to the California Gold Rush in the mid-1800s, when prospectors used them as transportation and then left them behind. Over the next century, the…

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This Caribbean National’s horse just ran in The Breeders’ Cup Classic

From NAN News Americas, LOUISVILLE, KY, Mon. Nov. 4, 2018: A Caribbean national created history on Saturday Nov. 3, 2018, as his horse ran in the elite Breeders’ Cup Classic of 2018 in Louisville, Kentucky. Trinidad and Tobago national, Uriah St….

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15 dog toys that your pooch (probably) can’t destroy BY MARCUS GILMER From Mashable The world is filled with a wide variety of good dogs, but some are harder on their toys than others. You know the type: they take…