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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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JUNE 17, 2011

I live in Seattle and, while I don't always agree with PETA, I hate the UW's animal research practices. I don't believe these animals get the quality of care they deserve for the suffering they undergo. If you "humanize" the animal and grow attached, how can you conduct experiments on it?

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AUGUST 26, 2009

Having cared for guinea pigs at the Seattle Animal Shelter, I can tell you that guinea pigs are certainly cute. They are also the messiest animals on the planet. The heroes are a pair of guinea pigs. Here is a CBS article that at least explains basic care for guinea pigs. And, they require a lot of care.

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JULY 24, 2009

Right in my own home of Seattle. Tags: sea gulls seattle animal cruelty marine life. Most rednecks wouldn't be so cruel or so stupid. I hope the allegations turns out to be false.

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APRIL 22, 2010

From the Seattle Times. A gray whale that died after stranding on a West Seattle beach had a large amount of trash in its stomach, ranging from a pair of sweatpants to a golf ball, said biologists who examined the animal. Tags: seattle whale marine life pollution.

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MARCH 8, 2009

This article was actually on the first page of the soon-to-be-exclusively online Seattle PI. While I know that sometimes people have little choice when it comes to keeping their animals outdoors, you can still tell when the animal is cared for. Tags: chained dogs seattle legislation us. And he is simply one of many.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It involves plate tectonics; and the separation of North America from South America and their eventual reconnection; and the end of the Cretaceous Era thanks to a big asteroid, and the movements of animals, including humans, in response to all of those things. With abundant roadkill (1.3

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JANUARY 18, 2009

This story comes out of Gold Bar in Snohomish County, north of Seattle (where we latte-sucking liberals live.) 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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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Tags: seattle animal cruelty animal rescue puppy mills.

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JUNE 28, 2010

Tags: seattle pacific northwest farm animal welfare chickens.

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MAY 12, 2009

I live in Seattle where Woodland Park Zoo is located. Elephants need to roam and I don't particularly like having any animal gawked at in a zoo.but I don't really know if Woodland Park is worse than any other zoo. Tags: conservation seattle woodland park zoo elephants endangered species. I just don't know what to think.

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AUGUST 30, 2011

Ringling Brothers is coming to Kent, WA, and I'm happy to know the Northwest Animal Rights Network will be protesting (we live in nearby Seattle by the way.).

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Tags: chimpanzees seattle State of Washington animal sanctuary.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Alex Washoe is a freelance writer and bookseller in Seattle, WA. “They always seem to be flying into things.&# (Like cartoon animals always do). who can be found regularly at the bird and wildlife blog Birdland West. Last time, Alex asked us to Consider the Chickadee. For some reason, Flickers seem amazingly accident prone.

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JULY 18, 2011

An article in today's Seattle Times about Woodland Park Zoo's attempts over the last 20 years to breed elephants. Very controversial with organizations such as In Defense of Animals, PETA and the Northwest Animal Rights Network. They say it's cruel. The zoo claims it's to preserve the species.

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OCTOBER 9, 2008

Northwest Animal Rights Network (NARN) will be staging protests at this fur store in Everett, WA. Tags: seattle fur. The company is Terry L. Fieck Furs. Here is their idea of a fur coat. Nice and GREEN! Literally and sarcastically.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Excerpted from the Seattle P-I. A Seattle law firm is taking on dairies, claiming that a price-fixing scheme has consumers paying too much for milk. Animal rights group Compassion Over Killing was the first to uncover the alleged systematic slaughter of healthy dairy cows in California.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

Rabbit Meadows is a rescue group out of Seattle. As the name suggests, they rescue rabbits, but they also rescue other small animals like ferrets, and other small rodents. If you are in the Seattle area and are looking to add a rabbit or other small animal to your family, be sure to visit the Rabbit Meadows website.

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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.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

I live in Seattle and I am always skeptical of how the UW treats its lab animals. Full story in the Seattle Times. says only about 13 percent of the pediatric-residency programs in the United States use animals for such training. I had never heard of the use of ferrets in medical research though. News to me.

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JANUARY 15, 2010

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. So, it's not just rednecks in Washington State who are doing this.

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JULY 30, 2009

If it's the Seattle Seahawks, I may have to move. Tags: pit bull animal cruelty blood sport Michael Vick sick. "Sick Vick" is on his way to a new team. Who will it be? Early rumors swirled around the Patriots or the Steelers.

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APRIL 16, 2009

Here in Seattle, NARN (Northwest Animal Rights Network) has been staging protests at a local restaurant that serves foie gras. I guess small protests like NARN's seem futile when compared to the overwhelming issue of animal welfare, but you have to think that a number of small protests over time can have a large cumulative impact.

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JANUARY 24, 2009

We live in Seattle, which is part of King County. Tags: animal cruelty animal rescue puppy mills. What a mess. Up north are Snohomish County and Skagit County where two puppy mill raids have led to the rescue of almost 600 pregnant dogs, about 80 percent of whom are pregnant. (We

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FEBRUARY 1, 2012

On Monday, a sea lion was found dead on West Seattle’s Lincoln Park beach. The animal protection group Seal Sitters says a necropsy showed that the sea lion had suffered a shark bite and had twisted intestines in addition to a bullet wound. The bodies of seven sea lions with bullet wounds were recently found on the Nisqually River.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2011

This list was issued by In Defense of Animals last month. I'm surprised that Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle didn't make it. Here they are. San Antonio Zoo (Texas) Edmonton Valley Zoo (Canada), Buttonwood Park Zoo (Mass.), Central Florida Zoo (Fla.), Niabi Zoo (Ill.), Topeka Zoo (Kan.), Honolulu Zoo (Hawaii), Wildlife Safari (Ore.),

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MARCH 7, 2012

Stanwood is right near where we live in Seattle and, sadly, home to Pigs Peace Animal Sanctuary which rescues all kinds of animals. I can only imagine how they feel. From the Sky Valley Chronicle. A new report in the Staug News of St. Augustine, Florida doesn’t mince any words when it comes to what’s afoot in the Stanwood area.

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AUGUST 25, 2011

The Seattle-based company supplies “the finest, most luxurious and exclusive ranch-raised natural black mink.” Given the fact that Jackson is representing a company that traffics in the fur trade, animal rights activists might get their feathers ruffled by Jackson’s continued associations with a luxe fur brand.

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MARCH 30, 2009

For all you Seattle-area residents who have thought of buying a live lobster just to free it into Puget Sound.don't do it. So I contacted the Northwest Animal Rights Network for their opinion. Tags: lobsters animal rescue. I felt guilty and angry and I hatched all sorts of plots on buying them and freeing them somewhere.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2009

Luckily, I have a coworker who volunteers with Seattle Purebred Rescue. Apparently, she had received the same email from someone else and she had contacted Seattle Purebred Rescue to speak to the Lab rep for help. Tags: animal rescue scam dogs. Before I did anything else, I went over to ask for suggestions. It boggles the mind.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

I went to graduate school at the University of Washington here in Seattle. This incident can be traced to a failure to weigh the animal at regular intervals. addition to the macaque, the USDA took issue with the unsanitary conditions of the animals’ food storage and with the discovery of expired and unlabeled drugs in the facility.

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DECEMBER 29, 2009

From the Seattle PI: The killing of about seven elk cornered in a farm pasture in eastern Skagit County has spurred state officials to close the elk archery season in the area and angered others who either witnessed or heard about the killings. Even other hunters were disgusted: "How can you call that hunting?" That can't be called hunting.

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JUNE 22, 2011

His pictures have been displayed in Chicago and Seattle and sell for $265 dollars a shot. Cooper also has pounced onto various television programs including, Animal Planet’s MustLoveCats, The Today Show in Australia, and the Q13 news. Do you have an awesome animal who should be Animal King? Other pet parents!

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MARCH 19, 2012

From the Seattle PI. While no one questions the religious sincerity of Northern Arapaho tribal members, spokesmen for some conservation and animal rights groups question why the tribe can't meet its religious needs without killing wild eagles.

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JULY 10, 2009

This is not totally animal-related, but I'll share anyway. And my husband thinks so too, and he's from Seattle. On an animal note, I will say that the treatment of animals is very bad in the Central Valley. I grew up in the Central Valley of California and my mother owns a home there in Gustine.

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AUGUST 25, 2011

It was a bad winter storm in Seattle. Our neighborhood–one of the oldest in Seattle–lost power, and we didn’t get it back. If only I had known… We were the last neighborhood in Seattle to be reenergized. And then disaster struck. One of them was ours. Yes, as an inspiration.

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