Action for Animals Austin

We're not cavemen or cavewomen anymore...we don't need fur to warm our bodies...so for "fur"get it!!!! http://animals.change.org/blog/view/celebrating_compassion_for_animals_during_fashion_week

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WOW!!!!!  No more "bull"shit in Catalonia!!!! http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/29/world/europe/29spain.html?_r=1

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Printed in The Dallas Morning News.  It was a good one, emotionally on target. Read and post comments at: http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/07/lions-and-tiger.html

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Friends: I wanted to let you know that I visited Sunny Day Farms this weekend to visit the animals and help Brooke out at the farm. I had a great time with the animals, made many new friends, of course, and helped as much as I could around the farm. It was really HOT and the work was semi-grueling for someone out of shape like me :(((Anyway, what I most wanted to talk about was...

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I'm not sure if this is the best forum to write this, but I'm going to go for it anyway: Lately, I have just been SOOO frustrated with all the abuse of animals.  The oil-covered animals in the Gulf!  Other countries massacring animals!  Animals suffering right now as I type this in factory farms, research facilities, zoos, circuses, etc.  All I want to do is turn away from this @#$% and run away, far away,...

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Thanks to the efforts of CHAIN FREE AUSTIN, dogs here will not have to know the loneliness and despair that life affords them at the end of a chain.  We are very lucky to have to have this law in the Austin books, and yet this kind of life is a reality for so many other dogs in so many other states. The hard-working group, DOGS DESERVE BETTER, is having their annual "Celebrity Collars for...

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My nephew, Kyle, posted on his FaceBook page the other day that he got his dog fixed.  I was so proud him and let him know that.  He lives in Milton, Louisiana, and you can only imagine that getting your dog fixed is not on the top of the list for most Milton residents ;( Kyle responded to my comment with, "cost me a fortune, though."  I inquired how much out of curiosity, but have...

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Well, Animal Control showed up in my neighborhood today and, of course, my first response was, "Oh, shit!  They're coming to get my dogs!!!"  That wasn't the case after speaking with the Animal Control LADY (you go, girl!), as she was there regarding complaints about a chihuahua that runs loose around my neighborhood.  I knew exactly which house she wanted and pointed her in the right direction.  I was quick, however, to let her know...

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Saturday, May 15, 2010 Dorinda Pulliam leaving Town Lake Animal Center position From Austin Chronicle's City Hustle column:… It came out this week that Dorinda Pulliam, the Town Lake Animal Center director, is leaving her post to work on “high level Departmental and City Corporate projects” before retiring in January 2010, according to a city memo. Pulliam “is being assigned to assist with special projects in other divisions within the department and other corporate level...

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/us/18animal.html?th&emc=t

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