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A peaceful ending: CAPE's unique hospice care program
CAPE foster volunteer Tia Meyer specializes in hospice care for shelter dogs. This is a volunteer job that few people would be willing to tackle. But Tia embraces the chance to bring dogs into her home who may have only a few months left to live. To read about Tia and the CAPE hospice care program, please click here.
Tia Meyer and Bailey
Who Protects the Animals? by Mark Bittman The Opinion Pages of The New York Times
Proposed legislation in several states to outlaw undercover video in factory farms and the recent and explosive footage shot of calves being bludgeoned at a cattle company in Texas is the focus of this opinion piece. Click here to read more.
Kirby School PSA on pet overpopulation
ANIMAL BEAT'S new feature: Kids on the Beat for Animals. Kirby Student Ben Herken writes about puppy mills.
Longtime dog rescuer convicted of animal neglect
Part Three: A man on a mission: U.S. Marines officer promotes humane education in Vietnam
Check out continuing coverage of Iowa state legislation to ban undercover animal abuse videos.
Dispatches from the 'farmette'
Found a dog and not sure what to do?
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YOUR ADOPTED DOG: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT RESCUING AND CARING FOR A BEST FRIEND IN NEED by Shelley Frost and Katerina Lorenzatos Makris
The Lyons Press
How many books are this honest? These authors are fearless, and they’ve lived every moment of the dog rescuing life. - Marti Hohmann, The Bark magazine
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