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Maybe the holiday season will involve adopting a companion animal into your family, and that’s a terrific way to support your local animal shelter!  But maybe there’s no room to bring another furry forever friend into your home. Or maybe you lost a forever friend this year, and the holiday season may be tinged with […]

In Michigan, December delivers icy winter weather, pewter gray skies, and freezing temperatures. The snowfall may be charming, but if you’re living at the end of a chain outside, it’s also deadly. If you’re ready to break the chain of canine neglect, check out C.H.A.I.N.E.D. in Michigan. They’ve improved the lives of more than 1,500 dogs, […]

Seven years ago, Michigan earned praise for a bold initiative as the first state to commit to a ten year phasing out of the inhumane, extreme confinement of calves, pigs, and egg-laying hens. Now agribusiness is lobbying to extend the phase out another five years, with total disregard to the process by which the agreement […]

Every year in the U.S. 46 million turkeys are killed for 1 day – Thanksgiving.   Join the movement for a more compassionate world with a simple gift that helps care for these sensitive, social birds. Despite the bad rap “birdbrains” get, scientists have more recently come to recognize the complex cognitive abilities of domestic fowl. Why […]

Puppy Mills may be big business, but they aren’t good for animals or those who care for them.  Two municipalities banned the sale of puppies sourced from commercial breeders in pet retail stores mill dogs in Ohio, (Toledo and Grove City, ), joining more than 175 other localities across the U.S. with similar laws.  However, Ohioans now face […]