wild life alert! -call your U.S. Senators today

 

from defenders of wildlife -      

America's polar bears are struggling to survive -- with biologists predicting they could disappear in just a few short decades. But Big Oil uses your tax dollars to drill in key polar bear habitat.

Sea turtles, dolphins and other Gulf Coast wildlife paid the price of the Deepwater Horizon drilling disaster. Yet Big Oil still spends your tax dollars on pursuing more risky drilling in the Gulf and other coastal waters.

Today, the U.S. Senate could vote to end the $4 billion in taxpayer giveaways to Big Oil -- but we need your voice to make it happen.

Please call your U.S. Senators today urge them to support the Repeal Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act -- and end billions of dollars in Big Oil giveaways. 

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recieved from: defenders@mail.defenders.org Nelda

Pets Need Our Help

Scooter - died of Bob Cat Tick disease

 

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced that it will no longer allow researchers who use federal funds to obtain cats from Class B dealers beginning in October 2012, with similar measures to follow for dogs in 2015.

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/nih-phasing-out-class-b-dealers-pets-still-need-our-help.html#ixzz1q2HYKoVa

Can you picture your kitten with it's brain cut open and wires and tubes sticking out? Using animals for scientific study isn't needed. 

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Class B dealers are USDA licensed animal brokers who find and sell dogs and cats to schools and research institutions for a profit. Their methods of acquisition range from going to breeders or shelters, answering classified ads, and in some cases stealing pets who are left unattended. Class B dealers also buy animals from “bunchers” who collect animals from random sources.
Even though research facilities that receive federal funds will not be able to get animals from Class B dealers, these dealers can still continue to work with privately funded institutions.
In 2009, the National Academies released a report in response to a request from Congress that concluded that these dealers are not necessary. The report stated that “…testimony provided to the Committee by USDA officials made it clear that despite new enforcement guidelines and intensified inspection efforts, not all origins of animals are or can be traced. The USDA simply cannot assure that stolen or lost pets will not enter research laboratories via the Class B dealer system.”

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/nih-phasing-out-class-b-dealers-pets-still-need-our-help.html#ixzz1q2IRfCmj

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Nelda

WaysideWaifs.org

My Dog CoCo, part pit found on the road when she was about 10 weeks old.

Hi,
I just found out if you go to Goodsearch.com and indicate a charity they will get a donation each time you search. I had to use their listing to find waysidewaifs.org, any help is better then none. I was surprised too when I put in Genealogy and came up with several sites including Ancestry.com, It even found my genealogy websites.
A good way to get them money to help care for the animals..

Don't forget to go feed the pets

FEED THEM FOR FREE

Please go click on this button only takes a minute...doesn't cost you a thing...

 http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3&origin=ARS_FACE_BLOG_ADGROUP_BLOG_PetVideos_driftcaat_TOP_ClickRem_CTG

There is a button here that if you click on it once a day will help feed and treat animals..

Please go do a click daily...

 

thanks.....nelda

Bison free at last and protected

 

Historic Homecoming for Bison at Fort Peck

Jamie Rappaport Clark | Posted on 20 March 2012 | Tags: Fort Belknap, Fort Peck, Yellowstone

 The last light was fading fast from the sky when the first three trailers arrived. Gale force winds were ripping through the high plains, and the thermometer had dropped well below  freezing. Still, I was incredibly excited and gratified to be part of the small gathering with Fort Peck tribal members  to witness a historic homecoming and tremendous win for wildlife.

Read the rest at:   http://www.defendersblog.org/2012/03/historic-homecoming-for-bison-at-fort-peck/

Wildlife sanctuary

While reading my emails this afternoon, I came across one from a friend, you know the forwards most of us like but don't always have the time to read?!!

It started out like most do but, Well read for yourself.. (Sorry the pictures were gone)

In 2003, police in Warwickshire , England , opened a garden shed and found a whimpering, cowering dog.  The dog had been locked in the shed and abandoned.  It was dirty and malnourished, and had quite clearly been abused.
 In an act of kindness, the police took the dog, which was a female greyhound, to the Nuneaton Warwickshire Wildlife Sanctuary, which is run by a man named Geoff Grewcock, and known as ahaven for animals abandoned, orphaned, or otherwise in need. 
  Geoff and the other sanctuary staff went to work with two aims: to restore the dog to full health, and to win her trust. It took several weeks, but eventually both goals were achieved. They named her Jasmine, and they started to think about finding her an adoptive home.

 Jasmine, however, had other ideas.  No one quite remembers how it came about, but Jasmine started welcoming all animal arrivals at the sanctuary.  It would not matter if it were a puppy, a fox cub, a rabbit or, any other lost or hurting animal.  Jasmine would just peer into the box or cage and, when and where possible, deliver a welcoming lick.

 Geoff relates one of the early incidents.  "We had two puppies that had been abandoned by a nearby railway line. One was a Lakeland Terrier cross and another was a Jack Russell Doberman cross. They were tiny when they arrived at the centre, and Jasmine approached them and grabbed one by the scruff of the neck in her mouth and put him on the settee. Then she fetched the other one and sat down with them, cuddling them."

   "But she is like that with all of our animals, even the rabbits.  She takes all the stress out of them, and it helps them to not only feel close to her, but to settle into their new surroundings.  She has done the same with the fox and badger cubs, she licks the rabbits and guinea pigs, and even lets the birds perch on the bridge of her nose."

Jasmine, the timid, abused, deserted waif, became the animal sanctuary's resident surrogate mother, a role for which she might have been born.  The list of orphaned and abandoned youngsters she has cared for comprises five fox cubs, four badger cubs, fifteen chicks, eight guinea pigs, two stray puppies and fifteen rabbits - and one roe deer fawn.  Tiny Bramble, eleven weeks old, was found semi-conscious in a field.  Upon arrival at the sanctuary, Jasmine cuddled up to her to keep her warm, and then went into the full foster-mum role.  Jasmine the greyhound showers Bramble the roe deer with affection, and makes sure nothing is matted.

 "They are inseparable," says Geoff. "Bramble walks between her legs, and they keep kissing each other. They walk together round the sanctuary. It's a real treat to see them."

 Jasmine will continue to care for Bramble until she is old enough to be returned to woodland life.  When that happens, Jasmine will not be lonely.  She will be too busy showering love and affection on the next orphan or victim of abuse.

 Pictured from the left are: "Toby", a stray Lakeland dog; "Bramble", orphaned roe deer; "Buster", a stray Jack Russell; a dumped rabbit; "Sky", an injured barn owl; and "Jasmine", with a mother's heart doing best what a caring mother would do....and such is the order of God's Creation. 
  And, just in case you wondered, Snopes.com <http://snopes.com/> has verified the truth of this wonderful story and the reality of these photographs which accompany the story - so you can pass this story on, and help make someone else's day to be just a little brighter!

Well, me being me.. I googled the name of the sanctuary... and It is actually a real live no Kill Sanctuary...  In England.. God Bless you!

 http://www.nuneatonwildlife.com/index2.html

 Don't Forget tom feed the Abandoned: 

FEED THEM FOR FREE

Please go click on this button only takes a minute...doesn't cost you a thing...

 http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3&origin=ARS_FACE_BLOG_ADGROUP_BLOG_PetVideos_driftcaat_TOP_ClickRem_CTG

There is a button here that if you click on it once a day will help feed and treat animals..

Please go do a click daily...

Nelda