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Endless love, feline style

Endless love, feline style

Central Vermont Humane Society has been inundated with cats and kittens -- they are overfull.

Nearly Half of Americans Won't Flee Without Fido

National Survey From American Humane Shows Public Reluctant to Evacuate Without Their Companions; Hurricane Gustav Pet Evacuation Efforts Confirm Survey Results

Knife not required

BRATTLEBORO -- Vermont public school students who do not want to take part in dissection exercises have a new law that requires teachers to offer alternatives to cutting up real specimens.

May 2-3, 2009, Washington, DC: No Kill Conference

Register Today! The No Kill Advocacy Center is teaming up with the Animal Law program at George Washington University Law School to bring together the nation’s most successful shelter directors and the nation’s top animal lawyers. They will show you how to create a No Kill community and teach you how to use the legal system to save the lives of animals.

September Programs at the North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier

Outdoor enjoyment and learning about animals, vegetables, minerals, and more

Oct. 4: Addison County Humane Society invites you to Woofstock 2008

Annual Walk and Festival for the Animals, 10 am to 2 pm on the beautiful Middlebury Green

HSUS and VHF launch ReportAnimalCruelty.com

The Vermont Humane Federation, in partnership with The Humane Society of the United States, has launched ReportAnimalCruelty.

Specialized large-animal rescue workers forming

Plans for large animal technical rescue team to include firefighters & veterinarians in Addison and Rutland Counties

K-9 King Luther gets fond farewell

Rutland City Police lost one of their most loyal officers Tuesday night.

Sign Up Today for No More Homeless Pets Conference

Early-bird pricing deadline quickly approaching

Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in the Boston Globe!

Utah sanctuary lets you care for those rescued

Barnet animals recovering after rescue from "worst case of animal abuse" ever seen by some officials

A 71-year-old woman and her 41-year-old son were charged with animal cruelty and have signed over the animals for treatment, rehab, and adoption.

Earwigs: Remember them next Mother's Day

An earwig still evokes a shudder after many centuries, for the insect's Old English name, earwicga ("ear" and "worm"), suggests it might crawl into your ear when you are asleep and do terrible things to your brain with its rear-facing pincers. The meaning of the word earwig somehow later evolved to also mean "whisperer" (more appropriate for a harmless little insect), which, if it has anything to whisper to us, would tell about motherhood.

World Animal Day 2008

Love, Care, and Protection on October 4th

Assessing Where Senators Obama and MCain Stand

Compassion for a special class of nonhuman animals remains an unplayed card in the upcoming presidential campaign

Songbirds start their southward migration

Songbirds start their southward migration