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Animal writer, lawyer (former, mostly), author of YOUR ROBOT DOG WILL DIE. I want to pet your dog.
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We Borrowed A Shelter Dog To Go Hiking. You Can -- And Totally Should -- Too

We Borrowed A Shelter Dog To Go Hiking. You Can -- And Totally Should -- Too

HuffPost — It was a beautiful fall day, perfect for going for a hike. So my friend Rebecca and I, and my dog Murray, stopped by a local animal shelter to pick up a dog to join us. I'd heard about -- and desperately wanted to try -- programs that let visitors take shelter dogs out hiking, in Hawaii, Utah and Colorado.
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Couple creates humongous bed so they can sleep comfortably with 8 rescue dogs

Couple creates humongous bed so they can sleep comfortably with 8 rescue dogs

TODAY.com — About six months ago, Chris and Mariesa Hughes spent yet another difficult night sharing their normal-sized bed with seven rescue dogs. That's when the upstate New York-based couple came up with a big idea. Why not create a humongous bed, the likes of which had never been seen before, that could comfortably fit the whole family?
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A seafood company killed a lobster - and was convicted of animal cruelty

A seafood company killed a lobster - and was convicted of animal cruelty

Washington Post — An Australian seafood company was recently convicted of animal cruelty - for killing a lobster. The legally actionable problem was not actually taking the life of the lobster. It's that the lobster was killed in a way deemed to be unnecessarily - and illegally - brutal.
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NFL Player Uses Wedding To Raise Money For Stray Dogs

NFL Player Uses Wedding To Raise Money For Stray Dogs

thedodo.com — Instead of asking for dishes and new towels, this professional football player and his wife asked their wedding guests to donate to an animal rescue group on the Caribbean island where they were getting hitched. Tennessee Titans cornerback Logan Ryan and his fiancée Ashley Bragg couldn't wait to get married on the Caribbean island of St.
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This Is What Happens When You Put Pit Bulls In A Photo Booth

This Is What Happens When You Put Pit Bulls In A Photo Booth

HuffPost — Kelly Garrison swears this picture isn't photoshopped: Bumper, the licker, "went to kiss" Willis, the lickee, Garrison says. And photographer Lynn Terry "got the shot. She got just the perfect trigger time." This picture is so perfect it's been shared tens of thousands of times on social media in the last few days.
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Man adopts 18-year-old dog: 'I couldn't let her spend 1 more night in the shelter'

Man adopts 18-year-old dog: 'I couldn't let her spend 1 more night in the shelter'

TODAY.com — At the age of 18, at the end of February, Julep the dog found herself in an animal shelter instead of at home. Julep's person - who'd loved her very much, for a very long time - had just died. Family was unable to take care of the white-faced dog.
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Can prison food be unconstitutionally bad?

Can prison food be unconstitutionally bad?

Slate — Nobody thinks prison food is haute cuisine, but could it be so bad it's unconstitutional? The question comes up more often than you might think, and there's one dish in particular that so offends the palates of America's prisoners that it's repeatedly been the subject of lawsuits: Nutraloaf.
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What's a 'no-kill' animal shelter? The answer is more complicated than it seems.

What's a 'no-kill' animal shelter? The answer is more complicated than it seems.

Washington Post — In late December, a well-loved 17-year-old dog named Boni escaped his southwest Florida house and landed himself in the municipal shelter, Manatee County Animal Services. At various times in the past five years, this shelter has been described as having achieved no-kill status, or aiming for it.
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Montreal's Attempt to Ban Pit Bulls Is Misguided and Cruel

Montreal's Attempt to Ban Pit Bulls Is Misguided and Cruel

Slate — Update, Sept. 27, 2016, 5:13 p.m.: On Tuesday afternoon, Montreal's city council passed this deeply flawed piece of legislation by a 37-23 vote. A spokesperson for the SPCA Montreal tells Slate that this law goes into effect on Monday, Oct. 3. Mireille has spent 26 years in the Montreal home she fixed up herself.
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Survivor Of Michael Vick's Dogfighting Ring Passes Away 10 Years After Rescue

Survivor Of Michael Vick's Dogfighting Ring Passes Away 10 Years After Rescue

thedodo.com — Little Red's face was white. Her body was scarred. These two facts together tell you a lot about this beautiful dog's life: She'd been rescued out of the most famous dogfighting bust in history. And she survived, for a long time afterwards.
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Cat abandoned in old age finds loving home - and amazing bucket-list adventure

Cat abandoned in old age finds loving home - and amazing bucket-list adventure

TODAY.com — Tigger the cat just celebrated his 22nd birthday wearing a dapper bow tie and festive hat - and sharing a three-meat cake with a feline brother named Stuart. Tigger was lovingly tended to by his adoptive parents, former Baltimore Ravens cheerleader Adriene Buisch and her boyfriend, Michael Trentadue, who are determined to make every remaining day of this his life something to purr about.
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Orphaned Opossum Refuses To Be Released Back Into The Wild

Orphaned Opossum Refuses To Be Released Back Into The Wild

thedodo.com — The three baby opossums were orphans. Two lost their mother to a car accident. The third, to a dog attack. Opossum rehabilitator (and dog rescuer) Sheri Kassalias agreed to foster the three - to nurse them back to health, and take care of them until they were big and self-sufficient enough to be released back into the wild.
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Here's The Glaring Truth Everyone Missed About The Viral Dog In A Bath Video

Here's The Glaring Truth Everyone Missed About The Viral Dog In A Bath Video

barkpost.com — This dog's name is Rudy. Rudy was taking his magical bath for medical reasons - because he'd lived through hell, and his skin had been wrecked, and some good people were trying to make him feel better. Rudy only lived about five months more after this video was taken.
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A Community Came Together So This Sick Dog Could See 'Snow' One Last Time

A Community Came Together So This Sick Dog Could See 'Snow' One Last Time

thedodo.com — The diagnosis came out of nowhere. Spunky had been a little stiffer than usual for a spell, not leaping up and down stairs, but otherwise the 12-year-old dog seemed healthy. Then on Thursday morning last week, Spunky didn't want his breakfast. "He always inhales his food so I knew something was off," his mom, Ashley Niels, tells The Dodo.
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Loving Duck Won't Let ANYTHING Hurt His Favorite Little Boy

Loving Duck Won't Let ANYTHING Hurt His Favorite Little Boy

thedodo.com — Tyler's first word, in fact, was "duck," says Tyler's mom, Jennifer Young. "They did everything together, play, eat, nap, etc.," says Young. "Luckily he" - meaning Bee - "was easy to train with a harness." (Both Bee and Tyler are willing to wear diapers, though Bee sometimes yanks his off.)
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Arizona Has Become The 20th State To Ban Discrimination Against Pit Bulls

Arizona Has Become The 20th State To Ban Discrimination Against Pit Bulls

barkpost.com — Arizona has just become the 20th state to completely do away with breed-specific legislation - laws that ban or otherwise regulate dogs by breed. Arizona's governor Doug Ducey signed Senate Bill 1248 into law on Friday last week. The law, which takes effect in August, forbids Arizona's cities and counties from enacting or enforcing breed-based dog regulations.
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Wanted: Gullible Lawyers

Wanted: Gullible Lawyers

Washington City Paper — Illustrations by Robert Meganck This is the story in which you learn how a graduate of Columbia Law School-that's me-and almost 80 other people, who really should have known better, got suckered into giving away all our personal details as well as up to two months of our lives for "jobs" that never actually existed.
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Dog Who Was Trapped In Barn Gets 35 Pounds Of Fur Cut Off

Dog Who Was Trapped In Barn Gets 35 Pounds Of Fur Cut Off

thedodo.com — Lazarus has been taken into the nonprofit Big Fluffy Dog Rescue. He's in a foster home in Virginia, where he will stay for weeks, or months, or however long it takes until he lets it be known that he is ready to be adopted into a permanent home.
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Lawmakers are strengthening animal cruelty measures

Lawmakers are strengthening animal cruelty measures

2015 Blawg 100 Hall of Fame — After a delivery driver noticed an emaciated and dehydrated puppy while making a stop at a Pennsylvania farm last summer, he urged the pup's breeder to give up the sick animal so it could get immediate care. The puppy's skin was infested with maggots and smelled of rotting meat.
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Patrick Stewart fosters a pit bull - and we're completely in love

Patrick Stewart fosters a pit bull - and we're completely in love

TODAY.com — Sir Patrick Stewart has a new role, and we think it's his best one yet: He's now the foster dad to a pit bull named Ginger. On Wednesday, Ginger came to live with Stewart and his wife, the musician Sunny Ozell, at their home in Los Angeles.
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Here's why fewer pets are dying in shelters every year

Here's why fewer pets are dying in shelters every year

TODAY.com — Go grab your favorite pet - gently, gently - and sit down to share some great news about shelter dogs and cats. New data put out by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and shared exclusively with TODAY, shows that many fewer animals are landing in shelters in the United States.
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'Grateful' dog snuggles new mom who rescued him from shelter

'Grateful' dog snuggles new mom who rescued him from shelter

TODAY.com — College student Kayla Filoon was just sitting on the couch doing homework with her newly adopted shelter dog snuggled beside her when this beautiful photo was taken. It's the perfect illustration of true love. On a recent Wednesday, Filoon - a student at Temple University, in Philadelphia - was walking dogs at Philly's municipal animal shelter.
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NFL Player Walks Into Animal Shelter, Asks To Adopt A "Dog That's Been Here A Long Time"

NFL Player Walks Into Animal Shelter, Asks To Adopt A "Dog That's Been Here A Long Time"

barkpost.com — This is what we call fantasy football. Related NFL Player And His Adopted Shelter Pittie Sport The Biggest Freedom Ride Smiles This past weekend, Baltimore Ravens Offensive Tackle Ronnie Stanley-along with his girlfriend, and a teammate-stopped by BARCS, the city shelter, and made the most fantastically game-winning request.
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This rapper sings about his love of cats - and it's mew-sic to our ears

This rapper sings about his love of cats - and it's mew-sic to our ears

TODAY.com — A few weeks ago, the rapper iAmMoshow, whose songs are about cats and the women who love them, was visiting a cat hotel when he met one such woman, who casually mentioned that her two cats are declawed. "That broke my heart," iAmMoshow said to TODAY.
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