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Last year's Summer of Love' Pet Adoption Program was a remarkable success, with 122 dogs and 154 cats adopted, ... We hope that by extending this program and waiving adoption fees, Hempstead Town will be able to continue helping residents experience the joy of pet ownership and giving these animals good homes with loving owners.

Many of the rescued animals will be brought to the Saline County facility to be rehabilitated and then placed in foster homes. Hopefully, their owners can eventually reclaim them.

She was very distraught. She was crying about all the buildings and animals that were burned, she was very emotional.

She was a mess, and I knew I won't have her long, but it's the best thing I've ever done. The older animals are always harder to place. A lot of people look at everything over eight as old, but you get a lot of good years out of them. Older animals are really the best ones.

She's only claiming nine cats, even though she's feeding the whole neighborhood. It happens a lot. People just don't realize they can't have as many animals as they want.

Some animals have a lot of nerve - they get caught in my teeth!

Since we can't track people with tracking devices, like we do animals, we needed to get data that provided us with millions of movements of individuals. What is amazing about these particular scaling laws is the fact that they are determined by two universal parameters only. This result surprised us all.

Since some of the exhibits will feature live animals, we are asking visitors to please leave their own pets at home.

She returned to Colorado with three children and an even larger assortment of animals, including a goat.

She is an example of what we see everyday in southwest Florida, animals abandoned and neglected.

She loved children. Loved animals. Loved being outdoors.

Most of these wild animals depart in autumn when the sun changes their behavior and they feel the urge to migrate or go off alone. While they are with us, however, they become characters in my books, articles, and stories.

Most of the viewers of wildlife hunting shows and videos have no idea how much of a challenge (hence the name of the competition) it is to successfully film a hunt for free-ranging animals in the wild. This competition highlights the skills of the cameramen who help bring the 'outdoors' indoors to millions of viewers.

Most people support protection of plants and animals as long as it doesn't affect their use.

Most people are not coming to the game because they want to support cruelty to animals. They are simply unaware.

Molecules are fossils, too. We've shown that proteins survive in very old fossils, and proteins can tell us about diseases, about where prehistoric animals fit in the food chain, what they ate and who they are related to.

May I be dear to deities...people of equal capabilities and animals alike... and may I be blessed with a long life!

One of the things we least understand is why animals evolved so late in Earth history. Why did animals wait until the 11th hour, whereas evidence for more primitive life dates back billions of years? One of the best bets to explain the difference is an increase in oxygen concentration in the atmosphere.

One of the things I recommend is to call the Alliance Police Department. Every single officer cares about animals and wants to try and do what they can for them. Alliance is really a progressive community when it comes to animal cruelty and abuse.

One of the animals which a generous and sociable man would soonest become is a dog. A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character, he can equally enjoy the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends, and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.

Of all the animals that people have been trying to clone, the dog is the only one that has proven really difficult.

One volunteer said the animals are past being scared - they're blank,

Neutering is good for his temper, it's good for his health, and it's the most important thing you can do to make a difference for homeless animals! ... Did you know that shelters have to kill more than 4 million animals every year just because there aren't enough good homes out there? I can't have that on my conscience!

Needs may actually change. One day water is a priority, but then Anheiser Busch donates water. The next day it could be food. We have to take animals and pets into consideration.

No doubt it would increase our tax base, assess the valuation somewhat, increased revenues from the buildings that he would put up and the animals he would have in those facilities,

Right now, animals are generally considered property. Animals do not have rights in the sense that humans have rights.

People were staying because they wouldn't leave their animals.

People won't think it will be enforced. It's already hard enough to enforce cruelty to animals.

My trust in you is broken and I am plunged into despair for the animals.

Nobody in these parts likes to see animals mistreated at all. It's not right. Anyone who would treat an animal like that would probably do the same to kids.

One of the major implications is that it shows us how these two processes, both preference for elaborate mates and preference for genetically complementary mates, can both occur in a population. It highlights the importance of taking into account the environment in which the animals are behaving.

I was really surprised. This is my first year in FFA. I'm going to save it up for college and I'll definitely do this again next year. I like animals and it was pretty cool. It keeps me busy. It makes you very responsible.

I would have thought they would have better things to do like saving real animals from cruelty, ... This is a toy that is used to relieve stress, it's meant to be a bit of a giggle.

I would characterize myself as a health and safety lover. My love for animals is because if you don't properly care for and manage the pet population, you can have some serious health consequences for people.

I work on the floor with them. Lab coats scare them, so for the animals, it's better to wear regular clothes.

If they had homeless people, human beings, inside the lab against their will and they were doing needless, senseless experiments on them, people would be out in the streets marching. There would be a revolution. SHAC is saying that these animals are equal to humans in that they shouldn't have to undergo needless pain and suffering.

If they want to put down in some part of the desert surrounded by lions, jackals and other dangerous animals, then we will do it.

If this lady is guilty of anything, it's loving these animals too much. She has them in her house. She has more than most people have in her house. But that is not cruelty. It may be eccentric. It may be unconventional. But it's not cruelty.

I don't have a whole lot to say about this one. That was a team that was hungry. . . . Sometimes, the wounded animals are the most dangerous.

I'd like to be a lion... they are very family-oriented. Unfortunately. too many wild animals are afraid at what man can do to them.

I'd love to see a place where people could get together with their animals and meet other people.

I bought the store because I wanted to be independent. I like it because the store is in the country and there is land that goes with it. I am able to keep my animals close by, including my horse. I didn't want to work for someone else. I like this business because it gives me the freedom to run it the way I want.

Certainly it could disturb the animals, but there's nothing illegal occurring.

Cats aren't cooperative in the same way that other animals are. You can train a dog to act, but you can't train a cat in the same way.

Cats are mysterious kind of folk - there is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

Because of the fast and fierce spread of the virus in so many European countries, I wouldn't be surprised if other nations found cases in the next few days, or if more animals in other German areas become infected.

China is so lucky to have so many beautiful animals to represent the Olympic spirit.

I'm a huge animal lover - I love animals to death. I've got tortoises and three dogs, and I've had a million animals in the past. I just think that we should do all we can to take care of them.

I love animals; I've always loved animals. It's how I identified myself for so long, but I didn't know that in so many ways, I was living my life not in alignment with that. And once I learned about those ways I could be loving animals better, I made those changes, which made me happier and had me living a life that had me contributing.

I love animals. I'm going to be an animal doctor.

I love animals. If I didn't have the sick ones, I'd make money out here.

I love animals, but I love people, and I love people who have all kinds of beliefs.

I love animals and I thought this would be a great way to earn a living. I've been around dogs my whole life, so this is a great way to spend lots of time with different kinds of dogs.

I have an understanding about disease and the relationship to birds and animals. I won't know near as much as staff veterinarians and researchers, but I will be able to understand what they are talking about and hope to help integrate that into what we are doing.

Growing up, my family was very, very into animals. Animals were treated like other people; they slept in the bed with you. I come from an agrarian background. That's how my family's fairy tales are structured, where animals have a lot of power. It gets into people's psyche.

Given the industry's reliance on trucks as the primary means of transporting farm animals, the USDA's failure to apply the Twenty-Eight Hour Law to trucks renders the act virtually useless, ... Transporting farm animals for 28 or more hours without rest, food, or water is clearly inhumane, and the USDA's failure to place any time limit whatsoever on truck transport is indefensible. If the USDA doesn't understand the definition of 'truck,' we would be happy to send over a dictionary.

Girls and boys are fundamentally different animals, they learn in different ways, and we are not dealing with those differences, ... We tend to treat all children equally. Girls on the whole look like good students, while boys are not engaged in learning.

From now on, processing and trading raw blood pudding from poultry and animals is strictly prohibited,

From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand that they might provide a relatively simple entry into a problem as complex as cancer.

If any of those animals had escaped, we could have had a different ending, ... By dumping Reggie in the lake, he put children at risk.

I don't want any more concentration camps for animals that are cruelly treated, force-fed to fatten themselves up for our consumption.

From the time that he had first found, himself alone with them, Oliver had felt sure that the animals could come alive again if they wished.

For three months, the Board of Health did not do any due diligence relating to this situation and the removal of the animals . . . .

For this reason, the movements of animals, products and people from endemic areas to other regions should be strictly monitored.

If it were feasible to use animals as organ donors, an unlimited supply would potentially become instantly available,

If we see animals, we circle around and count them, and also try to determine how many bulls, cows and calves there are.

If we make it steep, it'll get their attention and get their animals under control.

If we aren't supposed to eat animals, then why are they made out of meat?

If that means going onto their farms, releasing their animals and burning the place to the ground, that's morally justifiable, in our opinion.

If the government is just there to kill the animals and cull them there is the possibility that the farmers won't report cases.

If the animals in the area were sick and dying, and if they were dying in small numbers, it might have been very difficult to identify that as an outbreak.

He heard what he said were footsteps (inside). It was clearly not animals.

He'll talk about the animals and the things we can do to help that animal.

There is a growing scientific consensus that animals have emotions and feel pain. This awareness is going to effect change: better treatment of animals in agribusiness, research and our general interaction with them. It will change the way we eat, live and preserve the planet.

We reproduced the observations from humans in animals in order to identify the mechanism for the hyperbaric oxygen effect. We found that hyperbaric oxygen mobilizes stem/progenitor cells because it increases synthesis of a molecule called nitric oxide in the bone marrow. This synthesis is thought to trigger enzymes that mediate stem/progenitor cell release.

We're pleased that they (USDA inspectors) did go out there but still feel cautious about this situation because the regulations that the USDA enforces are minimum, and I emphasize minimum. In cases where they declare that there are no violations of the Animal Welfare Act, animals can still be languishing in really abysmal conditions.

When human body itself is made of flesh, where is the need to consume the flesh of birds and animals? You should partake of only sacred food. Only then you will have sacred feelings.

Have children in the home suggest songs from school. Hold a contest for the happiest song, the best song about animals or another topic. Give ribbons or certificates to the best songs.

Hard as it will be, we must find ways of structuring that co-existence, or we will never be able to stop viruses migrating from animals to us -- and to our children,

He's a likeable guy. I never had a problem with him until this happened. But about a year go, he got these animals and they were crapping all over my driveway and my yard and we were tracking it in the house. I asked him to please keep them on his land, but they kept coming over.

There are no pet stores that sell 9-foot sharks. You've got to get them some other way. We're going to try and collect as many animals as we can.

The owner had many animals and gradually became overwhelmed, eventually keeping them all in closed crates and small rooms as his illness progressed.

Humans are the only animals on earth that have done nothing to improve our planet. We are the only animals that have done nothing to improve the life of another single species on this planet.

He was just seeing animals out there not getting care because pet owners had to make their decisions with their pocketbooks and not their hearts.

I was kind of under the impression that very little research was meaningful in medicine ? that their work was frivolous. Every time I was able to deny a project, I felt I had gained a victory that these animals didn't have to be used in research.

I was interested in science or, at least, nature from an early age, learning the names of planets, cutting cartoons with facts about animals out of the newspaper and gluing them into a scrapbook, and, with a friend when I was five or six, trying to design a submarine.

Knowing those animals are locked up, not able to do any more harm that's one satisfaction. I do not look at them as humans. Humans don't do that.

Kids are just interested in animals. But it's much more than that. They have certain responsibilities they have to meet, and many want the challenge. It teaches real-life skills. Sports works for some people, something like this works for others.

Just like the Medical Center, we had water in the Zoo. We lost one small animal that was spooked by the weather. All of the other animals came through during Tropical Storm Allison. During Alicia, I am told by some of the veteran zookeepers, that we lost two birds.

It affected me a lot how people can just biff these helpless little kittens away. They are acting no better than animals themselves.

I think it does affect our state image, in a negative way. We have a state of so many people who really care about animals and animal issues. I don't think it's an accurate reflection of our state's view of animals as a whole.

It also helps people learn to appreciate the animals more if they're involved in something like this.

I think it's a very emotional issue because animals can't speak for themselves. These are people who care about animals and think they are doing the right thing.

It is a fact that plants also have life like animals. But animals are endowed with mind, and nervous systems too while the plants do not possess the same.

I think that perception is because they see that we put down a lot of animals. But it's not because we want to but because there is a problem.

I think the biggest thing I remember was there are so many animals in this state named Kirby, and if somebody had a cow or a horse, they named it Herbie. I was always second fiddle to Puck, and I loved every minute of it.

I think we're going to end up with 300-310 animals.

It gave them hope. And it saved them $3,000. This was in a low-income area. When you walked down the street there would be bikes, toys, stuffed animals there. The people haven't been back. That was hard to believe, six or seven months after (Katrina).

It givens them chores to do, and they get to have fun and have responsibilities. It's a learning experience for them and older kids selling animals is one way they get money for college,

It is highly likely that there are more exciting and unusual animals to be found in South East Asia.