Kitty Momow’s Orangutan Outreach Benefit Concert was a huge success and a TON of fun! Thanks so much to everyone who came out to the show. I need to thank a few more folks, and then I’ll tell you how you can get a FREE T-SHIRT!
Thanks a MILLION!
The Mellow Mushroom Bar - The venue!
OZ Music [...]
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I’m posting this at 3:30 AM on Wednesday, with just 16 hours left until the Orangutan Outreach Benefit Concert starts.
I finally finished all the signs and donation collectors, or “donation stations,” as I christened them. I tried to make this event as environmentally friendly as possible and used recycled materials for as many things as [...]
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The American Humane Association sent me these pet safety tips, and now I’m passing them on to you. I hope you and your pets enjoy a happy and safe holiday season!
-MJ, aka Kitty Mowmow
Keeping pets away from poinsettias and chocolate is just the beginning. Avoid an unplanned trip to the animal hospital this holiday season [...]
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Award-winning actress and pet parent Felicity Huffman has teamed up with Iams Home for the Holidays to help raise awareness for the millions of homeless dogs and cats throughout North America. Home for the Holidays has set a goal to place 1 million orphaned animals into happy and loving homes during this year’s holiday season [...]
Everyone has an opinion about what kind of dog the Obamas should take to the White House.
Rescue a homeless dog, advise adoption shelters. Think poodle, says the American Kennel Club, which ran an online survey. Radio talk and Internet comments run the gamut from serious pet-care advice to un-PC jabs.
In his election night address, Barack [...]
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Indistinct figures pad through the windowless corridors of Northwestern University’s animal facilities in Chicago. Only their eyes peer out from the layers of surgical masks, gloves, shoe covers, head covers and long, wide laboratory coats as the scientists here care for the animals they use for research.
Government funded facilities, such as Northwestern, [...]
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Write to your congressman or congresswoman to encourage them to maintain protections for endangered species!
California Attorney General Jerry Brown has called on the Bush administration to abandon its proposed changes to rules in the Endangered Species Act in a letter to the Fish and Wildlife Service.
The changes could put “entire species and ecosystems [...]
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On Thursday, November 6, 2008, Dr. Kirt Rusenko, Marine Conservationist, and staff from Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton will release two juvenile loggerhead sea turtles raised in captivity into the Indian River Lagoon near Sebastian Inlet.
The loggerheads, dubbed Milton and FeeBee, hatched on Boca Raton’s beaches in July 2002 and were [...]
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Reading this story makes me wonder if and how the results of studies on genetic differences between humans and other primates will affect animal rights legislation. What do you think?
Researchers have carried out the largest study of differences between human and chimpanzee genomes, identifying regions that have been duplicated or lost during evolution of the [...]
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The Humane Society of Dallas County’s shelter has stopped accepting surrendered animals for the first time in its 30-year history because of financial problems.
The no-kill shelter, Dog and Kitty City, is facing a double whammy: Donations have fallen roughly 75 percent since last year and adoptions have dropped 25 percent as fewer people [...]
