We adopted 2 beagles from the NC research lab Peta closed

This weekend my husband David and I adopted two of the 200 beagles sprung from a NC medical research lab shut down after Peta produced and unwatchably disturbing undercover video that shut the lab down.

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Rare White Deer Spotted on Staten Island

A white deer is beguiling Staten Island. He says hi to people waiting for a bus near the South Shore Golf Course.

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Feed Zoo Animals? Yes, At This NJ Rescue Facility

Popcorn Park Zoo Black Bear Nose

Their lives are much better now than they once were. BooBoo, a black bear, was used to pay for a car in Iowa, sold to a dealer who wanted the bear to draw in customers. Tigers were about to be used in a canned hunt. The Coati Cocoa spent two years in a cage in a basement.

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No Rescued Beagles Left in Newark Shelter

While you can give donation on behalf of individual dogs rescued from a NC Lab, you can’t see which ones you can actually adopt.

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Locally, sustainably grown birdseed? Why It’s Not an Effete Idea

NJ Audubon is selling locally, sustainably grown birdseed. Why would you want that? It supports cool, local farmers who don’t kill birds that try to eat seeds in the field.

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249 Beagles & Cats Sprung from Lab Up for Adoption from NJ to FL

The Animal Welfare Institute quickly moved 54 cats and 195 dogs to 12 shelters and rescue groups up and down the east coast after the lab said it would close in the wake of an unwatchably grim video an undercover Peta investigator made at the lab.

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Peta Investigation Shuts Down Skeezy NC Lab That Abused Cats and Dogs

Peta’s undercover video investigation of a creepy NC lab just sprung 200 dogs and a bunch of cats from their cages and shortened life full of abuse. A week after Peta released its unwatchably gruesome video, the lab shut down.

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Purple Martin Festivals and Fans

Cape May lighthouse and birdhouse / By Vilseskogen

If you live in the eastern U.S. chances are there’s now a purple martin festival or fan club nearby–or will be soon. Watching and attracting America’s largest and most co-dependent swallow has become a big pastime and $30 million business. About a million Americans have put up housing for purple martins, says Louise Chambers, the Education Outreach Director for the Purple Martin Conservation Association. Purple martins are a special species because east of the rockies–where most of the country’s 11 million martins nest–they depend on people for 95% of their housing says, chambers. The martins (Progne subis) The martins are tame and tolerant of their human fans because they understand their special status, writes James R. Hill, III, the association’s founder: “The Purple Martin is one of the few birds in the entire world that was never persecuted or hunted by man, instead it was nurtured and loved by him.” Some people do try to chase the martins away–and decades ago even killed them mistaking them for starlings, Chambers says. In 2007, the last year figures are available, the USDA’s Wildlife Services, the federal agency for killing what’s considered nuisance wildlife, chased away 625,720 purple martins, mostly in Mississippi and Kentucky, and killed five. By now most Americans think of martins as something to enjoy, not shoo away. About 125,000 Americans a year try to because what martin lovers adorably call landlords: they put the distinctive white houses or gourds. A recent

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Jersey Loves its Turtles

NJ shore residents love their diamondback terrapin turtles so much they put up signs asking drivers to slow down in the summer, when females plod over roads to nest.

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Sea Gulls Play Tug of War with Snake

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Sometimes the most common animals really put on a show, making them more fun to see than some rare bird you only catch a glimpse of. On a trip to New Jersey’s pinelands this weekend, I got to see two sea gulls fight over a snake.

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