Animals

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Make Your Cat Adore You: Build a Catio

You love your cats. Give your feline friends some fresh air and sunshine—without letting them out to roam around the neighborhood unsupervised—and they’ll adore you almost as much as they do catnip.

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Animal Hobbyists Gone Mad

The recent deaths of a woman and the lion who killed her in North Carolina have some people asking, “What’s up with lions in North Carolina?” and “What’s a roadside zoo?” Holding anywhere from a handful of animals in backyard pens to dozens jammed into ramshackle cages, hundreds of these sleazy menageries can be found all over the country.

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Let’s Stop the Near-Drowning of Lab Animals

Depression is a debilitating illness that affects many adults worldwide, and research to create a medication to treat it deserves the most advanced and effective methods. However, the “forced swim test” has proved useless, and this cruel excuse for “research” is archaic and ineffectual.

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