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20070629
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 US
-  Massachusetts
-  Canada
-  Car
-  Travel
- Pet
- Animal
- Mitt
Romney
- 2008
Election - "Romney
Accused of Mistreating Family Dog." ... "[2008 election
Presidential candidate Mitt] Romney placed his family dog, an Irish setter
named Seamus, into a kennel lashed to the top of his station wagon for
a 12-hour family trip from Boston [Massachusetts] to Ontario [Canada] in
1983. Despite being shielded by a wind screen the former Massachusetts
governor erected, Seamus expressed his discomfort with a diarrhea attack."
-By Glen Johnson -AP
via -SFGate.com
20070503
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 Health
-  Science
- Consumer
-  Food
- Drug
- Safety
-  Terrorism
- Emergencies
-  Lawmakers
-  Politics
- Animal
- Pets
-  Pennsylvania
-  Colorado
-  Michigan
-  Calif
-  Kan
- Mass
- "FDA
plan to close field labs draws fire." ... "A Food
and Drug Administration plan to close seven of 13 field laboratories has
angered some lawmakers, government workers and safety advocates, who fear
the move will chase away skilled veteran employees and hurt the FDA's ability
to respond to public health emergencies." ... "The FDA's field labs inspect
and analyze food, drugs, animal medications and feeds, medical devices
and other health products." ... "The labs check for compliance with federal
guidelines, protect consumers from unsafe, ineffective and mislabeled products,
and help investigate public health threats such as product tampering, bio-terrorism,
food-borne illnesses and contaminated blood supplies." ... "Several of
the facilities helped investigate the recent pet food scare and E. coli
and salmonella outbreaks in spinach and peanut butter. On the heels of
these crises, the proposed lab closings have been met with strong suspicion."
... "Over the next several years, the FDA wants to close labs in Philadelphia
[Pennsylvania]; Denver [Colorado]; Detroit [Michigan]; Alameda, Calif.
[California]; Lenexa, Kan.; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Winchester, Mass
[Massachusetts]. Those operations and an estimated 250 employees would
then be moved to five multi-purpose "mega-labs" that could handle all types
of FDA testing." ... "But some fear that fewer labs would delay the testing
of food, biological medical products or drugs in the event of a public
health emergency." -By Tony Pugh
-McClatchy via
-RealCities
20051208
-
Animals
- Pets
- Genetics
- "Genetic
Secrets of Man's Best Friend Revealed." ... "Scientists
have decoded the dog genome. A boxer named Tasha, selected for her high
degree of inbreeding, has had her genetic secrets puzzled out and then
compared to partial genetic pictures of other breeds of dog and other mammals.
It has been a long wait for humanity's first companion, domesticated from
grey wolves at least 15,000 years ago." ... "Researchers first broke up
Tasha's genome into small sections of genetic material, deciphered the
makeup of each of those bits, and then pieced them together into a complete
genetic map--the so-called whole genome shotgun strategy. Tasha's high
degree of inbreeding simplified the task of decoding her 2.4 billion-letter
genetic code by reducing the differences between her 39 chromosome pairs.
The fact that she is a female, however, left the team without a picture
of the canine Y chromosome." -By David Biello
-ScientificAmerican
20050906
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Hurricane
Katrina - New
Orleans - Louisiana
- Animals
- Pets
-
 TX
- 
- "Pets
Homeless, Too, After Katrina." ... "Tales of survival
coming out of New Orleans include the rescue of dogs, cats and other family
pets that had to be abandoned by families fleeing the rising water." ...
"Evacuees transported from Louisiana to Texas were not allowed to take
their pets with them. Some were forced to leave their pets on the side
of the road while they boarded buses. Others were lucky enough to hide
small pets in their shirts, pants and bags." ... "Nearly 400 animals arrived
this way. Once passengers arrived at the Astrodome, however, they were
not allowed inside with pets. The Houston SPCA sent volunteers to meet
the buses and take the pets back to its shelter until the owners could
care for them again."
-CBSNews
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Hurricane
Katrina - New
Orleans - Louisiana
- Animals
- Pets
-
- TX
- 
- "Sad
story of boy and his dog grips nation." ... "Among
the thousands of crushing moments from last week's deadly hurricane, one
image brought the anguish home to many: a tearful little boy torn from
his dog while being shuttled to safety." ... "It tugged at the heartstrings,
prompting an outpouring from around the country of people on the hunt for
both the boy and his dog Snowball in hopes of a reunion." ... "The boy
was among the thousands sheltered at the [New Orleans, Louisiana] Superdome
after the hurricane. But when he went to board a bus to be evacuated to
Houston [Texas], a police officer took the dog away. The boy cried out
-- "Snowball! Snowball!" -- then vomited in distress. The confrontation
was first reported by The Associated Press. Authorities say they don't
know where the boy or his family ended up." ... "Many of the animals --
dogs, cats, ferrets and birds -- that police collected at the Superdome
were herded into a stairwell until the human evacuation was complete. Of
the 50 animals rescued from the Superdome on Sunday, not all of them survived."
-By Matt Sedensky with contributions by Paul J. Weber
and Brian Skoloff -AP
via -Boston/Globe
20050905
-
Hurricane
Katrina - Louisiana
- New
Orleans -
- Animals
- Pets
-
- "Pet
rescue in New Orleans is gathering steam." ... "With
progress made in evacuating people from New Orleans [Louisiana], some are
turning their attention to other living creatures affected by the flooding
-- pets." ... "People left thousands of dogs, cats and other family pets
behind in the rush to escape either Hurricane Katrina or the flooding that
followed." ... "Many of those animals sit forlornly on the rooftops of
flooded homes, slowly starving to death as rescue boats ignore them, looking
for people instead. Some have even tried swimming to boats, only to be
rebuffed by the rescuers." ... "One fear is that after seven days in the
hot sun, with no food and drinking nothing but polluted water, the dogs
might be dangerous." ... "On dry land, stray dogs have formed packs to
scavenge the city for food." -With contributions by
Jed Kahane and Paul Bliss -CTV.ca
20011204
-
"Dog
fine with new pacemaker." -By
Carolyn S. Wettstone -QCTimes
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