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	<title>Dancing Dog Blog &#187; Animal rights</title>
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		<title>Animal Lawyers, Swiss Vote No</title>
		<link>http://www.dancingdogblog.com/2010/03/animal-lawyers-swiss-vote-no/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Haight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[National animal advocates will not be unleashed on offenders any time soon in Switzerland. Instead of having Antoine Goetschel, the lone animal lawyer paid by Canton Zurich to represent animals in abuse cases, animal acivists thought all 26 Cantons should offer this public service.  Theoretically  more lawyers would help get more abuse cases prosecuted. But the voters, knowing they lead the pack on animal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Animals Hire Lawyers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Haight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swiss Cantons (akin to States) are voting on alloting more animal lawyers to prosecute abuse cases. They vote because the Canton pays. Yes, they take animal abuse pretty seriously!  Of course, not everyone is happy that pigs, horses, dogs, cows and cats get represented in court.  Even the lawyer who represented a fish wanted to keep that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jane Goodall, Extremists,The Daily Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Haight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Jane Goodall, world renowned conservationist and primatologist, is promoting her Roots &#38; Shoots program, a global environmental and humanitarian youth program that spans 110 countries, and she has recently been on Bill Moyers talking about it and her new book &#8220;Hope for Animals and Their World.&#8221; It was a really good program, but didn&#8217;t intersect with the blog so I reluctantly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Report: Katmandu Slaughter Approved</title>
		<link>http://www.dancingdogblog.com/2009/11/foreign-report-kathmandu-slaughter-approved/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Haight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia Out of Katmandu, Nepal at around midnight comes news that the Gadhimai Festival, celebrated every five years in Bara&#8211;maybe 100 miles south of the capital&#8211;will go ahead with the ancient blood sacrifice of 500,000 goats, pigs, buffaloes, pigeons and chickens November 24 and 25, despite protests by Buddhist monks and animal rights activists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Animal Law Progress Slow, Uneven, But Advancing</title>
		<link>http://www.dancingdogblog.com/2009/02/animal-law-progress-slow-uneven-but-advancing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Haight</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by Eduardo Amorim via Flickr It wasn&#8217;t all that long ago that animal rights were a topic of discussion held only at the fringes, and not many gave consideration to what happened to animals abused behind closed doors, or were aware of such cruelties as fighting dogs for money.  Laws for animal rights had remained almost unchanged [...]]]></description>
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