Will you lend your voice

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Dear friends in the blogosphere...

I received this mail update today from Make Animal Testing History. Might you consider lending your voice to this URGENT matter. Thank you!! http://www.makeanimaltestinghistory.org/the-march.php

Dear Make Animal Testing History marcher,

Thank you! You are one of nearly 70,000 people marching to Make Animal Testing History through the revision of European Union legislation on animal experiments.

Over 12 million animals are used each year in EU laboratories, many in countries with very few rules to protect them. Your support has helped us to call for numerous improvements to existing legislation such as ethical evaluation for each experiment, regular unannounced inspections, increased action on developing non-animal alternative tests and for legal limits to be placed on the severity of experiments.

Dr Caroline Lucas MEP, President of the European Parliament Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals, receives our Make Animal Testing History pledges.

On October 21st, as the final stage of discussions between the European Parliament and Council began, we presented your call for animal protection rules to be strengthened and for animal experiments to be replaced with humane alternatives, to a special 'intergroup' gathering of Members of the European Parliament and a representative of the EU Presidency.

We explained why your views matter, and why it is important that they listen to citizens like you, who want to see an end to animal suffering and the promotion of more advanced research techniques.

Discussion of the new legislation may finish soon if the Council and Parliament reach agreement quickly. However, if they cannot reach agreement, the Parliament will hold a full debate in the first half of 2010.

We will alert you as soon as this becomes clear but in the meantime, we are keeping the Make Animal Testing History virtual march open so please continue to ask your friends to join and follow us on facebook.

Thank you
The Make Animal Testing History team

Pretty in pink

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Yes, they are actually way out of season these pictures, certainly for this part of the world, but I've just been clearing up my photo files and came across this choosy mama birdie. She's sat on a chair on our terrasse (right outside the garden door) picking pink wool from a blanket left out for our cats! She probably got tired of the same old brown nests and wanted to go for pink this year :-) She and her mate (or maybe it's the other way around?) came back early each morning for a few weeks, and I would just have loved to have seen what that nest looked like in the end!! It sure must have looked real pretty.

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Craving possession... where's the beauty in that?

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God loved the birds and invented trees.

Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Quote by Jacques Deval
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Lookalikes

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You might either feel flattered or that it's eerie. Which ever way you feel, humans really DO look like their dogs! Really, try at study it, you'll be truly surprised. It's such fun when you get into it! Here's a bit of proof for you in case you can't see the point... LOL!!

Pictures from lifeinthefastlane.ca
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Tender love

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"Every boy should have two things: a dog,

and a mother willing to let him have one"

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Adopt a mouse!

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I love these catnip mice found at Viva Le Chat. It's a great little gift for any cat or cat lover. Most of all I just love the sentiment behind why the creator started making these. Here's an extract from the shop statement:

"This shop was started as a way to raise money to pay for heart surgery for my darling kitten, Viva le Chat. Unfortunately, her life was much too short and she died of heart failure on June 23, 2008 at 9 months old. I miss her so much.

In Viva's memory, I donate a third of what I earn to imom.org, an organization that raises money for people who cannot afford necessary emergency vet care for their companion animals. Without imom's fundraising efforts, these animals would die."

Yay, isn't it lovely that there are people like that out there?!! Gonna have to try a few of these for Christmas... don't think they will last for long though!

The top picture is one of her new kitties having a hoot trying to chew one of the mice to bits!!

All pictures from Viva Le Chat.

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Hypnotic cute eyes

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Isn't this just the most deliciously expressive little face!?! I just smiled all over when I saw it and imagined it could have been an encounter with a cute alien and I would have welcomed it to my planet, LOL!!