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Facebook makes you despair? Social networking makes you want to end it all? You may be ready for online ritual suicide with the aid of a new website that helps you kill your virtual identity.
Keith Stewart recently claimed in these pages that he lives an irresponsible life, smoking, drinking, riding motorcycles -- actually, it sounds like he's having a great time. He said that it's his right to die the way he wants to, without health insurance, and he doesn't want to owe or be owed anything by anyone else.
Despite recent media coverage naming the Tooele City Animal Shelter as a government-run facility that donates animals slated for euthanasia to the University of Utah for animal research projects, local officials say it’s a practice they haven’t participated in for almost a year.
Three men are behind bars after breaking into the Northside Veterinary Hospital in Eunice. More alarming than the break-in is what deputies say the suspects may have left on the street. Euthasol, a drug used for the humane euthanasia of animals. Which the hospital has to keep legally in a confined securely locked area in this case a safe. The hospitals veterinarian, Dr. Tim Deshotel says the ...
QUESTION: There seems to be a large number of animals at the Humane Society for adoption. How many get euthanized a year? ANSWER: This year we're pleased to share with you that euthanasia of healthy, adoptable animals is less than 1 percent.
Scott Hansen starts a euthanasia clinic for severely ill and suffering animals that can't be adopted out and whose owners can't afford veterinary bills or special care.
A Makaha woman charged in the beating death of a peacock asked a judge to throw out the case Monday...
WASHINGTON — Some people can’t stand prosperity, my father used to say. Today , he might be talking about Republicans, who, in the midst of declining support for President Barack Obama ’s hope-and-change agenda, are considering a “purity” pledge to weed out undesirables from their ever-shrinking party.Just when independents and moderates were considering revisiting the GOP tent. Just when a near ...
The party’s 10-point purity pledge shows thinking people need not apply.
As it turned out, Lawrence Frank’s zillion-to-one career as a hometown head coach died a slow and painful death. The man who opened with 13 consecutive victories closed with 16 consecutive defeats before Rod Thorn performed a mercy killing that was his only play to call.
I await this event all year. No, I'm not talking about Shark Week (the greatest seven days of the year, mind you). I'm talking about Thanksgiving. The day American families come together, give thanks and collectively strengthen our reputation for being obese.
Some people can't stand prosperity, my father used to say. Today, he might be talking about Republicans, who, in the midst of declining support for President Obama's hope-and-change agenda, are considering a "purity" pledge to weed out undesirables from their ever-shrinking party.
Almost 40 percent of the animals taken into Quad-City animalshelters this year were euthanized. All but two were put downbecause of health or behavior issues that made them unadoptable, afact that shelter employees say is not widely known.
By JC REINDL BLADE STAFF WRITER DAYTON — The list of problems at the county dog pound kept growing. Among the standouts: an old facility crowded with stacks of broken cages, inhumane treatment of the injured and sick, and euthanasia practices reported by the local newspaper as “harsh and sometimes seemingly arbitrary.” Before long, county officials had a clamoring chorus of critics — pet owners ...
The county animal shelter is among 21 in North Carolina reprimanded for failing to comply with new euthanasia standards, according to the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
Some people can't stand prosperity, my father used to say.
