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If interested, please contact Maha directly. Location: Bangsar, KL. From: Lady M <maha.bella@yahoo.com> Date: Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 4:51 PM Subject: FW: Adoption To: “chankahyein@gmail.com” <chankahyein@gmail.com> Hi, got ur contact fr Intan. I hv 2 domestic cats for urgent adoption. Below are their details: Mr Wall-e (white) & Miss Heidi (tortie) Both neutered and…

So we’ve been appealing to all applicants to PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE compile your photos into a single collage before sending it to us.  Please don’t send us individual photos. http://animalcare.my/2015/03/16/how-to-use-picmonkey-com-to-compile-photos/ Sometimes, I have to process up to 8 applications in a day and it is very time consuming having to compile the individual photographs that…

Source: http://www.lolboom.net/autistic-5-year-old-artist-creates-amazing-masterpieces-with-her-therapy-cat/ Meet five-year-old Iris Grace from the UK. Iris, who was diagnosed with autism in 2011, is just now learning to speak and form words while most children have already begun to speak by the age of 2. But she doesn’t let her impairment get her down. Some autistic people, like Iris develop Savant syndrome, a…

Faith, the dog who inspired animal lovers all over the world, passed on to Rainbow Bridge after 12 happy years. Be free and happy, Faith! http://www.littlethings.com/this-dog-was-born-with-only-two-legs-you-must-see-her-walk-such-an-inspiration/?utm_medium=fb_share

Do you remember Capri and April’s story? The story last year: http://animalcare.my/2014/04/05/capris-miracle-a-healthy-puppy-by-natural-birth-in-the-car/ April, the miracle puppy who was born in the car, now celebrates her first birthday!! Capri has been adopted.

Yes, yes, yes! http://www.care2.com/causes/victory-new-zealand-bans-animal-testing-for-cosmetics.html In another historic victory for animals in labs, New Zealand has just become the latest country to ban their use in cosmetics testing. Following heavy campaigning by animal advocates and the Green Party to end the practice, this week the government voted to amend the Animal Welfare Act to make it…

http://www.animalsaustralia.org/features/germany-stops-shredding-chicks.php

Ming-Yi shared this: https://www.facebook.com/AnimalsAustralia/posts/10153715001410299:0 Germany has become the FIRST country in the world to decide that it no longer wants to grind up millions of live baby chicks — the disturbing ‘waste product’ of the worldwide egg industry. By 2017, it will eliminate the practice of killing ‘useless’ day old chicks — who will never lay…

Interesting: http://barkpost.com/dog-body-language-charts/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=barkbox

Don’t forget to observe Earth Hour tomorrow!

Very informative: http://barkpost.com/dogs-smell-to-see/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post Not only do they have 300 million scent receptors compared with our 5 million… …they can “smell the past” and recreate the whole history accurately. Dogs are such amazing creatures! But we already know that, don’t we?  

If you are able to help, please contact Jenna Kua directly. Jenna Kua Mar 24th, 7:08pm Hello Dr Chan. Could you please help to share this SOS? Urgent! 紧急! The authorities came to the factory area where my TNRM stray dogs are staying yesterday evening. A final warning is given either to remove the dogs or…

If you would like to help, please contact Azimah directly. From: Azimah <azeema@isis.org.my> Date: Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 1:08 PM Subject: Help needed to train/leash a young friendly dog To: Chan Kah Yein <chankahyein@gmail.com> Dear Dr Chan Hope all is well. My friend, a Malay family needs help. She is staying in a new…

We send our heartiest congratulations to Imm’s Shelter for “bouncing back” when the going was really tough (that’s 4 years ago) and for prospering now. Judy Chua, Imm’s friend, has continued sending monthly financial updates to us since Day One, of course this was not necessary at all, but she still does it for accountability…

Fenton shared this very touching story: http://wamiz.co.uk/naoto-matsumura-macchan-fukushima-animals/ An excerpt: Naoto Matsumura is the man who stayed behind. Known as “the last man from Fukushima“, 55-year-old Matsumura is the only person still living in the exclusion zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which suffered a meltdown after the major earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on…