FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD
Words cannot describe the mix of fear and relief in animals when kind hands find them. Just as hope leaves — there comes a tail wag. A softening in the eyes. A purr. A nuzzle. A neigh, grunt or moo… All animals want to live.

I saw this shift in Mabel, a beagle mix with a dislocated pelvis crying in pain on a bridge over Thailand floodwaters. While in Bangkok for animal flood aid, Mabel inspired me. I watched her face brighten — as if she finally glimpsed something better. A few days ago, Mabel flew nearly 9,000 miles with Kinship Circle’s Sister Michael Marie to arrive in time for my birthday. This tiny heart from the other side of the world now rests beside me as I work. She has found her last home…

Truth is: Disaster aid costs are steep. We literally could not be on the ground without you! Nor could we build teams with the skills and talent to save stranded animals. For Mabel…and so many more like her…we thank you for supporting Kinship Circle disaster aid and animal advocacy programs!

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Alamogordo Chimps Get Hiatus From Painful Experiments
About 200 chimpanzees at a New Mexico nonresearch site won’t go to a Texas lab for experimentation. The chimps remain at Alamogordo Primate Facility indefinitely. An NIH pardon… FULL UPDATE

Officials Heed Outcry, Improve Hyderabad Dog Prisons In India
Our India sources thank Kinship Circle for amplifying global outcry against dungeon-like pounds. Officials are handing oversight to local NGOs, as requested. Over 13,000 voices… FULL UPDATE

Animal-Free Trauma Training Far Exceeds Live-Animal Labs
Thanks to diligent Kinship Circle activists, with Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine leading the way — trauma labs have a new face, and she isn’t furry or cuddly…
FULL UPDATE

Army To End Torturing Monkeys In Nerve Gas Experiments
A monkey is dosed with a drug to mimic nerve gas attack. He seizes. Oozes bodily fluids. He is in respiratory failure…The U.S. Army intends to end ghastly chemical drills… FULL UPDATE

Puerto Rico Boots Bioculture Monkey Breeders-For-Research
Good job to Kinship Circle advocates who fought to keep Bioculture’s breeding-for-research farm out of Puerto Rico. A Court of Appeals has ruled the firm to not proceed with construction… FULL UPDATE

Man Who Stole Karley’s Life Denied Early Release From Probation
When retired L.A. assistant fire chief Glynn Johnson smashed Karley’s head in, he underestimated the puppy’s right to exist, and the fury of animal advocates seeking justice for her stolen life… FULL UPDATE

NC Research Lab Staff Indicted On Felony Cruelty Charges
Kinship Circle members resolutely urged D.A. Frank Parrish to seek prison plus fines for staff at Professional Laboratory & Research Services, a North Carolina lab exposed for cruelty… FULL UPDATE

Vendors Pedaling "Live Goods" Are Finally Banned From Market
Authorities did nothing for decades, as birds were confined without water or shade, squashed upside down in bags, thrown from trucks, and crushed inside teeny cages. But a ban now… FULL UPDATE

Landmark Report Stirs Grant Freeze On Chimp Experiments
They are like us, yet not enough to cure us. The Institute of Medicine agrees. Sort of. New findings say researchers can no longer warrant invasive chimpanzee experiments. A call for stern limits… MORE

SHAC 7 Kevin Kjonaas Leaves Jail
Kevin moves to a halfway house after 6 years in federal prison — for hosting a website that reported activities of other activists. Learn about SHAC 7, Huntingdon Life Sciences, and how laws that dub activists terrorists affect your freedom of speech… MORE

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To educate, protest, leaflet, speak to media, host fundraisers, and build awareness in your region. As a Kinship Circle rep, your activities are publicized on our site, social media… LEARN MORE & SIGN UP!

A 9000 MILE JOURNEY HOME
Rescuers found her on a bridge over floodwaters with a dislocated pelvis. Mabel cried in pain. She would have died. I met the thin girl in Thailand with Kinship Circle for animal flood aid. I don’t know exactly when I began to love Mabel, but saw her brighten at the sound… more

GALLERY OF HOPE
Faces From A Flood: See stunning disaster rescue images that open eyes and hearts to the most vulnerable victims. Please share our Thailand flood photo collection. These timeless images are animals left behind — and the people who save them… more

TEMPLE OF DESPAIR
Nothing prepares us for 1000+ dogs, cats, pigs trapped in a sea of trash, muck, sludge. A putrid stench rises from fecal piles. Dogs limp on 2 or 3 legs. Wounds fester. Some are furless from mange. Most are emaciated. Caged cats hang over swamp. One slip and a cat drops… more

NEW START FOR THE NAMELESS
Sunlight shafts cast green shadows on animals and people under 6 tents. Dogs line a narrow corridor that leads to a sick and injured ward. A few belong to evacuees. Most are nameless, pulled from flood zones. But each animal becomes someone with hope and identity… more

SAVED FROM THE WATER
We wade through waggy tails to find the weakest. A thin black dog’s leg is lame. She’s timid, but coaxed to safety. Rescuers belly crawl to get a shepherd-mix with a hurt paw under hay stacks. We use a net to save Harry, a furless dog whose endured hunger, mange, floods… more

SECOND CHANCES
With the dog in my lap aboard a boat, Kinship Circle volunteers lead us to the rescue truck. Blood drips from a neck wound. I can hear his faint pant against my chest. Alive. Now safe. We name him Monk for the swamped temple where the white terrier swims with some 50 forgotten dogs… more

FIELDS OF HUNGER
A man floats 16 dogs on a makeshift barge. A woman cares for 14 bridge dogs. Kittens scavenge behind a store. Dogs paddle across a watery sweep. Food-rescue runs reveal wounds, infection, immobility, tumors, mange. Some get field aid, others go to the flood shelter… more

STRANDED ON LEDGES, STEPS…
Dogs and cats perch on dry spots in a flooded temple complex. Puppies bounce down steps that end in water. We distribute food ferried in by boat and stay to assess highest risk animals. It’s impossible not to care about each one. Every face becomes a part of you… more

JAPAN OUTLOOK UNKNOWN FOR ANIMALS: Japan officials stopped quake-tsunami aid on 9-11. But animals remain at risk. Fukushima’s nuclear reactor is unstable, with evacuated zones under police blockade… more

FLOOD, WIND & FIRE SWEEP USA: Kinship Circle is watching Texas fires and has offered aid to emergency agencies in flooded parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts… more

HURRICANE IRENE: Kinship Circle deployed under Atlantic County, New Jersey EMA for emergency animal sheltering at a Red Cross human evac campus. Volunteers soothed scared animals as Irene roared… more

MORE HELPING HANDS TO TO JAPAN: Dogs roam. Cats wait roadside, uncharacteristically ready to be trapped. Chickens and cows hang on until another food drop arrives… more

ARIZONA WILDFIRES: Kinship Circle monitored 3 Arizona wildfires for animal impacts and response, checking in with emergency agencies to offer relief if natinal nonprofits are needed. All fires were allegedly human-caused… more

JOPLIN, MO TORNADO: A multiple-vortex EF-5 tornado ripped a wide stretch of Joplin, MO, leaving more than 150 dead. Bonnie Morrison, Kinship Circle Disaster Management Director, was in Joplin to assess and offer aid… more

ALABAMA TORNADO
ILLINOIS-KENTUCKY FLOODS
MISSISSIPPI RIVER FLOODS: In the shadow of a destructive tornado, we assembled a standby team for animal sheltering in Tuscaloosa, AL… more