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To Our Members And Supporters In recent months, Kinship Circle director Brenda Shoss lost her dog Ethel, just 1.5 years old. Ethel was not sick. She was crushed by a speeding car. Brenda wasn’t home at the time to try life-saving measures. Ethel died under watch of other family members. Brenda — who constructs all alerts and e-newsletters — has been on hiatus due to this profound loss. We thank Kinship Circle members and supporters for their patience. Email alerts will resume soon. For all who have lost animals, especially those who know the tragedy of one killed, Brenda shares this brief message: I have buried 3 elderly animals over the last 7 years…including Stanley, the dog who inspired Kinship Circle. A killing is different. It is life interrupted. Ethel awaits breakfast and hugs that will never be. She is unfinished — the little dog who didn’t so much walk as hydroplane in leaps, springs and bounds above the ground. Her confidence was disarming. Ethel never doubted her charm and comedic talent. I’ve come to understand that the deepest love can happen between an animal and a person. Though underrated, there is nothing silly or sentimental about an animal-human bond. My love for Ethel, an admitted "favorite" in a home full of animals, was visceral — an inner warmth and stillness when I held her. Each day since Ethel’s killing, our separation lengthens. Details are erased…her sweet smell and silkiness, a way she looked at me. The un-doing of such a vibrant life brings sorrow unlike any I’ve known. My sense of time has changed now. I measure days in moments…that might not come tomorrow. director/founder, Kinship Circle Top photo is Ethel, rescued from a puppy mill, the day of her adoption in 2010. At bottom is Ethel one day before killed in 2012.

speak out for animals YOUR ACTION CAN MAKE THEIR LIVES BETTER •  USA Disgrace - Experiments On Chimps & Great Apes •  Pigs To People? End University Of Mississippi Live Labs •  Doors Reopen For U.S. Horse Slaughter •  Tell Tulane To End Animal Labs •  GO TO ACTION CENTER TO SEE ALL ALERTS share our video ANIMAL ISSUES: LAST MEDIA TABOO Feel-good puppy or baby zoo animal stories? No problem. News about animal industries that impact animals AND humans? Forget it. Media won’t touch these issues. I Want To Know is a video created for journalism students that asks why animal industries exist in the shadows. With financial, human health, and animal welfare issues at stake — WHY don’t we know more? MOVIE & REPORT your action = results Update: Puppy Mill Capital USA Voters passed Prop B to crack down on Missouri puppy mills. It was repealed against their will, then rewritten. The softer law has been in effect 1 year. Do dogs still suffer? Missouri supplies 40% of pups sold in the USA… see full update 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… see 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… see 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… see 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… see full update SEE MORE UPDATES & VICTORIES animals & activists 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 site that reported activities of other activists. Learn about SHAC 7, Huntingdon Life Sciences + how laws that dub activists terrorists affect freedom of speech… more BE KINSHIP CIRCLE IN YOUR COMMUNITY! Start a local chapter… 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 SEE MORE KINSHIP CIRCLE NEWS

monitoring animal impacts INDONESIA QUAKES STIR TSUNAMI FEARS FAR AS THAILAND: Kinship Circle has contacted Thailand colleagues after an 8.6 earthquake struck Indonesia’s Aceh province, with strong aftershocks and an undersea quake that stirred tsunami alerts as far as Thailand… more TOO MANY ANIMAL DISASTER VICTIMS LATELY! If you’re in danger, so are animals. They can drown, starve…or escape into a landscape of disease, injury, death. See ANIMAL DISASTER KIT. We’re redoing most of site, so hit REFRESH to get current info. 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 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 rescued from the flood 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 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 shop & support kinship circle! WOMEN’S SPAGHETTI STRAP TANK TOP The lovely goddess frolics among animal friends on a classic Bella fit tank. Preshrunk 100% cotton. GET IT! BACK TO TOP

I WANT TO KNOW — This film was created for university journalism students to convey the media’s fickle relationship with animal-issue coverage. On the one hand, feel-good puppy and zoo baby stories are common. On the other, animal industry investigations that impact both animals and humans are mostly unchartered territory. The film is not about a particular topic, but rather, how certain animal topics are the last media taboo. For example, most people don’t know animal research is undermined by scientific inaccuracy that threatens human health. Misleading data generated from animal experiments gets drugs to market quickly. But nearly half those drugs are recalled, though each tested safe in animals. Journalism students expressed no knowledge of animal-free research options or millions of taxpayer dollars spent on animal experimentation each year. Some were unaware that animals undergo invasive experiments at all. They were asked to compare deception and fraud in the animal research industry with media-exposed deception and fraud in the tobacco industry… MORE

JAPAN EARTHQUAKE, TSUNAMI, RADIATION CRISIS — Kinship Circle was the first U.S. animal NGO in Japan for ongoing search and rescue after an earthquake-tsunami-radiation crisis 3/11/11. Months later, still there. Radiation hot spots ride winds some 50km from the shattered nuclear plant. New cities evacuate — in July, August, and into Fall 2011. Each time a district empties animals are left in the shadows. They are trapped in nuclear ghost towns, sealed under police guard, without food, water, care... Watch and share our compelling video.

GULF OIL DISASTER — Over summer 2010, Kinship Circle focused on wildlife harmed in the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Partnering with World Animal Awareness Society for ALL EYES ON THE GULF Expedition, we combed beaches, estatuaries, nesting grounds, open waters — traveling hundreds of miles daily in LA, MS, AL, FL — to find distressed animals and map oil.

CHILE EARTHQUAKE & TSUMANI — On 2/27/10 an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Chile, displacing some 2 million people. Soon after, tsunamis swept over coastal towns. Kinship Circle worked with Socorro Animal Chile (SACH) — a coalition of Chilean animal groups — to aid animals along Chile’s ravaged cost. We fell in love with the people and animals of Chile, a nation with South America’s largest stray population, and continued to support first aid and vet care for animals.