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PHOTO GALLERY: FACES FROM A FLOOD
Take your eyes and heart on a journey! See breathtaking disaster aid images, among our best caught on film. Rescuers wade to flooded temples overrun with animals. Trudge through muck, swamp and utter despair. Dogs hobble on 3 legs. Cats hang in cages over water… But eyes awaken, as if they see a chance. A new start. Meet these beautiful animals, along with Kinship Circle disaster responders who travel the world for animal victims. A story in pictures: FACES FROM A FLOOD

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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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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 spacer


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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 voicesFULL 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…
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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

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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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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

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Because Kinship Circle responder Dr. Madi Graham breathes life back into a dog after an earthquake… Because Traci Dawson and June Towler trek from Canada to Chile to help injured and sick cats, dogs and stray horses… Because Kinship’s 100-pound Cheri Deatsch wrangles 400-pound pigs to safety from Iowa flood waters… About Disaster Animal Response Team

YOUR TAX DEDUCTIBLE GIFT LETS US:
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

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I WANT TO KNOW — This film was created for journalism students in a university setting. It conveys the media’s fickle relationship with animal-issue coverage. On the one hand, feel-good puppy and baby-zoo animal stories are common. On the other, investigative reports about animal industries that impact both animals AND humans are mostly unchartered territory. The film is not about a particular animal topic, but rather, how certain animal issues are the last TABOO in media. As an example, most people have no idea that animal research is riddled with scientific inaccuracies which can actually threaten human health. Misleading data generated from animal experiments gets drugs on market quickly. But nearly half of those drugs are recalled (JAMA). Each one tested safe in animals.

Journalism students expressed no knowledge of animal-free research alternatives, or the millions of taxpayer dollars used for animal experimentation each year. Some said they were unaware that animals still undergo invasive experiments at all. They were asked to compare deception and fraud inherent in the animal research industry with media-exposed deception and fraud in the tobacco industry… MORE spacer

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. spacer

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. spacer

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.


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