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I buy handmade crafts in India and sell them to benefit animal welfare organizations in India and elsewhere. Former art historian. Current packrat. Avid thrifter and vintage clothes wearer. Love 1960s and early 1970s styles. Partial to Art Nouveau, Pre-Raphaelite, Victorian, Renaissance and Medieval art. On a continual quest for good-looking, comfortable vegan shoes. Bhangra dancer since 2002. Fascinated by all things Indian. Vegan and animal advocate.

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Friday
Jul142006

Incredible journey of refugee parrots

DateFriday, July 14, 2006 at 05:02PM
parrot.jpgAn article one the BBC South Asia site reported that teenage girl fleeing war-ravaged Sri Lanka for a refugee camp in India refused to leave her two parrots. She chose to leave everything behind and take a box containing the parrots (according to other reports) to make the 18-mile journey in a small fishing vessel with her family and other refugees. Upon arriving at the camp, the police, who were registering new arrivals, registered the parrots as "accompanying warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates." If only the shelters that had been receiving people escaping from Hurricane Katrina had been so accomodating to people's companion animals.
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Reader Comments (1)

What a great story! Like in Katrina, the U.S. and South African governments are not allowing their citizens leaving Lebanon to take their beloved pets.
July 22, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterVeganDoc

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