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A beautiful red-headed friend of mine leads a very exciting life - she is a high-ranking diplomat with the U.S. State Department. Her job takes her all over the world including Syria, France (Paris!), Israel and the Sudan. Her most recent post was in Lahore, Pakistan. Being a diplomat is exciting and challenging work but with all of the constant moving it can also get lonely, so my friend, Isabelle, often adopts and re-homes stray cats when the opportunity arises. In Pakistan such an opportunity arose - and now two cats, Nawaz and Shabaz who were born to a homeless mama, live in Washington D.C. Nawaz and Shabaz's mother was a skinny stray cat that happened to wander by the U.S. Consulate in ...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday announced it is considering giving captive chimpanzees the same endangered status that currently protects chimps living in the wild. "While wild chimpanzees have long been recognized as endangered, existing regulations deprive captive chimpanzees in the United States of protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA)" the USFWS said in a statement. The US government agency said that it decided to consider the move after assessing a petition from The Humane Society of the United ...