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	<description>Stories and observations from an animal lover&#039;s view</description>
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		<title>Milk Teeth ~ An Orphans Tale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It had to happen sooner or later, although owning a pet supply store provides one ample time to have offers of puppies and kittens that need temporary shelter for one reason or another. Usually we are stoic in our ability to not take them in, but in truth, when I hear of an injured pup [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wooftales.com/?p=227</link>
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		<title>Volunteering for UAN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In mid-June I was privileged to work as an EARS volunteer in Point Pleasant, West Virginia in the service of 49 horses, mules and donkeys. HSUS asked for UAN volunteers to help temporarily shelter these animals as part of an animal cruelty case.
It had been years since I had worked around horses on a daily [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wooftales.com/?p=182</link>
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		<title>Our Pets and Toxins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An study from the Environmental Working Group, Poluted Pets, by Olga Naidenko, Rebecca Sutton, Jane Houlihan, April 2008, begins: “ In the first study of its kind, Environmental Working Group found that American pets are polluted with even higher levels of many of the same synthetic industrial chemicals that researchers have recently found in people, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wooftales.com/?p=206</link>
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		<title>BEFORE AND AFTER: Meditations on the Gulf Oil Spill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had lived in Miami for exactly 85 days when Hurricane Andrew struck South Florida. That’s not much time to commit a landscape to memory. It was my first hurricane. To this day, my friends from other parts of the country continue to tell me that I am mad to live here. They, of course, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wooftales.com/?p=188</link>
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		<title>Eczema</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Skin diseases such as for example eczema, is  known in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as shi zhen or damp rash and are generally either chronic or acute conditions.  In TCM diagnosis and treatment is based on what is called pattern discrimination; the disharmonies, stagnations, deficiencies, wind, pathogenic influences, Heat or etc. within the body that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wooftales.com/?p=175</link>
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		<title>In Praise of Apple Cider Vinegar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So there are a lot of elders out there who  LOVE apple cider vinegar and feel it is the tell-tale cure for a number of maladies. Well I have to say I too am a convert&#8230;&#8230;.  Let&#8217;s talk indigestion that hits you without warning. I cannot stand taking OTC drugs and will not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wooftales.com/?p=160</link>
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		<title>April 22, 1970 &#8211; April 22, 2010: Love Your Mother</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If memory serves me correctly, forty years ago on April 22nd it was a lovely spring day in Pittsburgh. I was a junior in college, and because it was a Wednesday (no, my memory isn’t that good, a quick check of the Internet gave me this information), I was walking across campus to go to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wooftales.com/?p=138</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Spring &#8211; get me some earplugs!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in Northeastern Ohio where the arrival of Spring was not always readily apparent. More often than not the first inkling that my brother and I had that it was indeed warming up was the shattering of the enormous (and potentially life-threatening) icicle that hung just outside our dining room window for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wooftales.com/?p=109</link>
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		<title>Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is the second largest medical system in the world after Western Medicine and has been in continuous use for over 3,000 years.  In TCM individual herbs are classified various categories, for example; nourishing herbs, moving herbs, wind dispelling herbs, damp draining herbs, etc.  Within a category the different herbs may have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wooftales.com/?p=101</link>
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		<title>Sub-Tropical Musings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you live in South Florida, winter is a relative thing. Our definition of cold tends to make Northerners double over with laughter. But this winter has been no joke here in Florida. With snow in the Panhandle and temperatures in the high 20&#8217;s and low 30&#8217;s in Miami&#8217;s western suburbs, many of us have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wooftales.com/?p=84</link>
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