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By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

There is some greater awareness of the need to consider the welfare of animals as a result of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort,” Walden says. “[But] momentum could quickly disappear if we don’t make an effort to keep animal-welfare issues in the public’s awareness.

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