document.write("<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"http://www.rss-info.com/css/feed.css\"><center><table width=\"276\" border=\"0\" class=\"clstable\" cellspacing=\"3\">	<tr> 		<td class=\"clstd\" bgcolor=\"#F0F0F0\" style=\"border-color:#D0D0D0;\" align=\"center\" ><b><font color=\"#000000\"> Australian Pet Industry News from The Pet Directory</font></b></td>	</tr>	<tr > 		<td class=\"clstd\" style=\"border-color:#D0D0D0;\" bgcolor=\"#F0F0F0\"><a href=\"  http://www.petdirectory.com.au/?page=Cat-DespicableAct&section=2  \" target=\"_blank\"><b><font color=\"#000000\">Despicable Act - Woman pedestrian puts cat in wheelie bin!</font></b></a><br><font color=\"#000000\"><img src=\"http://www.petdirectory.com.au/pet_images/APIN-Cat-Bin_tb.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" /></a>A woman pedestrian was caught on CCTV stopping to pat a friendly moggie and putting him into a nearby wheelie bin.<br /><br />	<a href=\"http://www.petdirectory.com.au/?page=Cat-DespicableAct&section=2\" > See the video and read more...</font></td>	</tr>	<tr > 		<td class=\"clstd\" style=\"border-color:#D0D0D0;\" bgcolor=\"#F0F0F0\"><a href=\"  http://www.petdirectory.com.au/?page=Pet-Shops-Rehoming-Homeless-Pets&section=1  \" target=\"_blank\"><b><font color=\"#000000\">Pet Shops Rehoming Homeless Pets</font></b></a><br><font color=\"#000000\"><img src=\"http://www.petdirectory.com.au/pet_images/APIN_Rehoming_Thumb.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" /></a>With animal homelessness high in Australia, pet shops often come under fire if they sell animals.  Read about a positive approach by a Brisbane pet shop for providing the public with the opportunity to buy a new pet…	<br /><br />	<a href=\"http://www.petdirectory.com.au/?page=Pet-Shops-Rehoming-Homeless-Pets&section=1\" >Read this message from Jenni from Brisbane Pet Headquarters here...</font></td>	</tr>	<tr > 		<td class=\"clstd\" style=\"border-color:#D0D0D0;\" bgcolor=\"#F0F0F0\"><a href=\"  http://www.petdirectory.com.au/?page=Are-you-guilty-of-harbouring-a-WMP&section=1  \" target=\"_blank\"><b><font color=\"#000000\">Are you guilty of harbouring a WMP?</font></b></a><br><font color=\"#000000\"><img src=\"http://www.petdirectory.com.au/pet_images/AWL-thumb.gif\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" /></a>Has your dog or cat been desexed?<br /><br />	<a href=\"http://www.petdirectory.com.au/?page=Are-you-guilty-of-harbouring-a-WMP&section=1\" >Read this message from Jenni from Brisbane Pet Headquarters here...</font></td>	</tr>	<tr > 		<td class=\"clstd\" style=\"border-color:#D0D0D0;\" bgcolor=\"#F0F0F0\"><a href=\"  http://www.petdirectory.com.au/?page=After-43-Years-in-Pet-Industry-Owner-of-Aristopet-Sells&section=1  \" target=\"_blank\"><b><font color=\"#000000\">After 43 Years in Pet Industry Owner of Aristopet Sells!</font></b></a><br><font color=\"#000000\"><img src=\"http://www.petdirectory.com.au/pet_images/aristopet_SM_LOGO.gif\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" /></a>Beaphar Group of the Netherlands has purchased Aristopet Pty Ltd and will operate as Beaphar Australia.<br /><br />	<a href=\"http://www.petdirectory.com.au/?page=After-43-Years-in-Pet-Industry-Owner-of-Aristopet-Sells&section=1\" >Read what this will mean for retailers and buyers of Aristopet products...</font></td>	</tr>	<tr > 		<td class=\"clstd\" style=\"border-color:#D0D0D0;\" bgcolor=\"#F0F0F0\"><a href=\"  http://www.petdirectory.com.au/?page=Good-News-For-Rabbits-And-Humans&section=5  \" target=\"_blank\"><b><font color=\"#000000\">Good News For Rabbits and Humans</font></b></a><br><font color=\"#000000\"><img src=\"http://www.petdirectory.com.au/pet_images/APIN-GoodNewsForRabbitAndHuman-tb.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" /></a>An end to animal testing chemicals for skin irritation is nigh!  <br /><br />	<a href=\"http://www.petdirectory.com.au/?page=Good-News-For-Rabbits-And-Humans&section=5\" >Read about this wonderful initiative by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) where human 'skin' will be 'grown' in test tubes for use in testing skin reactions to chemicals instead of innocent little rabbits...</font></td>	</tr>	<tr > 		<td class=\"clstd\" style=\"border-color:#D0D0D0;\" bgcolor=\"#F0F0F0\"><a href=\"  http://www.petdirectory.com.au/?page=Farming-Puppies-for-Profit&section=1  \" target=\"_blank\"><b><font color=\"#000000\">Farming Puppies for Profit</font></b></a><br><font color=\"#000000\"><img src=\"http://www.petdirectory.com.au/pet_images/DogsVictoria.gif\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" /></a>DOGS Victoria supports the RSPCA in a campaign to stop dogs being used by uncaring people operating puppy farms in Victoria.<br /><br />	<a href=\"http://www.petdirectory.com.au/?page=Farming-Puppies-for-Profit&section=1\" >Read more about DOGS Victoria actively pursuing the closure of puppy farms?</font></td>	</tr>	<tr > 		<td class=\"clstd\" style=\"border-color:#D0D0D0;\" bgcolor=\"#F0F0F0\"><a href=\"  http://www.petdirectory.com.au/?page=RSPCA-commends-Coles-for-snubbing-sow-stalls&section=6  \" target=\"_blank\"><b><font color=\"#000000\">RSPCA commends Coles for snubbing sow stalls</font></b></a><br><font color=\"#000000\"><img src=\"http://www.petdirectory.com.au/pet_images/RSPCA-Th.gif\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" /></a>Today's announcement by supermarket giant Coles that from 2014 they will no longer stock pork produced on farms where sows are confined to sow stalls is a huge leap forward for the humane food movement in Australia.  <br /><br />	<a href=\"http://www.petdirectory.com.au/?page=RSPCA-commends-Coles-for-snubbing-sow-stalls&section=6\" >Read about the humane announcement by supermarket giant Coles?</font></td>	</tr>	<tr > 		<td class=\"clstd\" style=\"border-color:#D0D0D0;\" bgcolor=\"#F0F0F0\"><a href=\"  http://www.petdirectory.com.au/?page=John-Lewis-Wool-Buyer-to-Stop-Buying-Australian-Wool-From-Cruelty-Treated-Lambs&section=6  \" target=\"_blank\"><b><font color=\"#000000\">Australian Wool Export Industry at RISK! Wool Buyer to Stop Buying Australian Wool From Cruelly Treated Lambs</font></b></a><br><font color=\"#000000\"><img src=\"http://www.petdirectory.com.au/pet_images/APIN_Wool_Cruelty_Treated_Lamb_tb.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" /></a>John Lewis Partnership, one of Britain's largest retail companies, has taken a stand against \"mulesing\", a common mutilation used in Australian wool production, following a long-running campaign by PETA US to phase out this practice. <br /><br />	<a href=\"http://www.petdirectory.com.au/?page=John-Lewis-Wool-Buyer-to-Stop-Buying-Australian-Wool-From-Cruelty-Treated-Lambs&section=1\" >Read how Australia's wool still comes from lambs who have undergone the cruel practice of mulesing?</font></td>	</tr>	<tr > 		<td class=\"clstd\" style=\"border-color:#D0D0D0;\" bgcolor=\"#F0F0F0\"><a href=\"  http://www.petdirectory.com.au/?page=PIAA-nnounces-New-Grooming-Courses&section=1  \" target=\"_blank\"><b><font color=\"#000000\">PIAA Announces New Grooming Courses!</font></b></a><br><font color=\"#000000\"><img src=\"http://www.petdirectory.com.au/pet_images/dog-being-groomed.gif\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" /></a>The Chief Executive of the Pet Industry Association of Australia 'PIAA', Roger Perkins, today announced that an in principle Agreement had been reached with acompany known as International Grooming Company 'IGC' to run a dog grooming education program around Australia under the auspices and control of the PIAA.<br /><br />	<a href=\"http://www.petdirectory.com.au/?page=PIAA-nnounces-New-Grooming-Courses&section=1\" >Read more about the dog grooming education program around Australia?</font></td>	</tr>	<tr > 		<td class=\"clstd\" style=\"border-color:#D0D0D0;\" bgcolor=\"#F0F0F0\"><a href=\"  http://www.petdirectory.com.au/?page=HAPPY-AS-A-PIG-IN-TASMANIA&section=6  \" target=\"_blank\"><b><font color=\"#000000\">HAPPY AS A PIG IN ? TASMANIA</font></b></a><br><font color=\"#000000\"><img src=\"http://www.petdirectory.com.au/pet_images/happy-as-pig-th.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" /></a>The RSPCA today applauded the Tasmanian Government's decision to phase out the use of dry sow stalls from 2014 - the first state in Australia to do so.<br /><br />	<a href=\"http://www.petdirectory.com.au/?page=HAPPY-AS-A-PIG-IN-TASMANIA&section=6\" >Read more about the Tasmanian Government's decision for the future of Australian pig farming?</font></td>	</tr>	<tr> 		<td class=\"clstd\" bgcolor=\"#F0F0F0\" style=\"border-color:#D0D0D0;\" align=\"center\" ><b><font color=\"#000000\">RSS integration by <a href=\"http://www.rss-info.com\" target=\"_blank\">RSSinclude</a></font></b></td>	</tr></table></center>");