Leana Beasley has faith that a dog is man's best friend.

Faith, a 4-year-old Rottweiler, phoned 911 when Beasley fell out of her wheelchair and barked urgently into the receiver until a dispatcher sent help. Then the service dog unlocked the front door for the police officer.

"I sensed there was a problem on the other end of the 911 call," said dispatcher Jenny Buchanan. "The dog was too persistent in barking directly into the phone receiver. I knew she was trying to tell me something."

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Unlike wolves in the continental US, Alaska wolves are not protected by the Endangered Species Act. Some people hunt Alaska wolves solely to increase the number of prey species that can also be hunted, which helps tourism.

Alaska as a whole has voted twice to ban the mass-killing of wolves via aerial shooting, where hunters divebomb packs of wolves, chase them until they tire, and shoot them from the air. But last June the governor of Alaska signed a bill to allow it anyway. The practice is about to be expanded to cover a larger area, and may soon include bears as well.

You may visit this link to learn more about the degree to which politicians and hunters are playing god with the ecosystem of Alaska, and what can be done about it.

Trickster

Up till now the only two distributors offering the FurNation Anthology Issue #6 were Rabbit Valley and United Publications. I decided this weekend after getting three emails in a row to go ahead and offer Issue #6 through FurPlanet.com also.

We have a stockpile ready to go and we are going to start offering same day shipping beginning this week.

Here is a direct link to the magazine:

http://furplanet.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=45

We also have several other great furry content creations on sale at FurPlanet. Please look around and see if something else catches your eye:

http://FurPlanet.com

Sincerely,

Nexxus

This is your last chance to pre-register for Midwest FurFest 2004! Online registration closes at 11:59 PM on Sunday, November 13, 2004. Why have all the hassle of filling out forms when you can take care of it now and shorten your wait at Registration even more! Just point your web browser to:
http://www.furfest.org/

You'll find all the information you need about registering online and about Midwest FurFest there. PLUS: You can now pre-order a Midwest FurFest 2004 T-Shirt for either pick-up at the convention or home delivery! Check out our fantastic T-shirt artwork for this year, a joint work by Ursula Vernon, David Gilbert, and ScribbleFox.

See you in less than a week!

As the new year approaches, Fauxpaw Publications is preparing it's new issues, and the final deadline for submissions is fast approaching.

Fur Visions #33 will have a theme of 'Eqyptian Dieties' and will carry the Mature Audiences rating. Furry art and stories are still desired in ratings from G to very soft R.

Fur Plus #23, the ADULT fanzine of Furs with a Difference, is also searching for more art and stories. The theme of this fanzine is that of 'taurs and other less-common' fur folk (from dragons to hermaphrodites to crazy over-endowed squirrels, to combinations of all of the above). All ratings of material from G to XXX is welcome, with a preference for quaility adult material.

Final deadline for both publictions is December 1st, 2004!

Both of the above publications will be released at Further Confusion 2005 in January 2005.

For more detailed information and submission guidelines, head on over to the Fauxpaw Publications website at www.fauxpaw.com

Karl Maurer
Publisher/Editor-in-chief