4-legged friends get boost from 15 religious leaders

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: November 8, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

WASHINGTON -- Dogs wagged their tails as religious leaders hugged each other inside the Cannon House Office Building's Caucus Room Wednesday.

In the same room where Code Pink protesters heckled Gen. David Petraeus as he testified on the Iraq war in September, and where decades ago Congress decided to investigate the deaths of Martin Luther King Jr. and President John F. Kennedy, and where Frank Sinatra was a witness on organized crime, religious leaders brought a basic message: Be kind to animals.

The Best Friends Animal Society in Kanab, the nation's largest no- kill animal shelter, created ...

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