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your magazine, Here at WOA HQ we like to let you
especially Animal Care know what the team has been up to.
Our amazing designer, Lauren, ran
students” her first half marathon in October for

two incredible charities close to her
@LincolnCollLib heart: WWF and the Cystic Fibrosis
Trust. The target was £400 and she
“@WorldAnimalsMag managed to raise £460 so we just
Thank you so much wanted to say, well done Lauren!!
for my magazine!
So many fab articles
Loving ‘Unique Beaks’!
Fab quality!”

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“@WorldAnimalsMag
Looks like a very
entertaining read.
Seahorses are Superpower dogs update
amazing” We caught up with Superpower Dogs producer Taran Davies in LA for an update on filming, and to find out about a very special

@BelindaLondon crowd-funding campaign
What is the exciting new campaign all raised close to $10,000 that will go directly to our
about? working dog organisation partners such as the
[The Indiegogo campaign is] a crowdfunding National Disaster Search Dog Foundation and the
project that will help us to continue to be able to Canadian Avalanche Rescue Dog Association.

film Halo in the critical junctures in her journey

from puppy to urban search and rescue dog. This What are the other stages of filming and
is a two-year journey and so we have asked for how is everything going?
$50,000 and I’m pleased to say that we raised 70 One of the other key points of the Indiegogo
per cent of what we were looking for in the first campaign is for us to succeed and show the

three days! potential sponsors and distributors for these
As part of the campaign we have some movies the love and interest that there is in the
#Halo is delighted to featured in tremendous perks on offer, such as experiences to working dog community and in a movie like this!
@WorldAnimalsMag. Help come on set and to have your dog’s photograph So right now we are closing the balance of the
support her and other working in the movie credits or even your dog in the funding that will allow us to go out and shoot the

dogs here: bit.ly/SuperpowerGO movie itself! We have some great merchandise to rest of the film. The key for now though is that
#SuperpowerDogs celebrate dogs such as mugs and dog bowls and we need to start with Halo – we are following the
@SuperpowerDogs t-shirts and all kinds of fun stuff. In addition, we will story of a puppy over two years and we needed
to start when we did several weeks ago so that we

be contributing 20 per cent of the profits of the
campaign to working dog organisations that are would be able to deliver this movie sooner rather
50 Amazing Things You Never helping to train working dogs. than later! Certainly it will allow us to film Halo’s

Knew About Animals next key phase in her training and growth – that’s
How important is it for the Superpower number one! And then when we have closed on
Discover weird Dogs team to donate that 20 per cent? the balance of the financing we will be able to film

and wonderful As filmmakers, traditionally an important thing one all the rest of our wonderful canine cast next year.
facts from can do is raise awareness about a subject. What
the animal we want to do is not just that, but to facilitate To get involved or support the campaign visit
kingdom in our funding to these organisations so that we can indiegogo.com/projects/superpower-dogs-3d/
latest digital help to make sure that there is a working dog for Read the full interview at animalanswers.co.uk
edition. From everyone who is in need.
the creatures What we discovered as we’ve been making

that can fly this film is just how hard the handlers and first
without wings, responders work to train their dogs and how
to incredible transformations and much of a financial burden they have to take on

translucent species that you can themselves. From the housing of the dog, the
see right through, be prepared to training and looking after the dog – much of this

be amazed by our planet’s wildlife. is volunteer work! We’ve realised that this financial
contribution is really important! Already we have
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