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Dia de San Anton leads today's complete edition for Spain.
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In rural Spain, horses and livestock are blessed in church ceremonies that date to the Middle Ages. In Barcelona's Carrer dels Flassaders, pets are brought to the church of Sant Antoni for blessing, and the queues of dogs, cats, and the occasional parrot stretch around the block.
You witness the Arctic puffin, great skua, and white-tailed eagle as the distinctive seabirds dominating the Faroese landscape. You see that residents typically keep sheep, horses, and Norwegian cats as their most common domestic animals. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.