Critter News

JULY 3, 2010

Animal welfare groups led by the Humane Society of the United States have agreed to abandon a fall ballot issue against animal cruelty as part of a deal with state farm groups brokered by Gov. Tags: ohio humane society farm animal welfare. From the Associated Press.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

Further down the road, we reach a derelict building with a large veranda hidden among the trees – an abandoned hunting lodge (if I were in a situation to invest, I would choose to upgrade this into a luxury wildlife lodge). Well, one reason might be – this animal is not only endangered, but even rarer than the Tiger!

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Critter News

AUGUST 17, 2008

Thanks to Farmed Animal Net for this information from August 8. In a unanimous decision, New Jersey’s Supreme Court rejected a broad challenge by animal protection advocates to the state’s rules on the care of farmed animals) but struck down regulations that regard husbandry practices as being “humane” merely because they are routine.

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Critter News

JANUARY 11, 2009

I found a link to them on ANIMAL's blog (ANIMAL is a Portuguese animal rights group.) These scientists are NOT an animal rights group. They do support some animal-based studies (which sucks); HOWEVER, they acknowledge that much animal research is useless. Tags: animal research.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Although apparently preferring weedy secondary growth and even tolerating abandoned banana plantations, it is unable to survive the wholesale destruction of its lowland habitat for beachside tourism and Euterpe sp. palm plantations (the same palm that produces açai berries, one of the latest health crazes).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

… The ordinance would allow Minneapolis residents to establish cat “colonies” where abandoned and wild cats can be fed but also vaccinated, neutered and identified in an effort to humanely cut their population and control disease. Cats are domesticated animals that are not indigenous wildlife in North America. Does it solve it?

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Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

A handful Animal Person readers since May of 2006, when I started this then-daily blog, have asked me if I've read Joan Dunayer. And now that I've read Animal Equality and begun Speciesism , I think I know why. Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture."

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

February 27, 2012 Reports of large marine animal strandings in the Gulf of Mexico continue to pile up in the first two months of 2012. In April 22, 2010 email BP officials were warned that the flow rate could be as much as 82,000 barrels a day. BP officials reacted to this alarming news by demanding that it be kept secret.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2016

About a quarter of the world’s Brown Bears live in Europe (including the Russian part of it), some 55,000, divided into nine separate and evermore fragmented populations – some of them dangerously tiny, a dozen or two dozen animals only. After all, bears are solitary and elusive animals. and Apennine peninsulas (30 + 50 ind.).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Adult kites are also known to abandon their chicks when they are unable to find enough food for the chicks and themselves. Open and interconnected bodies of water have predatory fish and other animals that feed on small snails, which should prevent such explosive growth of the exotic snail population. Female Everglade Snail Kite.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2018

Nowadays, it has a feeling of an abandoned construction site. …and after the road construction (June 2018). Reva had the semi-natural feeling of a forgotten green oasis at the outskirt of a busy city. The only thing that is paved is overgrown in weeds: a sidewalk that leads nowhere and no one uses. And it gave me a sense of accomplishment.

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Animal Person

APRIL 7, 2009

" Surge in Abandoned Horses Renews Debate Over Slaughterhouses " in today's New York Times begs a lot of questions that I wonder how you would answer. Abandoned horses tied to telephone poles. If you want to address the problem, you do something about the people abandoning and neglecting horses.

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Animal Person

APRIL 11, 2009

It had been locked in the shed and abandoned. In an act of kindness, the police took the dog, which was a Greyhound female, to the nearby Nuneaton Warwickshire Wildlife Sanctuary, run by a man named Geoff Grewcock and known as a willing haven for Animals abandoned, orphaned or otherwise in need.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2024

As a kid I always felt the pang of disappointment because animals would just never jump elegantly across the road like the sign clearly promised. The site consists of the revitalised wastewater treatment ponds of an abandoned sugar mill with shrubs and small patches of forest. The sign on the opposite side of the road is clear to see.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Many pet owners are able to enjoy their pets for the entire duration of the animal’s life. However, it becomes a problem for the animal when the owner decides that he can no longer keep the pet. For people who own dogs and other creatures, their recourse is to leave the animals in a shelter, pound or simply let them loose.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Scores of abandoned dogs, cats and livestock from Utah animal shelters become subjects of laboratory research at the University of Utah each year. That's because of a little-known state law that requires government-run pounds to turn animals over to researchers if asked. From the AP.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 7, 2013

Rock & Rawhide , the charity that helps increase adoption levels of dogs and cats in shelters, announced today that it is included in Animal Care & Control of NYC (AC&C)’s latest advertising campaign, “New York’s Kindest” for their donations and assistance in increasing adoption levels through distraction therapy.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2022

And when we stop thinking that animals are useful, we find it a whole lot easier to hate them” (p. “Pigeons have lost their usefulness. This is an arguable statement, especially when you think about cats.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2016

One might think that thanks to the Internet, all those ridiculous old wild animal myths handed down for generations would finally die a deserved death. Had they been able to make the jawbone talk, no doubt its first words would be, “You can’t put a baby bird back in the nest, because the parents will smell your hands and abandon it.”.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Portugal is NOT known for its kindness to animals so this is a significant development for a Portuguese city. Under Portuguese legislation, stray and unwanted animals that are kept in municipal kennels, even healthy ones, can be put down after eight days if unclaimed. Tags: animal shelters portugal strays.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 15, 2010

Farm Sanctuary recently came to the aid of six male Holstein calves, several just days old, who had been abandoned without food or water and left for dead. Farm Sanctuary operates the country’s largest farm animal rescue and adoption network. originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on June 15, 2010.

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Critter News

AUGUST 2, 2012

and they are ending up in slaughterhouses or are being abandoned.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Abandoned fishing line also threatens pelicans along with many marine animals. The species reached pre-pesticide numbers by the late 1990s and was fully delisted in 2009. Pelicans are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

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Animal Person

JULY 8, 2009

With record numbers of animals being abandoned due to foreclosures and the economy, and let's face it, adopting a dog or cats isn't going to save you any money, do you think it is irresponsible to offer discounts?

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Knowing now how highly intelligent these animals are, I am very resistant to "using" them for therapy. These critics charge that it is no more effective and considerably more expensive than skillful conventional treatment, while potentially harmful to the humans and the animals. From the Washington Post.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

If not, be sure to set your DVR for Friday and watch, it’s a great show about an unlikely group of animal heroes. Check out this video from the premier episode: RESCUE INK UNLEASHED is a new weekly series that documents this unlikely group of animal activists on their crusade to save helpless, abandoned and abused animals.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 14, 2008

They've prohibited feeding and want the animals trapped. It is NOT the animals' fault that they have been abandoned to miserable lives. (Of We worry about wildlife, disease and nuisance animals.” Feral cats may be an animal problem, but there is a human solution. If they are not adoptable, oh well, kill them.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 4, 2009

No, because their entire business is based on using animals. But there are other scenarios, such as some that PCRM has suggested in the past, that do make sense; where the goal is to alter policy within a company regarding, say, research using animals when that's not required. Would I buy Burger King to do that? goal, even?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

They feed on insects stirred up by the herds, at times sitting on the animal itself picking off ticks and other insects. Despite the Cattle Egret ‘s rapid expansion there are some areas that Cattle Egrets once occupied, but have now abandoned for reasons that are as unclear as the expansion was to begin with.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

Some differences in animal behavior are quite striking. According to Couzens, after laying the eggs, females sometimes immediately abandon their first mate and pair up with another male. at Disney’s Animal Kingdom ( source ). of catching extremely small fish. Some of the temporary fishponds (or flooded fields?)

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 15, 2010

While many animal shelters already struggle on a day-to-day basis to care for the millions of unwanted animals that are dropped at their door, the numbers have grown to an almost unmanageable degree over the last few years. The culprit for this surge in animal homelessness is a testimonial to these trying times: human homelessness.

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Animal Person

MAY 22, 2009

So here I am, on the third anniversary of Animal Person, asking for advice that has nothing to do with veganism or animal rights (and I've tweeted about this so some of you already know what's coming). Of course some of the original inhabitants migrated across the street to an abandoned building, and that's next.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2024

An abstract of a scientific paper reads as follows (unabridged): “External examination of free range abandoned dead Greater Coucal in a veterinary dispensary, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India revealed presence of a large sized louse in the feathers and was identified as Laemobothrion maximum on the basis of morphology and size of the louse.”

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Too many times we see pets abandoned during weather-related disasters and with yet another Hurricane possibly headed our way (Irma), Petplan pet insurance wants to remind responsible pet parents to be aware of these simple tips to keep their pets … Continue reading →

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

additional pack walks will take place nationwide September 23–30, with the help of the Animal League of North America. All proceeds from the National Family Pack Walk events will be donated to the Cesar Millan Foundation, which raises awareness and supports the rescue, rehabilitation, and re-homing of abused and abandoned dogs.

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Animal Person

JUNE 22, 2009

It's impersonal and hideously ugly and the animals suffer greatly. However, the solution they have created, which harkens back to before industrialized agriculture, is simply to still raise animals for their flesh and secretions, and for profit, but to do it the old-fashioned way. No argument here. It's just not right.

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