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New Book Shows Mark Twain an Early Advocate Against Animal Cruelty

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A new book by author and Stanford professor Shelly Fisher Fishkin reveals that Mark Twain was an early advocate against animal cruelty. From the review: Twain writes about cruelty to animals in a range of contexts, criticizing, for example, the insensitivity involved in the exploitation of animals for sport or entertainment.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of April 2018)

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.” Despite the cruel, cold weather I was out and about on both Saturday and Sunday morning, despite the added cruelty of just having returned from (slightly) warmer North Carolina late on Friday night. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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Support the Great Ape Protection Act

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End the use of chimpanzees in animal experiments. Tags: chimpanzees animal experimentation animal research animal cruelty medical research. It's unconscionable.

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Quote of the Week

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Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures. -- Eleanor Roosevelt.

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Kenny Glenn Abuses a Cat on Youtube

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In fact, he's an excellent subject for a medical experiment. Tags: cat animal abuse animal cruelty kenny glenn us. He knew what he was doing and he is a sick piece of work. By the way, the cat Dusty is with a vet pending the results of the investigation. He should NEVER be returned to that family.

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Key AETA Supporter Suspended Over Animal Welfare

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According to the Wisconsin State Journal: University administrators say researcher Michele Basso has had a bumpy history, citing a lack of respect for veterinarians, incomplete record-keeping and instances where monkeys developed brain injuries… It is unusual for the university to suspend a main researcher’s work with animals, and officials say they (..)

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Pet Foster Care Helps To Smooth Adoption Process

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In fact, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 5 to 7 million pets are taken into animal shelters in the U.S. Serving as a pet foster parent is an excellent way to welcome a new animal companion into your home and help an animal in need. There are countless dogs and cats in shelters across the U.S.

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