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You may remember our post awhile back about a great product called FlexPet. Well, if your dog suffers from arthritis or joint pain, this giveaway is for you! One lucky reader will get a 3 month supply of this amazing supplement. A bit more about FlexPet: Thanks to the wonders of CM8™, animals suffering with joint diseases such as arthritis, bursitis, osteochondrosis (OCD), hip dysplasia and other degenerative problems with the shoulders, elbows and stifle joint can experience long-term relief wi
From the San Jose Mercury News. Fascinating spotlight on an activist known for freeing imprisoned animals. He was himself eventually imprisoned for two years as a result. Tags: activism animal rights.
The New York Times ' Nicholas D. Kristof frustrates me. His passion and compassion for humans is immense, but he appears to have some kind of mental block with nonhuman animals. He comes so close to grasping the concept of justice based on sentience, but his thinking is all muddled by tradition and culture. The result is that on one level he knows that hurting sentient nonhumans isn't right, but if it's done in a certain respectful way (oxymoron, anyone?
Here is a crisp (but badly edited) essay by philosopher Nathan Nobis. I like Nathan's distinction between "Oh yeah?" and "So what!" as replies to an argument. Suppose you claim that proposition C follows, logically, from propositions P1 and P2. There are two mistakes you can be making. First, one or more of your premises may be false. Second, your conclusion may not follow, logically, from your premises, even if the premises are true.
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The following is a guest post from the amazing animal lovers of Adopt-a-Pet.com. Adopt-a-Pet.com is the world’s largest non-profit pet adoption website. We are like an ad agency for shelters and shelter pets. Sadly there are 4 million healthy adoptable companion animals killed in shelters each year due to overcrowding. We do our best to relieve that problem and put pets from shelters in the homes of pet seekers all over the country.
Want to know the most effective way to open a banana? Watch the “pros&# ! The primates know what their doing! How to Open a Banana originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on August 29, 2009. Tags: cute video.
Pleasant Tees is a company for the dog lover! They make fun tees, customized with your dog breed (or, even from a photo of your own dog). The tees take popular logos and parody them to relate to dogs. Check out the fun design that we had made from a photo of Baby: Other great shirts are available, but we just had to choose the iPup because we are such Apple fans.
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Interesting article on Senator Edward Kennedy that highlights his little-known contributions to animal welfare. It's from the Humane Society. Tags: legislation animal welfare.
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We had a great response to the FlexPet giveaway, and we sure do wish that we could help all dogs who are suffering with joint issues. Sadly, there can be only one winner, Susan Orton. The good news is that the kind folks at FlexPet are offering a discount code to all our readers who would like to try this product to help their dog. You can “Buy 2 Get 1 Free” (plus free shipping if ordering by midnight tonight) by ordering directly off this landing page: [link] !
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Thanks to everyone who has sent us condolences about Her Majesty Charlotte the cranky cat who has returned to the circle of life. I can honestly say that if it weren't for Charlotte, there would be no Critter News and I would still be eating the big burger at Kid Valley. She was one hell of a cat.
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From a Best Friends email. Join Best Friends Animal Society for the annual No More Homeless Pets National Conference, October 23-25, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Each year, five million healthy, adoptable homeless pets are still being put down. This is the conference for people who want to make a difference. Three days of action oriented training, inspiration and, of course, fun with Best Friends.
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Animal Person reader stevetshirt wrote to say that my interview is available on Animal Voices. Here's to shameless self-promotion! Check it out at [link] and thanks to Karol Orzechowski for interviewing me. Tags: Activism Ethics Greyhound Matters Language.
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