Critter News
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
Read about it here. Here is a list of the participants. Scott Adams Trace Adkins CSI Cast Members Paige Davis Kasey Kahne George Lopez Ana Ortiz Rissi Palmer Maggie Q Adam Sandler Rob Schneider Barbara Walters H/t to Ecorazzi. Check out their site, as they are really really good.
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 29, 2008
Here is a blog for your consideration. I will add it to the blogroll.
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Critter News
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
A man was arrested at the airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil after 200 canaries were found in his suitcase. Sixty of them were dead from suffocation and thirst. How horrible. Tags: wildlife crime wildlife trafficking.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
It amazes me that legislative business is still being conducted in DC these days, what with the US economic sky falling. Especially animal business. The Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (H.R. 6598) is a bill that criminalizes the sale and transportation of horses for slaughter. It was approved and recommended to the House of Representatives by the House Judiciary Committee on September 23.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 29, 2008
Good news for wolves in the Great Lakes area. TRAVERSE CITY - State officials say they're not pleased with a federal court's ruling overturning the government's decision to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list for the Great Lakes region. The ruling today affects wolves in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. It's in response to a lawsuit filed by several environmental groups, including The Humane Society of the United States.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 29, 2008
What's the big deal about having vegetarian dishes? Since when are vegetarians so threatening? Why the discrimination? And what's with the dead pig? David Chang seems over the top to me. And a few other choice words that I probably shouldn't write. But, he's a STAH! And the bigger a jerk he is, probably the more media he'll get. Tags: david chang restaurants.
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Critter News
SEPTEMBER 28, 2008
Remember Michael Vick? That was the big story last summer. I came across a September/October 2007 issue of Best Friends in which the editorial was about the Vick dogs. I slapped my forehead, "Oh yeah!" It's so easy to forget how BIG that was what with China and wolf-hatin' Palin. As for Sick Vick himself, he filed for bankruptcy in July and the contents of a storage unit were sold to pay his bills.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 27, 2008
Remember Knut the polar bear at the Berlin Zoo? Well, his keeper died and it sounds like a very sad story. He played with Knut, swam with him, and strummed Elvis Presley songs on his guitar to lull him to sleep. Man and bear even celebrated Christmas and New Year together, joined in the straw-lined pen by Doerflein's girlfriend, Daniela Kaiser, and her six year-old son, Louis.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 27, 2008
People out there are still trying to argue that wearing fur can be ecological, reusable, renewable and ecologically friendly. I don't buy it, but decide for yourself. Tags: fur.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 26, 2008
But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy. -Plutarch. Tags: quotes.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 27, 2008
OK, I'm having trouble posting about this contest. Read about it on the link, and give money!
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 25, 2008
Apparently, tainted Chinese milk is sickening animals as well. More melamine contamination. Two baby orang-utans and a lion cub have become the latest victims of China's contaminated milk crisis. The animals, at at Hangzhou Zoo near Shanghai, developed kidney stones after being fed milk powder tainted with the industrial chemical melamine. Chinese media report that the animals had been fed on milk powder made by Sanlu Group for more than a year.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 23, 2008
Bringing back extinct species. Scientists keep saying they can do it. Should they? The latest example is an extinct Galapagos tortoise species. I just don't feel it's right, as great as it would be to correct the mistakes we've made. It cheapens life and makes the original seem replaceable. What next? Mass-production of blue dodos? Designer velociraptors?
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Critter News
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
This is an interesting website. Called Ecorazzi, they cover environmental issues as related to popular culture. Think TMZ with an eco-bent. They have a large number of contributors, and put out a pretty slick product. Highly recommended.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
It's the largest civil penalty imposed under EU legislation in which wildlife protection is a condition for receiving funds from the EU's Single Farm Payment Scheme. This guy is the third Scottish landowner to have subsidies cut under these regulations. (Don't worry. He's a millionaire. He'll be okay.) John Dodd, the multimillionaire co-founder of Edinburgh-based Artemis Investment Management, has lost £107,000 after illegal pesticides were found on the Scottish shooting estate he owns.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 21, 2008
Here is an article in the Seattle Times about the lesser known small animal area at the Seattle Animal Shelter. We used to volunteer for that program. Tags: seattle animal shelter.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 21, 2008
Nice rescue news for a Sunday. For more news of SPCA of Texas' hurricane work, go here. Tags: squirrels Texas hurricane rescue.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 21, 2008
David Horsey is the brilliant political cartoonist for the Seattle P-I. This cartoon summarizes Sarah Palin to a "T.". Tags: Palin.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
We're always interested in promoting sites about animals. Here is a new website. From their press release: A fun, educational website about animals called Animal Fact Guide (www.AnimalFactGuide.com) has just been launched. The site provides articles about interesting and endangered animals from around the world. Each article features an animal's physical characteristics, habitat (including a distribution map), diet, breeding patterns, unique traits and behavior, and when applicable, conservation
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 20, 2008
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. ~ Andrew A. Rooney. Tags: quotes.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 19, 2008
Hey, it's Talk Like a Pirate Day. OK, I know that doesn't have much to do about critters. Well except for this. Tags: pirates.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 19, 2008
This news is from early September and is reported by Wayne Pacelle of the Humane Society. YES! on Prop 2 - Californians for Humane Farms - has uncovered an election scam and is charging the measure’s opponents with laundering money in violation of state campaign finance laws. In a complaint filed September 3 with California’s Fair Political Practices Commission, YES!
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 18, 2008
I am totally opposed to this. Instead of banning the breed, why don't we we crack down on mistreatment of these animals and on unlicensed owners? It's the humans, not the animals. Stupid people. Tags: pit bull breed ban seattle.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 18, 2008
After all the brewhaha about improving the conditions at the King County animal shelters in Washington State (where we live), I'm still seeing this kind of stuff. A group of veterinarians that volunteered this year to treat sick animals at King County's two animal shelters has quit, citing a lack of accountability and a reluctance from shelter staff to fix a broken system.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
Interesting article about the National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU) in the UK. The NWCU was established almost two years ago in North Berwick to co-ordinate a UK-wide crackdown on an international black market worth up to £6 billion a year. Its eight officers cover the whole of the UK. Consequences of wildlife crime are far reaching, with the profits from the illegal trade of plants and animals used to fund other criminal activities such as drug smuggling and people trafficking.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
I used to support the bloodless bullfights held in California. These bullfights are allowed because they are part of religious festivals in the Portuguese-American community. But within the last year, an animal cruelty investigation almost shut one down because spikes were being used to antagonize the bull. This was a clear violation of animal law. We are in Gustine and we were invited to the spectacle being held tonight.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 14, 2008
Best Friends has a good article about how they took in Michael Vick's dogs , going against the conventional wisdom that these animals can't be saved. Tags: Michael Vick Best Friends.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 13, 2008
Here is a picture I took at the Our Lady of Miracles parade in Gustine. I have video of it too, that I'll be posting at some point. The picture doesn't do it justice, but that's all I have right now.
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