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An old straydog was wounded in the Mumbai attacks and rescued. Sadly, he is the lucky one in a city filled with starving strays. Sheru was a straydog hit by an errant bullet when two gunmen opened fire in a crowded railway station during the first night of the assault.
In each instance they start with a striking anecdote — my particular favorite took place on the University of Montana campus, where in 1964 an American Crow learned to call and taunt straydogs into causing perhaps the most adorable college riots of the decade.
Someone posted a question about why humans have human rights and whether they should considering that others do not. In the matter of science, and there are varying levels of this viewpoint, the human is the most advanced of creatures. Do you care about the straydog or the almost extinct tiger? I responded.
There's a straydog problem in San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico. If you bring in the dog for euthanization, you get a tax exemption.hooray! But there are animal rights activists in Mexico that will hopefully take notice and try to establish some kind of long-term and humane solution. The solution? Sarcasm there of course.
The hourlong film is an unflinching commentary on the overpopulation of straydogs in Mexico, who even outnumber us humans in some regions. Macho culture, argues {Dallas-based director Bill} Buchanan, goes some way to explaining why Mexicans are so reluctant to sterilize their male dogs.
We've blogged quite a bit here about the poor conditions for straydogs in Puerto Rico. She is currently having an auction to benefit Island Dog Inc. there to spend some resources to deal with the problem in a humane way. there to spend some resources to deal with the problem in a humane way.
Many of the dogs are sick, injured, or starving. These straydogs are also without vaccinations, making them easy targets for contracting rabies. They also humanely treat sick and injured animals. This is why their work is so important. They save the lives of animals and prevent infections in people.
E.g. I remember trying to enter my local scrubland once, just across the car park behind the last apartment building and there, awaiting me, was a territorial pack of straydogs barking at an intruder – me. Those bears live in the wild and are not used to humans. How did I know that?
Of the estimated 500 million cattle in India, only 4% were destined for consumption by humans as meat. The disappearance of vultures has allowed other species such as rat and [stray] dog populations to grow. A vulture’s metabolism is a true “dead-end” for pathogens, but dogs and rats become carriers of the pathogens.
what if those were human babies? We here in America claim we love dogs. I thought: What if those were women, ears tagged, imprisoned in some metal contraption that made it easier for the man behind them to inseminate them. See the entire slide show, Happy Cows: Behind the Myth, here.). And the day-old calves. The photo is by J.
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