Critter News

JANUARY 26, 2010

The University of Wisconsin-Madison was cleared of animal welfare violations in a report released yesterday. It had twenty violations back in December 2009. According to the ten-page detailed report from December, the USDA cited sanitation, ventilation and enclosure concerns within the Center’s facilities.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

If you live in the UK, please urge Jim Fitzpatrick, Minister for Animal Welfare, to make the right choice for UK chickens and quash the squash, by sending an email via our campaign website at Quash the Squash. Quash the Squash originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on September 28, 2009.

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Critter News

AUGUST 30, 2009

Join Best Friends Animal Society for the annual No More Homeless Pets National Conference, October 23-25, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Tags: Best Friends animal welfare conferences. From a Best Friends email. Each year, five million healthy, adoptable homeless pets are still being put down.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

A national physicians group has filed a federal complaint against the University of Washington, saying its use of ferrets to train medical residents in emergency procedures on babies and children violates a federal animal-welfare law. John Pippin, a Dallas cardiologist who helped write the complaint.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

In addition to working to stop this cull, IFAW is helping draft China’s first national animal welfare legislation that will prohibit culls like this. Dog Death Squads in China originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on September 13, 2009. Tags: news people helping animals. Thank you, Fred.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

9, 2009 The writer is on the staff of the Farm Animal Program, Animal Welfare Institute. New York’s protection of laborers should be a first step toward recognition of the other systemic abuses that occur on farms that, like the long-ignored rights of farm workers, have been constantly disregarded by legislators.

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Animal Person

JULY 1, 2009

But the HSUS is by no means an animal-rights organization; it is an animal welfare organization. At least it sounds like it's interested in the welfare of all animals in the rodeo, while the VHS statement is ambiguous at best, and contradictory at worst.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

In fact, a whole lot of semi-vegans can do much more for animals than the tiny number of people who are willing to give up all animal products and scrupulously read labels. Farm animals also benefit from the humane farming movement, even if the animal welfare changes it effects are not all that we should hope and work for.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2012

Campaign The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine – Indoor Cat Initiative Indoor Cat Facts Community Animal Welfare Society: Indoor Cats Live Longer And if you still can’t manage to make the transition but want to keep your cat and wildlife safe you can always try something like this !

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Found Animals Foundation to Host Spectacular “Save a Stray for the Holidays” Adoption Event at 14 Los Angeles Animal Care Centers. WHAT: Found Animals Foundation ( www.foundanimals.org ) will host their second annual “Save A Stray For The Holidays” adoption event on Saturday, December 19th, 2009 from 9am-2pm.

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