Critter News

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Scores of abandoned dogs, cats and livestock from Utah animal shelters become subjects of laboratory research at the University of Utah each year. Tags: animal research animal shelters strays. Thanks to PETA's undercover investigation of University of Utah labs for bringing this issue to media attention. From the AP.

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Critter News

MARCH 31, 2009

The most famous example of military dogs is the Vietnam dogs who faithfully served American soldiers and then were abandoned to unknown fates after we left the country. Tags: afghanistan military military force iraq dogs. But the grand tradition continues in Iraq and Afghanistan. I don't like it.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 17, 2009

Theresa, an abandoned pit bull, has a mysterious mass in her belly. Tags: tv. Music star Emmylou Harris calls for help with a vicious shepherd mix named Gunnar, leaving animal behavior specialist Sherry Woodard only a few days to come up with a plan to overcome his aggression. DOGTOWN: A FIGHTING CHANCE.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Smith, who was originally inspired by watching a dolphin interact with her mentally disabled brother in the 1970s, offered the therapy free of charge for more than a decade, before abandoning the work out of ethical concerns in the 1990s. Tags: dolphin.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 5, 2008

They also put up a tent to collect donations, such as pet food, cages, collars and other pet supplies, for stray and abandoned animals kept at the shelters. Tags: belarus animal rights. Free consultations by veterinary physicians also were available. Even if one or two animals find owners, we will view this as a positive result," Ms.

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Animal Person

APRIL 11, 2009

It had been locked in the shed and abandoned. In an act of kindness, the police took the dog, which was a Greyhound female, to the nearby Nuneaton Warwickshire Wildlife Sanctuary, run by a man named Geoff Grewcock and known as a willing haven for Animals abandoned, orphaned or otherwise in need. And one roe deer fawn. Link: [link].

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 15, 2010

Farm Sanctuary recently came to the aid of six male Holstein calves, several just days old, who had been abandoned without food or water and left for dead. Tags: adoptable people helping animals rescues. Farm Sanctuary operates the country’s largest farm animal rescue and adoption network. Farm Sanctuary needs help.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

But as of this Saturday Lagos will adhere to an alternative path in dealing with abandoned animals and overflowing municipal infrastructures, thanks to the intervention of two local ladies, Cecilia do Carmo and Esperança Martins, who in 2006 initiated proceedings to found an animal protection association following a distressing visit to the kennels.

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Animal Person

JULY 8, 2009

With record numbers of animals being abandoned due to foreclosures and the economy, and let's face it, adopting a dog or cats isn't going to save you any money, do you think it is irresponsible to offer discounts? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 4, 2009

I guess part of my refusal to completely abandon capitalism is the related notion (byproduct? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics. Thomas Paine's Corner has more on the story here. I'm going to contact Madeleine Pickens to thank her, as well as Burns Hargis , the President of Oklahoma State University. goal, even?

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Critter News

AUGUST 17, 2008

The plaintiffs plan to pressure the NJDA to abandon them when the regulations are revised. Tags: farm animal welfare factory farm us. Many states exempt routine practices from their cruelty code, and the precedent-setting ruling will be used in the nationwide campaign against controversial practices.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Check out this video from the premier episode: RESCUE INK UNLEASHED is a new weekly series that documents this unlikely group of animal activists on their crusade to save helpless, abandoned and abused animals. Tags: rescues tv. Photo Credit: © NGT/Andrew Baxt).

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Critter News

JANUARY 11, 2009

Despite the development of an all-encompassing theory as to why animals are not predictive, there remains—much to the detriment of human health and medical progress—extraordinary resistance to abandoning the use of animals as predictive models. Tags: animal research.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 14, 2008

It is NOT the animals' fault that they have been abandoned to miserable lives. (Of Tags: spay and neuter quantico military feral cats. Quantico Military Base is really behaving cruelly when it comes to the feral cats on its base. They've prohibited feeding and want the animals trapped. If they are not adoptable, oh well, kill them.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 24, 2010

According to the RSPCA, in 2008 there was a 57% increase in the number of animals abandoned by their owners in the UK. If more pet owners had pet insurance, it is likely that far fewer animals would be abandoned. Tags: guest post pet care.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 5, 2010

Abandoned during foreclosures and often the first to go when financial instability sets in, the kennels are overflowing beyond capacity with our loyal canine comrades. Tags: books. Pets have been hit the hardest during these times of economic hardship. Death in mass is far too common of a solution during times like these.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 15, 2010

While there are no exact numbers on how many animals are coming in from foreclosed homes (since many people don’t give an accurate reason), shelters have noted a dramatic increase in the number of homeless pets they take in, either from owners dropping them off, or from pets that are simply abandoned outdoors or in empty houses.

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Animal Person

MAY 22, 2009

Of course some of the original inhabitants migrated across the street to an abandoned building, and that's next. Tags: Activism Current Affairs. But we have made progress, and that's good news to me. I started this blog for Barbaro , and this third anniversary post is for Gray Momma. And to you, thanks for reading and writing.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Each year these groups combined, rescue and find homes for over 2,000 abandoned Southland dogs and cats, animals that most likely would otherwise have lost their lives. Tags: events. Lisa Young, Director of The Rescue Train, explains the added significance to this year’s event: “Due to the economic crisis our donations are down 40%.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

We operate shelters in the hopes of giving abandoned pets a second chance at a loving home, not subjecting them to lives of continued abuse and neglect,” Florez said. “A Tags: news. In 2008, an earlier version of this bill passed the Tennessee Senate, but stalled in the House of Representatives. Visit www.aldf.org.

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Animal Person

JUNE 22, 2009

A violation of trust or confidence, an abandonment of something committed to one's charge. Tags: Ethics Food and Drink Language. It's just not right. Betrayal , according to the Oxford English Dictionary: 1. A treacherous giving up to an enemy. Here, that enemy being Death.) Interesting definitions of betray include: 2.

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Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

Minus that role, the term implies, such an animal has no place; if they aren't some human's companion, or their companionship fails to please, they can be abandoned or killed" (8). Tags: Activism Books Ethics Language. Field & Stream executive editor David Petzal defines fair chase as 'stalking an animal on its own terms.'

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

He is happy the bluebird has returned and he hopes that it will nest by his house in “Downy’s cell,&# that is, the abandoned hole of a Downy Woodpecker. Tags: John Burroughs , poetry • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Burroughs says what he means and you can tell that he really means it. Get yours today!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2011

The thought of an Oriole foraging in bare winter branches is as foreign as a Petrel on a pool and yet, there it was in my yard picking through an abandoned squirrel’s nest for what appeared to be spiders. They are, for many birders in the eastern part of the continent, one of a short list of quintessential spring birds.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

If you have been feeding black-oil sunflower and suddenly switch to straight safflower, birds will abandon your feeders. Tags: Bird Feeding , feeder birds , feeders , grackles , starlings • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? This is it, it’s called safflower seed. There is technique in offering this seed.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 21, 2009

He started frolicking with abandon in the dried green moss at the base of Bob, our resident Spathophylum. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters Language. It’s too late, I thought, she’s already had her way with poor Kermie, and now she too is not long for this world. There is a God, I thought.

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