10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2013
Speaking of which, Michele Wellard had an imprinted young Fish Crow she was teaching to be an education bird, part of which entailed getting him used to wearing leather anklets so he wouldn’t fly away during outdoor programs. Sharron Montgomery went through the same thing with a badly-behaved educational Bald Eagle named Booker T.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 7, 2016
The bird was stripped of feathers and so badly battered that euthanasia was probable. There’s an imperative to get this message across to cat people who, like me, can be educated to value wild lives as much as we value the lives of our four-legged family members. My first intake was … a cat-caught Northern Mockingbird.
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Animal Person
SEPTEMBER 5, 2009
From 2002-2005 I was heavily ensconced in a bird and waterfowl phase with sometimes daily drama of the life-and-death variety that led to my unintentional education about all things duck (Muscovies, in particular). My animal rescue-life has had many phases. In other words, I may as well have doused him in gasoline and set fire to him.
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 9, 2012
Choosing to adopt a dog rather than get one at the pet store (or what some like to refer to as “puppy mill”) is a beautiful thing—essentially you are saving a poor pup from euthanasia and you’re providing a an animal with a good home. But adopting a pet is a huge responsibility and is very similar to adopting a child.
Animal Person
APRIL 5, 2011
Fighting to maintain the integrity of the words humane, love, euthanasia or compassion, is also fighting for animals. It would be wonderfully dramatic to be able to say: I'm going to fight for animals rather than for language , but it's not that clear cut. And it usually involves exchanges with non-vegans. But that's me.
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