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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Many animals also display wide-ranging emotions, including joy, happiness, empathy, compassion, grief, and even resentment and embarrassment. It’s not surprising that animals—especially, but not only, mammals—share many emotions with us because we also share brain structures—located in the limbic system—that are the seat of our emotions.

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A Chance for Bliss

4 The Love Of Animals

This means that once an animal arrives at the sanctuary they become a permanent resident, and will remain until such time that they pass away, be that a matter of days, weeks, months or years. To date we have welcomed more than 175 animals to the sanctuary, and there have been more than 80 who have peacefully passed away while in our care.&#.

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Dogtown: So Far So Good

Critter News

I just watched episode 1, season 1, of Dogtown , the National Geographic Channel TV show about Dogtown at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, UT. In many ways, they are probably easier to change because they don't have the same emotional baggage. We really enjoyed it.

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Contemplating California Condors

10,000 Birds

They reside there at the top of a small mountain sanctuary as mythical as my first remembrances of ancient thunderbirds, living, mating, and raising young. I sensed his ability to hold a lot of information in his head while sorting through his emotions about what’s happening. My first view of them was at a distance.

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Plea to Help Downed Farm Animals

Critter News

Hard to read emotionally, but short and informative. Written by Gene Bauer and appearing in the Huffington Post.

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Do Chickens Feel Empathy?

Critter News

Now, I think they're wonderful and we sponsor Camilla the Chicken through Farm Sanctuary's animal sponsorship program. The research is from the School of Veterinary Sciences at the University of Bristol. I used to hate chickens as a child and thought they were irritating.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

Engber writes of experimenting on cats and on the "furtive language" vivisectionists use to decrease the emotional impact of what they do. I'd love to say that this was Engber's epiphany, and that he fought for Clayton's removal to a sanctuary and is now a powerful voice against the vivisection of sentient nonhumans.