10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 11, 2015
In February 2004, a young frigatebird blown into the Northern Pacific by a storm landed on a vessel bound for Vancouver, British Columbia. The frigatebird we had in care in 2004 never ate the fish that we offered on her own. Imagine, though, the chances of being killed in a helicopter by a frigatebird! I’m glad we lived.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2014
A poisoned rodent can kill whatever eats it, and death by poison is a very bad way to go. In 2004 – more than 20 years later – the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) had to sue EPA in order to get them to do anything about it. Four years later, EPA gave poison manufacturers three more years (are you adding this all up?)
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Critter News
APRIL 1, 2010
The government's proposals are aimed at tackling the growing problem of aggressive canines being used to harass, attack and even kill. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said the number of complaints about dog fights had soared tenfold between 2004 and 2008, the last year for which figures were available.
4 The Love Of Animals
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
This could include violence (torture, mutilation, intentional killings, etc.), ALDF points to the following examples for why a registry is needed to help animal guardians, law enforcement and shelters protect their animals: Robert Rydzewski : In 2004, the then 29-year-old upstate New Yorker shot his neighbor’s dog in the face twice.
Animal Person
JUNE 3, 2009
We needed to use them only one year (2004, when Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne came a-calling), but also discovered that we should keep more than a dozen. Water is killing them, and water can save them. Drinking Bottled Water Kills the Earth (chrisabraham.com). Bottled Water Sales Drop Off (worldchanging.com). Drink Tap Water!
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
The photographs span the years 1870 to 2004. Ironically, the bird in the photograph served as the model for the bird in the lithograph; it was killed, skinned, preserved and stuffed a few days after the photograph was taken. Some were taken of birds and mammals in zoos or aviaries, others were taken in the wild, often in remote places.
Animal Person
DECEMBER 2, 2011
We spent the end of 2004 and beginning of 2005 getting fired by vet after vet. He told me to stop going to the vet because that's what was killing Violet Rays. Then there's her hideous gum disease that has left her few remaining teeth in bad shape but without much to do for them (the vets won't touch them). She's our 62-pound miracle.
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