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RATS, Raptors, and Reckitt Benckiser

10,000 Birds

The rodents eat the bait, stagger out of the building looking for water, and are easy prey for whatever carnivore happens to be passing by, be it wildlife or someone’s pet. A poisoned rodent can kill whatever eats it, and death by poison is a very bad way to go. Need an example of “hypocrisy?”

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Do Birds Feel Love?

10,000 Birds

It’s easy to observe this attachment behavior in parrots, especially pets. While we’re used to declarations that our pet parrots “love” us just as we love them, and they can be quite demonstrative in showing their affection, the evidence is thinner for wild birds. The real test of hummingbird bonds came in 2004.

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The Animal Legal Defense Fund Public Registries

4 The Love Of Animals

This could include violence (torture, mutilation, intentional killings, etc.), Such registries would help protect animals, pet guardians and communities by preventing repeat offenses from anyone with an established history of abusing animals. Two months later, he killed another neighbor’s Welsh Corgi with an ax.

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Happy 12th Birthday Violet Rays!

Animal Person

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. So I went through bag by bag of everything at our small pet health food store until I found the perfect combination of dead animals and their parts. Her eyes were vacant.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. Scientists mapped out the entire mouse genome in 2002 and the rat genome in 2004.)