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Environmental Groups Call For End To USDA Wildlife Killing

Critter News

Yet, Wildlife Services not only kills tens of thousands of targeted wild animals annually, their activities also result in the unintentional deaths of many others, including pets, using indiscriminate and agonizing poisons, torturous traps, and even dynamite.

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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

A handful Animal Person readers since May of 2006, when I started this then-daily blog, have asked me if I've read Joan Dunayer. And now that I've read Animal Equality and begun Speciesism , I think I know why. Field & Stream executive editor David Petzal defines fair chase as 'stalking an animal on its own terms.'

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Animals Have Personalities? No WAY!

Animal Person

When I started blogging in May of 2006 I was very snarky. Angier writes: "Scientists studying animals from virtually every niche of the bestial kingdom have found evidence of distinctive personalities — bundled sets of behaviors, quirks, preferences and pet peeves that remain stable over time and across settings."

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Good Idea: The Pet Loo

4 The Love Of Animals

The Pet Loo is a ‘Back Yard in a Box’. Clean, Convenient & ‘Green’ Indoor / Outdoor Pet Toilet. New York, NY (March, 2009) – Apartment living with a pet is now easier and more convenient with The Pet Loo, a hygienic new portable toilet for dogs and cats. Does The Pet Loo cater to animals of varying sizes?

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Turtles of the World: A Guide To Every Family–A Book Review by a Turtle Lover

10,000 Birds

I happen to be particularly fond of turtles because my family has taken care of a small box turtle for 30 years (beware–turtles are extremely low-maintenance pets but will outlast your child’s youth and probably your life). Press, 2006) or Ernst and Lovich’s text on turtles of North America, cited above.

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Awkward Fostering

4 The Love Of Animals

One of the recent developments, which caught an eye of many pet-lovers, is an adoption of three newly born tigers by German shepherd in Chinese Reserve on January 2012. In 2006, in Yalta private zoo (Ukraine) two white lions were left without mother’s care.

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Birding With Alligators

10,000 Birds

In May 2006, alligators killed three Floridians in less than a week. And alligators seem to be everywhere in Florida – basking in the sun, cruising through canals, eyeing your pet poodle. There were only nine fatal attacks in the U.S. throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s, but alligators killed 12 people from 2001 to 2007.