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.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
From WildEarth Guardians: WildEarth Guardians’ research reveals this agency is: • Biologically Unsound - Wildlife Services uses a “sledgehammer approach” to wildlife management, meaning over one million animals are killed each year using non-selective killing controls such as poisons, traps, and aerial gunning.
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4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 20, 2012
In 1996 Scarlett saved her five children during the fire and not so long ago, in 2008, she died after a long-term sickness and ensuring consequences of skin burns. Three of them are alive even today and one has died from cancer in the same 2008. Here Scarlett experienced the full recovery and had a good lifetime of 10 years.
10,000 Birds
MAY 25, 2011
Not for nothing did 10,000 Birds readers elect the chickadee as the Most Beloved Backyard Bird of 2008 ; if we had run elections in other years, chickadees would no doubt have been front-runners. Just to make sure, however, I shooed the dogs away and checked it out. Who, after all, doesn’t love a chickadee? It was still alive.
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 Ethics
MAY 28, 2008
To the Editor: Re “ Biotech Company to Auction Chances to Clone a Dog ” (news article, May 21): Cloning animals to “replace” treasured companions is a boondoggle. And when one considers that millions of dogs and cats are killed each year in shelters because there are no homes for them, cloning becomes unethical as well.
Animal Ethics
JUNE 27, 2008
To the Editor: “ Getting Bacon the Hard Way: Hog-Tying 400 Pounds of Fury ” (front page, June 21), about Texas hog hunters, illustrated the barbarity of hunting with dogs. As the dogs tear chunks of flesh from the terrified pig, the hunters undoubtedly feel proud of their accomplishment. June 23, 2008
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