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Scarlett The Cat: From Homeless To A Hero

4 The Love Of Animals

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. The kittens were placed in nice families in pairs not far from North Shore Animal League, which continued to take care of Scarlett and her children during all her life.

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The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead

10,000 Birds

Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. The Dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ) — that towering icon of modern anthropogenic extinctions — was a pigeon.

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How to CBC like a Pro

10,000 Birds

North Carolina’s 2nd inland Pacific Loon was on Lake Townsend in 2008. They’re a life-saver and well worth asking your friends and family if you’re still in need of a holiday gift. To say I stumbled into a CBC goldmine is a bit of an understatement. I won the lottery. So I’m ready to go for my local CBC.

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Consider the Chickadee

10,000 Birds

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. The chickadee that I discovered on the sidewalk was suffering from dehydration and hypothermia.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

I served on the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, which released a report in 2008 that detailed exactly how much these “efficiencies” are costing America. 20, 2012 To the Editor: Blake Hurst asserts that “production methods should not cause needless suffering,” but the position he takes does just that.

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Make This the Year You Do Right by Animals

Animal Ethics

Spend more time with family and friends. Now that 2008 has arrived, I'd like once again to encourage new and old readers alike to make this the year that they stop supporting animal cruelty in all of its forms. For no extra charge, switching to a vegan diet also dramatically reduces your contribution to unnecessary animal suffering.

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