4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 2, 2010

Comment before midnight on August 8, 2010. It’s no accident that dogs evolved this way, as humans have been selectively breeding them for around 14,000 years to serve our needs as laborer, companion, hunter, herder and warrior, as well as to suit our aesthetic fancy. This giveaway is open to those in the USA only.

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Dogs Iraq Goats 2010 100

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 3, 2010

In literature as well as life, the ideal is the safely rescued animal finds the perfect home and becomes the perfect pet. But when an animal is so damaged or developmentally challenged by its beginnings that it doesn’t accept its new situation; that can make for a difficult transition. The destruction was profound.

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Pit Bulls Rescue Massachusetts Feral Cats 100

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 4, 2010

There is no “sport” when one “competitor,” the hunter, equipped with a high-powered weapon, camouflage clothing and other devices, pursues an unsuspecting animal. The reason hunting has no future in this country is that the next generation of potential hunters will not accept these myths. Aland Winnetka, Ill.,

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New York Times New York Hunters Hunting 40

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

It provides shelter for many songbirds and water-associated animals, including the river otter, turtles, beaver, American pelicans, ospreys, and migratory songbirds. Note in this 2010 video, birders, birdwatching and kayakers are mentioned, not hunters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk_5pt9OTLA. v=sk_5pt9OTLA.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Giving a few hundred hunters something else to shoot, in my opinion, cannot be worth the blowback from tens of thousands of people who are willing to travel and spend just to watch the birds fly over. Where Are You Birding this Second Weekend of March 2009?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 255

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

So, one might surmise, it’s OK if they get shot by hunters thinking they’re sandhill cranes? Over the winter, the universe lost four whooping cranes to what appears to be recreational shooting: three gunned down together in Georgia on December 30, 2010, and another in Alabama on January 28, 2011. Do all hunters realize that?

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 243

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

million people (2010 census). We actually spent considerable time searching unsuccessfully for this highly sought-after bird; however I did suspect they were not gone, as several hunters I interviewed knew the bird and claimed it still existed. Between 1990 and 2010, Ghana lost 33.7% million hectares in 2007.

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