Critter News

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

This weekend Lagos Town Hall executives are expected to sign a landmark protocol drawn up in collaboration with animal protection association Cadela Carlota, in which it is decreed that the two organisations will endeavour to put a stop to the extermination of healthy unwanted and stray animals being held in the municipal kennel.

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Stray Kennels Portugal Unwanted 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2018

Thankfully, we have already passed the bit where I humiliate myself in front of 22 Brazilian soccer players by tripping on my laces when trying to kick back their stray football. The bird scraped at its face which must have taken many stings, but eventually most of the wasps gave up and abandoned the nest.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2012

They may gather in flocks of hundreds during their fall journey, abandoning their lonely summer habits. Migration makes them vulnerable to straying: Accidental Hoary Bats have been found as far afield as Bermuda and Iceland.

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Bats Iceland Stray Mammals 175

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

… The ordinance would allow Minneapolis residents to establish cat “colonies” where abandoned and wild cats can be fed but also vaccinated, neutered and identified in an effort to humanely cut their population and control disease.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 206

Animal Ethics

MARCH 17, 2008

Sadly, the situation in Puerto Rico is replicated in countries around the world where hundreds of millions of dogs live as strays, abandoned by the humans they have come to depend on for food, shelter and companionship.

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