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Steps Towards Ending Factory Farming?

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Similar limits were approved last year in Michigan and less sweeping restrictions have been adopted in Florida, Arizona and other states. In another sign of the growing clout of the animal welfare movement, a law passed in California this year will also ban imports from other states of eggs produced in crowded cages.

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Teaching Kids Animal Compassion

4 The Love Of Animals

I strongly encourage people to adopt pound and shelter animals. About Dr. Tim: Dr. Tim Hunt is a licensed veterinarian in both Michigan and Alaska. He and his wife Mary live on 50 acres in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with four house cats, two house dogs and 40 outdoor dogs. Purebred or mixed breed?

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My Favorite Release

10,000 Birds

Finally my colleague Doty worked her magic in Michigan, and we let him go there. Biologists are trying to get them to adopt nest boxes, but no luck with the CA birds so far. “We let a one-eyed Bald Eagle go after a year of battling state officials in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky. That was 9 years ago.

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The Passenger Pigeon & A Message From Martha: One Pigeon, Two Book Reviews

10,000 Birds

” (I love that term, and may adopt it for future use.) Avery’s trip through Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York holds more promise. Everyone knows Audubon’s famous illustration, but how many know that it has been harshly criticized for not being realistic?

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Male Ruddy Ducks Oxyura jamaicensis in Basic Plumage

10,000 Birds

I will never forget seeing a flock of around 1,000 birds in Michigan, especially as it took me two decades to come up with a total of two observations (at a single bird each, both females) of its European/central Asian counterpart. Jochen: I like that name and I might just have to adopt it.

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