AVMA News

MAY 2, 2024

The AVMA Board of Directors (BOD) updated and adopted several policies during its April 4-5 meeting at AVMA headquarters in Schaumburg, Illinois. The policy topics ranged from horse tripping to goat and sheep disbudding and dehorning to the veterinarian’s role in the opioid epidemic.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2022

, Edith Coleman posts that a brooding bird of the species deliberately concealed itself, stating that it “was conscious of being invisible to me, in the position she invariably adopted when aware of my proximity. Although a plump bird, it was surprising to note how much of her body she managed to conceal.”

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Critter News

OCTOBER 18, 2010

If this policy is adopted, European farms could be populated by cloned supersize animals used as breeding stock for cows, pigs and sheep that are reared for food. However, a leaked report to be discussed by the EU’s College of Commissioners today comes out in favour of food from the offspring of clones.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 5, 2011

The purpose is therefore to provide a Forever Home for those companion and farm animals that have virtually no chance of being adopted due to their age or condition. “We do not adopt out for the mere fact that the ones we have nobody wanted, and that is fine with us.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2020

For starters, the official national animal is the unicorn, a fairy-tale beast chosen by Scottish royalty in the Middle Ages for its reputation as the natural enemy of the lion, the adopted mascot of English kings. Eagle and Lamb by John James Audubon (1785-1851).

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 29, 2012

Middle class adoption of dog ownership required affordable collars, just like today’s mass marketed collar industry. A sheep dog or other herding animal’s primary duty is to guard the flock against the designs of other carnivores. Dogs owned by royalty or other elites tended to be ornate and decorative.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2020

Admiring Nature in her wildest grace, These northern scenes with weary feet I trace; O’er many a winding dale and painful steep, Th’ abodes of covey’d grouse and timid sheep…. Sheep may timidly graze but these Black Grouse are another matter altogether.

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