Critter News

OCTOBER 26, 2008

I came across this 2005 book from the Society & Animals Journal titled Confronting Cruelty Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement. Readership: This book will be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand the animal rights movement in England, the United States and Australia.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

From PETA's site: A new PETA undercover investigation inside a Land O'Lakes supplier facility in Pennsylvania has revealed routine neglect and cruelty to cows who are milked for the Fortune 250 company's products. And the disturbing video: Tags: animal cruelty PETA.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

How much suffering and death resulted from this family's practices? Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty puppy mills animal welfare us. She kept being given "one more chance" with the end result of about 600 dogs finally being seized from the establishments. The article is particularly thorough and damning.

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Critter News

MAY 12, 2009

Animal hoarding is a pretty serious act that causes untold suffering for animals. there are probably several factors that go into how a person develops into an animal hoarder, but “we think it may be related to obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.”

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Critter News

MARCH 23, 2009

To re-create and measure the environmental conditions, Animal Control staff put a dog from the pound, of similar size and weight to the dead dog, in the same holding cage for an hour. The temperature did not exceed 86 degrees, the dog was closely monitored and suffered no ill affects, they said. Weather conditions were also similar.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2009

The non-animal methods include rotations in military trauma hospitals and the use of the DoD's own Combat Trauma Patient Simulator. Please help animals who suffer for military training by asking President Obama to extend his ban on torture to include animals used in military trauma-training exercises.

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