Animal Ethics

AUGUST 20, 2007

We are the Interfaith Association of Animal Chaplains. We provide scriptural / spiritual support and free phone counseling to bereaved pet owners. To find Animal Chaplains in your area, go to our site at www.AnimalChaplains.com and click on "clergy list". Thank-you for the wonderful and important work you do.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 3, 2007

Lawmakers, animal control officers and animal welfare organizations need to work together and delve into the origins of shelter subgroups—such as stray, feral or surrendered pets—to address the issues that bring them to the shelter.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2008

Yet, in the case of domesticated animals especially, many people, particularly lonely people, regard (and often want to regard) their pet as a kind of lesser human being, with a less rich but still plentiful mental life which explains why their cat or dog behaves as it does.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 8, 2008

To the Editor: While businesses that rent dogs may be well intentioned, they’re unlikely to benefit the overall welfare of pets, and may actually do harm to the individual dogs they “rent” (“ For a Temporary Best-Friend Fix, Rent a Dog (Kibble Included) for a Day ,” news article, March 30).

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Hello, I am an intern for Ashley Paige, and she has been nominated for the "Top 10 Not So Ordinary Pet People" contest. If you don't know she rescues many animals and personally finds loving homes for them. She has a non-profit organization called Ruffhouzen , check it out! Please, please, please vote for her!

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Animal Ethics

MAY 9, 2008

A young bird, yet to reach flight, is extremely vulnerable to pet cats and dogs. Feeding and caging them from your own pet, is impossible. During this season, a lot of little birds will be falling from the trees. There is really nothing you can do for them. Birds, possums, same problem.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 29, 2007

As an organization comprising dog trainers, behaviorists and other animal professionals, the Association of Pet Dog Trainers is aware that any dog can bite, any dog can maim and any dog can kill. Richard Spencer Executive Director, Association of Pet Dog Trainers Greenville, S.C.,

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 25, 2008

Should we keep pets? Here is a website with opposing answers.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 6, 2008

Would you feel differently if Isenhour had driven golf balls at your cat or dog until he succeeded in killing your pet? If Isenhour had killed your cat or dog with the same kind of wanton disregard for your pet's life that he allegedly displayed toward the hawk's life, what kind of penalty would you want imposed on him? What say you?

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Animal Ethics

JULY 11, 2008

After Hurricane Katrina, after the floods in the Midwest, after the fires in the West, the humane societies across the country rescued and cared for lost animals and then sought to reunite them with their owners. This may seem one of the “whims of the wealthy” to Mr. Madoff, but it’s not to pet owners. Gardner Cherry Hill, N.J.,

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Animal Ethics

MAY 8, 2008

Most wind up auctioned off for a few dollars each and sent to the foreign slaughterhouses to be made into pet food or dinner for someone overseas. But let us also give thought to the thousands of horses that are bred every year for racing and don’t make the cut or outlive their usefulness to the investors and owners.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 19, 2006

We are an animal welfare group working for animals in India— www.hopeandanimal.org we have tie up with a US based company for fund raising—If you buy pet products from www.petmedusa.net 10% of sale proceeds are donated to our organisation—Pls Bid and buy the product. with regards, Praveen Ohal

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 27, 2008

Also Animal Attraction is donating at least $100,000 to various animal charities next month (April is animal cruelty prevention month) to give back to the community we all adore—our pets! Thanks for your time and please feel free to contact me with any questions! Joanne Poesch

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Animal Ethics

JULY 31, 2007

Also readers can find other information on the history of the sport, dog fighting laws, and links to other articles about dogs and pet care. “How Dog Fighting Works” is a look into the illegal sport of dog fighting and gives readers information on the issues and its effects. You can find the article here. Thanks, Chad Davis

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 30, 2007

For the same reason that most of us would not eat our pets, we should also not eat chickens, pigs or other animals. There is no moral difference between eating a dog or a pig, a cat or a chicken. Borders Jr. Louisville, Ky.,

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2007

Here is a New York Times story about pet food.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 6, 2007

To the Editor: “ Should Most Pet Owners Be Required to Neuter Their Animals? ,” by Verlyn Klinkenborg (Editorial Observer, July 30), is right: “The rate at which dogs are purchased and euthanized in this country is not a sign of our affection for them. It’s a sign of our indifference.”

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 5, 2007

The Humane Society of the United States’ recommendation to euthanize animals after 72 hours at the shelter was specific to this situation and does not apply universally, as your article might suggest. Shelters across the country are required to hold animals to let owners reclaim lost pets.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 11, 2008

One aspect of the question of whether animals have rights may now be treated. If animals have rights, then these are welfare rather than option-rights. My pet turtle does not exercise, at his option, any rights over itself, things, or people.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

Children naturally love animals, but the many “uses we have found for them” lead us to teach our children to save their compassion for companion animals exclusively.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 20, 2008

Are pets, for example, well-treated, like children, for the sake of themselves, or, like mechanical appliances, because of the sort of services they provide their owners?

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

It’s not the feline lack of musical discernment that I found disturbing (I don’t “get” Schubert’s symphonies either), but rather that Mr. Steiner owns a pet. If he wishes to make no distinction between animal and human life and rights, how does he justify keeping an animal in what amounts to captivity?

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Let us suppose that, inspired by Singer 's article, people were to hit on the idea of having their pets painlessly put down at the start of each holiday (as some pet owners already do), acquiring new ones upon their return. Suppose, indeed, that a company grows up, 'Disposapup Ltd.',

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