Critter News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Michael Vick is now eligible to return in Game THREE instead of just Game Six of the regular season. Tags: pit bull blood animal cruelty Michael Vick dogfighting sick. Just realized that we reported this on Critter World News, but never posted about it. Someone up there must like him.

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Michael Vick Game Pit Bulls Animal Cruelty 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

The three young men returned to their friends, bragged about their exploits, and showed them trophies: metal banding tags, which members of the Pacific Rim Conservation had carefully placed on the albatrosses’ legs in order to keep track of individual birds. The young men had severed the birds’ legs in order to remove the tags.

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Albatross Honolulu Hawaii Killing 214

Animal Person

JUNE 23, 2010

The commentator says that part of her winnings will go to abolish animal cruelty (yes, abolish). Interviewer: "Wait, so you want to abolish animal cruelty, except for chickens and fish, (pointing at the contestant) because she doesn't like them?". I think you actually support animal cruelty."

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Critter News

DECEMBER 7, 2008

It’s like the Saturday night poker game for hardened criminals,” said one of the undercover agents, Sgt. Tags: animal cruelty Texas dog fighting us. Manning, describing the tense atmosphere at the fights. Disgusting and disturbing.

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Texas Pit Bulls Animal Cruelty Investigation 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

By Mike • March 2, 2011 • 3 comments Tweet Share During a soccer game in Colombia, a player kicked an owl that was on the field. But the disregard for animals that leads to teams using a live owl as a mascot…and having so little control over it that it got onto the field during play? Video and desultory apology here.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

From WildEarth Guardians: WildEarth Guardians’ research reveals this agency is: • Biologically Unsound - Wildlife Services uses a “sledgehammer approach” to wildlife management, meaning over one million animals are killed each year using non-selective killing controls such as poisons, traps, and aerial gunning.

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Critter News

AUGUST 24, 2008

I didn't watch a single minute of the games. I did have issues with the host country in this case because of the horrible way they treat animals, and their lack of any animal cruelty laws. And yet, the IOC President Jacques Rogge called then "truly exceptional games". What a truly exceptional game they've played.

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