Critter News

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Full story posted on Global Animal and from the Huffington Post. On February 8, a federal judge said ‘no,’ stopping a historic case filed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals against SeaWorld for violating the 13th Amendment on slavery. Here's hoping we see more of these legal challenges. PETA filed the lawsuit in the U.S.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 17, 2009

Well, if your dog suffers from arthritis or joint pain, this giveaway is for you! Let Flexpet help your dog become the same carefree and playful member of the family he or she used to be and wants to be again. Giveaway: FlexPet originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on August 17, 2009. Would you like a chance to win?

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Critter News

JULY 2, 2009

Apparently, Bubbles is now 26 years old and living at an animal sanctuary. Chimpanzees, like Travis the chimp who mauled the woman in Connecticut, are not meant to be family pets. They are wild creatures and their psychology must suffer from these abnormal arrangements. But I thought he was at an animal sanctuary?

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

But, pets also become bona fide family members with which we establish genuine relationships—incomparable emotional bonds that can have extraordinarily positive physical and psychological impacts on humans. Studies have also found that: Pet owners are less likely to suffer from depression than those without pets. Staying connected.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. They’d also have to pay for every aspect of care the injured bird requires, as well as the emotional suffering of the wildlife rehabilitator!”. It’s August, and first on the menu is: Fried Rehabber.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2011

The Hyacinth Macaw is more than just another pretty face; these birds are social with strong family values. The Hyacinth Macaw doesn’t start a family until it is seven years old. Last but certainly not least, the macaw suffers along with the other species in its ecosystem from rampant habitat destruction and deforestation.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2009

These families dress their monkeys, feed them at the dinner table and treat them like any other member of the family. I don't care how much these people love their "babies," these are wild animals that should be with their own kind. Who suffers? Remember Travis? Stupid TLC. Where is the "learning" in that name?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

Although lip service was paid to the fact that lions are endangered and a lion was poached, the language of anger was the language of animals rights. I’ve written before at length about how conservation and animal rights , while often drawing on mutual a reverence of nature, are different beasts. Not at the moment, anyway.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Family drama unfolds when Boro is challenged and defeated by a hostile baboon outsider, and suffers the loss of his son to disease. originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on September 5, 2009. Here, well meet an alpha male named Boro and follow his daily struggle to maintain authority and protect his kids.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 26, 2011

Following the devastating tornado that ravaged Joplin, Missouri, American Humane Association has mobilized its famed Red Star Animal Emergency Services™ team to help the animal victims there. The Red Star team will also be assisting at the Emergency Animal Shelter. Ganzert, president and CEO of American Humane Association.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 20, 2012

The interesting thing is that it was not a first time, when David saved poor animals out of a fire: ten years before he has already taken a wounded dog after the fire to the North Shore Animal League, where he was cured. The animal had badly burnt hair and legs, swollen eyes and ears damaged.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 3, 2009

According to information gathered by Best Friends Animal Society , the charity beneficiary of funds raised by ITo, “cities around the country are passing bills to round up and kill family pets, who simply look like the kind of dog who might attack someone.” I’m Tired of - (ITo) is on a mission to help put an end to it.

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Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

There was no meaningful discussion about our inefficient use of resources (grain and water) in the feeding of animals to kill to feed people. With regard to cruelty and suffering, it's clear from the film that the human animal has been profoundly negatively affected by climate change, but there is no attention given to nonhuman animals.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2011

He has volunteered to kill a deer cruelly, ineptly and with an outdated weapon that causes additional suffering to the deer. He says he hunts out of a need to take responsibility for his family, who evidently live where the supermarkets offer no meat. Animals suffer when killed. No pearly phrases can make that any better.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

I think it is safe to say that yes, an intelligent animal is unhappy, even downright miserable, being confined to a crate two by seven feet for months on end. I served on the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, which released a report in 2008 that detailed exactly how much these “efficiencies” are costing America.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

In spite of this New Zealand does have an iconic family of birds that has served as an emblem for the country for over a century, the kiwi. There are are presently thought to be five species of kiwi with a possible sixth extinct species, all of which have suffered varying degrees of range contraction since the arrival of humans.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2010

The new law will cost American family farmers, and ultimately California consumers, hundreds of millions of dollars. Inhumane confinement, illegal anticompetitive practices and factory farming hurt animals, the environment, the consumer, the public health and the farmer. Gene Gregory President, United Egg Producers Alpharetta, Ga.,

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. You can buy some extra time by presoaking the animal in a basin of ice water.)"

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10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2011

The whole setup is very nicely balanced and at just over 2.5kg I can easily hold it for longer periods without suffering from fatigue. But of course I also like taking images of other animals when the opportunity presents it self. I like this setup as it is much better suited for my personal style of digiscoping.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Plain Sunbird is the plain vanilla version of the otherwise often very colorful family (ok, a very low-budget sort of joke). For good measure, some animals in the near vicinity were also named after him, such as Raffles’s Malkoha. And some other animals.

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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

I immensely enjoyed "EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED" (even on the big screen) and eagerly anticipated "EATING ANIMALS" by Jonathan Safran Foer. Finally, if you know someone who gravitates toward the philosophical issues around our use of animals, this is a good book. He is against it for himself and his family. Ever, in fact.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

I come from a family where the worse the situation, the faster and more furiously the wisecracks fly, so I suppose I’m hardwired to look for humor. But one in particular did not even involve contact with an animal. The book is darkly funny. Why did you decide it was important to find humor in Luna’s experience? I just can’t take it.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

This blog is written by writer, photographer, and animal advocate Ingrid Taylar. There’s an imperative to get this message across to cat people who, like me, can be educated to value wild lives as much as we value the lives of our four-legged family members. It’s tribal and familial. Caring for our own is an element of survival.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. The Dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ) — that towering icon of modern anthropogenic extinctions — was a pigeon.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2008

Spend more time with family and friends. Stop supporting unnecessary animal cruelty in all of its forms. Now that 2008 has arrived, I'd like once again to encourage new and old readers alike to make this the year that they stop supporting animal cruelty in all of its forms. b) Stop eating animal products. (c)

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2006

Spend more time with family and friends. Stop supporting unnecessary animal cruelty in all of its forms. Spend more time with family and friends—I will do X in the evening with my spouse or partner, and I will do Y with my kids on the weekend (where you and your family and friends fill in the variables appropriately).

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Animal Person

MARCH 18, 2010

As someone who's about to have a one-year old in her life, I was particularly aware of the part animals play in the lives of the children and how animals are talked about. Also, the have families (as if other animals don't). All animals except the dog are called "it" (I did a little experiment to see what would happen).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Because its extremely difficult to conclusively demonstrate what any nonhuman animal is thinking or feeling, this lack (failure?) of understanding on our part has morphed into an assumption that animals are simply little robots, acting purely on instinct and nothing else. Science, for many years, has done no better.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2012

It’s actually a member of the family Artamidae, which includes the woodswallows (not actually swallows), the butcherbirds (not actually shrikes) and the peltops (which actually are peltops, since there are no others). Australian Magpies, like every other animal in Australia, are also dangerous.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 17, 2011

Violet's a member of our family. Stanley, Emily, Violet and Sky are members of our family. This time of year, I worry about animals who are bought or adopted as gifts. This assumes that everyone also agrees that the animal will be part of the family for life. At no point would we consider having to rehome Violet.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Most moral vegetarians list fish and fowl as animals one should not eat. First, it may be argued that only animals who can feel pain are not to be eaten. KBJ: Nobody in the animal-rights or animal-liberation movement views intelligence as a morally significant property, at least intrinsically. What is forbidden meat?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2018

Benson artist and illustrator responsible for the iconic Guinness artwork, explained the company’s peculiar request: “The Guinness family did not want an advertising campaign that equated with beer. Somehow it led to animals.”. They thought it would be vulgar. They also wanted to stress the brew’s strength and goodness.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2024

Location, location, location – some practical advice for River Lapwings aiming to have a family: “ River Lapwing nests on open, unvegetated river banks achieved significantly greater nesting success than those in crop fields” ( source ).

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. It truly is horrific and despicable to treat animals so badly. All that follows from that assumption is that it is morally permissible to eat some meat.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Pros – it can kill you (like most proper Australian animals), is essentially a dinosaur. Also, is only found in Queensland, which makes one think it’s probably already suffered enough. This list has to have a representative of this most Australian of bird families, the honeyeaters. Cons – is almost extinct.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 1, 2010

My brother suffered from some pretty bad allergies while we were growing up, so a dog was never an option for my family. Cool Summer Tips for Your Pet originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on July 1, 2010. Mike currently works with Air and Water Inc.

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