4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

So in celebration, here is a fun list of Five Famous First Pets. First Pet, 1963): John F. Kennedy’s family owned many pets, including a horse, which was a present to 5 year-old Caroline Kennedy. Caroline often rode the horse around the White House lawn. Dogs are the most popular presidential pet.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 5, 2014

Etched In My Heart offers pet lovers a wide variety of personalized gifts. Etched In My Heart was founded by Bob Tucker in 2007 based upon the need to provide pet lovers a custom gift or personalized frame that have beautiful designs specific to dogs, cats, rabbits, horses and birds. Be sure to have a look around their website

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 3, 2010

A lot of very important information for pet owners, especially as we go into the summer season. Mosquitoes bite humans and animals with no regard to species, and they bring along a number of illnesses. For animals, the bugs can cause harmful disease and life threatening conditions. Heartworms. West Nile Virus.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 19, 2010

Your pets get the same benefits from a massage: increased circulation and flexibility along with decreased muscle pain and stress. And besides, pets love a good back scratch and tummy rub. A quick Internet search can point you towards the nearest animal massage therapist in your area. It was first used on race and show horses.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2015

I have been rescuing animals, both wild and domestic, since I was a child. I’ve rescued field mice to horses, and everything in between. Can you convince yourselves that your cat does not kill birds, when statistics show pet cats only bring home 23% of their kills? It sickens me. It’s natural.”).

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 25, 2012

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a vet that worked on farm animals? Specializing in large farm animals, this senior is anything but retiring as he takes an old school, no-nonsense approach to veterinary medicine. Be sure to tune in tonight to The Incredible Dr. Pol which premiers at 10PM ET on NatGeo!

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Today is Blog the Change day, a special day where bloggers write about animal causes near and dear to them. So today I want to tell you about my personal favorite, Best Friends Animal Society. But what we love most about Best Friends is that they don’t just help dogs, they help birds, cats, horses, and more!

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Critter News

MARCH 8, 2009

The provincial government says it's gone from "worst to first" and Ontario is now the only jurisdiction in Canada with special protections for law-enforcement animals like police dogs and horses. Pet owners convicted of a crime under the act can also be barred from owning any animals for life.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 17, 2012

Pets are beloved creatures that become part of your family, but if you think about everything they do during their busy days, you may wonder how hygienic they really are. Keeping a pet’s hygiene up to date is vital not only for their health but to yours as well. Thankfully, cats are self-cleaning.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2014

It’s always risky to say what separates humans from other animals — tool use, self-awareness, and the perception of morality no longer being as obvious a set of distinctions as they once were – but I will go out on a limb and say that narrative is at least as characteristic of humans as feathers are of birds.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

I recently got an email from the Animal Legal Defense Fund. They are pioneering legislation in California to make public animal abuse registries. The Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) today announced an effort aimed at creating public registries in each state of anyone convicted of felony animal abuse. COTATI, CALIF. –

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Pets have been displaced as well as their owners in the recent wildfires. ANIMAL shelters are searching for the owners of hundreds of dogs, cats, horses, rabbits and other pets displaced by fires. Shelter workers fear many owners may have assumed their animals died or they could be looking for them in the wrong places.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Otrada is the name of a shop on Etsy that features products for animal lovers. They have a lot of fun items, especially for those who love horses (but they have things for all animal lovers too). I really thought this was a cute necklace, and what a great way to show off your pet too! There are so many of us!

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Ortada is the name of a shop on Etsy that features products for animal lovers. They have a lot of fun items, especially for those who love horses (but they have things for all animal lovers too). I really thought this was a cute necklace, and what a great way to show off your pet too! There are so many of us!

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 28, 2009

We were pretty excited to get this bed, because it’s just not any old pet bed! Nano Pet Products, manufacturers of Dog Gone SmartTM Bed and Dog Gone SmartTM Wear pet products, is dedicated to bringing cleaner and healthier pet products to pet owners worldwide through nanotechnology. Read on to learn more.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 11, 2009

The following is a guest post from the amazing animal lovers of Adopt-a-Pet.com. Adopt-a-Pet.com is the world’s largest non-profit pet adoption website. We are like an ad agency for shelters and shelter pets. Sadly there are 4 million healthy adoptable companion animals killed in shelters each year due to overcrowding.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 1, 2009

Tails Of Aloha is an all volunteer Animal Assisted Therapy Organization, located on Oahu in the state of Hawaii, with animals on all of the major Hawaiian Islands. We also do foster homes for misplaced pets and pets whose owners have been placed into nursing homes, long term hospital care or hospice.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 8, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ Another Horse-Racing Horror ” (editorial, May 6): Thank you for adding your voice to the many who are demanding that the welfare of racehorses should come before profits. 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.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

And I received confirmation of something I've known since 2004, when we adopted retired racing greyhound, Violet Rays: That there's sort of a critical period for dog-behavior acquisition, and if it's missed, the dog isn't likely to mature into the type of loving being whose behavior we've come to associate with "pet" dogs. And he details why.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 10, 2016

Petplan lists 10 terrible gifts that can cause a costly trip to the vet They say you should never look a gift horse in the mouth, but finding flaws in holiday presents could save pet parents an unexpected trip to … Continue reading → The post The Holiday Gifts You Hate Getting Can Also Sicken Your Pet appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals. (..)

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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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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

1,125,667 animals were adopted between Oct. Iams and longtime partner Helen Woodward Animal Center, along with more than 3,500 animal organizations from around the world once again joined forces to help reduce pet homelessness. 23,051 other animals (including rabbits, reptiles, horses, birds and more).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2011

Of those traits, there are two kinds: The ones that are bird-like, but are not shared between birds and other animals because of a common ancestor having had the trait. These animals were small, had highly efficient respiratory systems, were feather-clad, and may have soared around a bit. Horses have six upper and lower on each side.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 17, 2011

Sheila Stewart from the Capricorn Animal Rescue centre speaks with money supermarket’s Felicity Hannah on the importance of pet insurance. Pet insurance video from moneysupermarket.com. Looking after your pet when they get sick or injured can become a huge financial burden. Death Benefit. Accidental Damage. Boarding Fees.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2023

The Giant Laughingthrush is a bit of a disappointment in that it is not really big enough to eat you (or even a pet cat), even though that is what one would expect from an animal with the Giant part in its name. Maybe the species has shrunk in the past few decades. End of advertisement.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 3, 2009

Bea directed me to the Animal Welfare Special Report at TheHill.com , in which Rep. David Scott (D-Ga), who is the chairman of the Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Subcommittee of the House Committee on Agriculture draws a line in the sand regarding the animals we use and how we use them. Translation? Let the games begin.

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