Critter News

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Nathan Winograd has an interesting piece in the Examiner about the recent HSUS Animal Shelter Appreciation Week. It's not that he's unappreciative of people that work with animals, but rather the state of many of the shelters that are being appreciated. Tags: animal shelters. You can read about his background here.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The ASPCA continually does amazing work on behalf of our animal companions. They also had signs of neglect, broken bones, wounds and infections. “Being chained 24/7 is no way to live—they have lived miserable lives, and are just starved for human contact.&#. If you see animal abuse, please report it.

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Animal Person

APRIL 7, 2009

As the economy continues to falter, law enforcement officers in Kentucky and throughout the country are seeing major increases in the number of unwanted and neglected horses, some abandoned on public land, others left to starve by their owners.". And it’s much more humane than leaving them there to starve to death.”.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 9, 2009

Responding to an anonymous tip about a neglected cat, the Humane Law Enforcement agents arrived at Stewart’s residence to find a seven-week-old, one-pound orange tabby with his whiskers cut off and a serious injury to his right front paw. “As As of now, he might lose his paw and is suffering from a rib fracture as well.”

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 22, 2011

However, any breed of dog that has been abused, neglected, or homeless may be aggressive to humans or other dogs. It may feel threatened, and animals that feel threatened instinctually protect themselves. If you find that dog of any breed is aggressive to humans, it is best to notify the relevant authorities.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

The problem of the unjust use of farm animals is large, growing, historical, institutionalized, governmentally encouraged, and fundamentally unregulated at either the state or federal level. Farm animals are treated essentially as raw materials. Instead it aids industry boards that exist solely to sell animal products.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 30, 2010

To the Editor: Re “ Animal Abuse as Clue to Additional Cruelties ” (news article, March 18): As someone who deals with dozens of cruelty-to-animals cases every week, I applaud states that are imposing stricter penalties on people who hurt animals and that are working to establish online registries of animal abusers.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 22, 2009

And you wouldn't fund a program that was very expensive per unit (human or nonhuman animal) yet you often don't think about that when you're dealing with an individual. And then there's the argument against direct actions such as breaking into a lab and liberating animals.

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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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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Just like humans, dogs depend on joints for flexibility and movement. Prior to her being rescued, she was also fed a poorly unbalanced diet and neglected. I raise money regularly for animal charities and awareness around canine exercise. They say dogs are like their owners and this is true, regarding joints. Author Biography.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 11, 2008

But the leaner meat from grass-fed animals actually tastes richer and more savory. To the Editor: Missing from your article was mention of deleterious environmental and health effects resulting from intensive animal farming in addition to global warming. A carnivore is an organism that, by nature, feeds only on animal flesh.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Interests arise, Singer contends, from the capacity to feel pain, which he labels a 'prerequisite' for having interests at all; and animals can and do suffer, can and do feel pain. This, however, is precisely what factory farming does.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 23, 2007

What these naysayers consistently neglect is that vegan diets, as with all other restricted diets, must be well planned. It is not enough to simply cut animal products (or carbohydrates, or calories) out of one’s diet. It’s appalling that anyone would think that a diet based on a dubious morality would build a human infant.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

So, they cleverly would hijack unpopular animals or people as placeholders for the devil and then swear to their heart’s delight. “Rabeneltern” – raven parents Raven parents, raven mothers, raven fathers – shame on you all, for you are neglecting your children. So the blood hound is called the sweat hound here.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 26, 2014

NEW JERSEY – Animal shelters are full, they have no space, they often have no money, and they have a small amount of dedicated volunteers. Many of these boarding animals are forgotten. There is an estimated 3-4million pets euthanized each year in US animal shelters. Some were abused or neglected. Look at tail wag.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I imagine that we agree in our rejection of slavery, eternal damnation, genocide, and uncritical patriotic self-abnegation; so we shall agree that Huck Finn , Jonathan Edwards , Heinrich Himmler , and the poet Horace would all have done well to bring certain of their principles under severe pressure from ordinary human sympathies.

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