10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2019

” So, it is established: this is a film about migrant birds and the people who work to protect them in south Texas and northern Mexico. ” and then adds, “The border wall is no barrier to birds.” And, “the border wall” is a character in that story.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I am deeply troubled and angry that the National Institute of Health wants to move almost 200 chimpanzees from this facility to a laboratory in Texas where they may be subjected to testing. These highly intelligent animals should be PERMANENTLY retired and a PERMANENT sanctuary created for them.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

. … The ordinance would allow Minneapolis residents to establish cat “colonies” where abandoned and wild cats can be fed but also vaccinated, neutered and identified in an effort to humanely cut their population and control disease. Cats are domesticated animals that are not indigenous wildlife in North America. Does it solve it?

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Critter News

JANUARY 6, 2009

While the Humane Society was pretty happy with Vilsack as Obama's pick for the Department of Agriculture, the Farm Sanctuary is wary. I’m glad that Obama didn’t select Charles Stenholm, a former Texas congressman with a long history of defending animal abuse, who had sought the position with support from the factory farming industry.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 7, 2012

Cats are funny animals that’s half the reason Youtube exists and they’re funny because so much of what they do seems inexplicable. Bringing You a Dead Animal. She lives with her husband in Katy, Texas, and loves spending time with her two cats, Milo and Sammy.

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Critter News

APRIL 24, 2012

The reemergence of mad cow disease, discovered in a California dairy cow, could have major implications for the state’s meat industry, even though officials have said that the human food supply is unaffected. Nationally, California ranks behind Texas, Kansas and Nebraska in total cattle numbers. The sale of cattle and calves was a $1.82-billion

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 25, 2011

.: The Uncanny Inside Story of Cloning Man’s Best Friend explores the complex, and surprisingly intriguing, world of animal cloning. What about the health of clones, and what about all the animals needed in the process? Each with a unique reason for wanting to clone their animal. The animals are varied too!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2015

The vast majority of you reading this accept it is happening, and for the time being it is caused by humans. As the climate warms and snowpack decreases on mountain peaks, habitats (and their plant and animal communities) downslope will inevitably shift higher and higher in altitude to keep up with changing temperatures and precipitation.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 10, 2010

Did you know that pet hair clippings (and human hair too) can be used to help clean up oil? The company has grooming salons in all 13 resorts located in Texas, Louisiana, Florida and North Carolina. Pet Paradise Resort to donate ALL pet hair clippings originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on May 10, 2010.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2011

Well, the ongoing issues of land development, sport shooting, and the rancher’s war on these animals keeps prairie dog populations from ever booming. So barren in fact it is not uncommon to find this grassland species occupying the same habitat as cattle or areas with high degree of human disturbance.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 18, 2010

I really enjoyed getting a look into a world that few people will ever really know, and especially getting to know the human dog bonds that go into such work. What I didn’t realize is how my work with Puzzle in the search field would improve my communication with other humans, too. by Susannah Charleson. Avoid Hasty Conclusions.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 27, 2008

To the Editor: “ Getting Bacon the Hard Way: Hog-Tying 400 Pounds of Fury ” (front page, June 21), about Texas hog hunters, illustrated the barbarity of hunting with dogs. Following hunting season, animal shelters across America see an influx of ex-hunting dogs who were cruelly left to fend for themselves. June 23, 2008

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

They are dismissed by some as a "Eurocentric illusion," and praised by others as the answer to the problem of humanity's survival. I'm a citizen of the United States (as well as some of its subdivisions, such as Texas and Fort Worth). Note 2 from KBJ: Kant denied moral status to nonhuman animals. One does not answer problems.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

A column entitled "Ag Industry Threatened by Animal Rights" appeared in today's High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal [ HPMAJ ]. The column, which you can read here , is a call to arms to factory farmers to fight back against those individuals and organizations working to protect farm animals from the abuses inherent in factory farms.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

It provides shelter for many songbirds and water-associated animals, including the river otter, turtles, beaver, American pelicans, ospreys, and migratory songbirds. The refuge includes coastal marshes, islands, tidal creeks and estuaries of seven north Florida rivers, and is home to a diverse community of plant and animal life.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 8, 2007

It's still hot in North Texas. Perhaps I should have gotten the house number and called the Humane Society or Fort Worth Animal Control. Today, while running in 84º heat (and excessive humidity), I noticed a dog lying on a slab of concrete in someone's back yard. When I got done with my 3.1-mile It was a no-win situation.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2011

The modal bird song is a song, but not all ‘songs’ are song-like, in the sense that we expect song to come out of the ‘mouth’ (bill) and to consist of modulated air currents (like human voice). Drawing of bower birds from Darwin’s 1871 volume on sexual selection.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

March 14, 2011 Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Jon Gassett, Commissioner One Sportsman’s Lane Frankfort, Kentucky 40601 Dear Mr. Gassett, I am a writer, naturalist and artist with a special interest in human/bird interactions. Texas and North Dakota together account for 88% of the total yearly kill of sandhill cranes.

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Animal Person

MARCH 26, 2009

Dear Ma'am, There is nothing wrong with bestiality unless the animal is being bound or forced, in relation to bondage, where the animal can not bite or flee. All religion aside, there is nothing wrong with bestiality unless one is damaging the animal, physically or mentally, which might get difficult to describe or prove.

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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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