10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Somehow they manage to get the bird or animal to a rehabilitator, even though finding one is often a feat in itself. For one – and we’ll stick with this one issue for now – because sometimes the public decides to keep the animal they have found, just for a little while. To these people, we owe our gratitude.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 8, 2009

But it certainly raised my awareness that animals are used in military trauma-training exercises. Thousands of live animals are shot, stabbed, dismembered, burned, and poisoned every year in Department of Defense (DoD) training exercises designed to train medics and infantry in how to treat various human battlefield injuries.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 10, 2010

The DDF will be raising $20,000 for the training and care of a service dog (including medical bills, training and food) which will be donated to one lucky war vet from the FSD group. FSD rescues dogs from shelters and custom trains each dog to assist a person with a disability.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2022

For once, eBird gives a good description of the Asian Glossy Starling, calling it a “Fierce-looking, large songbird” As are humans, this species is fairly urbanized – it “sometimes enters urban areas to roost, e.g. in Singapore” (HBW). Plus hopefully, you will be arrested for mistreating animals.

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Reddit Animals

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

My dog is a livestock guardian breed so when she saw the mouse I just said to leave it and now it walks right past her too she ignores it like the spiders, I made sure she was well trained. Dad has been feeding it cheese so they're tight I think it watches aircrash investigations with him on TV. So Reddit, what do you think?

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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. About American Humane Association.

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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. Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart attacks and strokes. by Marc Bekoff.

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Animal Person

JUNE 20, 2009

Bea sent me a link to an article in Gourmet called " Humane Slaughterhouses ," by Rebecca Marx, that is absurd. And they were, before they stopped their train of thought prior to it reaching its most important station. They believe you can take a life that doesn't want to be taken in a humane way, and I don't agree.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 14, 2009

This episode featured three young dogs: Johnny, the golden retriever that was considered too dumb to train; "Baxt" (I think) a puppy with a neurological problem; and Tuffy, the dog attacked and left for dead by other dogs. The show's narrator mentioned that hoarders often start off as trying to save animals and then just get overwhelmed.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Though he had little orthopedic training, the Soviet Union’s Dr. Gavril Ilizarov was sent to care for injured Russian soldiers in Siberia in the 1950s, and invented the external fixator as a way to repair misaligned fractures and stabilize bones post-surgery. The original fixator was created out of need, as are so many amazing inventions.

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Critter News

JANUARY 8, 2009

This is a new blog I came across called Paws4Life, The Reality of What Humans do. This post has three graphic pictures of a baby elephant allegedly being "trained" for the entertainment industry. Tags: animal cruelty entertainment elephants. I'm thinking it's India?

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 29, 2012

Archaeology has demonstrated that humans were crafting collars for their animals at least 7000 years ago and the possibility that this is a conservative estimate is large. In situations where dogs were primarily guarding domestic animals, collars tended to have studs or spikes to frustrate the jaws of a marauding wolf.

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Critter News

MARCH 31, 2009

"Earthlings" is a film about animal abuse narrated by Joaquin Phoenix. Earthlings is a feature-length documentary about how dependent human beings are on animals, primarily in five key areas: pets, food, clothing, entertainment and science. Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

An Ashy Drongo apparently spends approximately 71% of its time scanning (what non-scientists would probably call looking around), 9% eating (less than a typical Chinese human but much more than me), calling 7%, flying 7%, and 6% preening. Another – much rarer – drongo at Nanhui is the Ashy Drongo.

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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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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Animal lovers Jane Lynch (Julie & Julia) and Carrie Ann Inaba (Dancing with the Stars) will help The Rescue Train host its 4th Annual 5k Run/Walk (3.1 This day of fun with Hollywood flair will raise funds for seven Los Angeles animal rescues, all non-profit 501c3 organizations, who together help save thousands of animal lives.

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Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

Responsible Policies for Animals Members & Friends! Today, March 30th, at 3:00 East Coast time, Susan Soltero of Puerto Rico will interview me live on the air at WALO Radio about Responsible Policies for Animals' 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign to get our universities out of the meat industry! Let me know if you hear the show!

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Masson tells Benjy's story--and Benjy stories--while explaining his theory about the mutual domestication of dogs and humans. You may know that dog/human coevolution has been a popular topic in the past decade, and if so, this might help: Masson "takes E. The point is that, as Chapter 3 is titled, "Dogs Make Us Human."

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

It is technically correct, and recently fashionable, to insist that any living animal is a member of the larger group that contains it phylogenetically, i.e., ancestrally, with that group often named after the known animal that roots the tree. So, for example, humans are apes. Whales are cows. You should have said whales.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 14, 2013

My human kept me in an enclosed porch because, let’s face it, I was crawling with fleas and pretty filthy. We dogs are wired by nature to be humans’ companions. After all, dogs have the longest history of co-habitation with humans of any animal. But there’s a special bond between a dog and its human rescuer.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

— and link that to something abut the Great Grey Owl and my BFF Analiese Miller who is an amazing, emerging, photographer who has recently trained her 300mm Cannon F4 lens on the birds (including the Great Grey) at Sax Zim. They feed on animal plankton and build their nests by burrowing in the dirt on offshore islands.

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Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

Responsible Policies for Animals Members & Friends! The meat industry is inherently destructive and inhumane, there is no way to make it otherwise, and much of the harm it does to ecosystems is by inflicting suffering and death on billions of nonhuman animals, farmed and free-living, each year. Another went out last Friday.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

No one in the room–neither dog nor human–can tell which cup hides the biscuit. Understanding a pointed finger may seem easy, but consider this: while humans and canines can do it naturally, no other known species in the animal kingdom can. “Humans are unique. Hare could run a very profitable shell game.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 28, 2011

The American Humane Association Hero Dog Awards presented by CESAR Canine Cuisine celebrates heroic dogs that truly transform lives. For every vote, CESAR Canine Cuisine will make a donation to American Humane Association to help spread the love of therapy dogs to those that need it most.

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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. The rewards of training a dog to perform a new trick, for example, can teach kids the importance of perseverance. guest post'

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 16, 2010

Check with your local veterinarian, humane society or American Red Cross for classes. Or, consider lessons from Pet Tech, a training center dedicated to first aid, CPR and care for dogs and cats. 5 Tips for Helping Pets in Crisis originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on April 16, 2010. Learn canine or feline CPR.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

The group loans out humane traps to the public free of charge, provides training on how to humanely trap feral cats and kittens, offers guidance and information on long-term care and management for feral colonies and engages in extensive community outreach activities.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2019

While the hunting of game with trained birds of prey can be a controversial topic among birders , falconry was a valuable early source of information on birds, and its history, culture, and imagery continue to fascinate bird lovers, as we shall see.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 8, 2011

Rather, he was a handy cat, one who could escape from all cages; one who could rouse his humans from a deep sleep as he played with anything and everything they dared to leave on the kitchen counter; one who could even, despite all odds, teach dog-only hearts to open up and love the newest member of their family. I’m Here too!”

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 10, 2012

“Frankenweenie” follows in the footsteps of Tim Burton’s other stop-motion animated films “Corpse Bride” and “The Nightmare Before Christmas”—both of which were nominated for Academy Awards®. Stop-motion animation is one of the oldest animation styles. On average, one animator can only produce 5 seconds of animation per week.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

If you’re planning on adding a dog to your family, it’s possible you’ll find your new family member at the local animal shelter or humane society. Do you have time to toilet train a puppy, and feed it several times a day? Guest post: Dog Adoption originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on February 2, 2010.

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Animal Person

MARCH 23, 2009

Ian says, regarding " Veterinarians Train Sealers to Kill Humanely, " that "veterinarians very often do not care about animals but rather are more like auto mechanics who are providing a service for humans (that service may be to save an animal or kill an animal, etc)." " which includes a poll.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 10, 2011

Munchkin pooped in the kitchen, but that’s okay because we’re working on paper training with this one. She can’t be trained to potty outside yet because she’s too terrified to take even the slightest correction. Kyla recently founded Up For Pups, a non-profit approaching humane education through creativity. She got the paper.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 1, 2010

Save $$: Up to $500 or more depending on animal and breed. Save the Planet: Adopting a shelter pet not only saves a life, but it reduces demand for purebred animals, which are more likely to have medical problems due to genetic abnormalities. Good for You: Adopting an orphaned animal keeps it from having to be euthanized.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

You can buy some extra time by presoaking the animal in a basin of ice water.)" For Engber, who dispassionately describes procedures most of the time, the "advances" in the medical care of humans are all well worth what he and other vivisectionists do to dogs and other sentient nonhumans. It "guarantees humane treatment?"

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Consider making a wish list, and then cross reference those plant varieties with the free database maintained by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). When selecting vegetation for your yard, stick with plants that are non-toxic for dogs. Confinement. Make Your Pet Feel at Home.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 21, 2009

Who exactly is not supposed to eat animals or products of animals? This problem is especially acute with respect to carnivorous animals. What animals is it morally wrong to eat? If animals could be created by genetic engineering, could they be created so that there were no moral objections to eating them?

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