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82-foot-long “Rescue Rig” on Way to Missouri

4 The Love Of Animals

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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A Post Chock-full of Bird News

10,000 Birds

Scientists at the University of Missouri report that most deaths of young birds happen in the first few weeks after fledging. Animal and bird rehabbers are awesome people, but even they suffer the occasional bad apple— in this case, really bad. Also from the Philly area, where Canada Geese are concerned, where is the love ?).

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

20): Blake Hurst, a former hog farmer and president of the Missouri Farm Bureau, cautions that “we can’t ask the pigs what they think.” 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. Farm Animal Welfare, ASPCA New York, Feb.