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Can we get a campaign going to shut down SeaQuest

Reddit Animals

The treatment of the animals at the Woodbridge, NJ SeaQuest is horrific. This was the same for many other of the animals there: potbelly pigs, a sad otter, rabbits, chickens and Bengal cats. This was the same for many other of the animals there: potbelly pigs, a sad otter, rabbits, chickens and Bengal cats.

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Everglades Long-Legged Birds Feed Their Young To Alligators, Everything is Good.

10,000 Birds

You know the famous novel about rabbits , wherein among other things the traveling bunnies find themselves in a warren where everyone is well fed and happy, and that’s a problem. This often applies in animal behavior and ecology, and this often comes about in relation to predator pressure.

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Have You Considered Keeping Goats as Pets?

4 The Love Of Animals

Cats and dogs are the most popular pets, along with hamsters, rabbits and guinea pigs also being amongst the favourites. Goats are intelligent and inquisitive animals with lots of character and energy. It’s important to provide goats with a shelter to protect them from the elements. Have you considered keeping goats as pets?

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Judge Clears Way for HSUS Suit Over Fur Advertising

Critter News

The lawsuit, filed under the D.C.

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On Trial: Animal Torture Videos vs. Free Speech

Animal Ethics

Code, Title 18.48, made it a federal crime to knowingly create, sell, or possess a depiction of animal cruelty with the intention of placing that depiction in interstate or foreign commerce for commercial gain. Is the NYTimes right to support striking down the law banning depictions of animal cruelty on First Amendment/free speech grounds?

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. Not from an environmental perspective but from a “don’t you like animals?”

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Australia’s extinct and threatened bird species

10,000 Birds

Even the first explorers to Australia documented there was a risk of extinction of birds and animals into the future and subsequently decided to collect as many specimens as possible! Rats arrived on ships and cats, foxes and rabbits were all introduced and they were all detrimental to the bird population.

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