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Walk for Farm Animals Scheduled for this Fall

Critter News

From the Farm Sanctuary. For 25 years, Farm Sanctuary has relied on the Walk to support its mission to protect farm animals from cruelty and inspire change in the way society views and treats farm animals. Farm Sanctuary’s shelters in New York and California provide lifelong care for nearly 1,000 rescued farm animals.

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Birding Gir National Park, India

10,000 Birds

Occasionally we go so quickly that we may be posing a danger for jay-walking animals… …and then, for no obvious reason, we suddenly stop! In the words of Indian ornithologist Salim Ali, had Gir not been the Lion sanctuary, it would have been termed one of the finest bird sanctuaries in Gujarat! Two owls and a nightjar!

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Ospreys in the Desert

10,000 Birds

In fact, jutting out into the Persian Gulf, Qatar’s peninsular provides an important sanctuary for many migrating birds. There are no grazing animals and the fields are visited by many interesting birds. I raised my binoculars and was happy to see it was the osprey. Remarkably, the Qatar bird list stands at well over 200 birds.

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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

10,000 Birds

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. A pet cat raising orphaned ducklings!

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Blog the Change

4 The Love Of Animals

Today is Blog the Change day, a special day where bloggers write about animal causes near and dear to them. So today I want to tell you about my personal favorite, Best Friends Animal Society. Buster is the mascot for Strut Your Mutt , an amazing event where dog lovers come together to raise money for Best Friends.

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Rescue Spotlight: Rabbit Meadows

4 The Love Of Animals

As the name suggests, they rescue rabbits, but they also rescue other small animals like ferrets, and other small rodents. They also have a huge vision and mission for their sanctuary! They are undertaking a great project that sounds like it will be beneficial for both the sanctuary rabbits and the people who love them.

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On Food for the Soul

Animal Person

His passion and compassion for humans is immense, but he appears to have some kind of mental block with nonhuman animals. He romanticizes his childhood usage of animals as if that was the right way to do it , and he longs for those days. Kristof writes of the "decent and varied lives" that small farms provide animals with.