Critter News

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Another nasty farm animal abuse story. Bottom line: If you’re running a business where you allow the kinds of shortcuts that let animal abuse happen, please sell it and leave the industry now. Tags: PETA farm animal welfare thanksgiving turkey massacre. Overlooked this one. Find another line of work. Find another line of work.

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Reddit Animals

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Found under a tree in Shenandoah River Valley, Virginia. I can’t tell what it might have been. submitted by /u/Hunter328 [link] [comments].

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Reddit Animals

OCTOBER 28, 2023

submitted by /u/CatcatchesMoth [link] [comments]

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2014

Animals aren’t metaphors for people or their plans,” says Monte Merrick, a rehabber in California. Mine are always found near the local funeral home,” says Maureen Eiger, in Virginia. “I Ethical businesses post notices on their websites stating that unless the released birds are properly trained and conditioned, they will not survive.

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Critter News

APRIL 20, 2010

The Supreme Court struck down a law that outlawed the depiction of animal cruelty. The high court case stemmed from the arrest and conviction of a Virginia-based documentary producer named Robert Stevens who sold videos containing scenes of dogfights.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. I don’t want to be too hasty in my response,” wrote Gay in Virginia. I wish people would start appreciating the misunderstood animals out there, like snakes and opossums,” wrote Elissa in New York.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

In Costa Rica, they become another sort of animal. If they don’t feel like it, they can just keep going and fly over a place the size of West Virginia in a day. They were always in pairs and their chittering calls were synonymous with the gentle buzzing of insects and wildflowers in sunny places.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2015

After Nadeem attends the NWRA conference in Princeton, NJ, he will go to Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research in Delaware; The Wildlife Center of Virginia ; New Jersey’s Mercer County Wildlife Center ; and The Cape Wildlife Center in Massachusetts. What’s left? The indiegogo campaign needs donations. .

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

The problem of the unjust use of farm animals is large, growing, historical, institutionalized, governmentally encouraged, and fundamentally unregulated at either the state or federal level. Farm animals are treated essentially as raw materials. Instead it aids industry boards that exist solely to sell animal products.

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Critter News

JANUARY 7, 2010

US District Judge Emmet Sullivan signed the December 30 ruling in favor of Ringling's owner, Virginia-based Feld Entertainment Inc. FEI) at the outset of a nine-year-old suit brought by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) that culminated in a six-week trial in March.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 13, 2011

We wanted to share this great initiative called “Bowl by Bowl” that challenges negative perceptions of shelter pets as well as helps feed animals in need. they are sending professional photographer Nanette Martin to take pictures of shelter pets at the Virginia Beach SPCA. After reaching their goal of 10,000 bowls in Sept.,

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2019

Although the country is around the same size as West Virginia, 39 species of diurnal raptors are on the list. Like a Northern Goshawk on steroids with fancy plumage, these birds can take small monkeys, opossums, ibis, toucans, macaws, and other medium-sized animals of the rainforest. This curassow is great.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

after pleading guilty to bankrolling a dogfighting operation at a home he owned in eastern Virginia's Surry County. Tags: pit bull animal abuse animal cruelty blood sport Michael Vick. Vick is serving a 23-month sentence at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan., He is eligible for release in July.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2019

Neither do they seem as painfully out-of-place in the wild as an escaped “exotic” cage-bird or farm animal like the Budgerigar or Red Junglefowl – and they’re generally more likely to fare well on their own. What’s in a name?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2014

In the spring, key staging and stopover areas include Patagonia, Argentina; eastern and northern Brazil; the southeast United States; the Virginia barrier islands; and Delaware Bay. During both the northbound (spring) and southbound (fall) migrations, knots can be found anywhere along the coastal and inland U.S.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

PCBs have been linked to major health problems in animals and humans alike…it is also worth noting almost all of it used in the United States was produced by everyone’s favorite corporation, Monsanto. A Citrine Wagtail (!!!) The bird looks deceptively happy from this angle.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 6, 2010

Puppy Bumpers manufactured in Virginia at STEPS, Inc., Giveaway: Puppy Bumpers originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on July 6, 2010. And, we are lucky enough to have one collar to giveaway ! More than just being a great solution for pet saftey, Puppy Bumpers are also helping people! a company for people with disabilities.

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Critter News

MARCH 14, 2009

Are there good breeders out there that care for their animals and run their business out of pure love of their work and the animals? She has had two for the past ten years, one she bought and had shipped from a breeder in Utah, the other from a breeder in Virginia. My division director loves Norwegian Forest Cats.

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Critter News

AUGUST 9, 2010

Travers said, “We created this competition to boost fashion careers and honor independent designers who have compassion for animals and for the ethical and green fashion movement. Compassion for animals is part of the planet’s social and environmental equation. based Born Free Foundation.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

We let a one-eyed Bald Eagle go after a year of battling state officials in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky. I’ve really been wracking my brain because for me releasing is very traumatic,” said Cara Petricca, with Bluebird Farm Animal Sanctuary in Cheshire, MA.

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Animal Person

JULY 21, 2009

Vegans are people who don't eat any animal products, and that includes foods that have been processed with sugar that is made with bone char. Now, of course, we have confirmed Cristy's fears--that she will likely be eating animals and not know it. Northern Virginia? S: There's only one thing on our menu that's vegan.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 12, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ To Revive Hunting, States Turn to the Classroom ” (front page, March 8): Shame on West Virginia if it approves a bill that allows hunting education classes in public schools to become law. Brad Goldberg President, Animal Welfare Advocacy Mamaroneck, N.Y., March 8, 2008

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 29, 2006

In my earlier post "Children and Heart Disease" available here , I noted that, in the seventh and final edition of Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: A Handbook for Parents of the Developing Child from Birth to Adolescence , Dr. Benjamin Spock no longer recommends feeding animal products to children after two years of age. The answer is "Yes."

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2015

Puffins growl like chainsaws, and one in Britain was seen carrying 62 fish in her beak. One morning I skipped a trip to Damariscotta in order to go bird banding with the teens, who chatted animatedly as we trouped into the woods with mist nets and bags of equipment.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2016

A few weeks ago I joined a group of bird lovers to go out to a little clearing in the woods of West Virginia and watch the skydance of the American Woodcock. If we see that the number of views and comments reaches an all-time high on the site, we’ll know something about you readers!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Her writing is based on keen observation of animal and human behavior, and she likes to interweave solid natural history information with larger philosophical themes to challenge and inspire the reader. we allow limited (by season and bag limits) hunting on populations of game animals that can sustain it. I am inclined to believe so.

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