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On Dominance and Animal Birth Control

Animal Person

When taking the issue to simplest common denominator, spaying/neutering is essentially exercising human dominance over non-human animals. But my stance is also categorized under Gray Matters because, in my perfect world, we wouldn't be spaying or neutering anybody. How contradictory is that? So mikey, I agree with you in theory.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

This is quite a big deal for an island group that had no mammals save bats for millions of years. New Zealand has been the recipient of a higher than average number of introduced species, in particular a range of mammals from elk to mice. In New Zealand at least public opinion is generally behind 1080.