10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

Normally I rant about environmental dangers and describe heartwarming/mind-boggling/headscratching wild bird rescues. And another one,” she added, “in a tampon box.” “A Big Brown Bat in a large glass terrarium,” said Marlene Ehresman in Iowa, “because the people wanted to make sure it wouldn’t escape.”

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Transported Wildlife Rehabilitation Bats Opossums 278

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2021

Jochen Roeder, a former fellow 10,000 Birds writer who lives in Germany, says according to EU nature conservation directives it’s illegal to cut down trees during the spring and summer unless they are checked by an expert for nesting birds or resting bats. No wildlife rescue required. Ah, Europe!

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Game Laws 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2014

Sentient people recoil at the idea of leg-hold traps, those medieval–torture devices which cause so much pain and suffering before their victims eventually die, are killed, or (very occasionally) are rescued. My very first rescue was a House Sparrow caught in a glue trap,” says Donna Osburn, a wildlife rehabilitator in Kentucky.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Mice Rodents Rescue 279

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2011

There was plenty of time to try to convince the dogs that the people in the canoe were not in imminent danger and did not need to be rescued. Eventually the dogs jumped in to rescue the canoers, only to make for shore. We stood by ready to rescue them as they came through the stretch, but they stayed impressively upright and afloat.

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Bald Eagle Rescue Dogs Cooking 169

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Compassion" has been so diluted that most people don't bat an eyelash at the idea of " compassionate carnivores." Both animal rights groups and animal welfare groups use "compassion" frequently. Then again, so do people who kill animals for a living. After all, they "love" the animals they kill. That's the bit that trips up many of us.

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Compassion Psychology Tnr Vegan 100

Animal Person

APRIL 26, 2009

And is video of a cow being pummeled to death with a bat worse than a cow being "processed" in a slaughterhouse? When is violence toward an animal in a video gratuitous? Need it be gratuitous to be offensive? Isn't the mere existence of violence and suffering sufficient?

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San Francisco Cruelty Vivisection Open Rescue 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2012

You see, everyone knows the bats, wolverines, spiders and cats get their turn as well known superheroes, but what about the birds? He was mentally bonded with a rescued falcon called Redwing, and has empathic powers with all birds allowing him to see through the eyes of any bird in the area.

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DC Phoenix Birds Falcons 222