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What's Up with the UK and Soaring Wildlife Crime?

Critter News

Bats are being targeted. Tags: wildlife crime UK animal cruelty. The Brits are known for their animal rights activism, but there's been a rise in wildlife crime against all animals. Apparently they are seen as nuisances. Badgers are being caught for dog-baiting. A bird species is near extinction.

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Calgary Zoo in Big Trouble

Critter News

For example, there was a higher-than expected number of bats passing away each year between 2004 and 2008, but the zoo didn’t do anything to decide why. Instead, it brought a new bat species into the exact place in the year 2009 — twenty-five of those creatures also passed away. Tags: zoos calgary canada animal abuse.

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Interesting Ads In The Wildlife Industry

10,000 Birds

Here are some ads: This is from Advanced Telemetry Systems and it advertises how you can tag wildlife like coyotes and then check on your animals from anywhere…even from your beach vacation…and the magical wireless internet that is available there for your laptop. So, not the beach, but still colorful views. But back to the ads.

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10 Household Items that are Toxic to Dogs

4 The Love Of Animals

But there were many things that I didn’t realize she needed right off the bat. Tags: books. This page about what to do on your puppy’s first day was a huge help in getting a checklist in order. But how do you puppy-proof your home for your new family member?

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Christian Science Monitor Calls for Endangered Species Hour

Critter News

They’ve had to earn degrees in economics and sociology to learn to marry their causes with the human one – explaining, for instance, that humans depend on bats to pollinate or on coral reefs to support other marine life that is advantageous to mankind. Tags: CITES marine animals Japan endangered species.

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On Dominance and Animal Birth Control

Animal Person

But alas, we' re too important and special to "manage," and every human pregnancy is treated as a sacred, blessed event, while we kill the kittens inside pregnant feral cats every day without batting an eyelash, and in fact we're relieved when we can catch one who's pregnant, as that's x number of cats who don't have to come into this world.

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On "Compassion," "Nonviolence" and "Justice"

Animal Person

Compassion" has been so diluted that most people don't bat an eyelash at the idea of " compassionate carnivores." Tags: Activism Ethics Language. 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.