Animal Person
DECEMBER 17, 2009
Black Bear. During a brief moment of insanity after the death of my pet kitty Brady in 1991 (at the age of 17), I attended Vermont Law School to study Environmental Law. But for the first time, I was indifferent to my education, and life’s too short for apathy. On a brisk November morning, I decided to leave law school.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 28, 2014
With luck, there has been enough negative feedback to stop this kind of insanity in its tracks, although it bears monitoring because there are no guarantees. A pet cat raising orphaned ducklings! So: what do you do if your six-year-old finds a baby bunny, and she can’t bear to part with him? Today is the final commentary day.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 7, 2016
It was Los Angeles, after all, where mileage has no bearing on time, but where time was precious for my little rescue on this crystal morning. There’s an imperative to get this message across to cat people who, like me, can be educated to value wild lives as much as we value the lives of our four-legged family members.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
Let me introduce my guest blogger, Lisa Owens Viani, co-founder of the California-based group RATS ( Raptors Are The Solution ), which educates people about the dangers of rat poisons. Does the product above strike you as black humor, only not funny? I’ll leave today’s blog in her capable hands.
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
In North America, you’ve got Bears at the large end, Cats in the middle, and at the smaller end, the Mustilids. An abstract from a recent paper in Nature : Anthropogenic threats, such as collisions with man-made structures, vehicles, poisoning and predation by domestic pets, combine to kill billions of wildlife annually.
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