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Golf with Malicious Intent

Animal Ethics

After impact, the hawk, a protected migratory bird, fell to the ground bleeding from the nostrils. The bird was buried on the golf course—perhaps in an effort to hide the evidence—but was later dug up by Florida investigators. Isenhour is charged with cruelty to animals and killing a migratory bird. What say you?

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T.H. White: When Writers Become Bad Falconers

10,000 Birds

Do I have sympathy for haunted people who subject animals – be they captive wildlife or household pets – to all kinds of atrocities, then are held up as tragic examples of struggling humanity? The terrified bird keeps leaping off his glove and trying to fly away, so he hangs him, upside down, by his feet.

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