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Teaching Kids Animal Compassion

4 The Love Of Animals

Purebred or mixed breed? Try to find out what breeds are in your dogs background to help you better understand your dog’s behavior. Get a kid away from the screens and electronics for that long and they will start to realize there is more to life. It is not necessary to pick a purebred dog for your first pet.

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Ring-billed Gulls in Breeding Plumage

10,000 Birds

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Ring-billed Gulls in Breeding Plumage Ring-billed Gulls in Breeding Plumage By Corey • March 8, 2011 • 3 comments Tweet Share It should come as no surprise to readers of 10,000 Birds that I do not love gulls.

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Swamp Angel

10,000 Birds

It was a warm winter day and the bird seemed to be practicing its song for the breeding season to come. This is the time of year that Hermit Thrush move through the northeastern United States on the way to their distant breeding grounds. Many naturalists, writers, and poets have felt the same way. … a.

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More Clarity About Family Farms

Animal Person

The marketing of an operation of breeding and slaughtering sentient nonhumans as a family farm (here, Bell straddles the line) is supposed to trigger some kind of compassion for the humans. This adds another layer to yesterday's discussion about family. Irv Bell's farm is a family farm. It's also a factory farm.

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Prop 2 Passes in California

Critter News

California voters have taken a stand for decency and compassion and said that the systemic mistreatment of animals on factory farms cannot continue," said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States, the primary back of the YES! It applies to breeding pigs, egg laying hens and veal calves.

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St. Michael’s summer birding along the Danube in Serbia

10,000 Birds

And I do not see any bird either, it was only my bird-compass telling me this is a place to stop. It is the largest woodpecker in Europe (to describe its size, I’ll tell you that Goldeneyes breed in the holes this pecker makes). Although the soil is visibly moist, there is no water flowing now.

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Brewery Ommegang: Idyll Days Pilsner

10,000 Birds

And as the windblown birds settled down for the summer breeding season and the wind subsided, I found any concern for which way it was blowing died down with it. But none came. Flor de Pascua – The Weathercock (1921) by Dutch graphic artist M.C.

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