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. many pesticides have aggressive, masculine, or other names of the like – I think it goes with the killing concept (I’m a scientist, not a marketer)).
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2014
The rodents eat the bait, stagger out of the building looking for water, and are easy prey for whatever carnivore happens to be passing by, be it wildlife or someone’s pet. A poisoned rodent can kill whatever eats it, and death by poison is a very bad way to go. as well as a rare mammal, the California fisher.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2014
People who want to release birds on the cheap buy doves – usually Ring-necked Doves – from pet stores, and release them themselves. Animals aren’t metaphors for people or their plans,” says Monte Merrick, a rehabber in California. Ring-necked doves don’t fly well and have no survival skills. Why do this?”.
4 The Love Of Animals
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
They are pioneering legislation in California to make public animal abuse registries. Please take time to read it, and if you are in California, get in touch with your representative and encourage them to support this if you believe it’s a good thing. . – Two months later, he killed another neighbor’s Welsh Corgi with an ax.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 7, 2016
That was my first trip to California Wildlife Center. They pointed out the puncture wounds, likely infected with bacteria that could quickly kill. But, we’re facing a world of shrinking biodiversity and depressingly-high bird kill numbers that demand an accounting outside of our self interest. I was mortified.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2013
And so, when Salvador Ramirez left, there were feral goats on the island of San Clemente, the southernmost of the Channel Islands off the coast of California. And so, most had been neutered, adopted out to soft-hearted landowners as odd pets, conversation pieces.
Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 24, 2009
To the Editor: Soon after I read Gary Steiner’s article, my wife asked me to kill a spider, which I did. We kill so many living creatures when we build a house, construct a road, drive down that road or just walk on a path. But even then if we were to survive we would have to kill some animals in self-defense. Lawrence S.
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