4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 21, 2012

To celebrate National Dog Day 2012, Best Friends Pet Care will be giving away free doggy ice cream treats to every dog who visits any Best Friends facility across the U.S. It honors dogs of all breeds — from working dogs to family pets — and encourage pet owners to do something special for their dog.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Let’s call it the California Condor exception. The reason we do not allow introduced species onto checklists until they are breeding and self sustaining for many generations is that without this rule you could go to a pet store, release a bunch of crazy colorful finches and count them all on your yard or state list.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

It was not a flycatcher at all, but an exotic (and equally bizarre) from Africa, which certainly escaped from someone’s cage or perhaps even migrated from the small breeding population of escapees in southern California. Pin-tailed Whydah at Sutro Heights Park, San Francisco, CA. This is not a situation you want to find yourself in.

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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. I recently got an email from the Animal Legal Defense Fund.

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Animal Legal Defense Fund ALDF Animal Abuse Hoarding 100

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?”.

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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.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 3, 2011

People who have pets or companion animals know why they do. Petting and taking care of and talking to a dog or other animal helps lower your blood pressure and this is a big plus when you’ve just had an argument with the boss, or the copy machine broke down in the middle of an important job.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Pet lovers take note, the durable cotton-twill cover is pre-shrunk and washable. Product Designs is based in Hacienda Heights, California. The collection features sixteen proprietary designs, each with an artist-created, one-of-a-kind image of the world’s most beloved dog breeds. Every Fetch!

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 31, 2011

While shopping for pet food in 2008, Maryam Faresh and her partner Bruce Meade saw a sign hanging on the wall with a picture of a white puppy with spots and strange looking eyes. Now a three-legged wonder, Louie, has a special bond with his pet siblings Daisy and Olivia. The sign read, “Blind and deaf puppy needs home.”

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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.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 3, 2007

Lawmakers, animal control officers and animal welfare organizations need to work together and delve into the origins of shelter subgroups—such as stray, feral or surrendered pets—to address the issues that bring them to the shelter.

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New York Times New York American Kennel Club Neutering 40

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Pet lovers will be seeing stars November 5 – 15 at the Celebrity Experience and Entertainment Memorabilia Auction , launched online to support Precious Paws , a non-profit animal rescue organization based in Encino, Calif. About Precious Paws.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

This 12,000 square-foot facility, completed in February 2001, is one of the two primary oiled bird facilities built by the Oiled Wildlife Care Network (OWCN) in California. Last weekend I was treated to a tour of their San Francisco Bay facility, located in Fairfield, California, by the Wildlife Center Manager, Michelle Bellizzi.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

22, 2009 The writer is professor emeritus at the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at California State University, Long Beach. It’s not the feline lack of musical discernment that I found disturbing (I don’t “get” Schubert’s symphonies either), but rather that Mr. Steiner owns a pet. Lawrence S. Lerner Woodside, Calif.,

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

That was my first trip to California Wildlife Center. It’s the bane of many rehabbers that they simply can’t get through to cat owners on this critical issue of free-roaming pets. The next time I saw Puck, she was bounding for the crawl space with that sweet Mourning Dove in her teeth. I was mortified.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

There are only approximately 23 million people in the whole country, which is about 10 million less than the state of California. On a local level we need to consider if we really do need to let our pets chase shorebirds and whether we really do need to drive along our shoreline.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2016

Dragan continues to be teacher’s pet simply by sharing as he goes. California Quail – Callipepla californica. California Gull – Larus californicus. California Gnatcatcher – Polioptila californica. California Thrasher – Toxostoma redivivum. California Towhee – Melozone crissalis.

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