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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

10,000 Birds

We receive nestling owls who have been fed nothing but hamburger, whose bones are so brittle from lack of calcium that they break when they try to stand. A pet cat raising orphaned ducklings! That is, until the ducklings grow up, are released into a pond, and greet the local feral cat colony as long-lost relatives. How cute!

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Hill’s PetFit Challenge

4 The Love Of Animals

million cats[1]. of Dogs and Cats in the United States are either overweight or obese[2]. o An Estimated 58% of US cats are overweight or obese = 54 million cats. o If you feed a 20lb dog one ounce of cheddar cheese it’s the equivalent of a 5’4” woman eating one and a half hamburgers or one chocolate bar.

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

10,000 Birds

Nestling songbirds fed hamburger and cat food,” wrote Sean O’Brien. I opened the box, and there was a bowl of raw hamburger meat in there for him to eat.” “Mourning Doves fed cheerios, raptors fed hot dogs, infant squirrels fed watered down peanut butter because squirrels eat peanuts at the feeder, right?” wrote Maryjane Angelo.

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Book: Scent of the Missing

4 The Love Of Animals

It doesn’t take much for them to learn that we need them to find human scent –and not other animals, dropped hamburgers, or unspecified gook. She and Puzzle share their home with six other dogs, four cats, and a fish named Sound Bite. Trainers say that the dogs catch on to the whole process of finding people more quickly than we do.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

It only takes a little imagination to suppose that every bite of hamburger we eat is taking grain away from a hungry child in India. Or new markets could be found among the countries of the world where meat consumption is slight; more need for meat could be produced among nonvegetarians and dogs and cats.