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Teaching Kids Animal Compassion

4 The Love Of Animals

By Dr. Tim Hunt, DVM. I got my first pets, mice and guinea pigs, when I was 8. Start with easier pets – Many people don’t want to start with the responsibility of a dog or cat. For these folks, I recommend a nontraditional pet like a rat or a guinea pig. Choosing the right pet for your child is key.

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Extinction Week on 10,000 Birds

10,000 Birds

Others are only known from a specimen or two sitting in the drawer of a research institution. Keep cats outdoors? Sure, we try not to introduce snakes, rats, cats, goats, pigs, and a host of other creatures to isolated islands. Of those nearly two hundred there are very few that people would recognize. Maupiti Monarch.

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Are We Much Better than Michael Vick?

Critter News

In university labs nationwide, scientists inflict spinal-cord injuries on dogs and cats, inject rats with carcinogens, test dangerous drugs on monkeys, and do all kinds of evil things to guinea pigs in the name of scientific research. Hunters shoot down animals in cold blood for mere sport.

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On "EATING ANIMALS" by Jonathan Safran Foer

Animal Person

This says it all: "[T]he vision of sustainable farms that give animals a good life (a life as good as we give our dogs or cats) and an easy death (as easy as a death we give our suffering and terminally ill companion animals) has moved me" (242). But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi.