10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2022
The love that Montgomery feels for the hawk and its wildness will never be reciprocated: a raptor is not a dog or a horse. It’s not clear from the book’s ending, but it sounds like she abandoned her nascent apprenticeship because of her traveling schedule, her marriage, and her own chickens who would certainly be killed if she kept a hawk.
Critter News
JUNE 1, 2009
State police raided Everle's property, 30 miles north of New York City, in July, and witnesses testified that they found several animals dead, many malnourished and dozens living in unsanitary conditions. The animals included ducks, chickens, guinea hens, rabbits, sheep, dogs and cats.
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Animal Ethics
MARCH 6, 2014
Chickens deserve to live humanely. ELAINE SLOAN New York, March 4, 2014' It is no more acceptable to confine 60 hens for their entire lives in a cage that you report is “about the size of a Ford F-150 pickup truck’s flatbed” than it would be to treat 60 cats similarly. That’s the least farmers can do.
Animal Person
FEBRUARY 5, 2010
" Dog Days in China " is a small piece with no gruesome slideshow. But it's also remarkable in that Roger Cohen, a 50-something man who writes for the New York Times, wonders: But do pigs have any more or less of a soul than dogs? His "anguish" leads him to a dog restaurant where he dines on dog.
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 27, 2012
People who study pigs say they are as intelligent as a 3-year-old child, smarter even than the dogs we share our homes with. Would anyone in this day and age dare to say that we cannot presume to know a dog’s mind, that a dog cannot tell us if it is happy or sad, frustrated, lonely or bored? That sounds like a win-win to us.
Animal Person
AUGUST 19, 2009
It just so happens that after I read Bea's comment from yesterday about reaching kids with our message I saw a New York Times article from today called " Where Little Chefs Learn the Art of Slicing and Dicing ," by Ann Farmer. Are the kids cooking monkey, cat, dog, alligator or turtle? And what about cheese? One is male.
4 The Love Of Animals
SEPTEMBER 27, 2009
Check out this video from the premier episode: RESCUE INK UNLEASHED is a new weekly series that documents this unlikely group of animal activists on their crusade to save helpless, abandoned and abused animals. Members of Rescue Ink gather to discuss a game plan on how to catch a group of stray chickens running amok in Queens, New York.
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