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Protecting Your Pets from Pests and Disease

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The disease can attack domestic pets, such as dogs and cats, as well as livestock, such as horses, chickens, and cattle. Now that you are aware of the diseases that can be caused by mosquitoes, you may be wondering how to prevent these illnesses and protect your pets. Tags: guest post. WEE, or Western Equine Encephalitis.

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Quash the Squash

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The RSPCA are trying to raise awareness of its urgent campaign to protect the welfare of UK meat chickens. Right now, the UK government is considering new EU legislation that may increase the number of chickens allowed in rearing sheds. Tags: news. It’s hard to walk or even flap their wings.

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On the Banning of Eating Cats and Dogs in China

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It's just another excuse people have concocted because they like the taste of cow/pig/chicken/fish flesh. No one will propose a ban on eating chickens because there's no conflict there. Yes, it is hypocritical (speciesism), but who said that we either protect humans or animals? Where do people get that idea? What do you think?

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On Dolphins as a Gateway to Animal Rights

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and chickens don't?) They can also learn how "to hold sponges over their snouts to protect themselves when searching for spiny fish on the ocean floor." Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters Language. Dolphins used to be positioned below chimps, but recent studies have shown the bottlenose to be more intelligent.

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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?

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Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. I'll write more about this tomorrow, but if you have any constructive responses to Latimer, you can comment (after you register ). Happy Mother's Day!

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

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You can designate it thus; you can legally call it a Rhode Island Red chicken if you want, but no whooping crane on this planet is nonessential. In the only state in the Central Flyway that protects cranes from hunting. Or is the mandate to protect the welfare and habitat of our state’s wildlife? It flies on. It has not.

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Most Wanted Birds in Brazil

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Plus, I mean, it’s a giant chicken-looking thing that’s actually related to ducks… with that kind of identity crisis going on, what’s not to love? … Tags: brazil • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? However if I had to choose one bird to see in Brazil it would be a Sickle-Winged Nightjar.

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