Critter News

JULY 27, 2012

Thousands of pets are being abandoned across Portugal, either being dumped at the gates of charitable associations or simply taken far from home and left behind, as owners struggle to make ends meet due to the continuing financial crisis. From the Portugal News Online.sad stuff.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

As the title suggests, it is a collection of stories, each animals’ “tale&#. If you are an animal lover, you will enjoy each of the heartfelt stories, and it may even get you to look at your own pets in a new way. Perhaps what we don’t know about animals will be the most incredible finding yet!

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 20, 2010

Adopt a shelter pet stamps from the postal service were just revealed on the Ellen DeGeneres Show! The postal service is working with DeGeneres and Halo, Purely for Pets, a company co-owned by DeGeneres, to raise awareness of the number of sheltered pets in this country. Stamps to the Rescue ! by Sally Andersen-Bruce.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 5, 2008

City Fauna and another animal welfare charity named Ehida brought around 40 pets from their shelters to the park on Sunday in an attempt to re-home them. They also put up a tent to collect donations, such as pet food, cages, collars and other pet supplies, for stray and abandoned animals kept at the shelters.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 12, 2012

Across the country, Rock & Rawhide (R&R) will produce a series of music, art and culinary events designed to bring together various communities to collectively make donations for animals at kill shelters. In the past nine months, R&R has collected 4,807 items weighing 2,360.5 pounds with a value of $42,923.50…and

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JULY 21, 2019

We searched the internet for information on any of the finch families collecting charcoal to try and establish what the Painted Finches were using it for. The information on the pet shop supply websites implies that the finches need charcoal to aid digestion and to help eliminate toxins.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

The collection features sixteen proprietary designs, each with an artist-created, one-of-a-kind image of the world’s most beloved dog breeds. Pet lovers take note, the durable cotton-twill cover is pre-shrunk and washable. The pillows are also durable, very well made, and even hypoallergenic.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

Together with the ASPCA, their Rescues and Runways program hopes to find homes for pets, and raise money for shelters. Homeless Pets Need More Help Than Ever Before. Families who are facing hard financial times are being forced to surrender their dogs, cats and other pets to animal shelters at an alarming rate. Duluth, Minn.

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JULY 8, 2012

Male Zebra Finch Since the arrival of the Zebra Finch to our garden in April we have observed them collecting nesting material, which has resulted in young birds now visiting with their parents. Female Zebra Finch The male bird has an orange bill as well, but also a chestnut ear patch and a barred chest.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Most of these birds are escaped/freed pets who have established breeding populations, and many of these populations are growing; others could be falconer’s birds, or part of a zoo or private collection.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2012

Once upon a time, people and especially children felt free to interact with wild birds in any way that would satisfy their curiousity — watching and learning, yes, but also harassing and chasing, collecting eggs and nests, stealing nestlings as “pets”, and killing birds for amateur taxidermy efforts.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 7, 2013

All AC&C adoptions include vaccinations, a microchip, spay or neuter, one month of free pet health insurance and a free office visit at a participating veterinarian. We collect items through regular donations, music gigs, visual art shows, culinary events, DJ events, drop box programs, and more. Less noise = less stress.

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JANUARY 7, 2014

We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. As Cocker writes in the Introduction , “It is only when whole societies collectively believe in the goal that it is attainable.”

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 17, 2009

Collect $50 in pledges (in addition to your registration fee) and receive a Bowling For Rhinos T-shirt and entry into one door prize category. They include gift certificates for restaurants and services such as massages, lift tickets to area ski slopes, pet products, nights at B+B’s, animal art, and much, much more!

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 27, 2010

Fun Time Dog Shop is a brand new online shop for modern pets (and people)! Palm Puppies make a delightful collectible or a wonderful gift! It’s stocked full of high quality dog treats, interactive toys & accessories and artistic dog themed products. She really has – they are ADORABLE!!

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

I really thought this was a cute necklace, and what a great way to show off your pet too! I hope to do a new one each year so they may be collected by our loyal customers. Several of our designs may be customized with a favorite pet’s photo. Again, it’s artistic, but also all about the animals.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

I really thought this was a cute necklace, and what a great way to show off your pet too! I hope to do a new one each year so they may be collected by our loyal customers. Several of our designs may be customized with a favorite pet’s photo. Again, it’s artistic, but also all about the animals.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Dozens of other introduced bird species, largely escapees from pet owners, now call Miami home. The species is recorded in the form of a published photograph or a specimen archived in an ornithological collection. Nearly 70 species of parrots have been recorded flying free at some stage or another in Miami, including Hyacinth Macaws.

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Animal Person

JULY 7, 2009

I've decided to add the enormous barbecue/barbeque tongs that are collecting dust in the garage (the smaller ones that we use for veggies on the counter-grill still see some action). I have wildlife/nonwildlife rescue paraphernalia in my car. A large box with airholes, a small one, a towel or two, a leash, soapy handwipes, you get the idea.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 10, 2011

It takes some very special people to take in a dog who has spent the last six year sitting in a cage making babies for pet shops. Her business, Happy Tails Books , collects stories from people who have fostered and adopted dogs and compiles them into books that inspire others to get involved in the fight against animal cruelty.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. Community conservation – valuing what’s around us Kokako and Kaka on Kapiti Guano Still Collected in Peru.Or

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 22, 2012

There is a fun game called Furdiburb , and like the title of this post suggests, it’s a virtual pet adventure game! Furdiburb is a virtual pet, puzzle, and adventure game mashed into one. Players care for their newly adopted pet by feeding and cleaning him. The pet never dies. Family/kid-friendly.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

SimplyFido offers high quality, organic, soft plush pet toys. We were really excited to get a chance to check out a moose from their holiday collection. The holiday collection toys are limited edition, and something that every pet parent can feel good about giving their dog. They are made so well, and so very cute.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 6, 2012

Officer Wayne Smith takes to the streets of a drug-infested neighborhood to collect intel using a hidden camera and a rescued pit bull as a decoy. The full-scale investigation began two days earlier. Meanwhile, Officers Nicole Wilson and Jason Martinez stake out a convicted dogfighter with a long criminal history.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 1, 2011

Hospice Tails is a series of true stories about my experiences with pets and patients as a hospice social worker. People ask me about my favorite story in the collection. Although I adore my own cats, I had not realized what an important role animals can play as life draws to a close.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

This bird was in serious trouble by the mid-19th century due to the adults being killed for food and young being taken for pets. In fact, Juan Gundlach collected a number of birds from the a flock that regularly came to feed in a group of trees at the town of Zarabanda just outside the modern day boundaries of Cienaga de Zapata National Park.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Friends, PetSmart has some seriously cute holiday goodies for your pet. First up from the Disney PetHoliday Collection, this adorable Minnie Mouse scarf. The entire Disney PetHoliday collection is not only fun, but it is perfect for any Disney fan. The post Get your pet ready for the holidays with PetSmart!

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 20, 2008

Are pets, for example, well-treated, like children, for the sake of themselves, or, like mechanical appliances, because of the sort of services they provide their owners? Leopold insists upon a noninstrumental value for the biotic community and mutatis mutandis for its constituents.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 26, 2014

There is an estimated 3-4million pets euthanized each year in US animal shelters. There is a strong lack of homes willing to open their doors to fostering a shelter pet. Imagine the heart exploding with happiness that the beautiful pet you have supported and loved, has found forever love with a great family. Look at tail wag.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2022

It seems they kept a pheasant as a pet for the chick. As I only saw one loon at Fengxian (a Red-throated Loon ), I do not have to choose a collective noun anyway. Much cheaper than a brother or sister. They were joined in the same rough area by a slightly larger flock of Hooded Cranes.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Little was known about oiled bird care at that time and despite the courageous attempts of hundreds of volunteers, only 300 birds survived from the 7,000 collected. In January 1971, two oil tankers collided under the Golden Gate Bridge, spilling more than 800,000 gallons of crude oil into the San Francisco Bay. They are transformed.”

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Apparently , since the release of the Harry Potter series in Indonesia in the early 2000s the popularity of owls such as the Buffy Fish Owl as pets has increased, leading to more birds being caught in the wild and then sold at local bird markets.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

For millenia, many of the world’s collective cultures have had an exceptionally strong anthropocentric bias when looking at the value of life. But many people who live closely with animals, whether as some of the more open-minded researchers or your average pet owners, have always been well aware that this simply isn’t true.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

The stunning head plumes of the Gray Crowned-Crane make it attractive to bird collectors and zoos; illegal collecting of wild birds is one of the reasons why this species is now considered Endangered. A pair of Hooded Vultures in Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania by Adam Riley.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2024

malayana had been collected. Unlike me, the HBW does not seem to appreciate the species much, stating that it is “hopping about in very ungainly manner.” hardwickii and C. malayana , albeit widely assigned the former, as small-sized individuals resembling pure C.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Baby is going to be the hit of all the Christmas parties this year thanks to the Martha Stewart Pets collection! There are other adorable outfits in the Martha Stewart Pets collection too, including a gingerbread man hoodie, a tuxedo for very fancy holiday parties, and even some really sweet pajamas!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Even the first explorers to Australia documented there was a risk of extinction of birds and animals into the future and subsequently decided to collect as many specimens as possible! 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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