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For most practices, demand returns to pre-pandemic levels

AVMA News

The revenue spike that many companion animal practices enjoyed during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic is fast becoming a thing of the past as it’s back to business as usual.

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Paws For The Balkans

4 The Love Of Animals

Catastrophic floods following three days of extremely heavy rain this month have left large portions of Bosnia and Serbia submerged and millions of people and animals in desperate need of help. Thousands of animals have died from the immediate impact of the floods, but many more livestock and companion animals require urgent assistance.

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VCA Offers Free Boarding for Pets Affected by Texas Wildfires

4 The Love Of Animals

To help those affected by the Texas wildfires, select VCA Animal Hospitals in the state of Texas (in and around both Austin and Houston) are offering free boarding for companion animals. Here is a list of those who are available to help: Austin-area hospitals: VCA Ben White Animal Hospital.

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Pet Parents Spending Billions on Their Dogs and Cats

4 The Love Of Animals

MRI, chemotherapy and CT scans are becoming more prevalent to treat companion animals. Much of that increase in veterinary care spending comes from the rapid pace of advancement in treatment options available in veterinary medicine.

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FiXiT Aims to Facilitate 25 Spay Neuters This Week

4 The Love Of Animals

Profiles will be chosen based on several criteria, including the caregiver and animal’s story, level of need, and risk of unwanted pregnancy, such as in homes with both an unaltered male and female of the same species. The post FiXiT Aims to Facilitate 25 Spay Neuters This Week appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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McKee Project Helps Latin America's Strays

Critter News

Tags: animal cruelty spay/neuter latin america strays companion animals.

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"Change of Heart": New Book about Animal Activism

Critter News

For example, why is it so hard for our family members and co-workers – many of whom have companion animals that they love – to cut cruelty from their diets and go vegan? And why do so many people say the oppose the cruel practices of factory farming, yet still eat meat, eggs and dairy products?

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San Francisco Considers Banning Pet Sales

Critter News

All companion animals including dogs, cats, hamsters, mice, rats, chinchillas, guinea pigs, birds, snakes, and lizards would be considered as pets. If it passes, San Francisco residents would have to go to a shelter or rescue group to adopt an animal. Pet sales would be banned altogether, except for the sale of pet fish.

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Rocky & Bella, Inc. earns National Animal Supplement Quality Seal

4 The Love Of Animals

It’s clear that Rocky & Bella is dedicated to the health and wellness of companion animals.” “Rocky & Bella is demonstrating its commitment to quality ingredients and manufacturing processes with its new, natural pet supplement, Spark,” Howard said. “It’s

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Prepare a pet rescue plan.

4 The Love Of Animals

Even with the aid of disaster response teams, many evacuees permanently lost their companion animals. . “Katrina, Ike and Gustav are more than just names to those whose homes and families were devastated by these destructive storms.

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ABA has Animal Law Committee

Critter News

The status of animals in our legal system is in flux and attorneys are discovering creative and interesting ways to use legal arguments in the face of increasingly complex scenarios. Our clients are legally impacted by a vast array of human/animal interactions.

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Handbags are a Dog’s Best Friend

4 The Love Of Animals

Tails are sure to wag on Friday, June 12t h as Luna Boston hosts “Doggies + Bags,” a special benefit party for the Companion Animal Protection Society (CAPS). From 4-7pm, Bostonians are welcome to bring their pooches by Luna Boston’s boutique at 205 Newbury St.

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Hero Dog Tries To Help Wounded Dog

Creature Talk

Tags: Uncategorized companion animals compassion dogs videos.

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Research Animals Rescued from North Carolina Lab

Critter News

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) conducted the initial investigation[2] that exposed the apparent cruelty at Professional Laboratory and Research Services, an inconspicuous rural lab funded by large pharmaceutical companies to test insecticides and other chemicals used in companion animal products.

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8 Reasons Why Bringing Your Dog To Work Is A Good Idea

4 The Love Of Animals

People who have pets or companion animals know why they do. Dogs, cats and other animals are great stress reducers and they give out unconditional love. He writes detailed reviews on modern office desk furnitures ; computer desk, office desks with hutch, u-shaped desks, computer armoires, l-shaped desks, etc.

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IFAW rescuers have mobilized to Japan

4 The Love Of Animals

Rescuers from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW – www.ifaw.org ) have mobilized to Japan to conduct an assessment and assist with animal rescue efforts following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan.

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So I'm from the New Appalachia?

Critter News

On an animal note, I will say that the treatment of animals is very bad in the Central Valley. It's farm country and you have a lot of farmers and ag types who treat companion animals as little better than livestock. It mirrors the lack of education and enlightenment of a generally poor area.

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In the Company of Animals

Animal Ethics

Here is a New York Times blog post about companion animals.

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Bring Pets Home

4 The Love Of Animals

Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health is a leader in research and dedicated to the development, production and marketing of innovative, high-quality animal-health products for all major farm and companion animal species.

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Adopt-a-Pet.com Guest Post

4 The Love Of Animals

Sadly there are 4 million healthy adoptable companion animals killed in shelters each year due to overcrowding. Our website makes it easy for anyone with an internet connection to find profiles and pictures of adoptable animals by location, breed, gender, age, size, and color.

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Great cat tips from Housecat Housecall

4 The Love Of Animals

Cats, particularly when acquired as kittens, can be taught to get along happily with a wide variety of other companion animals, including birds and dogs. If you don’t have the time or energy to spend on a lively, boisterous kitten, then consider adopting an older, more settled cat? Other Pets.

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Let’s Catch Up!

Creature Talk

Tagged: animal advocacy, Animal Cruelty, Animal Rights, animal suffering, companion animals, dogs, dolphins, get involved, horses, humans, Michael Vick, The Cove. Oh, and check out my new food blog: Veg Out With Us!

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Good Idea: FlexPet

4 The Love Of Animals

Every FlexPet customer will receive a year membership to the Best Friends Animal Society which helps provide a year of quality care for an animal at the sanctuary. It also entitles members to the following: A subscription to Best Friends magazine, the most popular general interest companion animal magazine in the nation.

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The Power of Pets Initiative

4 The Love Of Animals

For decades, Mars Petcare – through its world-renowned WALTHAM® Centre for Pet Nutrition – has led the way in research in Human-Animal Interaction (HAI), the scientific field that studies the bond between humans and companion animals.

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Kathy Bauck: The Face of Puppy Mill Cruelty

Creature Talk

Tags: Animal Cruelty Animal Welfare animal suffering companion animals dogs puppy mills USDA.

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Breed Bans are NOT the Answer

Creature Talk

Tags: Animal Welfare animal advocacy companion animals dogs pictures.

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Urban Canines

Animal Ethics

Here is a New York Times op-ed column about companion animals.

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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).

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Targeted programs that address specific segments of the companion animal population and broad public education programs have been and can continue to be effective. Lisa Peterson Director of Club Communications, American Kennel Club New York, July 31, 2007

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Those of us who have worked in the field as social service staff members or humane law enforcement officers know that child abuse and animal abuse as well as battered women and battered companion animals are often found under the same roof.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

When that happens, you’ll understand the bond between human and companion animal of which Mr. Phillips wrote. But one thing they all have in common is the strongest desire imaginable to love you, protect you and bond with you. Sherrill Durbin Tulsa, Okla.,

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From Today's Wall Street Journal

Animal Ethics

A decision not to eat dogs has nothing to do with our inherent hypocrisy, but with our relationship to different animals. Dogs were bred to be companion animals; pigs and cows are raised as food. Foer misses the point of the debate completely. However, I agree with Mr. Foer that factory farming has to go.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

We can treasure the cultural and historical bond between animals and domesticated animals only by ignoring the emotional bond. Children naturally love animals, but the many “uses we have found for them” lead us to teach our children to save their compassion for companion animals exclusively.

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Mexican Activists Staged Protest Early this Month

Critter News

MEXICO CITY – Animal rights activists staged a protest against the sale of pets in Mexico City, urging residents to adopt dogs and other animals instead of buying them. Late on this story. I copied the full article from the Latin American Herald Tribune.

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On Letting Your Emotions Rule the Day

Animal Person

Paragraph #5 begins: "Unfortunately when combined with our love for companion animals our lack of knowledge about agriculture leads us to view farm animals the same as we do our pets.

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Best Friends Animal Society Helps You Protect Your Pets this Independence Day

4 The Love Of Animals

Best Friends Animal Society is a national animal welfare organization focused on ending the killing of dogs and cats in America’s shelters. Since its founding in 1984, Best Friends has helped reduce the number of animals killed in shelters nationwide from 17 million per year to about 4 million.

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