Critter News

JULY 18, 2010

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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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 16, 2013

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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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

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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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

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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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

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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Critter News

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

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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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 11, 2009

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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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

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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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 3, 2014

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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Critter News

JULY 10, 2009

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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Animal Ethics

APRIL 10, 2012

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

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 24, 2011

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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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 12, 2009

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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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 11, 2009

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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Creature Talk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

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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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 11, 2009

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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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 5, 2009

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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Creature Talk

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Tags: Uncategorized companion animals compassion dogs videos.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 3, 2011

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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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 1, 2010

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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Creature Talk

MAY 8, 2009

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

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 3, 2007

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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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 27, 2006

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

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

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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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2008

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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Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2007

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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Creature Talk

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Tags: Animal Welfare animal advocacy companion animals dogs pictures.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 3, 2009

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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Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

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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Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

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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Critter News

JANUARY 26, 2012

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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