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Rescue for the rescuer.

4 The Love Of Animals

Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, Emotional Exhaustion these are all familiar topics to those of us who spend our time helping animals. They will have the opportunity find a forever home, experience unconditional love or transition to the Other Side. Cherie can be reached through her website [link]. Article Source: [link].

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On The Goode Family and Infiltration

Animal Person

Another opportunity for infiltration (heh, heh, heh) has presented itself on Intent.com , which has a " Food and Nutrition " page that already has posts about mindful eating and vegetarianism. Comedy is my favorite genre, and I enjoy satire the most. But The Goodes fell flat for me. Anyone else watch? What did you think?

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How Pets Can Improve Your Health

4 The Love Of Animals

While people with dogs often experience the greatest health benefits, a pet doesn’t necessarily have to be a dog or a cat. Many also learn responsibility, compassion, and empathy from having pets. Having an ever-present dog or cat, for example, can help ease separation anxiety in children when mom and dad aren’t around.

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On the Psychological Continuum

Animal Person

And that means for the animal rights movement: Social entities like compassion, empathy and suffering are very important factors to motivate humans to change their behaviour. Hence, what we need from this point onwards is psychology and not philosophy. And human psychology says that humans are far more social than rational creatures.

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The plovers of Estero Lagoon, Florida

10,000 Birds

Firstly, shorebirds present a significant ID challenge. Its a great place for novice and more experienced birders to enjoy and get to grips with a good variety of North American plovers, most of which are present on any given day, especially in winter. For me, there’s a few things that drive this fascination. Thanks for visiting!

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On THE DOG WHO COULDN'T STOP LOVING

Animal Person

Not only have dogs and humans influenced each other for tens of thousands of years, they have done so in far more profound ways than any other two species on earth, and primarily in the direction of acting on the capacity for love in all its different manifestations, such as showing sympathy, feeling empathy, and expressing compassion" (xi).

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On "Pets" and "Its"

Animal Person

I'm sure intelligence was in there somewhere, but the fact is that gorillas are presented as more important and more human than other animals, therefore they are worthy of saving. All animals except the dog are called "it" (I did a little experiment to see what would happen).

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