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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

10,000 Birds

They may have no idea what they’re doing, but their compassion overrides their doubt. We receive nestling owls who have been fed nothing but hamburger, whose bones are so brittle from lack of calcium that they break when they try to stand. A pet cat raising orphaned ducklings! In a perfect world, people would know better.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

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. There is no happy ending for even the most humanely raised animal.