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Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The theme of the frailty of life and the importance of placing people before birding had been foreshadowed in an earlier chapter when Marybeth and Lynn stop birding to help rescue a man being pulled out to sea at Grande Isle (their binoculars enable rescuers to locate the man). ’ What was left to write about?

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On Helping Individuals and Utilitarianism

Animal Person

Or paid for food for a year at a rescue kennel. Of course, I have an emotional attachment to that one individual, Violet Rays. Or printed thousands of copies of vegan leaflets. I've never met Bella , the orange tabby pictured above whose people abused her and tried to declaw her with pliers.

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On Coping Mechanisms

Animal Person

So I do what I can do, beginning of course with being vegan. I rescue, I adopt, I do TNR, and I connect others to resources to do the same. Yesterday , Abby wrote: Off topic, but I was wondering if you have any advice for those of us who are highly emotionally sensitive and also interested in animal welfare issues? Spiritual beliefs?

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Welcome Home Mama & Boris: How a Sister’s Love Saved a Fallen Soldiers Beloved Dogs

4 The Love Of Animals

He was drawn to their innocence, and their pure emotions. So when Peter calls and excitedly tells us stories about a small pack of five dogs that has started coming around the base—a mother and her four pups—I laugh and think, of course he has pets in Iraq. death things—on their minds, and rescuing animals just isn’t a priority.

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