4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 31, 2010

2010 Fur Ball at the Skirball Hosted by Jenna Fischer. Last year Kitten Rescue celebrated 12 years and more than 10,000 lives saved with the Second Annual Fur Ball fundraiser dinner! Join us as we continue the tradition with the 2010 Fur Ball at the Skirball, hosted by Jenna Fischer from NBC’s The Office.

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Kittens Rescue Los Angeles Fur 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

Hannah Buschert was first exposed to birds and birding during a required ornithology course at Oregon State University and she quickly caught the birding bug. None of the three voyagers made landfall due to poor weather and dangerous conditions.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 16, 2011

After all, she currently has four fur babies– all tuxedo cats (formerly strays) from the same family! And of course, the three are named after old Hollywood stars — Brando, Jimmy Dean and Monty.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Fats nourish the skin and make it soft, and they help with a luxurious coat and contribute to shiny fur! Of course with too much fat your pet will have weight gain. It’s very important to get the right balance of protein (humans take note for your diet too)! Not enough fat? Potential for a dull, dry and flaky coat.

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Kittens Puppies Pets Fur 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

The male adult sticking his head out of the nest box below… their nestlings at about three days old in their feathery nest… and about ten days later at two weeks of age… and, of course, the young one ready to take on the world! These are nestlings, just a few days old, in their comfy, fur-lined nest, begging for food.

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North America America Barn Owls Falcons 213

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2012

Over the course of several trips I watched the eyasses turn from mostly fluffy chicks to fully feather, and this past weekend I went out assuming to find an empty nest. “Well, I won’t be needing this any longer” Up until this moment I did not realize that not only owls upchucked undigested pellets of bone and fur.

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Falcons Killing Fur Owls 167

10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2012

Snowy” was of course an Eastern Grey Squirrel Sciurus carolinensis , a cute, but destructive alien invader to British shores. Mike’s squirrels were described in one of the comments as “blond” I prefer this as there is definitely colour in the squirrels’ fur, it is just very pale.

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Animal Person

APRIL 7, 2011

Of course, those people, who are often the "spiritual" ones, are particularly frustrating to deal with. If you've seen The Witness , you know that Eddie drove around with a van that had a continuously looping video of what it takes to get the fur that some find so appealing (and he gave out leaflets, too).

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

Latimer's ignorance also comes across in his discussion of anti-fur campaigns, so it's easy to miss this potentially good point (about some animal activists): But did you ever notice that we don't hear very much from them if anything about shoe leather? He clearly hasn't heard of the low-hanging fruit concept.

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Animal Person

MAY 11, 2009

Both, of course, were seen as victories, but the article's author, Richard Foot, asks: Do such successes mean the animal rights movement is winning its long, controversial campaigns to gain the same legal protections for animals as those ascribed to humans? Here's the set-up: The European Parliament endorsed a ban on seal products.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Maybe you’ve seen those little balls of fur captivate those around you, or maybe you’ve even been captivated yourself. But this was, of course, before I brought my dogs into the picture. She currently works along with Coffee Home Direct, researching fair-trade green coffee. You can follow her on Twitter @hopesiempre. Did you know this?

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Pets Lifestyle Montana Fur 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2011

It is much more interesting to consider the fact that some (actually, many) dinosaurs were bird-like, and of course, this similarity had to do with their common ancestry. For example, there seems to have been dinosaurs that used feathers as their body covering.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2012

Here one is close to the scenically impressive Cape of Good Hope National Park as well as the Boulder’s Coastal Park, home to hundreds of breeding African Penguins.

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Albatross Penguins Dolphins Whales 181

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2015

The two main chapters cover Marine Mammals (Orca; Whales; Dolphins and Porpoises; Sea Lions, Fur Seals, and Elephant Seal; Rarer Marine Mammals) and Seabirds (Albatrosses, Shearwaters and Fulmar, Strom-Petrels, Phalaropes, Alcids, Red-billed Tropicbird, Brown Booby, South Polar Skua, Jaegers, Gulls and Terns, Rarer Seabirds).

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Dolphins Whales Whaling Porpoises 162

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 10, 2009

For instance, to kill animals which have these similarities to human beings in the course of pointless or duplicative experimentation, in the course of providing cosmetics, furs and other items readily producible without such killings, or merely for sport, is morally wrong according to the account I have proposed.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

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. They’re like little balls of fur and energy, and he looks so happy to be in the midst of them.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Its family must have flown south Finding mammals is always a challenge: we saw Red Foxes several times, and Red Squirrels daily, though disappointingly the majority sported grey rather than red fur. Reindeer , of course, were everywhere, including the middle of town.

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Reindeer Squirrels Fur Fox 144

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2013

Of course, given the distances, this takes time, and the whales spend up to an hour under the water feeding. The boat moves quickly past interesting things; Northern Giant Petrels , Buller’s Shearwaters , White-capped Albatrosses , New Zealand Fur Seals (I understand they will pause to see dolphins).

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Whales Whaling Albatross New Zealand 201

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

In the mid 1700s, fur-traders began introducing foxes up and down the Aleutian chain, in order to generate some more raw material work with. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again. What a wrong!

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 203

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2008

Second, many of the things you can do to stop supporting animal cruelty—like not buying or wearing fur or fur trim—require minimal effort and no expense! Obviously, since not buying and not wearing fur requires minimal effort and no expense, that's a good place to start. Where should you begin?

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2006

Second, many of the things you can do to stop supporting animal cruelty—like not buying or wearing fur—require minimal effort and no expense! Obviously, since not buying and not wearing fur requires minimal effort and no expense, that's a good place to start. Where should you begin?

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

According to this Associated Press story, if you are wearing a Sean John jacket with fur trim purchased from Macy's, that trim might have come from a dog indigenous to Asia known as a "raccoon dog." was advertised to online customers as having an "imitation rabbit fur collar."

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

The Amur Leopard ( Panthera pardus orientalis – above) is just one majestic animal on the Critically Endangered (CR) list with less than 100 individuals in the wild due to hunting for its fur. Of course, by now most people know they have been slaughtered by hunters for their ivory. Why is this happening?

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