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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

10,000 Birds

A Suffolk Otter swimming in the Little Ouse river Not all Otter s want to be photographed But this one emerged, though only briefly The otter is, of course, a member of the weasel family. They will also kill any water birds they can capture, from Kingfishers to Mallard. Why not the stoat family or the badger family?)

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Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

10,000 Birds

The definition of the word HUNT is “to chase or search for game or other wild animals for the purpose of catching or killing.” One is defined as catching or killing and the other as keeping from injury. Of course, by now most people know they have been slaughtered by hunters for their ivory. Why is this happening?

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Robert Young on Killing Animals

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Does my proposal as to what makes killing another human being generally a major moral wrong in any way help us with deciding what, if anything, is wrong with killing non-human animals and foetuses? ones to do with the painfulness of the methods of rearing and killing.) Robert Young , "What Is So Wrong with Killing People?"

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Flock to Marion

10,000 Birds

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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Rescue Spotlight: Kitten Rescue

4 The Love Of Animals

Kitten Rescue’s goal is to help Los Angeles become a no-kill city. 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!

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Close Encounters

10,000 Birds

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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Are You Wearing Man's Best Friend? That Trim on the Hood of Your Jacket Might Be Dog Fur!

Animal Ethics

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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