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Showjumping Cow!

4 The Love Of Animals

She, and the cow, are both amazing! We have all heard the saying “when life hands you lemons, make lemonade&# , well when Regina Mayer wasn’t able to have a horse, she found the next best thing! Enjoy the video.

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Mad Cow Disease Appears in California

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The reemergence of mad cow disease, discovered in a California dairy cow, could have major implications for the state’s meat industry, even though officials have said that the human food supply is unaffected. Department of Agriculturetests about 40,000 cows a year in its effort to catch the disease. The state also hosts 1.84

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Keep Your Eyes on the Trail: Mad Cow Edition

10,000 Birds

This bubble of contentment must have dulled my typically sharp urban wariness, because I thought nothing of the teenager traveling up the path with an untethered cow. Who worries about a cow, right? But the cow’s driver seemed to be managing well enough, so after a brief glance, I turned my eyes back to the foliage.

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"Happy Cows" Campaign in California Under Fire

Critter News

California dairy farmers have an ad campaign that cows are just darn happy on their factory farms. PETA is not convinced. This article about the situation appears in the Merced Sun-Star which is from my home county of Merced!

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Suit Filed Over Cows Killed to Drive Up Milk Prices

Critter News

The class-action lawsuit accuses companies of slaughtering thousands of cows just to decrease supply. Animal rights group Compassion Over Killing was the first to uncover the alleged systematic slaughter of healthy dairy cows in California.

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Mmmm Cow Urine!

Critter News

A new soft drink made from cow's urine may be launched in India by a hard line Hindu group known for their opposition of Western food imports. The manufacturers say small quantities of the liquid produced by Hinduism's revered holy cows is being mixed with products such as aloe vera and gooseberry to fight diseases.

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Escaped Cow Goes to Sanctuary

Critter News

A cow that escaped from a slaughter house in NY City has been allowed to go to an animal sanctuary. Tags: meat animal rescue Slaughterhouse cows meatpacking.

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India's Cows Contributing to Global Warming?

Critter News

Cows With Gas! Tags: global warming India methane cows. It's been a while since we've posted about Mr. Barky's favorite subject. This time, in India!

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More on the Cow that Escaped from a NY Slaughterhouse

Critter News

Molly the cow escaped from a Queens slaughterhouse has been sent to a sanctuary in Long Island. And, now she has a new boyfriend names Wexley(story complete with hot cow smooching picture). Tags: cows.

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Cow Birds

10,000 Birds

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds , Terminology / Cow Birds Cow Birds By Rick • March 22, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share So what do Buffleheads and Bitterns and Hornbills have in common? They’re all named for livestock.

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Holy Cow!!

Reddit Animals

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Thinking Critically About Happy Cows

Animal Person

Check out my guest post at Change.org today called " Thinking Critically About Happy Cows." Thanks to Stephanie for inviting me to post!

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Knickers The Cow Is A Giant!

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On Killing Cows to Save Elephants

Animal Person

In other words, it's so tragic that elephants are in mortal danger that you should kill cows to help protect the imperiled elephants? All the proceeds will benefit the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation (GTAEF) conservation, which has rescued 11 baby and young-adult elephants since its inception in 2006. There are only 50 available.

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How ‘cow hugging’ has become a popular new form of meditation

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Hero cow assists police with apprehension of suspect

Reddit Animals

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How To Make Your Cow Farm Successful: The Complete Guide

Reddit Animals

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Black Vultures Are Reportedly ‘Eating Cows Alive’ In The Midwest

Reddit Animals

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Herd the moos? Latvia's symbolic blue cow back from the brink

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??a little cow i drew?? (ig: @choc0_gais)

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Microplastics found in milk and meat from Dutch cows and pigs: researchers in Amsterdam

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Terrible News. US Supreme Court Strikes Down California "Downer Cow" Law

Critter News

Clearly a win for the damn livestock industry. It was a question of federal vs. state authority. And it was a unanimous decision. Read the full story at CNN. A state law mandating "humane treatment" of downed livestock headed for the slaughterhouse was unanimously overturned Monday by the Supreme Court.

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Hemp may get cows high, but will their milk do the same to you?

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A surprise Orange Chat

10,000 Birds

The Orange Chat was clearly feeding on insects and taking advantage of the cow pats in the area. The Orange Chat was moving through the dry mud and the grass as we sat and watched. The colour on this bird species is incredible and not easily hidden in the environment. Orange Chat and Black-fronted Dotterel.

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Heifer International

4 The Love Of Animals

receives a cow, goat, sheep or other animal, along with training in its care and training in environmentally friendly agriculture. For most of us in America, a cow is an animal we see in a field and that provides milk. For most of us in America, a cow is an animal we see in a field and that provides milk.

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Small Navy Of Farmers Stage Cow Rescue In Flood-Hit British Columbia, Canada

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20 Cows Die After Being Poisoned By Pesticides In Kampong Thom Province Cambodia

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Cow Escapes Farm To Join Wild Bison Herd

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Petcam; The World Through the Lens of Our Four Legged Friends

4 The Love Of Animals

What about a cow? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to see the world from the perpective of your dog or cat? Or even a chicken? Pet Cam: The World Through the Lens of Our Four-Legged Friends is full of wonderful photos from animal photographers! And yes, they aren’t all just dogs and cats (although there are many of those).

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On Betraying Your Family

Animal Person

Yesterday, in the comments of An Affront to the Idea of Family , Brian wrote: I understand your concern for those cows that were beat by that man and the unfortunate death of all the cows that died in the snow storm. I love my cows and I don't anyone touch them in that manner. It's a relief to hear that Brian disapproves.

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Wild Pig Drank 18 Cans of Beer and Got Into a Fight With a Cow

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A moo-ving target: fenceless grazing widens possibilities for cows and wildlife

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Conklin Farm Owner Will Not Face Charges

Critter News

the tape {from an undercover investigation by Mercy for Animals,) Conklin is shown kicking a cow that is lying down. The veterinarians told law enforcement that cows who remain down are at risk of injury or death. A cow's muscles may atrophy. Once that happens, the cow may never get up and may suffer or die."

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Searching for vultures in India

10,000 Birds

Cows are considered sacred by majority of Hindus so cow meat is generally not consumed. This results in the cow’s corpse being left to be fed on by vultures. A dead cow that was treated with Diclofenac turned out to be poisonous to vultures. No one knew why they were dying.

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Humans Not Natural Milk Drinkers

Critter News

If you really think about it, how many prehistoric people were grabbing pregnant cows to suckle on? Tags: vegan milk corporate lies cows vegetarian. Of misinformation that is repeated so often it becomes fact. Lactose intolerant people are actually the normal ones.

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PETA Uncovers Horrible Conditions at Land O'Lakes Supplier

Critter News

From PETA's site: A new PETA undercover investigation inside a Land O'Lakes supplier facility in Pennsylvania has revealed routine neglect and cruelty to cows who are milked for the Fortune 250 company's products.

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Modern Day Cattle Rustlers

Critter News

Crashing through a gate in the dead of night, thieves using trucks and trailers recently robbed a farmer here of 53 Brahman crossbreed cows valued at some $50,000. Tags: cows.

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Las Terrazas de Dana Boutique Lodge & Spa

10,000 Birds

She started birding 30 years ago while she accompanied her father when he worked macheting pasture for cows. Julia Patiño has 20+ years of experience guiding in birding tours and is one of the first women guides in Ecuador! She was attracted by the number of different species and their colors.

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On This German Farm, Cows Are in Charge. Or at Least Coequals. -- "The cows don’t have to produce milk. The pigs sleep late. No animal on this former dairy farm serves a human need. Their only purpose is to live peacefully — and provoke questions about how we eat."

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Quote of the Week

Critter News

How many meat-eaters would cut the throat of a cow themselves, and hack open its belly with a knife to empty its intestines? It is odd: we prosecute anyone who is cruel to a cow - by beating it or giving it electric shocks, say - yet the connection between that fact and the dinner table is rarely made.

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On Seeking a Sage Thrasher in the Rain

10,000 Birds

When you ask yourself, as the rain pelts you face and runs into your eyes and you shuffle your feet to get a better vantage point on this bramble only to track into a particularly large, particularly runny pile of muddy cow dung, why is it that I put myself through this for what amounts to a tick on a list.

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Forget About Equal, How About Alive

Animal Person

When I saw " From Science, Plenty of Cows but Little Profit " this morning in the New York Times , I immediately thought of "Dog." See the entire slide show, Happy Cows: Behind the Myth, here.). Since January the program has culled about 230,000 cows nationwide." And the day-old calves. forcibly taken from their mothers, penned.

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Using Cows as a Mere Means to Their Ends

Animal Ethics

Here is a New York Times story about women who sacrifice cows on the altar of romance. What man wouldn't love a woman who's that shallow? I like the part about vegetarians being pretentious and neurotic. Could anything be more idiotic?

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