Critter News
JUNE 15, 2009
He's charged with 19 counts of animal cruelty, 19 counts of improperly disposing of an animal body and four counts of burglary. Tags: animal cruelty. Just awful. Now they've arrested an 18-year-old suspect named Tyler Hayes Weinman.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 10, 2011
A national physicians group has filed a federal complaint against the University of Washington, saying its use of ferrets to train medical residents in emergency procedures on babies and children violates a federal animal-welfare law. Full story in the Seattle Times.
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Critter News
AUGUST 24, 2010
The training exercise called bear baying is intended to make the bears easier to shoot in the wild and it's only allowed in South Carolina. Hunters say the exercise popular in the state's hilly northwestern corner helps them train their dogs on what to do when they come across a bear during a hunt. From the AP.
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 20, 2010
[T]here is another class of cases where the state is accorded the right to interfere with the individual when he is not interfering with any other person, namely, where cruelty to animals is involved. Yet it is legislation that few of us should wish to condemn as lacking in justification. (It who cannot protect their interests.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 8, 2009
But it certainly raised my awareness that animals are used in military trauma-training exercises. Thousands of live animals are shot, stabbed, dismembered, burned, and poisoned every year in Department of Defense (DoD) training exercises designed to train medics and infantry in how to treat various human battlefield injuries.
Critter News
JANUARY 8, 2009
This post has three graphic pictures of a baby elephant allegedly being "trained" for the entertainment industry. Tags: animal cruelty entertainment elephants. This is a new blog I came across called Paws4Life, The Reality of What Humans do. I'm thinking it's India?
Critter News
AUGUST 6, 2009
The film’s protagonist, Ric O’Barry, who trained the animals that played TV’s Flipper before he had a change of heart, indicts businesses like Sea World as being either overtly or tacitly complicit in the cruelty. The rest are killed with spears, knives and clubs in an orgy of cruelty. The cries of the dolphins are pathetic.
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