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Raising Money For the RSPCA with MusicMagpie

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This is done by rescuing animals and wildlife, rehabilitation, preventing cruelty and also by providing animals with medicine and treatment. In 2010 alone the RSPCA received over 150,000 complaints against animal cruelty and treated and helped more than 211,000 animals in their clinics and hospitals.

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The Story of Russell A. Crow

10,000 Birds

This story comes from Emily Johnson, who is a sub-permittee for a licensed wildlife rehabilitator in Helena, Montana. Grace’s family didn’t know about wildlife rehabilitators, so they simply kept him in the safe haven of their fenced-in backyard, hoping with enough food and rest, he would recover on his own.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. But opposition to its use can be understood if you oppose cruelty.