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Need Help Finding a Home for my Mothers Cats

Reddit Animals

Hello, I hope someone can help me out or point me in the right direction. She’s been spayed and her front paws have been declawed (I know that’s not a normal thing now, but back in the day that was fairly normal for people to do that to their cats). I feel like right now. She’s an older cat. She’s about 12 years old.

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Humane Society Puts Pressure on South Carolina's Bear Baying

Critter News

Ugh, this is barbaric and right out of the dark ages. A declawed, defanged bear is chained to a stake as hunting dogs bark and snap, trying to force the bear to stand on its hind legs. Animal rights advocates say it's cruel to the nearly defenseless bears and harms them psychologically. From the AP.

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On Helping Individuals and Utilitarianism

Animal Person

I've never met Bella , the orange tabby pictured above whose people abused her and tried to declaw her with pliers. What about the individuals right there in the laboratory? Or printed thousands of copies of vegan leaflets. Of course, I have an emotional attachment to that one individual, Violet Rays. But that's utilitarian thinking.

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