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Turning a farm dog into a suburban one?

Reddit Animals

Boyfriend has an 8 year old male English shepherd who has lived on a farm in the mountains his whole life at his moms place. But the dog is my boyfriend’s, so when we moved in together in a suburb off the mountain, we took him with us. Does anyone have experience turning a rural farm dog into a suburb one, successfully?

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind. Brian Hare, assistant professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University, holds out a dog biscuit. See Pictures of Dogs Learning New Tricks. No one in the room–neither dog nor human–can tell which cup hides the biscuit. See a video on how dogs think like us.

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The Book That Saved Derrick Jensen's Life

Animal Person

If there were ever a movement devoted to the principles set out in The Vegetarian Myth and if it proved successful, such a movement would easily result in a spectacular reduction in the suffering and torture of animals, compared to what they experience today in factory farms and due to ecosystem devastation.

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The Problem with Weight is NOT Losing It

4 The Love Of Animals

Rigorous dieting is the animal handling equivalent of a corrective jerk on the dog collar. A resident of Bend, Oregon, McGee Bennett lives on a 10-acre farm with her husband, Brad, two dogs, two cats, five llamas, 11 alpacas, and super composting red wigglers, number unknown.

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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

Animal Person

Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy. And by the way, he debunks the idea of dogs and unconditional love, as well as the idea that pet owners are less lonely than people who don’t own pets.

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The Kirtland’s Warbler: The Story of a Bird’s Fight Against Extinction and the People Who Saved It: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

It’s the warbler that is often the last unchecked species on birders’ life lists and, whether you list or not, for most of us observing it is a once in a lifetime experience. Let me know if you have seen the Kirtland’s Warbler, if you were part of the Magee Marsh experience or if you made the trip to Mio, and what that birding trip was like.

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Introducing Myself

Animal Ethics

Keith has not only been my favorite Philosophy professor that I have studied under during the course of my college experience, but my favorite professor in general. I have always felt a sense of connection to animals since as far back as I can remember, and the current manner in which they are treated in factory farms disturbs me.