4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

While breast cancer awareness month for people might be over, it’s important to realize that we humans aren’t the only ones affected by the disease. Here are some great facts about breast cancer in dogs and cats. Once your dog or cat is five years old, perform a mammary exam monthly. Most common in older female dogs.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 3, 2010

Mosquitoes bite humans and animals with no regard to species, and they bring along a number of illnesses. For humans, mosquitoes can lead to such diseases as Yellow Fever and West Nile Virus among others. Perhaps the most well known mosquito born disease, heartworms can be fatal to dogs and occasionally cats and foxes.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart attacks and strokes. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Grief in magpies and red foxes: Saying goodbye to a friend. I also watched a red fox bury her mate after a cougar had killed him.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2011

But in the case of Harris Hawks , this mentality jumps the species barrier and they form a strong bond with their human partners, readily accepting their non-avian hunting companions as members of their pack. In the case of fox hunting (a true bloodsport), dogs are domesticated animals that are killing, not for food, but for sport.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2013

I have a dog, cats (domestic and feral), birds raccoons, hawks, owls, coyotes, foxes, bunnies and mice…they all share the yard and the woods. And if we are going to count cats as part of nature, they’re like a foxes or coyotes. Cats are a breathing warm blooded creature like so many others.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

Dogs are similarly dispersed across size ranges, with Foxes, Coyotes, and Wolves taking prey across different parts of the size range. among the Mustilids, and Coyotes and to a lesser extent Foxes. It isn’t like not killing the cat is in any way humane, considering the number of animals it will kill over time.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Each year these groups combined, rescue and find homes for over 2,000 abandoned Southland dogs and cats, animals that most likely would otherwise have lost their lives. This means less dogs and cats can be saved. A Silent Auction Kids’ Face Painting, Pet Psychic, Dog Training Demonstration, Fun Prizes and More!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

I started calling her, patting my knees (much like you’d call a dog, for gawd’s sake), “Sophie! I’ll never forget an orphaned Northern Cardinal nestling that I really fussed over a few years back,” said Arden Zich of Fox Valley Wildlife Center in Elburn, Illinois. “We You can do this! It’s a theme.”. “I’ll

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2013

The way things should be is a very powerful motivating factor in human lives. Dogs should not be used to hunt foxes. It is very natural condition to look at something going wrong and imagine what should be happening instead. A hungry child should be fed. And embattled minority should be protected.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

.’ Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning – little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door - Bird or beast above the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as `Nevermore.’

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Common sense tells us not to put the foxes in charge of the henhouse, but politicians repeatedly deny common sense in favor of the needs of special-interest groups. if they see a mistreated dog, and shudder to see a wounded deer in the road. So why would they not insist that the cow that became their steak was treated humanely?

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