4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 3, 2013

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Game 100

Game Dogs Rights Animal 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

She had taken her border collie for a walk in the woods in the local 1200-acre state park, and her dog had stepped on a leghold trap. Astrid’s dog howled as she pried it off. The trap had been set in the woods right next to my house. A few years ago my friend Astrid called me on the phone. I’d released birds there.

Wildlife Rehabilitation 237

Wildlife Rehabilitation Rhode Island New Jersey Wildlife 237

Critter News

JULY 24, 2009

According to the Post, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is considering letting him in with a whopping four game suspension. In or about March 2003, PEACE, after consulting with VICK about the losing female pit bull's condition, executed the losing dog by wetting the dog down with water and electrocuting the animal.

Pit Bulls 100

Pit Bulls 2003 Game 2007 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2014

As I bird, walk the dog or run errands, puffs of white float down on the breeze. They have only a brief window to find the right spot to send down roots – a spot with the combination of moisture, sunlight, and fine silty soil they need. Despite this, they are in some ways quite fragile.

Montana 168

Montana Cattle Deer Humane 168

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2013

My post last week where I defended game hunting as a conservation tool has, unaccountably, encountered a certain amount of push back. Who would have thought that a post defending hunting game in general would have not been universally acclaimed? Dogs should not be used to hunt foxes. A hungry child should be fed.

Tigers 176

Tigers Hunting Game Protection 176

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. There were no mammals, little game, and not many birds either. But man cannot live on bread alone, and the homesick settlers wanted more than just game.

New Zealand 162

New Zealand Possums Rabbits Ferrets 162

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into.”

Raccoons 224

Raccoons Birds Oregon China 224

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

These vast and rugged lands of savanna, hills, gorges and rivers still protect some of Ethiopia’s largest extant herds of typical African savanna game, including African Elephant, African Buffalo, Giraffe, Lion, Leopard, African Wild Dog and numerous species of grazers. Yellow-billed Stork.

Ethiopia 247

Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Birds 247

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2018

Barra to be precise, just a few miles out of the city and adjacent to the Olympic Park for the 2016 games. Kelp Gulls , Whiskered Terns and Neotropic Cormorants flew in determined fashion higher above the water, invariably from right to left. How lucky then, that aforementioned bar was on the beach in Rio de Janiero.

Owls 100

Owls Birds Battery 2016 100

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 3, 2010

She has a new book out (which I am reading right now) called One Good Dog. One Good Dog is the story of a man who is down on his luck, and a dog who is all out of chances. I also wanted you to know about the Who’s Your Good Dog Campaign. Who’s Your Good Dog? has transformed your life and share your good dog!

Pit Bulls 100

Pit Bulls Rescue Massachusetts Feral Cats 100

4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 22, 2009

If you have extra dog shirts/sweaters around (or if you would like to buy new ones), send them to The Dog Project. They are collecting sweaters to help dogs in shelters keep warm in the winter months. If dogs have to be in a shelter, at least they will be more comfortable. Get creative! Relish time to just cuddle.

Shelters 100

Shelters Pets Dogs Cooking 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Dad-level bird jokes are right at home at Christmas Bird Count compilation dinners. Originally, a decoy was a closed-ended wickerwork tunnel used to catch grounded wild ducks by driving them into this trap with dogs.

2016 107

2016 Ducks California Hunters 107

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

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. Hare could run a very profitable shell game. See a video on how dogs think like us. By Carl Zimmer { source }.

Wolves 100

Wolves Fox Dogs Puppies 100

Animal Person

JULY 26, 2009

How do they know what's right? And it limits you in that you can't just go anywhere to watch a football game if you plan to eat anything. That would be like brainwashing, and that's just not right. And I don't think vegans believe in God, and I don't trust anyone who doesn't believe in God. Then there's the parenting part.

Vegan 100

Vegan Animal Suffering Rabbits 100

Animal Person

JULY 12, 2009

Nicole at Alec's Story writes: One of my pet peeves, so to speak, is the concept of “unconditional love” as attributed to dogs by humans. But she's also an alpha dog and Charles isn't. When off leash and permitted to do anything, Charles wants to play racing games. Charles wants us to be with him, and Violet simply wants to be.

Wombats 100

Wombats Adoptable Greyhounds Pets 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2012

Jake lives in southern Florida, so he and his friends had to be interested in learning about these birds, which they saw everyday, right? Flying from kitten to hen to dog to cow to car to boat to steam shovel, the baby bird asks the timeless question, “Are you my mother?” There is nothing as deadly as 15 bored 4-year olds.

Birds 219

Birds Owls Switzerland Lions 219

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2006

Even the government has gotten in on the game. Eat right. What counts as eating right? By eating a low-fat vegan diet centered around whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and legumes, you will be eating right. For examples, see here and here. Lose weight. Quit smoking. Exercise more. Get in better shape/become more healthy.

2007 40

2007 Rights Animal Cruelty Cruelty 40

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The domestic dog was once and still often is Canis familiaris as opposed to the wolf, Canis lupus , but the former which is really a subspecies of the latter is now Canis lupus familiaris. They may have also had hunting dogs with them as well. This is the time of year that we rightfully contemplate the noble Turkey.

Turkey 207

Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 207

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

So right now I’m feeling pretty good about Eurasian Collared-doves. Or, to be perfectly honest, playing games on Facebook, but let’s not talk about that. Wicked, right? My ears perk up with every new song, my tail wags (ok, not literally, but darn close) every time I see or hear about a newly-returned migrant.

Montana 137

Montana 2011 New York Bahamas 137

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

Marabous occur throughout tropical and subtropical Africa from Zululand in northern South Africa right up to the arid Sahel region fringing the Sahara Desert, avoiding the closed canopy rainforest zones of central and west Africa.

Africa 244

Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 244

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. The eating of non-grain-eating animals, e.g., fish and wild game, is morally permissible on this view. It is argued that beef cattle and hogs are protein factories in reserve.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Morals Meat Cattle 40