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New Arkansas vet tech legislation poses risks to veterinary patients, clients, and practices

AVMA News

Another bill still under consideration would dilute the educational background required for veterinary technicians to qualify for licensure. The Arkansas state legislature recently adopted a law that will expand veterinary technician specialists’ (VTS) scope of practice.

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CVTEA proposes changes to accreditation manual

AVMA News

3-6, 2022, meeting, the AVMA Committee on Veterinary Technician Education and Activities made changes to the accreditation policy manual, asked for public comments regarding accreditation standards, and announced four technician programs that are closing in 2023. At its Nov.

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Enjoy Helping Animals? Consider an Education in Zoology

4 The Love Of Animals

Working as educators in sanctuaries, aquariums and other such venues. Here’s a quick look at some of those tasks: As a wildlife educator you may:• Live and work at a particular site while you study and research animal behavior• Write informational materials such as brochures and pamphlets• Prepare and implement displays. CONCLUSION.

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"Educate, Investigate, Liberate"

Animal Person

He recently wrote me: We are an abolitionist group and our approach is "Educate, Investigate & Liberate". You may know Jose Valle of the International Organization for the Abolition of Animal Slavery, AnimalEquality.

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The Best in Vegan Education

Animal Person

Encourage others to go vegan by educating them about the issues, and particularly about why we should not accept alternatives to eating animals that include eating animals (i.e., To my knowledge, there is currently no opportunity like this for vegan education. if they are "farmed" or slaughtered in a certain way). (As

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An Educational Mixed Flock

10,000 Birds

I was upstate again this past weekend, collecting Desi from his week with his grandparents, and took a couple of hours early Sunday morning to visit my favorite Saugerties birding spot, the Great Vly. As is to be expected in late August there were many young birds around getting the hang of living life on their own.

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Please sign petition for less celebrities and more education on shark week!

Reddit Animals

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National Bring Your Cat to the Vet Day #Cat2VetDay

4 The Love Of Animals

Saturday, August 22, is “National Bring Your Cat to the Vet Day” (#Cat2VetDay) and the American Association of Feline Practitioners (AAFP) is using this as an opportunity to educate cat owners on the importance of routine check-ups.

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On Mixing Bowl and Vegan Education

Animal Person

From today's Publisher's Weekly : In January, Meredith Corporation quietly launched Mixing Bowl , a social networking site about cooking. Emphasizing user-generated content, the site invites home cooks to exchange recipes, share photos, participate in contests and post messages.

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Baby Bird Identification: A North American Guide–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

An impressive combination of research and artwork, combined with a pragmatic organization aimed towards quick identification, and education, Baby Bird Identification extends the frontiers of bird identification guides and is an important contribution to wildlife rehabilitation literature.

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Responsible Birding in Colombia with Jaguarundi Travel

10,000 Birds

I developed a new idea of a sustainable tourism company which rather than complaining about unsustainable practices in the industry, could promote education and research in the field, contributing positively to the protection and conservation of the cultural and biological diversity in Colombia.

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Cat People VS Dog People

4 The Love Of Animals

“It’s interesting to learn how different cat and dog owners can be when choosing, and making decisions for, their pets,” said Dr. Brent Mayabb, veterinarian and manager of education and development at Royal Canin.

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"Steven Busulwa, an animal keeper, runs away from a charging rhino at the Uganda Wildlife Conservation Education Center (UWEC) on 20 April 2020 in Uganda. Photo credit: Abubaker Lubowa / Reuters.

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What’s Up with the ABA?

10,000 Birds

The ABA’s education programs promote birding skills, ornithological knowledge, and the development of a conservation ethic. The ABA encourages birders to apply their skills to help conserve birds and their habitats, and we represent the interests of birders in planning and legislative arenas.”.

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6th Annual Pets Add Life Children’s Poetry Contest

4 The Love Of Animals

In addition, the six winning students’ classrooms will each receive a $1,000 scholarship to spend on pet-related education. One student from each grade level (6 total) nationwide will win a $250 gift certificate for pet products, and a “by-line” in a nationally circulated publication or online outline.

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Planet Dinosaur (giveaway)

4 The Love Of Animals

It is pretty amazing, and educational as well as entertaining. We were very excited when we were contacted about BBC’s Planet Dinosaur ! The series will introduce you to all kinds of dinosaurs through the use of computer animation.

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Busch Gardens’ Baby Cheetah Gets a New Puppy Pal

4 The Love Of Animals

Eventually, the pair will live together and even travel together, helping the park’s education team teaching the public about the plight of cheetahs in the wild and the importance of Busch Gardens’ conservation efforts. The two were first introduced over the weekend and have been spending supervised play times together each day.

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Mike Bergin on Nature’s Archive Podcast

10,000 Birds

Some of you know that I’m an active podcaster, churning out two episodes a week on testing, admissions, learning, and education on the Tests and the Rest podcast. But as much as I love hosting, I also enjoy being a podcast guest–especially when the topic is birding!

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A Survey of U.S. Birders

10,000 Birds

The demographics of birders were unsurprising: overwhelmingly white and well-educated. Respondents answered a series of sociodemographic questions regarding race, ethnicity, gender, age, education, profession, rural land ownership, urban/rural residence, urban/rural upbringing, income, and state of residence.

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Pet Care Education

Animal Ethics

Here is a website for your consideration. I have added it to the blogroll.

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Rocky & Bella, Inc. earns National Animal Supplement Quality Seal

4 The Love Of Animals

The natural, whole-food pet supplement was formulated by Dr. Patricia Jordan, a naturopathic veterinarian with more than 25 years of experience with an education in both conventional and holistic veterinary medicine. Dr. Jordan said that most pet foods are highly processed and lack vital nutrients pets need to thrive.

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The Warbler Brewery: Canopy 2 Double India Pale Ale

10,000 Birds

Birds and Booze News: Imperial Oak Brewing of Willow Springs, Illinois has collaborated with the Chicago Ornithological Society for a second year to release a Piping Plover Pale Ale , with proceeds of its sales going to conservation and education efforts by the Society.

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Costa Rica on a relaxed birding pace

10,000 Birds

– the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Centre in Turrialba. It did go a bit slower than I was hoping for, however, I came to Costa Rica with 957, and started to collect my birds like an Acorn Woodpecker collects its nuts. More about it in the weeks to come. Cover photo : C.A.T.I.E.

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A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World’s Most Misunderstood Bird: A Book Review by a Pigeon Cynic

10,000 Birds

She is a scientific artist, naturalist and educator for the non-scientific majority, creator of Bird and Moon , a web comic made up of adorable images and witty nuggets of scientific facts, weird and common. The humor is well-integrated into the text and never distracts from our education, it just makes it fun. It isn’t.

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Urban Resource Institute and Purina Unveil the Purina Play Haven

4 The Love Of Animals

As part of its sponsorship of URIPALS, in October 2013 Purina also donated much-needed welcome kits tailored to cats —with food, toys, crates and other pet supplies—and educational materials designed to guide families entering URI’s largest domestic violence shelter in best practices for caring for their pets.

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Can Nature Take Care of Itself?

10,000 Birds

This blog was written by Marge Gibson, co-founder of Raptor Education Group, Inc. Ironically, the time when a person first finds and brings in or reports an injured bird is the ideal time for education, potentially turning that person into one who appreciates wildlife for life.

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Organizations Putting Animals First

4 The Love Of Animals

From medical assistance to fundraising, education and adoption events, PAC 911 does all it can to improve the situation of animals in its area. Author Bio: Amanda Watson is an experienced freelancer blogger who covers web-based businesses and higher education. PAC 911: Phoenix Animal Care Coalition. 48@gmail.com.

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Exploring eBird Mobile Tracks

10,000 Birds

The refuge is supported by an active non-profit ( Friends of Tualatin River NWR ) and it has an busy educational calendar. The refuge is a popular birding location , and it has 229 species observed and nearly 8,000 checklists submitted. I always find it interesting to get a bird’s eye view, as the broader picture is lost on the land-bound.

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Check out Birding Experiences in Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

On my tours, I also do my best to make sure guests have fun and educational experiences, and that they meet their goals whether they are new to birding in the tropics, want to make their life-list grow, or have target species. The post Check out Birding Experiences in Costa Rica appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Can a NFL player out run a cheetah?

4 The Love Of Animals

This global initiative actively supports on-the-ground conservation projects and education to help stem and eventually reverse the rapid disappearance of big cat populations. For more information on BIG CAT WEEK, visit www.natgeowild.com/bigcatweek or follow us on twitter @NGC_PR.

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Marchesi Biscardo – Corvina della Provincia di Verona (2017)

10,000 Birds

Even the United States Forest Service got in on the act with this image that was apparently created as educational material for children (though I don’t envision any crows or ravens supplanting Smokey Bear in the marketing department for that agency).

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CHIMPANZEE Challenge Fact #5

4 The Love Of Animals

These facilities are dedicated to excellence in animal care, conservation, education and science and meet the highest standards in animal health, husbandry and welfare. Currently 269 chimpanzees live in 34 United States zoos that are accredited with the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). See CHIMPANZEE, Save Chimpanzees!

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Unlikely Healer Walks on Three Paws

4 The Love Of Animals

The Just Me Project, the educational and healing arm of Henry’s World, provides education and healing to people of all ages and backgrounds. In Henry’s hometown, Julian Elementary School was 1 of only thirteen in the nation to win a 2010 National School of Character award for promoting character education.

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Cute of the day: Baby Aardvark!

4 The Love Of Animals

He will be raised in Jambo Junction – located in the Nairobi area of the park – and will become one of the park’s educational Animal Ambassadors. They are solitary by nature, only Busch Gardens is home to a male and female, with the cub making three.

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Blind Dog Rescue Alliance

4 The Love Of Animals

They help through rescuing dogs in shelters, assisting blind dog owners, and educating the public about these wonderful dogs. The Blind Dog Rescue Alliance is a small group of volunteers in the United States and portions of Canada dedicated to helping blind and visually impaired dogs.

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Hornbills of South Africa

10,000 Birds

Well-educated Crowned Hornbills also come if you shout for Lophoceros alboterminatus (=white-ended), the latter hinting at the little white bit at the tip of the tail feathers (somehow, calling the bird after a very obvious characteristic would presumably be regarded as cheating among professional ornithologists).

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Humane Society University to Offer Courses in Fall 2009

Critter News

Further advancing its leadership in human-animal studies, Humane Society University, an affiliate of The Humane Society of the United States, announced today that it has received a license as a higher education degree-granting institution by the District of Columbia Education Licensure Commission.

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A Random Diabolical Quiz

10,000 Birds

I think that there is more than enough of the bird in this photo to make an educated guess. If you have taken the time to read this and you don’t guess you will trip over your own feet and fall down and smash your binoculars. So you better put your best guess in the comments! DIABOLICAL!!!

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A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

There, a conservation campaign led by Naga conservation activist Bano Haralu, based on community education and the promise of economic retooling, has successfully halted the massive slaughter of the hundreds of thousands of Amur Falcons who gather at the Doyang Reservoir. Still–it’s a lot of material to take in.

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Scooter the Penguin

4 The Love Of Animals

has helped us to educate young Americans about the importance of saving wildlife and wild places, while providing direct support for our conservation programs.” What name did the kids pick for the super cool dude? Our partnership with Burger King Corp.

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Birding Shanghai in December 2022

10,000 Birds

Inequality in greenfinch society is partly due to assortative mating – cool/attractive/rich/educated male greenfinches preferably mate with cool/attractive/rich/educated female greenfinches. The site birdstudies.net has a nice cute illustration of the Grey-capped Greenfinch. As scientists have found.

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Happy Bunnies!

4 The Love Of Animals

The national event happened this May and offered free health checks and education events to help owners get a more detailed understanding of what their pet needs. This year also marks the first time the RSPCA has been an official partner of Rabbit Awareness Week run by Burgess Pet Care.

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Cause an Uproar

4 The Love Of Animals

To address this critical situation, the National Geographic Society and Explorers-in-Residence Dereck and Beverly Joubert, have launched the Big Cats Initiative, a comprehensive program that supports on-the-ground conservation projects, education, and economic incentive efforts and a global public-awareness campaign.