4 The Love Of Animals
JULY 14, 2011
Many dogs are rescued out of abusive or traumatic situations, causing them to exhibit a wide variety of emotional and behavioral problems. However, that doesn’t mean they can’t make great companions for the right adoptive family. Juliet and Foxy, a Terrier mix and a Chow Chow/Cocker Spaniel mix, are my rescues.
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 17, 2011
Many animals also display wide-ranging emotions, including joy, happiness, empathy, compassion, grief, and even resentment and embarrassment. It’s not surprising that animals—especially, but not only, mammals—share many emotions with us because we also share brain structures—located in the limbic system—that are the seat of our emotions.
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Reddit Animals
APRIL 1, 2024
So it ended up she had an auto-immune reaction that meant her body was killing off her red blood cells, hence the fainting and bone marrow tests for cancer. Anyway i could go on, but i wont because this isn't about me, its about her.and snails :)).
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 12, 2015
Today I want to talk about how it also damages conservation by, in much the same way as other media does, by reducing issues to pithy statements, devoid of nuance and heavily laden with emotion, and shaping the opinion of millions as it does so. But the story wasn’t really one about conservation.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2023
It was the same day George Floyd was killed. A description of the parenting habits of Emperor Penguins begins the lengthy chapter, “Family Matters,” about Chris’s difficult, intense relationship with his father. I remember that day. It’s powerful writing. Shockingly, not everybody supported Chris.
Animal Person
JUNE 8, 2009
Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper? I addressed this one last week. But not shocked enough.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 15, 2013
They are right, I think, in saying it is perverse that we can kill crows but not coddle them. It is also clear that the authors envision a system where crows are more romping family members, like dogs, and less decorations in a cage like so many avian captives.
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