Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

But I found that if my goal was for my message to be received, I had to judiciously use accurate terms because there was an intense emotional reaction to them that prevented the message from being received intact, or unadulterated by the emotional baggage. Often it permanently disables or kills.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

And a lioness turns down an easy kill when she comes across a baby oryx. This one-hour special will take a heartwarming look at these curious bonds and explore the emotional complexities behind unlikely animal friends. Can animals really build friendships with other species, people, or even their own prey?

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 3, 2010

When there is a physical or emotional issue within the body, the chakras will become blocked and energy will not flow properly. Reiki works to alleviate the emotional and physical issues within animals and humans, bringing harmony and balance.??Sometimes, Reiki helps balance animals physically, mentally and emotionally.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

There is a rational, and for some people a spiritual, case for being a vegetarian: Killing animals is wrong. The theory that the mind finds inescapably well-formulated is often overwhelmed and overturned by human emotions. Do they suffer any more or less in death? Are they any more or less part of the mysterious unity of life?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2014

I took in a Warrior Queen Red-tailed Hawk hit by car (WQ RTHA HBC) who awed me with her strength and ferocity, but irritated me with her habit of trying to kill me every time I opened her crate. Fried rehabbers become emotional in ways that make perfect sense to us, but not necessarily to anyone else. Here’s an example.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

He writes: There is a rational, and for some people a spiritual, case for being a vegetarian: Killing animals is wrong. When we left off , the New York Times' Roger Cohen had eaten dog while in China, and wasn't thrilled about it emotionally. Logically, he admits it does make perfect sense to eat dogs if you eat pigs and cows.

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Critter News

MARCH 10, 2009

Many people feel very uncomfortable with animal testing, even scientists I think, which is why they often get so emotional and defensive about their research. If you don’t know about something, then LEARN about it.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2012

Their hallmark: They don’t kill. I sensed his ability to hold a lot of information in his head while sorting through his emotions about what’s happening. But there is also this: It’s not unusual for a condor to wait days for a meal, often “notified” first by ravens and golden eagles who are frequently the first to feed.

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Critter News

JUNE 16, 2010

How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder? Like other mammals, they are capable of strong emotions. If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as "human rights"? But chimpanzees can abstract.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 24, 2009

Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, Emotional Exhaustion these are all familiar topics to those of us who spend our time helping animals. One day about 10 years ago, I was in the process of transporting quite a few dogs to a rescue from a high kill shelter. They shared with me that they have the ability to sense our emotions and feelings.

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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.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

It was the same day George Floyd was killed. Reading this chapter, I thought back to the emotional conversations I, a white Jewish woman, had with birding friends back in May 2020, mostly online (remember, it was still the pandemic). I remember that day. It’s powerful writing. Shockingly, not everybody supported Chris.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 17, 2011

It is asking the burger-stuffer to come clean ; to show just why it is that his greed should be indulged in this way, and just where he fits into the scheme of things, that he can presume to kill again and again for the sake of a solitary pleasure that creates and sustains no moral ties.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

We can treasure the cultural and historical bond between animals and domesticated animals only by ignoring the emotional bond. And there is no good reason to breed, confine and kill animals for food unless we believe that economic benefit justifies killing. Scott Plous Middletown, Conn., More and more people do not.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

This one addresses the decreasing number of dogs and cats being experimented on and, without mentioning it, discusses speciesism and our affection for dogs--pet dogs particularly (and especially purebreds)--which leads to our revulsion with the idea of snatching, vivisecting and killing them. It does not make them more or less a "tool."

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2007

The world of animals is a world without judgment, where embarrassment, remorse, guilt, and penitence are unknown, and where human beings can escape from the burden of moral emotions. They put less weight on our “moral emotions,” such as embarrassment, remorse, guilt, and penitence. They’re comparatively undemanding.

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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. One element that seems likely to cause controversy with readers of this website is a remark, in the last chapter, that the authors believe that laws against keeping corvids as pets should be relaxed.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

As a recent convert to vegetarianism, I found that it reinforced my feeling that the eating of living, thinking, emotional creatures is just plain wrong. Since our food is delivered to us on a bun or in big bags of frozen parts, it’s easy to eat it and not think about what it was or how it was killed. To the Editor: Nicholas D.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The 26 essays in When Birds Are Near are all about the real-life and emotional spaces where people overlap with birds. And, in “The Black and White,” Sara Crosby tells the evocative tale of finding a deceased Black-and-white Warbler on Charles Street while walking her dog.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The species was seemingly killed off by feather hunters, but then, after years, reappeared at the site of one of the deserted breeding colonies, Torishima Island in Japan. She is one of the best nature writers I’ve encountered in recent years, able to paint experiences with emotional immediacy.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Third: Science can’t trump emotion (wasn’t that the eternal issue between Kirk and Spock), you’re going to have to keep that in mind when talking with pro feral cat people. .” I argued that the kittens were young enough to be socialized and pointed out that she had pictures of them letting her hold them and pet them.

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