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Animal Shelters are Full: How to Save a Dog From Euthanasia in Texas

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It’s Deaf Dog Awareness Week

4 The Love Of Animals

I didn’t know this, but the Dalmatian Club of American mandates euthanasia of all deaf pups. This group is made up of rescues that are trained with American Sign Language and hand commands. They are then trained to become registered therapy dogs. How truly sad.

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Euthanasia and Our Animal Families

Reddit Animals

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Giveaway: Royal Bitch Couture

4 The Love Of Animals

an acronym for “Prevent Euthanasia Through Spaying.&#. Not only do we love Royal Bitch Couture for supporting a great animal cause and trying to reduce the euthanasia rate, but we also love that they are made in the USA! “I’m calling the initiative, HELPING P.E.T.S.,

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Mexican Border Town Offers Tax Exemption for Euthanizing Dogs

Critter News

The town has become so overrun with dogs, that the government began offering a tax exemption of $17 per stray that was offered for euthanasia. That’s one dog for every two inhabitants, according to the BBC.

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Unexpected Farm Animal Deal in Ohio

Critter News

Ted Strickland.The deal calls for Strickland, the Humane Society, the Ohio Farm Bureau and their partners to join forces in favor of tougher laws governing farm animals, including provisions that ban certain crates and cages and the use of strangulation as a form of euthanasia.

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Hope for Hen Welfare

Critter News

Some of the provisions will be implemented almost immediately after enactment, such as those relating to starvation, ammonia levels, and euthanasia, and others after just a few years, including labeling and the requirement that all birds will have to have at least 67 square inches of space per bird.

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Guest Post: Foreclosures Threaten Pets As Well As People

4 The Love Of Animals

And this all leads to the most unfortunate outcome, euthanasia. And limited public funding means that shelters have to rely on public donations to bear the brunt of rising costs for care and housing of these animals. Unfortunately, a recession also means that less people are adopting from or donating to shelters.

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Update on National Meat Association vs. Brown

Critter News

At issue is Section 599f of the California Penal Code, which, among other things, prohibits slaughterhouses from purchasing, receiving, selling, dragging, or pushing non-ambulatory animals, also known as “downers,” and requires immediate euthanasia of such animals.

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Texas Tech Allowed to Withhold Info on Animal Testing

Critter News

From the Avalanche-Journal: The university has purchased cats already scheduled for euthanasia from Odessa Animal Control since the 1980s, a shelter spokesperson, Cpl. PETA was trying to get the information to find out why the university is buying cats and dogs from a West Texas animal shelter for university training or research.

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Dogtown Episode 3 - The Vick Dogs

Critter News

I'm a dues-paying member of both groups but, while I support euthanasia when it is CLEARLY an act of mercy, I come down pretty hard on Best Friends' side here. Rescuing the Vick dogs was a controversial move by Best Friends and some animal groups, most notably PETA, did not agree with it.

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National Audubon Society Caves to the Cat Crazies

10,000 Birds

Feral cats kill birds by the billions in the United States and the only real solution to the problem is removal and euthanasia, along with heavy fines for those caught dumping cats. When one of the leading organizations for bird conservation in the United States caves to the pressure of the crazy cat people that is just disgusting.

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T. Boone Pickens' Wife Proposes Horse Refuge

Critter News

The agency has said the costs of keeping horses in the holding facilities has caused officials to consider euthanasia as a last resort. The bureau now has about the same number of animals in holding facilities as on the range.

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Vile Practices at Tulare County, CA Animal Shelter

Critter News

Cookson were accused of participating in an “off the books” arrangement wherein Harmon and Cookson carried out unauthorized mass euthanasias at the Tulare County, California shelter – reportedly using nonstandard and painful methods – by falsifying records to cover their actions. Arrested in June 2007, Michael J. Sargeant, William R.

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Uncovered Reports Show Three Research Labs Fined for Violations

Critter News

Rockville, MD: A lab assistant reported a hamster running loose inside a walk-in refrigerator and a live hamster was found in a euthanasia bag inside the walk-in freezer. Thanks to Stop Animal Exploitation Now! for finding them. 1) BioReliance Corp.,

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King County Animal Shelters Still in Trouble

Critter News

The vet setback is the latest for King County Animal Care and Control, which has come under fire in the past year for running understaffed, overcapacity shelters with high euthanasia rates.

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Study Shows Shorter Life Spans for Zoo Elephants

Critter News

They say that leads to obesity, atrophied muscles and cardiovascular problems, while the wet concrete they stand on can cause foot disease and lameness, which {Suzanne} Roy {of In Defense of Animals} said is the leading cause of euthanasia.

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Vet-Stem

4 The Love Of Animals

This too is good news for pet owners whose only options previously were either an expensive and invasive surgery or euthanasia. Also, 75 percent of owners said that their dogs had an improved quality of life after receiving the stem cell therapy. Vet-stem also recently announced that they will now be offering a cell culturing service.

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Gymnast Shawn Johnson Put To Sleep After Breaking Leg | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source

Creature Talk

Tags: Animal Cruelty Animal Rights Animal Welfare horses videos euthanasia.

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On Compassionate Bullets

Animal Person

Now, if hunters were in the woods seeking out injured, dying, starving animals, and ending their lives in a way that most would call euthanasia, I might be able to get on board with the compassionate-bullet theory. But that's not what happens.

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4 Things to Consider Before Adopting a Dog

4 The Love Of Animals

Choosing to adopt a dog rather than get one at the pet store (or what some like to refer to as “puppy mill”) is a beautiful thing—essentially you are saving a poor pup from euthanasia and you’re providing a an animal with a good home. But adopting a pet is a huge responsibility and is very similar to adopting a child.

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On Fighting for "Animal Rights"

Animal Person

Fighting to maintain the integrity of the words humane, love, euthanasia or compassion, is also fighting for animals. It would be wonderfully dramatic to be able to say: I'm going to fight for animals rather than for language , but it's not that clear cut. And it usually involves exchanges with non-vegans.

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Book: The Lost Dogs

4 The Love Of Animals

Luckily, almost all of the dogs were spared from euthanasia. This part was very interesting, and I thought it was amazing how they tested and worked with the dogs to finally determine their fate. What was also interesting was that they went into it feeling that if they could save just a few they would be lucky.

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On "Discarded" Greyhounds

Animal Person

The RSPCA believes: " at least 20 greyhounds a day - either puppies which do not make the track, or 'retired' dogs aged three or four - simply 'disappear', presumed killed " Many vets will admit to killing healthy greyhounds – by definition it cannot be classed as euthanasia – for a cut price fee, for fear the dogs will be disposed of in a less humane (..)

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Annual Animal Care Gala in NYC

4 The Love Of Animals

AC&C has implemented numerous programs to ensure that as many animals as possible are placed into supportive environments, and adoptions are at an all time high and the euthanasia rate is at the lowest level in New York City history. To learn more about ongoing Animal Care adoption campaigns please visit www.nycacc.org.

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Race for the Rescues

4 The Love Of Animals

Because of foreclosures, the city shelters are in crisis and flooded with animals – which, in turn, has dramatically increased the euthanasia rate. This means less dogs and cats can be saved. The animals need us now more than ever!”.

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Birds and Bling

10,000 Birds

The vet believed there was no way he could pass it, so the only options were risky, painful, long recovery-time surgery, or euthanasia. Michele rushed him to the vet, where x-rays revealed the anklet had passed through his crop, through his proventriculus, and into his ventriculus.

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Barbaro

Animal Ethics

Barbaro's killing is a case of euthanasia. The word "euthanasia" means good, gentle, or easy ( eu ) death ( thanos ). The paradigm case of euthanasia is where a sentient being is terminally ill, will die soon anyway, and is in great pain. Euthanasia is often called mercy killing, for obvious reasons: Its motive is mercy.

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Ingrid Taylar: Bridging the Divide Between Cat and Bird Lovers

10,000 Birds

The bird was stripped of feathers and so badly battered that euthanasia was probable. A year later, in a new city and at a new wildlife hospital, I got my official volunteer apron and badge. My first intake was … a cat-caught Northern Mockingbird.

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A Hamster’s Story: The making of a novel

4 The Love Of Animals

What I didn’t tell her was that the sleep would occur while he drifted on a cloud to the continent of Euthanasia the following day. Unbeknownst to Emmie’s mom, Emmie had approached me the day before and knowing her mom would ask me to take Hamlet, got me to swear that I would not have him euthanized.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: The euthanasia of more than 1,000 dogs and cats at the main animal shelter in Las Vegas is surely a major tragedy in the sheltering field (news article , Feb. 16), and the rapid spread of diseases at a facility packed with 1,800 animals required swift action to prevent even more suffering and loss of life.

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From the Mailbag

Animal Ethics

Some of our professional Chaplains also provide other services (euthanasia visits, memorial services, congregational sermons, etc.) We are the Interfaith Association of Animal Chaplains. We provide scriptural / spiritual support and free phone counseling to bereaved pet owners.

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On the Freezing of Birds

Animal Person

Note to everyone who works with birds and water fowl: Hypothermia and rapid freezing are not appropriate methods of euthanasia and are not considered to be humane unless the animal is anesthetized prior to freezing. In other words, I may as well have doused him in gasoline and set fire to him.

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