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Symposium explores psychological impacts of euthanasia, depopulation

AVMA News

Speakers at the AVMA Humane Endings Symposium, held January 26-29 in Chicago, shared their personal experiences with depopulation of cattle and sheep for disease control and euthanasia of pigs after a fire.

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Ingrid Taylar: Bridging the Divide Between Cat and Bird Lovers

10,000 Birds

I’d been volunteering at rescues through my young adulthood, and I was training as a cat socializer, teaching terrified felines — the unlucky victims of cruel people — to trust humans again. All of these afflictions are human-caused and largely preventable. One typical, blue-sky, L.A. I was mortified. And, I would have understood.

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A Hamster’s Story: The making of a novel

4 The Love Of Animals

Like he was the human and she was the hamster. 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. Hamlet’s organs were shutting down – it was the humane thing to do. Ichilles lived three years and Emmie made sure that he was loved. It is his story.

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