4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

In fact, it has nothing to do with a dog’s fur. What happens is that the dander is released via fluids or gets embedded in the dog’s fur which is then spread in the air and attached on multi-surfaces when a dog urinates, salivates or sheds. It’s actually the dog’s dander (skin flakes).

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

For example, why is it so hard for our family members and co-workers – many of whom have companion animals that they love – to cut cruelty from their diets and go vegan? "Change Of Heart provides science-based answers to many questions that are hotly debated among animal activists.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Take sodium for example, it’s an important need in our diets, but we all know what can happen to us if we get too much of it! Fats nourish the skin and make it soft, and they help with a luxurious coat and contribute to shiny fur! Have you heard the phrase “a little will do a little good; a lot will do a lot of good”?

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Kittens Puppies Pets Fur 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2011

It’s not fecal material, but parts that are not digestible like fur, bones and the exoskeletons of insects. For example, since eagles and hawks tend to rip their prey apart and have stronger digestive acids, their pellets look like wads of fur. Birds will barf them back up out of their mouths.

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Bats Dissection Owls Minnesota 196

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Knit Your Pet a Sweater—Ok ok, you don’t actually have to knit a sweater from scratch, but dressing your furry friend in warm attire is a great way to keep your pet nice and toasty, especially the smaller and light-fur breeds. Whatever you do you don’t want to shave your pet’s fur—keep it long during the winter.

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Pets Protection Fur SPCA 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2011

For example, there seems to have been dinosaurs that used feathers as their body covering. But bipedalism is a feature shared by many dinosaurs that did not fly, and counts as another example of a trait we link to birds found broadly in many dinosaurs that were bird relatives before birds ever flew.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 16, 2010

Children learn that, for example, Durham shouldn’t be bothered while he eats because he might growl. Be sure to check out Christi’s blog, Life in the Fur Lane to see her musings about life as a mom in a very furry, fun-filled home. Gherkin hisses when she is nervous and doesn’t want to be touched.

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Pets The Humane Society Animal Friendly Cats 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2015

I viewed about a hundred terns on my Catalina trip, for example, but needed to wait till I got hold of a Sibley’s guide to confirm that I was seeing Elegant Terns. Rarer species are also not included, though each main chapter has a subsection on “rarer” species.

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Dolphins Whales Whaling Porpoises 162

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Over 3 million pairs of Antarctic Fur Seals breed on South Georgia, saved from near extinction by fur hunters. Others, my favorites, show the species within the habitat: breaching Humpback Whales, a Reindeer confronting a King Penguin (below), an elevated view of a beach full of breeding Fur Seals.

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Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whales 172

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

For example, they make three different types of tools from the long, barbed leaves of the screw pine tree. I wondered what in the world he’d brought back and discovered the wet ball of fur was a very young bunny. With no prior training they can make hooks from straight pieces of wire to obtain out-of-reach food.

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Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2008

For example: 1. Second, many of the things you can do to stop supporting animal cruelty—like not buying or wearing fur or fur trim—require minimal effort and no expense! Obviously, since not buying and not wearing fur requires minimal effort and no expense, that's a good place to start. Where should you begin?

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Rights Animal Cruelty Vegan Cruelty 40

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2006

For examples, see here and here. For example: 1. Second, many of the things you can do to stop supporting animal cruelty—like not buying or wearing fur—require minimal effort and no expense! Obviously, since not buying and not wearing fur requires minimal effort and no expense, that's a good place to start.

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2007 Rights Animal Cruelty Cruelty 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

Each fly has a name and a ‘recipe’ to follow for its creation, a complicated procedure utilizing a hook, sometimes fur, sometimes wool, but always brightly colored feathers from rare birds. The Flame Bowerbird, for example. Kelson, published in 1895. Mostly adult males.

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Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 102

Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

So, while this fact does not need to concern us, if we are thinking about ethical principles, for example based on rational arguments leading to deontological ethics, that changes when we are talking about how to move society towards this ethical ideal. This observation is so obvious that it does not seem to merit quoting empirical support.

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Psychology Campaign Animal Rights Movement Suffering 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2012

The National Audubon Society tells the story best: Prior to the turn of the century, people engaged in a holiday tradition known as the Christmas “Side Hunt”: They would choose sides and go afield with their guns; whoever brought in the biggest pile of feathered (and furred) quarry won.

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North America Birds America South America 116

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

Let us now give an example of wise conservation of what remains of the gifts of nature.” The Amur Leopard ( Panthera pardus orientalis – above) is just one majestic animal on the Critically Endangered (CR) list with less than 100 individuals in the wild due to hunting for its fur.

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