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Write to Your Congressional Representatives to Help the Almagordo Chimps

Critter News

Dear Senator Murray, I have read articles in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times about the chimpanzees at Holloman Air Force Base. This is a matter of human compassion to prevent the further suffering of animals that have already served this species in prior experiments.

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Ingrid Taylar: Bridging the Divide Between Cat and Bird Lovers

10,000 Birds

It was Los Angeles, after all, where mileage has no bearing on time, but where time was precious for my little rescue on this crystal morning. Iā€™d been volunteering at rescues through my young adulthood, and I was training as a cat socializer, teaching terrified felines ā€” the unlucky victims of cruel people ā€” to trust humans again.

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Jane Goodall Live

4 The Love Of Animals

Oh how I wish that I could be there myself, but for those of you in the Los Angeles area, take note! During the event, Goodall and Mathews will talk about their experiences in the field together. Angelina Jolie and Jane Goodall photo by Eric Liebowitz. Animal lovers, this is a very special event! Tuesday, September 27.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

10,000 Birds

That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic. Except for the falconer’s jesses and bell, they were to be allowed freedom to pursue life in the wild, life with minimal human contact. The concern possessed him.

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Tom Regan on Utilitarianism

Animal Ethics

can experience pleasure and pain) and because they not only have but can act on their preferences, any view that holds that pleasures or pains, or preference-satisfactions or frustrations matter morally is bound to seem attractive to those in search of the moral basis for the animal rights movement. Because animals are sentient (i.e.,

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Flight to Freedom

4 The Love Of Animals

With these lions there were clear welfare and public safety issues, When dealing with lions there are not only welfare and public safety issues, we are therefore delighted to be working with PAWS who have enormous experience with big cats and a reputation for setting the highest standards in animal care.ā€.

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