10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2012

Once upon a time, people and especially children felt free to interact with wild birds in any way that would satisfy their curiousity — watching and learning, yes, but also harassing and chasing, collecting eggs and nests, stealing nestlings as “pets”, and killing birds for amateur taxidermy efforts.

Montana 164

Montana Geese Blackbirds Canada 164

Animal Person

JUNE 2, 2009

Pepper was a beloved family pet. A Dalmatian, stolen and sold for research, she was likely terrified and probably in enormous pain when she was killed, a couple of weeks after she was taken. Was what followed animal protection or pet protection, as pets are the animals who really matter? Stay tuned.

Research 100

Research Biomedical Research Science Animal Protection 100

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

Animal Welfare 100

Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 14, 2011

However, with some patience, training, and most of all love, even dogs with horrific pasts can overcome their emotional obstacles and become healthy, happy pets. We made brushing a weekly ritual, even for wire-haired Juliet, so that the dogs learned that being near our hands and on our laps was a happy experience, not a fearful one.

Emotional 100

Emotional Rescue Dogs Adoptable 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

One of Africa’s truly exhilarating experiences is watching and listening to a honking flock of these massive birds as they appear out of the early morning mists over a wetland, to land nearby and start their wing-flapping and jumping displays. A pair of Hooded Vultures in Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania by Adam Riley.

Endangered Species 184

Endangered Species Species South Africa Morocco 184

4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 24, 2009

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 will have the opportunity find a forever home, experience unconditional love or transition to the Other Side. Following is a telepathic conversation I experienced while transporting dogs to a rescue.

Rescue 100

Rescue Compassion Emotional Suffering 100

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

If it did, the licking often prompts it to vomit up some of that kill for the other members of the pack to share. Horowitz and other scientists are now running experiments to determine what a behavior, like a kiss, really means. Others lashed out and were killed. The kiss dogs give us probably evolved from this inspection.

Wolves 100

Wolves Fox Dogs Puppies 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

In Asia they are even commonly kept as pets! Lions quenching their thirst in Etosha National Park by Adam Riley Observing Lions hunting is a thrilling experience. This sleek, stunningly patterned cat was a formidable hunting subject, and in its cunning sometimes ended up hunting and killing the hunter.

Buffalo 196

Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 196

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

There are moral reasons to go vegetarian: recognition that it is wrong to contribute to unnecessary animal suffering the injustice of exploiting animals and killing them for no good reason If human have rights, then many nonhuman animals also have rights, and confining and killing these animals for food violates these rights.

Lacto-Ovo 40

Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian Vegan Veal 40