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Keeping your pet healthy is very essential for the Owner

4 The Love Of Animals

You need to understand that your pet is like a member of your family and thus, you cannot afford to ignore it. Like humans, if your pet is healthy, it suffers from fewer diseases. You can buy shampoos and soap for your pet to keep away harmful flees you can visit vet medic frontline products for more information these products.

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On "Knockout Animals"

Animal Person

Now, any medication we take and surgical procedures we undergo also have a long line of breeding, enslavement, torture and killing of sentient nonhumans leading up to them, so objecting to "knockout animals" on those grounds is to stand on somewhat thin ice. What about being torn from your family? What about boredom and frustration?

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

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. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper? I addressed this one last week. And for what?

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Groups like the American Veterinary Medical Association support these modern egg-laying housing systems. The new law will cost American family farmers, and ultimately California consumers, hundreds of millions of dollars. Yet there is no scientific proof that the requirement will improve chicken well-being or food safety.

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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

10,000 Birds

I come from a family where the worse the situation, the faster and more furiously the wisecracks fly, so I suppose I’m hardwired to look for humor. Occasionally I’d drink way too much vodka and write my long-suffering agent long diatribes with the subject line SHALL I TELL YOU HOW MUCH I HATE BEING A WRITER??? The book is darkly funny.

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When birds attack!

10,000 Birds

I particularly enjoyed the story involving the Satyr Tragophan , not because I enjoy painful stories of high medical bills so much as if you are going to come a cropper of a bird it may as well be a good looking one (as with birding with life in general really). A young bird contemplates a future of attacking humans in a funny field.