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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: While businesses that rent dogs may be well intentioned, they’re unlikely to benefit the overall welfare of pets, and may actually do harm to the individual dogs they “rent” (“ For a Temporary Best-Friend Fix, Rent a Dog (Kibble Included) for a Day ,” news article, March 30).

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On Food for the Soul

Animal Person

The New York Times ' Nicholas D. Essentially, industrialized farming=soulless, small family farm=soulful. Kristof frustrates me. His passion and compassion for humans is immense, but he appears to have some kind of mental block with nonhuman animals.

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Welcome Home Mama & Boris: How a Sister’s Love Saved a Fallen Soldiers Beloved Dogs

4 The Love Of Animals

Starting with Casey and Arrow, our keepers in the woods, our family would keep cats and dogs. death things—on their minds, and rescuing animals just isn’t a priority. We both feel that even though we’ve never met these dogs, they’re ours, too; an extension of our family, someone to keep Peter smiling. Authors Bios.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

10,000 Birds

Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. Or These Blasts From The Past What’s In A Name?

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The Warbler, the Birder, and the Bivalve

10,000 Birds

It was a beautiful April day, and the park—part salt marsh preserve and part recreational—was crowded with families celebrating the holiday week. And, Eric saying something about rescuing a bird! And, then I saw Eric scrambling down the rocks.