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? Tags: advocacy. In the author's words. 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

MAY 24, 2009

Tags: events. Precious lives will be saved and communities transformed during this incredible week. 1st Annual Washington, DC Week for the Animals will build new relationships for the animals and people in a history-making manner.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

And more important is that those storytellers include people who ran small, family operations that animal welfare advocates would not have a problem with. Tags: Activism Ethics Film. The storytellers are (with two exceptions) people whose livelihoods came from using animals. For all of us.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

In spite of this New Zealand does have an iconic family of birds that has served as an emblem for the country for over a century, the kiwi. One such guided walk departs nightly from Wellington’s Karori Sanctuary (or Zealandia), another runs from the lodge on the end of Kapiti.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 10, 2010

I'm not one of those people who thinks family is composed of only humans or humans who are biologically related. The idea of family is currently being used by the dairy industry in a series of commercials with the tag line: "99% of dairy farms are family owned." Ninety-nine percent of dairy farms are family owned.

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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. (I Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. I addressed this one last week.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 23, 2014

Have a tag made with your pet’s name, your destination address, and your cell phone number, so that you can easily be contacted should your pet become lost during the move. Designate one family member to be responsible for your pet. Provide your pet a safe and quiet sanctuary while the movers shuffle in and out of your house.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Have a tag made with your pet’s name, your destination address, and your cell phone number, so that you can easily be contacted should your pet become lost during the move. Designate one family member to be responsible for your pet. Provide your pet a safe and quiet sanctuary while the movers shuffle in and out of your house.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

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. 18 Responses to “Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?!

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 12, 2009

I’m the pastor of Pilgrim Congregational Church in North Weymouth, Massachusetts, and my parishioners are my second family. I looked out at the half-empty sanctuary one Sunday and thought, Lord, what can I do to get people as excited as I am about coming to church? Tags: guest post. I look out at my regulars.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Hint for your letter: Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has just returned from Nebraska’s Lillian Annette Rowe Sanctuary in Kearney, where he fell silent, entranced by the spectacle of tens of thousands of sandhill cranes rising from the braided shallows of the Platte. In the only state in the Central Flyway that protects cranes from hunting.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

11 Responses to “Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of March 2011)&# Duncan Mar 14th, 2011 at 2:33 am Takahe in Karori Sanctuary! I always choose a target bird for my trips to Florida, which are mainly to visit with family, but I never ever dreamed that one of my FL Life Birds would be a MacGillivray’s. Get yours today!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

Long-tailed Duck by Mike Bergin Tags: best bird , weekend • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! I’ve seen them a few times before in Wellington but this was my first time in the sanctuary itself.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 3, 2014

Some of these lost animals will eventually be reunited with their families, but others will sadly be injured or killed in traffic or remain unclaimed in shelters. Ensure that pets are microchipped and wear current identification tags, just in case they accidentally get loose.

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