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The Blue House Dog

4 The Love Of Animals

They offered him hand-outs and cared enough about him, not to call Animal Control and risk having him picked up and sent to a shelter where his fate would be doomed. The homeless dog, once called Bones, renamed Blue, who played a “hide and seek game” with Cody, to protect himself and stay alive, ends up at Cody’s side. “I

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Guest Post: Susan Wilson

4 The Love Of Animals

I’m an author, good character names are fair game) joined the family and something rather miraculous happened. My second favorite rescue story is that of Hunter, a beagle-ish dog that my daughter and son-in-law adopted from a shelter in Massachusetts. The work of shelters and breed rescue organizations is vital.

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On SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Would intelligent beings riot over the out come of a soccer game? And perhaps my favorite: "[I]f healthy, homeless humans were rounded up and killed, no one would call the killing facilities 'shelters'" (55). Tags: Books Ethics Language. Smoke, eat, and drink themselves to death?

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Starlings and Eagles

10,000 Birds

The aim of the game was to band raptors, and specifically to band Golden Eagles. It had a little shelter, a box that served as a windbreak and retreat, but this Starling was bold — it kept coming out to stretch its legs and sun itself. And Science requires Sacrifice. Do I sound facetious? I’m not.

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