4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 8, 2011

Not only is it good for your pet to be at a healthy weight, but you can even enter for a chance to win $1,000,000!! To enter, visit www.petfit.com from January 1 through March 31 to submit a simple essay about your pet’s weight loss. Available nationwide at PetSmart, PETCO, finer pet specialty food stores and veterinary clinics.

Hamburgers 100

Hamburgers United States Pets Pet Population 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

Nestling songbirds fed hamburger and cat food,” wrote Sean O’Brien. I opened the box, and there was a bowl of raw hamburger meat in there for him to eat.” Bottom line: so many of these well-meaning people picked up their information from the internet, from pet supply companies, or from – cringe – even veterinarians.

Squirrels 250

Squirrels Hamburgers Chickens Wildlife Rehabilitation 250

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

We receive nestling owls who have been fed nothing but hamburger, whose bones are so brittle from lack of calcium that they break when they try to stand. A pet cat raising orphaned ducklings! In a perfect world, people would know better. An orphaned fawn who is best friends with the family’s German Shepherd!

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Feral Cats Hamburgers 257

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2012

This is what happens when people choose their pet birds on visual factors alone without taking vocalizations into account. There are other more isolated populations, e.g. in Hamburg, Berlin, Rome, Paris, and Barcelona. Very stupid thing to do.

Germany 244

Germany Netherlands Zoos Geese 244

Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

We encourage kids to gently pet baby lambs, cows, chickens and pigs, but we deny them this loving connection when we serve animals for dinner by surreptitiously calling them chops, hamburger, nuggets and bacon. There is no happy ending for even the most humanely raised animal.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Meat Sheep 40