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Montana Legislature Proposes Horse Slaughter Facility

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It's that if you don't have the funds, and you don't have the feed, and don't have the place to keep them, and they are old, and they are no longer going to work for what you need them for, it's a place for them to go," said Billings Livestock and Horse Sale's Jenn Parker. Maybe then can call it Horse Haven.

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Protecting Your Pets from Pests and Disease

4 The Love Of Animals

This illness is particularly dangerous since it can infect both humans and horses, causing damage to the central nervous system. The disease can attack domestic pets, such as dogs and cats, as well as livestock, such as horses, chickens, and cattle. This illness is another strain of encephalitis that affects horses alone.

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Cow Birds

10,000 Birds

They’re all named for livestock. Tags: names , nomenclature , Terminology , words • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? It didn’t take much imagination to name Cowbirds or Cattle Egrets or Cattle Tyrants , but there’s more fantasy, even more wit, involved in the naming of other bovine birds.

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On Letting Your Emotions Rule the Day

Animal Person

David Scott (D-Ga), who is the chairman of the Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Subcommittee of the House Committee on Agriculture draws a line in the sand regarding the animals we use and how we use them. All we do as vegans is take a reality--the reality of the sentience of cats, dogs, horses, chickens, sheep, cows, etc.

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