Critter News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

There's a stray dog problem in San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico. But there are animal rights activists in Mexico that will hopefully take notice and try to establish some kind of long-term and humane solution. There are about 70,000 stray dogs roaming San Luis Rio Colorado in northern Mexico. The solution? Sarcasm there of course.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2014

The researchers theorize that these birds might not be strays from the Scandinavian Phalarope population, but instead perhaps originally from North America. In either case, they’ve got a travel history that would leave most humans’ passports in the dust. Photo by Adam Rowlands/HEMEDIA.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2014

In this article, we will touch upon the high diversity of passerines that either winter or migrate through southeastern Florida, the dynamics of bird colonization by both natural range expansions and introductions, and the large number of strays that show up annually from the Caribbean, the north, and the west.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2017

From Terry Tempest William’s 1992 bombshell Refuge to Cheryl Strayed’s 2012 blockbuster Wild (now a major-ish motion picture!) Once he was a black child, and he grew up on a farm in Edgefield County, South Carolina, surrounded by protected woodlands and troubled human history. the hits keep coming.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 11, 2012

These stray dogs are also without vaccinations, making them easy targets for contracting rabies. They also humanely treat sick and injured animals. This month they are trying to raise awareness and funds to help end the suffering of animals in Dharamsala, India – please visit them on Facebook to help them reach their goal.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2013

From Owls in the Family to Wesley the Owl , the narrative in which a human interacts with another species and learns a bit about life along the way has long been a popular and affecting one. The extremely short chapters, four or five paragraphs in length, don’t really allow for the development of more complex themes.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 2, 2008

The hourlong film is an unflinching commentary on the overpopulation of stray dogs in Mexico, who even outnumber us humans in some regions. This sounds like it would be very difficult to watch. It's called "Companions to None (Companeros de Nadie)." You can watch the trailer at [link].

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

The group, founded in 2007, also provides a free, full-time spay and neuter clinic for homeless stray and feral cats, plus low-cost, spay and neuter services for tame pet cats.

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Critter News

MARCH 17, 2009

We've blogged quite a bit here about the poor conditions for stray dogs in Puerto Rico. there to spend some resources to deal with the problem in a humane way. there to spend some resources to deal with the problem in a humane way. Here is a documentary on Youtube narrated by actress Selena Gomez. Here is Island Dog's site.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 25, 2009

Some time ago a neighborhood stray cat came to the yard to have her kittens. So here is a bit of a reminder to please spay and neuter your pets… it’s so sad that these gorgeous kittens won’t know the fun of having a human servant! Sadly, shelters and rescues are full of cats and are already full.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2015

But it wasn’t founded to serve as a refuge for human refugees, but animal ones, specifically elephants. The park was created as much to protect the local communities from marauding elephants with a hatred of dangerous humans and a lack of interest in the differences between nations as it was to protect the elephants.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 16, 2012

We humans often understand things by exploring their relationships. Finches didn’t make it across Wallace’s Line into Australasia until humans helped them along, but they did accomplish at least one remarkable transoceanic voyage on their own. More on that in a moment. And back to finches. But not all.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 14, 2013

My human kept me in an enclosed porch because, let’s face it, I was crawling with fleas and pretty filthy. We dogs are wired by nature to be humans’ companions. After all, dogs have the longest history of co-habitation with humans of any animal. But there’s a special bond between a dog and its human rescuer.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

E.g. I remember trying to enter my local scrubland once, just across the car park behind the last apartment building and there, awaiting me, was a territorial pack of stray dogs barking at an intruder – me. Those bears live in the wild and are not used to humans. How did I know that?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2012

Fortunately, I am talking about Tree Swallows battling for nest boxes at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: if this post were about people I probably would have taken a stray bullet trying to report the story, at least, I would have if people fought over housing like Tree Swallows do! How intense is the competition?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

. … The ordinance would allow Minneapolis residents to establish cat “colonies” where abandoned and wild cats can be fed but also vaccinated, neutered and identified in an effort to humanely cut their population and control disease.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Here is the letter: I’ve just received an urgent report that another city in China is planning a mass cull to slaughter any unregistered dogs, strays, and even registered family dogs that are over 14 inches (35cm) tall. This is truly horrible, and hopefully the IFAW will be able to help stop it with your help.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

If you aren’t careful, you may very well cause a fatal accident to your pet, your neighbor’s pet or a stray. Unlike humans, pets do not regulate their body temperature via sweating—they lose most of their heat through their footpads. All too often pets (especially cats) like to hide underneath cars to seek some warmth.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 17, 2008

Sadly, the situation in Puerto Rico is replicated in countries around the world where hundreds of millions of dogs live as strays, abandoned by the humans they have come to depend on for food, shelter and companionship.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

This is Los Angeles’s premier animal-related fundraising event benefiting the following non-profit rescue organizations: The Rescue Train, Best Friends Animal Society, Animal Alliance, A Dog’s Life Rescue, Stray Cat Alliance, Four-Legged Friends Foundation, and Molly’s Mutts & Meows. 1 Mile non-competitive Kids Fun Run.

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Reddit Animals

APRIL 16, 2024

Anywho, we recently took in a stray cat, are in the process of adopting them. After speaking with someone else who has taken in strays and the vet, they have informed me they may just be gassy adjusting to the food we are feeding them. I have a few questions. I must say they smell HORRIBLE! I am worried this kitten may spray.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

I’d been volunteering at rescues through my young adulthood, and I was training as a cat socializer, teaching terrified felines — the unlucky victims of cruel people — to trust humans again. day, I had come home to a scraggy, skittish stray of my own. The process of taking in a stray isn’t usually instantaneous and straightforward.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

In each instance they start with a striking anecdote — my particular favorite took place on the University of Montana campus, where in 1964 an American Crow learned to call and taunt stray dogs into causing perhaps the most adorable college riots of the decade.

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Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

For Engber, who dispassionately describes procedures most of the time, the "advances" in the medical care of humans are all well worth what he and other vivisectionists do to dogs and other sentient nonhumans. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans. It "guarantees humane treatment?"

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Animal Ethics

MAY 23, 2007

Generalizing from a handful of ignorant vegans to the entire vegan population does a disservice to those of us who have spent years educating ourselves on human nutritional needs and how to meet them on a plant-based diet. It’s appalling that anyone would think that a diet based on a dubious morality would build a human infant.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2018

Of the estimated 500 million cattle in India, only 4% were destined for consumption by humans as meat. The disappearance of vultures has allowed other species such as rat and [stray] dog populations to grow. Oddly, I saw no rats, only a mongoose or two and a few stray dogs.

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Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

what if those were human babies? But if a video must be made (and I realize this video wasn't made in the US, but we have the same issues here) to get people thinking about stray dogs as deserving of a life free of persecution and suffering at the hands of others, what hope is there for cows and other animals we have deemed "food?".

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 26, 2014

But perhaps their human passed away, or maybe they fell on hard times and just couldn’t afford pet care any longer. Sure, there are some shelter pets who sadly have never felt love, or the affection of a human before. They have lived in homes before, they have lived with children, other pets, and life was great! About Hotel For Dogs.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

Like human feet, if they are much colder than normal, your pet may be uncomfortable. If you find a lost or stray pet, please call your local animal control or nearest animal shelter. Consider purchasing a doggie-style sweater or coat to keep your short-haired pooch protected when outside. Keep Them Close. Wipe Those Paws.

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