Critter News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

It's in response to a lawsuit filed by several environmental groups, including The Humane Society of the United States. District Court in Washington, D.C., Tags: Gray Wolf. says the 2007 decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was not supported by the federal Endangered Species Act.

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Animal Person

JULY 15, 2010

In the Washington metro area, we have a BIG deer problem. Or to get struck by an automobile, die slowly, of failing internal organs, and be unfit for human consumption." After all, the goal is a corpse that is fit for human consumption, by the commenter's own admission. There's a lot going on in the above three sentences.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The author is Nick Cooney and he's the Director of The Humane League, an animal advocacy non-profit with offices in Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington DC. Tags: advocacy. It's called "Change Of Heart: What Psychology Can Teach Us About Spreading Social Change." In the author's words.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2008

All driven by humans. But we can't get rid of humans, of course, and we need to punish someone who can't fight back. Judge Michael Mosman’s ruling means Washington, Oregon and Idaho can shoot or remove up to 85 sea lions next year. Mosman denied an attempt by the Humane Society of the United States to stop the killings.

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Critter News

JUNE 5, 2009

Those patterns hint at the ancient origins of human hilarity and suggest that other social species - including apes, dogs and rats - really, truly laugh as well. A prominent researcher in the specialized field of animal laughter, Jaak Panksepp of Washington State University, said it definitely goes farther back than that. "I

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Critter News

JANUARY 5, 2009

“There are people who are saying, ‘This is just ridiculous,’ but that’s not how the general public sees it,” {Washington agricultural correspondent Jerry} Hagstrom says. You may hate to hear about this, but I do think that the animal-raising industries are going to have to reach some compromises with the Humane Society of the U.S.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 1, 2010

For it’s first year the program will premiere in YMCA locations in Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C. – Mars Petcare and Human-Animal Interaction. Tags: events. New York City; Nashville, Tenn.; Chicago; and Portland, Ore. Chicago – The Hastings Lake YMCA, October 23. The YMCA of Silver Spring, October 24.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 11, 2009

which helps foster the therapeutic and service roles of dogs in the development, support, and inspiration they provide to their human companions, announced today that raffle tickets for the Dublin Dog Dream Bike and Sidecar Giveaway are now available online on at www.DublinDogFoundation.org for a minimum donation of five dollars. and abroad.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 30, 2009

which helps foster the therapeutic and service roles of dogs in the development, support, and inspiration they provide to their human companions, successfully completed the 2009 Let Freedom Bark Ride fundraising initiative and exceeded the fundraising goal of $20,000 in an effort to sponsor the life of a service dog for an individual in need.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2013

After three years of observation at a Bald Eagle nest in Washington state, I believe that young birds do, in fact, learn to fly — and they appear to learn much the same way we do. By year three, the adults were practicing the eagle equivalent of human “hover parenting.” It really looked like a game of tag.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 5, 2009

What if consumers have genuinely been paying attention and have realized that animal products aren't that healthy, are an environmental disaster (the way most are produced) and not sustainable and are a blatant, direct signs of the largest and longest injustice in human history?

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Critter News

DECEMBER 21, 2008

This woman said that those scenes didn't really bother her that much, it was the ghost and sexual implications in the story that disturbed her (latter relating to the human characters of course.) Tags: tales from the trenches. Which surprised me. It didn't affect you AT ALL? So, fine, everyone is entitled to their opinion.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

There are are presently thought to be five species of kiwi with a possible sixth extinct species, all of which have suffered varying degrees of range contraction since the arrival of humans. The Bay of Islands is a very popular area for tourists, both those looking for natural history and for human history. Thanks for this great post.

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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. Part III: Pepper Goes to Washington. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

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MARCH 20, 2011

Mail Stop 7060 Washington, D.C. Her writing is based on keen observation of animal and human behavior, and she likes to interweave solid natural history information with larger philosophical themes to challenge and inspire the reader. Write him now: The Honorable Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior Department of the Interior 1849 C.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 6, 2009

broke the news that Chiquita was represented by a powerful Washington law firm, Covington & Burling LLP, and its consultant, McLarty Associates (2). The school is best known for producing Latin American officers who have committed major human rights abuses, including military coups. (5) 1) DemocracyNow! 3) George W.

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