10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2014

After scrolling through piles of furious emails regarding a recent blog about Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest , it seemed to me that all of us needed Dr. Phil. The subject was not hunting; it was contest killing. Contest killing – where individuals or teams gun down as many of a single species as they can within a specific time period, with prizes going to the winner(s) – is legal all over the country. What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.

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Critter News

MAY 7, 2012

I had to read this twice before it sunk in. I wonder if he was just threatening to do this for the publicity. Bizarre. An unidentified German actor has been stopped by Berlin’s administrative court, following his announcement that he planned to strangle two puppies with cable wires on stage to protest against the slaughter of sled dogs in Alaska and hunting dogs in Spain, with their death being accompanied by a funeral march music and loud gong.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

A tiger was found dead outside the Kohra forest range of Kaziranga on Saturday, sparking suspicions of revenge killing by angry residents of adjoining villages. Over the past week, tigers have frequently lifted livestock from the villages outside Kaziranga, with a tiger killing a domestic pig in the park's Sildubi area on Saturday itself. It may not be poaching this time though.

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Tigers India Killing 2009 109

Critter News

MARCH 16, 2012

The Federal government has approved the killing of California Sea Lions in the Columbia River, blaming them for killing and eating endangered salmon. Never mind the main reasons for the problems with the salmon: hatcheries, human harvest, hydropower and the destruction of habitat. cull State of Washington salmon california columbia river sea lions

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Sea Lions Lions 2012 Killing 138

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OCTOBER 26, 2010

I realize that the most humane method of treating chickens is to not kill them for food.BUT, as long as there is still a demand for their meat, PETA is advocating "Controlled-Atmosphere Killing" as an improvement over current methods of electric immobilization. Controlled-atmosphere killing is a U.S.

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Chickens 2010 Humane Killing 135

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 28, 2016

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No Kill 2016 Austin Killing 109

Critter News

APRIL 9, 2012

Here's a horrible listing of films and shows that resulted in the abuse or killing of animals, starting with an elephant execution in 1903. Disgusting and stomach-turning. animal cruelty entertainment

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Critter News

APRIL 18, 2009

Wolves have been killing livestock in Oregon, and now they want the authority to kill them.

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Wolves Sheep Oregon Livestock 109

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2014

Some people think it’s just plain fun to kill enormous numbers of animals and pile up their bodies, and when there’s no “bag limit” it’s legal to do so. A hero of the Rip Van Winkle Rod & Gun Club is – no doubt – Bob Aronsohn, who lives in Kansas and in December 2013 celebrated killing his 150,000th crow. One hopes this is the direction in which all killing contests are headed. I am not anti-hunting.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2009

The state government is as crazy about wolf killing as she is. But a US District Court Judge has granted a hearing on stopping the killing to wolf advocates represented by Earthjustice. Montana is another state where wolf killing is allowed. I'm not surprised Sarah Palin's family is from Idaho.

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Idaho Killing 2009 Culling 109

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

There are times when acting in the conservation interest of a species or ecosystem means that the welfare of specific animals is compromised, which is a fancy way of saying that conservationists sometimes have to kill animals for the greater good. Cheetahs would be quite happy with you shooting Lions as Lions are bastards that keep stealing their kills.

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Lions 2013 Killing Hunters 71

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

A new research project using Zebra Finches in semi-wild conditions indicates that for some bird populations a certain aspect of climate change may have a negative effect on the viability of populations by causing increased mortality in a subtle but significant way. The study looks at changes in the range of daily temperature variability.

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2015 Killing Netherlands Zebras 79

Critter News

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

A trainer was killed by a killer whale at SeaWorld. Hopefully they won't take this out on the killer whale for acting like a killer whale. And I don't mean that in a snarky way. It's a tragedy, but these are wild animals.

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Whales Whaling 2010 Killing 109

Critter News

JULY 27, 2011

Interestingly, we just went on a tour of the Canadian Rockies where the wildlife corridors and fences were lauded by the tour guide as a way for wildlife to avoid the roads. Apparently, there's room for improvement. From the Calgary Herald. The second bear to meet its end this year on the Trans-Canada Highway has prompted an animal rights group to call for immediate repairs to a fence line intended to protect wildlife in Banff National Park.

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Bears Canada Killing 2011 116

Critter News

MARCH 19, 2012

A federal government decision to allow a Wyoming tribe to kill two bald eagles for a religious ceremony is a victory for American Indian sovereignty as well as for long-suppressed religious freedoms, the tribe says. Fish and Wildlife Service granted a permit March 9 to the Northern Arapaho Tribe allowing it either to kill or capture and release two bald eagles this year. From the Seattle PI.

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Eagles 2012 Killing Wyoming 109

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

Making bad news worse, officials speculate that the Whooping Cranes likely weren’t killed by hunters, but instead by thrill-seekers. It’s deja vu all over again , sadly. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced the death of two Whooping Cranes in Hopkins County, Kentucky. The mated pair was passing through the area last fall as part of Operation Migration , an effort to restore a migrating population of the birds to the eastern United States.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Portland judge said Wednesday the Northwest states can kill hungry sea lions on the Columbia River. Mosman denied an attempt by the Humane Society of the United States to stop the killings. This is pretty frustrating. The major threats to salmon are the 4 'H's: habitat, hatcheries, hydro(power) and harvest. 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. Let's pick the sea lions!

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Sea Lions Lions 2008 Killing 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2011

If you don’t you are helping kill birds. Hey, fishermen (and fisherwomen)! Please, please, please properly dispose of your fishing line, hooks, lures, and sinkers. The New York Times has a good article on this menace to the avian world today. Asides

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Killing 2011 New York Times New York 54

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Nearby, the Karas River is anything but a river – in this section, it is a water body that was killed by cutting off its curves, covering banks with rocks and concrete and forcing the former river to flow in the straight line. Half past six, barely one degree Celsius, but the snow is melting fast. East, down the Danube we go, to the Labudovo Okno Ramsar site (Serbian for “swan lake”).

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Critter News

MARCH 2, 2009

The National No-Kill Conference scheduled for May 2-3 in Washington, DC is ALREADY sold out. Amazing.

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No Kill DC Killing 2009 100

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Animal rights group Compassion Over Killing was the first to uncover the alleged systematic slaughter of healthy dairy cows in California. The cooperatives got together and instituted what we'll call a killing program; they retired cows," he said. If the dairy companies were doing this, well, that's cold! Excerpted from the Seattle P-I. A Seattle law firm is taking on dairies, claiming that a price-fixing scheme has consumers paying too much for milk.

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Cows 2011 Killing Seattle 116

Critter News

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Here is a good commercial by Ashley Judd for Defenders of Wildlife on aerial wolf killing in Alaska.

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Defenders Of Wildlife Killing Alaska 2009 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2017

What is killing them? Yet, what is killing the birds of Lake Karla? There should be thousands of birds at this time of the year, Dimitris Michalakis from the Karla Lake management authority told me. In early August this year, I saw 77 species here (69 on the lake, plus 8 more in the surrounding areas) but barely more than a thousand individuals.

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Greece 2017 Killing Pelicans 70

Critter News

JULY 16, 2009

Good riddance. Nuff said.

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Killing 2009 Tagged Animal Dogs 100

4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

After Kyla Duffy’s first Don’t Kill Bill performance at Blogpaws in September, the Blogosphere was abuzz with videos and reviews. Through multimedia storytelling and aerial acrobatics set to Milano’s music, Don’t Kill Bill raises awareness about puppy mills and encourages people to get involved with rescue organizations.

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Killing Puppy Mills 2011 Rescue 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Sad news out of Louisiana. Maybe we shouldn’t encourage people to shoot any cranes? Hat-tip to Julie. Asides

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Killing Louisiana 2011 76

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 19, 2013

Here is an essay by law professor Gary Francione

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Laws Killing 2013 Animal 40

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2016

Some estimates suggested that something like 28,000 birds would be killed per year in this plant. Also, cats kill many more per year. Far more birds are killed running into windows. But I never like the argument that “my horrible killing machine kills far fewer (birds/people/whatever) that existing horrible killing machines, so no big deal, right?” ” The right thing to do is to figure out how to kill fewer birds.

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2016 Killing Psychology California 64

Critter News

DECEMBER 15, 2009

As a hamster lover who just adopted a new one today (still unnamed), I find this incident particularly reprehensible. Thanks to animalblog.co.uk for the story.

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Hamsters Killing 2009 Adoptable 109

Critter News

JUNE 14, 2010

From the Daily Interlake. A mountain goat study in Glacier National Park has been suspended following the deaths of two goats after they were shot with tranquilizer darts. The University of Montana study, aimed at exploring the effects of climate change on mountain goats, got under way this month with preliminary field work in the Many Glacier Valley.

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Mountain Goats Goats 2010 Killing 100

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Sadly, though, another ranger in the Congolese Wildlife Authority was killed by rebel guns. Six thousand people (over 1,000 Congolese soldiers with their families) have left Virunga National Forest where so many of the remaining mountain gorillas live. This development is the result of an agreement between the army and the Congolese Wildlife Authority. It's great news because it takes stress off the habitat and the species.

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2008 Killing Wildlife Family 100

Critter News

APRIL 1, 2009

He asked whether cows, chickens, sheep and some of the other animals that we eat are usually treated and killed in a humane manner. The meat industry will say yes, of course, all animals are treated and killed humanely. The eventual kill is quick, clean, and painless. Factory farming is not conducive to quick, clean, and painless kills. Andrew from Good Honest Dollar had an excellent question.

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Farm Animal Farmed Animals Farming 2009 135

Critter News

MAY 16, 2010

It's just weird how many birds are being killed in England, Scotland and Ireland. May 2010. A horrific total of 6 eagles, 10 buzzards, 3 red kites, a Peregrine falcon and a sparrowhawk have all been poisoned in recent weeks across Ireland, England and Scotland. And these are just the ones that we know about and have been discovered.

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Ireland 2010 Killing Falcons 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Hey, hunters! I don’t care how many duck stamps you buy, if you are still hunting with lead you are not a conservationist. End of story. Asides

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Killing Hunters 2011 Hunting 62

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

I don't know if this guy working in an animal lab has anything to do with the crime he is accused of committing. But, if he's guilty of such a horrible and violent crime, it makes me wonder how he treated his animal subjects when no one was around. I guess we'll see what happens next.

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Killing 2009 Animal Medical Research 100

Critter News

JULY 12, 2009

Of 679 whales reported to have been killed during the 2008-2009 whale hunt in Antarctica, 304 were female. The Japanese government's "Cruise Report" gives gruesome details on the foetuses killed. Leave it to the Japanese. Always classy. From Wildlife Extra. Four of the female whales were lactating, and 192 were pregnant at the time of death. The four lactating females would each have had a dependent calf that would inevitably have starved to death.

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Whales Whaling 2009 Killing 100

Critter News

JULY 10, 2009

I'm not a fan of zoos on principle. But I know there are good zoos and bad zoos. Unfortunately I think there are way more bad zoos than good ones. But even for a bad zoo, this is awful. The Franklin Park Zoo, a Boston institution that has drawn generations of city and suburban families, might be forced to close its doors and possibly euthanize some of its animals as a result of the deep budget cuts imposed by Governor Deval Patrick, zoo officials said Friday.

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Boston Zoos Killing 2009 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2012

Kill the gulls. Gulls in Argentina have learned to land on Southern Right Whales as the whales come to the surface to breathe. The gulls then peck at the whales’ backs, causing wounds from which the gulls feed. The solution? There has to be a better way to deal with this, no? Asides

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Whales Whaling Argentina Wounded 56

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2014

I had no luck finding any “good” geese or the blackbird, but I was fortunate enough to come upon a Cooper’s Hawk that had found a very big meal to enjoy, a road-killed Canada Goose.

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2014 Canada Killing Buffalo 76

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2012

Then he captured the injured bird, according to police, and killed it. After killing the bird, police said, Patterson stuffed its carcass inside a plastic trash bag and put it in a large bin at Keystone Mobile Home Park. Jere Martin Patterson Jr. of Largo, Florida, is charged with animal cruelty. Patterson shot the bird multiple times with a BB gun, police said. The egret suffered “multiple fractures to the wing and neck area,” the report said.

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Florida Killing 2012 Animal Cruelty 58

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Though he destroyed more than 1,000 nests worth of chicks and eggs of the American White Pelican nearly obliterating a colony on land he rented, a guilty plea by Minnesota farmer Craig Staloch means that he faces, at most, six months in jail. Justice? Asides

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Pelicans Killing Minnesota 2011 77

Critter News

OCTOBER 15, 2009

A 27-year-old man who attacked his ex-girlfriend and killed her pet fish has been sentenced to two years probation and a psychological evaluation. I'm posting the whole article because it's so short. Another example of how animals (even goldfish!) become victims of domestic violence. I know some people may think it's just a goldfish and this punishment is too much, but he wasn't just stabbing the goldfish, he was symbolically stabbing his girlfriend.

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2009 Killing Portland Psychology 109

Animal Person

MAY 14, 2009

In other words, it's so tragic that elephants are in mortal danger that you should kill cows to help protect the imperiled elephants? While reading a blurb about the much-anticipated Babycakes cookbook at Forbes.com (gluten-free, vegan baked goods galore. Here 's the book.) my eye caught the "Christian Louboutin Limited-Edition Sandals $895" and I couldn't resist clicking. And there, my friends, was perhaps the ugliest pink shoe I have ever seen.

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