Remove Killing Remove Pets Remove Raised Remove Wolves
article thumbnail

The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

4 The Love Of Animals

Wolves, for example–the probable ancestors of dogs–live in packs that hunt together and have a complex hierarchy. Hare suspects that the evolutionary pressures that turned suspicious wolves into outgoing dogs were similar to the ones that turned combative apes into cooperative humans. Evolving Gifts.

Wolves 100
article thumbnail

From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Soon after I read Gary Steiner’s article, my wife asked me to kill a spider, which I did. We kill so many living creatures when we build a house, construct a road, drive down that road or just walk on a path. But even then if we were to survive we would have to kill some animals in self-defense. Wolves eat sheep.

article thumbnail

Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

10,000 Birds

I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. This is approximated by the size of the animal, but really, this has to be adjusted for depending on modality of killing. Dogs are similarly dispersed across size ranges, with Foxes, Coyotes, and Wolves taking prey across different parts of the size range. Unless we put them there.