10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2014

People who want to release birds on the cheap buy doves – usually Ring-necked Doves – from pet stores, and release them themselves. Wildlife rehabilitators constantly receive lost racing pigeons who are starving, riddled with lice, and suffering from coccidia, trichinosis, or worms.

Wildlife Rehabilitation 256

Wildlife Rehabilitation Ethics Virginia Atlanta 256

Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

Well, as it turns out neither a trip to a slaughterhouse nor killing an animal yourself is powerful enough to make people go vegan. Many of us have difficulty with the idea of keeping “pets.” When it comes to pets, the only reasons he considers for keeping pets have to do with the enrichment of the lives of people.

Vegan 100

Vegan Morals Animal Rights Advocacy 100

Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

Minus that role, the term implies, such an animal has no place; if they aren't some human's companion, or their companionship fails to please, they can be abandoned or killed" (8). Often it permanently disables or kills. In their publications, vivisectors virtually never state that they inflicted the harm suffered by their victims.

Animal 100

Animal Vivisection Suffering Emotional 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2013

And so, the foxes and shrikes endemic to the island began to suffer as the greenery went. And so, injunctions were granted and lifted, granted and lifted, over the course of more than a decade; during one busy period in 1982, the official stance on killing the goats changed five times in two months.

Goats 160

Goats Bald Eagle Fox Feral 160

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 20, 2012

In 2008, Scarlett’s state of health has deteriorated; she suffered kidney failure, the heart noise, lymphoma and other diseases. All in all, Karen had to make a dramatic and hard decision of mercy killing to stop the agony of her pet, which happened on October 2008, when Scarlett peacefully passed in Karen’s arms.

Homelessness 100

Homelessness Cats Kittens 2008 100

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 3, 2009

According to information gathered by Best Friends Animal Society , the charity beneficiary of funds raised by ITo, “cities around the country are passing bills to round up and kill family pets, who simply look like the kind of dog who might attack someone.”

Legislation 100

Legislation Breeding Animal Cruelty Pit Bulls 100

4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 24, 2009

your personal life starts to suffer as a result of taking on the animals suffering. you stop having fun because you feel guilty when there are so many animals currently suffering. One day about 10 years ago, I was in the process of transporting quite a few dogs to a rescue from a high kill shelter. Article Source: [link].

Rescue 100

Rescue Compassion Emotional Suffering 100

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper? I addressed this one last week. And for what?

Animal Welfare 100

Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

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.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Vegan Vegetarian 40

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

There are moral reasons to go vegetarian: recognition that it is wrong to contribute to unnecessary animal suffering the injustice of exploiting animals and killing them for no good reason If human have rights, then many nonhuman animals also have rights, and confining and killing these animals for food violates these rights.

Lacto-Ovo 40

Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian Vegan Veal 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Crested Serpent-eagle is not a vulture, but that does not keep me from mentioning a recent Economist article here, “The sudden demise of Indian vultures killed thousands of people” And while this article is behind a paywall, the original research paper is not.

Los Angeles 184

Los Angeles Birds Woodpeckers Owls 184

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

They pointed out the puncture wounds, likely infected with bacteria that could quickly kill. But, we’re facing a world of shrinking biodiversity and depressingly-high bird kill numbers that demand an accounting outside of our self interest. They simply helped me with my bird.

Cats 211

Cats Stray Cat Stray Wildlife Rehabilitation 211

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2013

The Stephen’s Island Wren suffered a fate common to many island species of birds around the world. Tibbles did contribute, but it was a population of feral cats that did the bulk of the killing. Island ecologies develop in fairly closed systems. Often without predators, or at least without land based mammalian predators.

Feral Cats 195

Feral Cats Eggs Cats Feral 195