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On Project Treadstone and Welfare, OED-Style

Animal Person

Project Treadstone If anyone in Palm Beach County wants to get involved in the Trap/Neuter/Return (TNR) of feral cats, now is the time, as the county's Spay Shuttle is back in business (but for a whopping $40/cat rather than the original $15), and Pahokee ($25/cat) is open as well. worldes welfare and my goddesse. 1718 Free-thinker No.

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The Parable of the Goat Mites

10,000 Birds

And so, most had been neutered, adopted out to soft-hearted landowners as odd pets, conversation pieces. And so, it was not until April 1991 that the last goat on San Clemente was shot, the final wary herds done in by grad students with sniper rifles and tame Judas goats with radio collars.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. People would often express surprise that I, someone that cared about wildlife conservation, would eat meat.