Critter News

JULY 2, 2009

They are wild creatures and their psychology must suffer from these abnormal arrangements. His new trainer? He got too aggressive to live with Jackson's kids. This is not surprising. Chimpanzees, like Travis the chimp who mauled the woman in Connecticut, are not meant to be family pets. Who will benefit from all this?

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Critter News

AUGUST 24, 2010

Armed with new undercover video of four such events, the Humane Society of the United States is pressuring state officials to explicitly outlaw the practice, which the organization says is effectively banned in every other state. Animal rights advocates say it's cruel to the nearly defenseless bears and harms them psychologically.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

an animal can be psychologically traumatized, why in the world do we still wonder if it has any intelligence? They don't know what they are going to do with it because it is so severely traumatized and probably can't be released back to the wild. Here's what I'd like to know.if

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

We received an email about a new book being released by Lantern Books. It's called "Change Of Heart: What Psychology Can Teach Us About Spreading Social Change." 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.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 13, 2009

and counseling to ease off the psychological dependence on food. Why do humans always have to get everything we want and we have to do it at the pain and expense of animals? And by the way, I can tell you the cure for obesity. Diet (eat less!), exercise (walk more!) Another young person indoctrinated by the animal researchers.

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Critter News

APRIL 23, 2009

Preventing cruelty to animals, although an exceedingly worthy goal, simply does not implicate interests of the same magnitude as protecting children from physical and psychological harm," the appeals court said. The last time the court did so was over child pornography. I am incredibly angry at the last statement. That's just BS.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2009

They are not humans and it's not psychologically healthy for them to be treated that way. These families dress their monkeys, feed them at the dinner table and treat them like any other member of the family. I don't care how much these people love their "babies," these are wild animals that should be with their own kind. Remember Travis?

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

The argument from brutalization, however, does not appear to postulate a logical connection between vegetarianism and inhumanity but rather a psychological one. Thus the strong form of the argument seems to assume the truth of the following psychological generalization. Perhaps the argument from brutalization presupposes 2.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ Tiger on the Loose: Can It Happen Here? ” (news article, Dec. An Oxford University study published in the journal Nature found that wide-ranging carnivores like tigers and other big cats “show the most evidence of stress and/or psychological dysfunction in captivity.”

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