Ohio VMA – Feb. 16-18, 2023
AVMA News
MARCH 15, 2023
The Ohio VMA held its Midwest Veterinary Conference from February 16-18 in Columbus. The OVMA presented awards and seated new officials.
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AVMA News
MARCH 15, 2023
The Ohio VMA held its Midwest Veterinary Conference from February 16-18 in Columbus. The OVMA presented awards and seated new officials.
AVMA News
MARCH 20, 2023
Livestock, pets, and wildlife are in little danger of being harmed by the hazardous materials spilled during the train derailment in early February in East Palestine, Ohio, the state veterinarian said.
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AVMA News
MAY 29, 2023
Danielle Johnson is the new executive director of the American Veterinary Medical Foundation (AVMF), the AVMA’s charitable arm. She comes to the Foundation with more than 20 years of fundraising experience.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
By the time you read this post I will still be in New York but I’ll be looking forward to leaving for the 2011 Midwest Birding Symposium in Lakeside, Ohio. But Ohio worries me. PRO – The American Federation of Labor was founded in Columbus, Ohio in December of 1886. Ohio should stick with amateur sports!
Critter News
APRIL 10, 2011
Despite last year’s agreement with agribusiness interests in Ohio to ban and phase out certain cruel factory farming practices, the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board (OLCSB) voted in favor of veal crate confinement. From the Farm Sanctuary. This couldn’t have been done without you. Together, we are making a difference!
Critter News
JULY 3, 2010
Ted Strickland.The deal calls for Strickland, the Humane Society, the Ohio Farm Bureau and their partners to join forces in favor of tougher laws governing farm animals, including provisions that ban certain crates and cages and the use of strangulation as a form of euthanasia. Tags: ohio humane society farm animal welfare.
Critter News
JULY 4, 2010
Yesterday, I raised the issue that some may think the Humane Society copped out by making a deal with Ohio agriculture and NOT bringing new animal welfare regulations to the ballot. Well, it looks like, on the other side, big agriculture and others of that ilk feel like Ohio ag itself made a deal with the devil by entering this agreement.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
I was somewhere around Pittsburgh on the edge of Ohio when the boredom began to kick in. Here, then, is my journey across Ohio in six pictures. entering Ohio on I-80 driving into the sun on I-80 Turkey Vulture! flock of blackbirds making sure I lost the police after the high speed chase I made it!
Critter News
OCTOBER 31, 2009
Issue 2 in Ohio would create 13-member state board to oversee the care of farm animals in the State. Tags: ohio farm animal welfare us agribusiness. And, of course, this board would be dominated by big ag's people, so I think they're right. Would such a bill lead to jurisdiction over puppy mill breeders as well?
10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2023
Pelee National Park – Ohio Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge – Texas These locations offer a variety of habitats including marshes, wetlands, forests, coastal areas, and deserts, attracting numerous bird species throughout the year.
Critter News
OCTOBER 20, 2011
The owner released them and killed himself. Now, 48 of the 56 animals have been put down. These animals include endangered species. What was he thinking?
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 16, 2022
Sometimes, in those rough and primitive days, their luck was good: as Lucy wrote about their flatboat trip down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, past Wheeling and Cincinnati, to Louisville, “the seven hundred miles by water was performed without much fatigue though not without some disagreeables.”
Reddit Animals
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 5, 2023
Our daughter flew back days later, and I caught up with my wife two weeks later in Ohio.) The third of these trips started with me driving 3+ hours west to the Guadalajara airport,so my wife and grown daughter could fly north from there.
4 The Love Of Animals
JULY 3, 2012
Danny and Ben were rescued on April 27 by the Ohio SPCA after receiving a complaint about malnourished horses. They were brought to the Ohio SPCA Farm Sanctuary to recover physically and heal spiritually. The Ohio SPCA operates solely on donations.
Critter News
DECEMBER 7, 2011
Ohio's governor just signed an executive order modeled on California's exotic animal laws, actually spurring criticism of the effectiveness of those laws. Here's an interesting article.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 10, 2021
When birding in parks and woodlots of Ohio, Virginia, and Toronto, places with groves of maples and old craggy oaks, it can be hard to imagine that the Red-eyed Vireos of constant song were foraging for caterpillar larvae in rainforest just a few months earlier. Birds are arriving in North America, flying from places far to the south.
Critter News
AUGUST 15, 2010
Last week there was a slew of articles about the agreement in Ohio between the farm industry and animal welfare activists to expand cage sizes for calves (veal), hens and pigs. The surprise truce in Ohio follows stronger limits imposed by California voters in 2008; there, extreme caging methods will be banned altogether by 2015.
Critter News
APRIL 13, 2010
He was transporting them across state lines from Ohio to a hunting preserve in South Carolina. Tags: wildlife crime wildlife trafficking ohio south carolina Lacey Act deer. The deer were not tested for disease. He was sentenced to 21 months in prison. I hope he serves the whole term.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
When in northwest Ohio there are many options from which to choose a birding site. But if you want herons and ducks and shorebirds and geese and egrets and swans and rails the best bet is the famed Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge along State Route 2 in Oak Harbor, Ohio. It is well worth the visit! … a.
Reddit Animals
APRIL 11, 2021
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2019
But best of all — the thing that shows, surely, that he was born under a lucky star, is this: he’s now (as of 2005, when he migrated, permanently, to Ohio) — a Buckeye. Not only has he authored multiple field guides, and prose works, too (such as the classic coming-of-age-as-a-birder story, Kingbird Highway ). by Kenn Kaufman.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2021
The Collective added six new states in the past three years, but none have eclipsed the century mark: Wisconsin ( 74 ), Utah (55), Hawaii (38), Oklahoma (18), Rhode Island (9), and Connecticut (5).
Critter News
OCTOBER 21, 2010
An Ohio-based animal rights organization has filed a complaint against Harvard Medical School, alleging that the school's New England Primate Research Center in Southborough did not properly report its experiments on animals. Sounds awful. Again, work by SAEN (Stop Animal Exploitation Now.) From the MetroWest Daily News.
Critter News
JANUARY 3, 2011
New Jersey Illinois Massachusetts Colorado Maine WORST STATES Ohio Hawaii Alabama North Dakota Mississippi Idaho South Dakota (worst) According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the states fell this way. According to this Technorati article , the Humane Society rated the states on their animal protection laws.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 23, 2010
Ohio, Mississippi, North Dakota, Idaho and South Dakota are at the bottom. It's their first annual "humane state" report. California and New Jersey came out on top.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 25, 2019
Focusing on an often under-appreciated portion of the continent, the book showcases forty species found in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio – but perhaps not for long.
Animal Person
AUGUST 12, 2010
In " Move to Limit 'Factor Farms' Gains Momentum " in today's New York Times , we learn that farmers in Ohio have agreed to phase out gestation crates within 15 years and veal crates by 2017. Here are the sentences that I want to bring attention to: The family of Irv Bell, 64, has been growing hogs in Zanesville, Ohio, since the 19th century.
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2019
Maybe the two photos below could have been taken most anywhere in America – anywhere east of the Rockies, anyway – but once you know that both were taken in southeastern Ohio, you think “yes, of course – couldn’t be anywhere else.” (The pictures show two of Zickefoose’s favorite places near her home, down near Marietta.)
10,000 Birds
JULY 12, 2018
I and my family will endeavor to stay calm on the road to central Ohio, where we’ll be spending the weekend with more family. But travel often involves traffic, which–at least in my case–raises stress rather than lowers it. Corey will remain local, birding in Queens and rooting for France. How about you?
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
Despite the absence of species, many of these are excellent birding states and/or have birding festivals ( e.g., the Biggest Week in American Birding in Ohio). Even some states that technically have checklists barely qualify: the great state of Illinois has just a single checklist with two species (from an airport).
4 The Love Of Animals
JULY 27, 2012
Canine athletes are jumping through hoops to capture the gold at Doggy Games in Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Ohio, New York, New Jersey and Texas. Just check out these amazing doggy athletes!
Critter News
MARCH 12, 2009
Called Death on a Factory Farm, the documentary shows animal cruelty on a hog farm in Ohio. You can read about it here.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 13, 2017
The Preliminaries : Paragraphs 1-5 identify the issues at a high level: the lawsuit involves a proposed turbine at a facility near Ottawa NWR in Ohio that will allegedly kill birds in violation of federal law. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the Department of the Interior, and the Air Force (technically the Ohio Air National Guard).
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
In fact, this might be the beginning of some kind of birding black hole that sucks all of the birding world into a single spot (though it feels that way right now with nearly 1,000 birders having gathered in Lakeside, Ohio for the Midwest Birding Symposium ). Let’s hope that we all survive this rupture in the space-time-bird continuum.
Critter News
OCTOBER 25, 2010
Stop Animal Exploitation Now, an Ohio-based animal rights group, recently ranked the lab at Oregon Health & Science University as the nation's sixth worst animal lab out of 44 others. In June, demonstrators blocked the entrance to the lab, and police arrested five activists for obstructing traffic.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 23, 2011
This impressive spectacle is the prime reason that northwestern Ohio is rapidly becoming recognized for some exceptional birding, birding that draws tens of thousands of birders and millions of their dollars to the region. I have never been on the boardwalk at Magee Marsh in spring.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 11, 2009
Workers at an Ohio pet shop are used to worried pet owners bringing their animals in to be treated in the store's clinic. Lucky deer! She was treated and then released. But an unaccompanied visit Saturday by a deer to the PetSmart in Rossfield was a first for the store.
4 The Love Of Animals
AUGUST 21, 2012
Best Friends Pet Care is a leading national pet care company and offers boarding, daycare, grooming and training at 42 locations across 18 states, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 28, 2015
In addition to North Carolina, six other states have named the cardinal their state bird, including Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio. I’m not the only one who appreciates the Northern Cardinal. ” That same sentiment is probably true for us all!
Critter News
OCTOBER 25, 2009
sponsored by SAEN {Stop Animal Exploitation Now}, an Ohio-based animal research watchdog group. The others are the University of Michigan and University of Louisiana/New Iberia. A protest will be held today at the UCD Quad (1 Shields Ave.),
10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2013
Seriously, sexy migrants are flying fast and furious in Ohio and the event has just started! Luckily, I caught a few and little else apart from a Hermit Thrush , Ruby-crowned Kinglet , and lots of Ring-billed Gulls. Apparently, all the action is just one Great Lake to the west at the Biggest Week in American Birding.
Critter News
JULY 10, 2010
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