10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2015

Can you convince yourselves that your cat does not kill birds, when statistics show pet cats only bring home 23% of their kills? If you love your cats so much, why don’t you protect them? Can you talk about how much you love your cat, and ignore the shredded bodies of the birds it mutilates? There is no moral ambiguity here.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Rescue 255

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2016

Wildlife rehabilitators have an arsenal of equipment and techniques we use to protect ourselves. And I was pecked in the eye by my pet chicken, does that count?”. “I I was wearing the lead x-ray apron and heavy raptor gloves, so I thought I was protected. Most of them think we’re trying to eat them, not help them.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wounded Wildlife Opossums 175

Animal Person

DECEMBER 17, 2009

During a brief moment of insanity after the death of my pet kitty Brady in 1991 (at the age of 17), I attended Vermont Law School to study Environmental Law. He was bleeding from several bullet wounds, and visibly in excruciating pain. And I fully intended to make this post into a podcast, but I'm rusty on the technical parts.

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Bears Vermont Laws Wounded 100