Critter News

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The mini-pig, darling of celebrities’ handbags, may have had its bacon Sunday after the EU earmarked it as the laboratory test animal of the future. A research project into the feasibility of using miniature pigs in laboratories concluded they are better suited for testing toxins, drugs and chemicals than dogs and monkeys.

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Reddit Animals

JULY 31, 2023

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has defended its use of more than 100 pigs in explosive tests in Wiltshire. Some 119 pigs were used in the research at the Government's military research laboratory Porton Down, near Salisbury, between 2006 and 2009. He said 25 pigs were used in 2006, 19 in 2007, 40 in 2008, and 35 in 2009.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 17, 2012

We were laughing out loud when we watched this interview of Rory the guinea pig! “Have you seen what turtles can do?” ” he asks, but more importantly he will let you know the real reason why being an only pet isn’t much fun! You can see more pet interviews on the PAL YouTube channel.

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Critter News

JANUARY 26, 2010

Compassion in World Farming led an undercover investigation that showed illegal tail docking and poor attempts at pig enrichment on factory farms, in violation of EU law. Now the pig industry is mad and claiming bias ( scroll down in article.) Tags: europe tail docking pigs factory farm agribusiness.

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Animal Person

MAY 24, 2009

I received an e-mail from the well-meaning Wendy at Compassion in World Farming (which I find an odd combination of words) regarding Egypt's pig cull and asking me to send my protest to the Egyptian Government. But though the pigs weren't originally destined for a mass grave, weren't they destined for slaughter nonetheless?

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Critter News

MARCH 4, 2010

This lady is breeding tiny pet pigs that can live up to 11 years. Tags: Stupid pigs companion animals. People are buying them like crazy, which means.eventually people will start dumping them like crazy. And who will suffer? The animal shelters who have to find them homes at the expense of other animals. Thanks lady!

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Critter News

APRIL 7, 2009

Military researchers have dressed live pigs in body armor and strapped them into Humvee simulators that were then blown up with explosives to study the link between roadside bomb blasts and brain injury. The explosions have ranged in intensity, wounding some of the pigs and killing others. Roadside bombs are the top killer of U.S.

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Critter News

AUGUST 13, 2009

The Marines also claim that using live pigs and inflicting wounds on them is the only way to approximate real-life situations in combat. Tags: animal research military pigs. They claim the animals are asleep during the procedures and feel no pain. It's the best way to train medical personnel. Read and decide for yourself.

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Critter News

JANUARY 18, 2010

An experiment in which anesthetized pigs were buried alive in snow to learn how humans live or die in avalanches was halted today in Austria after animal-rights groups denounced the research as cruel and useless. The two-week experiment involving 29 pigs began Tuesday in the Western Austrian Alps. From USA Today.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 22, 2008

It really sucks to be a factory farm pig in Europe. In one of the biggest undercover inquiries into pig-farming, CIWF visited 60 farms across five big pork-producing states, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Hungary and Britain. Most farms made widespread but legal use of metal cages for confining pregnant pigs.

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Critter News

APRIL 11, 2009

It's a 5-minute film about conditions for pigs in the UK. Tags: UK meat pigs. Produced by Compassion in World Farming. As an aside, people who love to eat meat should also watch educational videos like these. They need to take responsibility and learn about the food they eat. Don't live in a cloud.wake up!

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Critter News

JANUARY 19, 2009

This year, the European Commission will issue a research contract, worth up to €1 million for a study into alternatives to the castration of pigs and dehorning of cattle. Tags: europe pigs farm animal welfare. They castrate piglets in Europe for sanitary purposes (to avoid taint in the meat), but the methods are not terribly humane.

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Reddit Animals

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

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Critter News

APRIL 30, 2009

The Egyptian government has begun slaughtering all of the pigs in the country. From the NY Times: Egypt has begun forcibly slaughtering the country’s pig herds as a precaution against swine flu, a move that the United Nations described as “a real mistake” and one that is prompting anger among the country’s pig farmers.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

But it's also remarkable in that Roger Cohen, a 50-something man who writes for the New York Times, wonders: But do pigs have any more or less of a soul than dogs? Or pig, or duck, or fish. " Dog Days in China " is a small piece with no gruesome slideshow. Are they any more or less sentient? Do they suffer any more or less in death?

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Reddit Animals

JULY 15, 2023

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Reddit Animals

MAY 2, 2023

I am posting this here because they had an exhibit of skinny pigs billed as “African naked mole rats.” The skinny pigs had no enclosures. This was the same for many other of the animals there: potbelly pigs, a sad otter, rabbits, chickens and Bengal cats. The treatment of the animals at the Woodbridge, NJ SeaQuest is horrific.

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Critter News

AUGUST 14, 2009

Tags: animal testing animal cruelty military pigs medical research PETA.

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Critter News

MARCH 26, 2010

Tags: europe pigs castration farm animal welfare belgium agribusiness.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Millions of wild pigs weighing up to 300 pounds have been tearing up crops, trampling fences and eating just about anything in their path in Texas. This doesn't sound good. But now they had better watch their hairy backs.

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Reddit Animals

MARCH 8, 2022

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JANUARY 25, 2022

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Critter News

OCTOBER 9, 2008

Tags: animal abuse animal cruelty pigs farm animal welfare.

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Reddit Animals

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

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AUGUST 21, 2021

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JANUARY 22, 2022

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NOVEMBER 5, 2022

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Reddit Animals

JULY 9, 2023

The ginuea pig cages are small with very little toys same with the rat cages. They also sometimes house rats and Guinea pigs alone wich will cause depression. Hamsters also need to be housed alone and need around 3ft of space. The reptile care is horrible with the humidity levels being too low and they house chameleons together.

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Creature Talk

APRIL 30, 2009

The pig you see here being dangled by the leg is still just a baby, and by now he is already dead and thrown away for absolutely no reason, as are the rest of the 300,000 pigs in Egypt. How typical that we humans blame this epidemic on pigs, and kill them without a second thought! Source: NY Times online. Does this make sense?

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Reddit Animals

JULY 8, 2022

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APRIL 9, 2021

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

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FEBRUARY 11, 2022

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JUNE 25, 2022

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Critter News

AUGUST 26, 2009

The heroes are a pair of guinea pigs. Here is a CBS article that at least explains basic care for guinea pigs. Having cared for guinea pigs at the Seattle Animal Shelter, I can tell you that guinea pigs are certainly cute. Tags: Guinea Pigs. The latest movie to prompt this kind of behavior is G-Force.

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Reddit Animals

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

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