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"Zoo from Hell" Owner Convicted in New York

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A farm-animal breeder who ran what a prosecutor called "the zoo from hell" was convicted Tuesday of animal cruelty. The animals included ducks, chickens, guinea hens, rabbits, sheep, dogs and cats. And people wonder why I'm so disappointed by humans.

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Can we get a campaign going to shut down SeaQuest

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This was the same for many other of the animals there: potbelly pigs, a sad otter, rabbits, chickens and Bengal cats. The zoo also allows patrons to pay to interact with certain animals, allowing kids to flop around with them in enclosures. They were cowering together under a bright light for all the passersby to balk at.

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What’s In the Freezer for Tonight?

10,000 Birds

He then ate a screech owl, a robin, two squirrels, a mourning dove, three chipmunks, and a rabbit. My scheduled rodent pick-up day wasn’t for another two weeks, so I called my friends at the local zoo and begged for help. they said, “come on over and we’ll give you as much as you need.”

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The Queen

10,000 Birds

Just before Thanksgiving, 2010, a driver spotted a Red-tailed hawk sitting on a dead rabbit in the middle of the road. She wasn’t about to leave her rabbit, and the driver figured something was wrong, so he picked her up. The naturalist got out of his car, picked her up, took the tape off her legs, and took her to a local zoo.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

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There are the endemics, which are odd in their own way, and then there introduced species, which are so varied in their type and origin that you get the feeling you’ve arrived at the aftermath of a small zoo that escaped. Rabbits are still an agricultural pest. In many ways, that is exactly what happened.

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Pets Aplenty Blog Tour

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Pets Aplenty is a humorous book written by Malcolm Welshman, a retired vet who has worked at London Zoo, in a small animal hospital, and as a consultant dealing with exotics. We start right off with some crazy shenanigans that center around Paul dressing like a rabbit as part of a fund raising attempt.

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Animal Rights Zone Launches Today

Animal Person

The goal is to provide blogospheric content that is easy to find, and from a variety of sources. On the left, you'll see this: Concepts. Project Treadstone. Responsible Policies. More >> Animals. More >> Category. More >> Players. New York Times. More >> Places.