Critter News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

A monkey was rescued from a factory in India where it was being held in captivity. It's an adult male macaque suffering from zoochosis. The problem is characterised by the animal swaying its head and pacing up and down in its enclosure incessantly in a trance-like state, indicating it may be suffering from boredom." Poor monkey!

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 24, 2009

This is a guest post from Cherie, and I think that it is something everyone who rescues animals needs to read. A few signs that YOU may need Rescue: you can not stop rescuing animals. your personal life starts to suffer as a result of taking on the animals suffering. Thanks Cherie!

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Reddit Animals

JANUARY 24, 2024

I rescued 5 puppies and their mom 3 months ago. I'm terrified that the vet might stop the treatment, and I don't want these pups to suffer or worse. Hello, Reddit community! I had to take them back, and now they urgently need veterinary treatment. The vet recommended a minimum of 5 days of treatment.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 26, 2011

The team is just coming off its rescue efforts in Memphis, where floods of historic proportions affected uncounted numbers of domestic and wild animals. The Red Star team consists of 13 staff and volunteers who will begin work tomorrow. The Red Star team will also be assisting at the Emergency Animal Shelter.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2014

Sentient people recoil at the idea of leg-hold traps, those medieval–torture devices which cause so much pain and suffering before their victims eventually die, are killed, or (very occasionally) are rescued. My very first rescue was a House Sparrow caught in a glue trap,” says Donna Osburn, a wildlife rehabilitator in Kentucky.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

This area did seem to be suffering quite a bit from the drought. Still, there were plenty of beauties (or plainer species, posing beautifully) to rescue the day for me. It wasn’t a lifer — I had seen one on Mexico’s east coast several years before — but it was a big surprise to find one in Michoacán.

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Critter News

JUNE 21, 2009

Tags: malawi africa animal rescue elephants endangered species.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 15, 2010

50 surviving horses were rescued. The Humane Society of the United States, SPCA of East Texas and Humane Society of North Texas worked with the Smith County District Attorney's Office to rescue 50 horses from a Lindale property. Some even suffered from parasite infestation and overgrown hooves.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

It was Los Angeles, after all, where mileage has no bearing on time, but where time was precious for my little rescue on this crystal morning. I’d been volunteering at rescues through my young adulthood, and I was training as a cat socializer, teaching terrified felines — the unlucky victims of cruel people — to trust humans again.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 20, 2013

However, while we all enjoy a chuckle at that funny cat image, it is easy to forget that out there in the real world many cats are suffering at the hands of cruel owners. Not only do these poor cats suffer physical damage at the hands of their owners, but often they end up emotionally scarred as well.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 15, 2010

Farm Sanctuary operates the country’s largest farm animal rescue and adoption network. When their shelters are full, they depend on compassionate people who want to make a direct difference for a suffering cow, pig, chicken or other farm animal. Tags: adoptable people helping animals rescues. Farm Sanctuary needs help.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Or maybe something closer to home like the American Bird Conservancy or a wildlife rescue organization like the Marine Mammal Center or International Bird Rescue. Without adequate funding, habitats are not restored, invasive species are left unchecked, poaching and other illegal activities occur and our nation’s wildlife suffers 1.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2012

Suzie wrote a marvelous guest post, Wild Bird Rescue 101 , for 10,000 Birds back in September of 2009 and we are pleased to present her posts on the “Bird Rehabilitator Beat” every other Friday morning. Luckily, she has birder friends who will rush to her aid, although she must then suffer their mockery. Suzie runs Flyaway, Inc.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2013

As Chilean officials and volunteers rescued 17 birds they noticed the birds were foaming from the beak. Later it was determined these condors suffered from organophosphate poisoning after they were exposed to insecticides used for agriculture. Other birds were seen crash landing.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 3, 2010

Four lions, rescued by Animal Defenders International (ADI) from a Bolivian circus when the country banned the use of animals in circuses have a new home, and a life of luxury at the ARK 2000 sanctuary in Calaveras County. The ADI rescue operation was backed by Bob Barker. ADI also rescues animals in distress worldwide.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 6, 2012

Once again, Cesar Millan works with dogs and their owners to help dogs suffering from phobias and obsessions! A covert surveillance operation with the PSPCA undercover team leads to one of the biggest dogfighting busts in Philadelphia’s history — 14 suspects are arrested, and several horribly neglected, abused and injured dogs are rescued.

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Critter News

JANUARY 6, 2009

Fortunately the donkey was rescued by the Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad (SPANA). No, their suffering will be far more drawn out. Humar, pictured on the right, is just one animal to have suffered this traditional, yet ineffective treatment, to horrifying effect. His suffering didn’t stop there.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2013

They feed on small fish and recent research is showing that the smaller male bird suffers more than the female during chick rearing. We do not have a seabird rescue service in Broome and the kindest thing I could think of was to approach it and see if it could be moved into the shade. Brown Booby grounded.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

While the scope of the wildlife devastation was still unclear, it was likely to be enormous, {Jon Rowdon, president of the rescue group Wildlife Victoria} said. Tags: australia animal rescue wildfires wildlife. The official human death toll stood at 181 from the weekend's deadly fires and authorities said it would exceed 200.

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Critter News

JULY 2, 2009

I had forgotten all about Michael Jackson and his chimp Bubbles whom he rescued from a research facility. They are wild creatures and their psychology must suffer from these abnormal arrangements. Apparently, Bubbles is now 26 years old and living at an animal sanctuary. He got too aggressive to live with Jackson's kids.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

One of the largest animal rescue operations in Canadian history just got a lot bigger: about 90 puppies have been born since hundreds of dogs were seized northwest of Ottawa. "We Aldworth said about 100 dogs received critical veterinary care, but could not say how many were expected to survive or suffer long-term health problems.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

The white redtail couldn’t fly because she’d spent somewhere between 14 and 24 hours on the ground in freezing rain, encased in mud, and was suffering from capture myopathy, a sometimes-fatal condition induced by stress.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

I do occasional rescues, though, because everyone still has my number. Occasionally I’d drink way too much vodka and write my long-suffering agent long diatribes with the subject line SHALL I TELL YOU HOW MUCH I HATE BEING A WRITER??? I didn’t know the set up required for a black bear, or how high a Florida panther can actually jump.

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Critter News

JANUARY 4, 2010

Rescuing the Vick dogs was a controversial move by Best Friends and some animal groups, most notably PETA, did not agree with it. And the dogs deserve a happy life after all the suffering they have been through (two of them have already been adopted.) Be warned, there were some dog-fighting clips in the episode.)

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10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2013

We are off to rescue a Bald Eagle, kiddo!” We all thought the kindest approach would be to end her suffering, but then…she raised her head and looked directly at me. A State of WI Department of Natural Resources Warden rescued him and brought him to REGI. “Hurry,” he told the sheriff. This eagle is not long for this world.”.

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Critter News

AUGUST 2, 2011

When you walk, you give hope to billions of farm animals who suffer appalling cruelty and confinement each year on factory farms,” says Farm Sanctuary President and Co-Founder Gene Baur, who TIME magazine recently called “the conscience of the food movement.” For more information, please visit farmsanctuary.org.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2011

I know about the common mistakes people make when they find young birds, assuming that because they’re on the ground with no other birds in sight they must be abandoned or in need of rescue. The chickadee that I discovered on the sidewalk was suffering from dehydration and hypothermia.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2012

Govan’s long-time observations of birds, along with rescuing and banding them, had come about after suffering intense personal tragedy, including the loss of two infant children. Tow path along the C&O canal (MD) where Carson reportedly often walked with Shirley Briggs spotting birds.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 12, 2012

The animals at these shelters suffer extreme stress from deafening noise levels, horrible environmental conditions, and many other factors that contribute to behavioral problems. According to the Humane Society, over four million dogs and cats are euthanized every year with six to eight million placed in kill shelters across the country.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 12, 2013

If your dog is one of many that suffers from separation anxiety (this is more common in rescued and re-homed dogs , but also varies in all dogs no matter their origins), leaving him alone while you’re off working a 9 to 5, or even a part-time job, is enough to send your dog into boredom or anxiety which may cause bad behaviors.

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Animal Person

APRIL 18, 2009

The suffering in this world that occurs at the hand of humankind and is entirely intentional, is disgusting and dispiriting. I choose not to watch videos or bombard myself with images of suffering. I rescue, I adopt, I do TNR, and I connect others to resources to do the same. Thanks so much. I know it's out there.

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Animal Person

APRIL 26, 2009

Vamsee Juluri, Professor of Media Studies at the University of San Francisco, takes me back to graduate school when he writes of the importance of the stories we tell ourselves in " Use Free Speech to Celebrate Animal Life, Not to Enjoy Their Suffering." Isn't the mere existence of violence and suffering sufficient?

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 24, 2010

Sheila Stewart, of Capricom Animal Rescue centre in Mold, United Kingdom, said that she believes that this can be overcome by the animal’s owners taking out pet insurance. With studies suggesting that more than 140,000 dogs under three years of age suffer dermatitis alone each year, it is not difficult to see why.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

I know on some level, I think that’s something almost all of us can get behind…no one, except the most callous and cold-hearted of the human race things its fine to torture animals, or deny that they are capable of pain and suffering.

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Critter News

AUGUST 9, 2010

BFUSA’s Primate Sanctuary in Texas is home to more than 500 primates rescued from laboratories, roadside zoos, and private possession. BFUSA’s mission is to end suffering of wild animals in captivity, conserve threatened and endangered species, and encourage compassionate conservation globally. based Born Free Foundation.

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

If any "drastic measures" are employed, they are to remove animals from suffering, not to impose our dietary choices on others. Of course, Lobo is missing the point entirely. Are we pinning people down and force-feeding them vegan burritos? . This was my reality check for today: someone who defends animal agriculture as a tradition (i.e.,

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

We were told that Marco, one of the rescued chimpanzees, does a dance during thunderstorms during which he looks like he’s in a trance. to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry. Animal Rescues: Feeling Compassion for Those in Need. Shirley and Jenny: Remembering Friends.

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