Critter News

AUGUST 19, 2010

The animals can be used again for medical experiments if transferred to the Southwest National Primate Research Center in San Antonio, Texas. Tags: chimpanzees animal research animal laboratories Texas new mexico. Richardson said NIH appeared to be "holding steadfast" to its plan and he vowed to continue opposing it.

New Mexico 100

New Mexico Mexico San Antonio Medical Research 100

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2008

For more news of SPCA of Texas' hurricane work, go here. Tags: squirrels Texas hurricane rescue. Nice rescue news for a Sunday.

Squirrels 100

Squirrels Rescue SPCA Texas 100

Critter News

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Tags: zoos animal cruelty Texas elephants. In Defense of Animals has taken up the cause of Lucky the elephant, the only elephant at the San Antonio Zoo, alleging poor conditions and emotional distress. What amazes me is Lucky's age.49 49 years old. She has been at the San Antonio Zoo for 47 years. Is this right?

San Antonio 100

San Antonio Elephants Zoos Animal Cruelty 100

Critter News

AUGUST 26, 2010

However, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to move the chimpanzees—many of them at least 30 years old—to the Southwest National Primate Research Facility in San Antonio, Texas, where they can be used in painful, invasive experiments.". Tags: chimpanzees animal research primates National Institutes of Health new mexico.

San Antonio 100

San Antonio Primates 2001 New Mexico 100

Critter News

AUGUST 23, 2010

Here's an opinion piece from Ingrid Newkirk arguing to stop the transfer of 202 "retired" chimpanzees to a Texas facility where they may be subjected to more experimentation. Tags: chimpanzees animal research primates National Institutes of Health PETA new mexico.

Primates 100

Primates PETA New Mexico Animal Research 100

Critter News

JULY 21, 2010

A major environmental experiment is underway,” Ron Kendall, director of the Institute of Environmental and Human Health at Texas Tech University, told AFP. Tags: marine life 2010 oil spill pollution Gulf of Mexico.

Marine Life 100

Marine Life Sea Turtles Whales Whaling 100

Critter News

APRIL 15, 2010

What about the nut who flew his plane into the IRS building in Texas? Tags: animal enterprise terrorism act animal rights political movement politics. What about the nutty Tea Party members who threaten personal violence and have already committed some property damage by throwing bricks through Congressional field office windows?

Oklahoma 100

Oklahoma Animal Rights United States Texas 100

Critter News

MARCH 3, 2009

I am so glad this dim-witted moron is back in Texas. Tags: President Ever EPA Worst. President Obama overturned a last minute Bush regulation that would have allowed agencies to skip consulting with govt. scientists when reviewing EPA rules. Because science, like facts, have a liberal bias.

Obama 100

Obama America Texas Science 100

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The SPCA took 1045 animals out of a home in Texas that were living in horrible conditions. Tags: animal abuse Houston. When SPCA investigators received an anonymous tip Wednesday afternoon about animals in need of medical care at a home in northwest Houston, they had no idea it would turn into one of the largest U.S.

Houston 100

Houston SPCA Animal Abuse Animal 100

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I am deeply troubled and angry that the National Institute of Health wants to move almost 200 chimpanzees from this facility to a laboratory in Texas where they may be subjected to testing. Sincerely, Tags: chimpanzees animal research almagordo primates new mexico. Please ensure that the chimpanzees stay in Alamogordo.

Los Angeles 100

Los Angeles New Mexico Primates New York Times 100

Critter News

JULY 19, 2009

“Through a combination of technical and financial support, the partnership will work toward making Iraq a top beef and lamb producer within the Arab world,” said Dr. Ma’ad Mohammed, Inma project coordinator for the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture of the Texas A&M System, a key program participant.

Iraq 100

Iraq Factory Farm Factory Farming Lamb 100

Critter News

JANUARY 7, 2009

When you add the roughly 335,000 square-mile-area in the Pacific that is now protected from virtually all fishing to the nearly 700,000 square miles he closed to bottom trawling, the most destructive kind of fishing gear, this president has given future generations an ocean gift nearly the size of Texas and Alaska combined.

Protection 100

Protection Marine Life Alaska Texas 100

Animal Person

APRIL 5, 2009

Please read this excellent and compelling letter by former Mayor Paula Bacon about the disastrous effects of having a slaughter facility in her hometown of Kaufman, Texas. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics. The letter was written to the Montana legislature. You can contact the governor online here.

Horse Slaughter 100

Horse Slaughter Montana Slaughter Slaughtered 100

Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2008

This time it's an exceptionally irresponsible, ignorant comment, especially considering the recent news about the growth in dogfighting in Texas. Tags: pit bull Stupid dog fighting. Jamie Foxx opens his mouth again. A pitbull," the entertainer said. And as long as people like Jamie Foxx keep shooting off their mouths with such ideas.

Pit Bulls 100

Pit Bulls Obama Puppies Texas 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Asides / Galveston FeatherFest 2011 Galveston FeatherFest 2011 By Mike • March 16, 2011 • No comments yet Tweet Share Texas has been on my mind quite a bit lately, as has spring migration. Really… you too?

2011 140

2011 Deer New York Texas 140

Critter News

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

The wife of the Texas oil tycoon T. Tags: horse Bureau of Land Management animal rescue. Here's hoping it works out. Boone Pickens said {November 18} that she would create a refuge for wild horses, after the federal agency that manages them said it might have to kill some to control the herds and protect the Western range.

Horses 100

Horses Euthanasia Texas Rescue 100

Critter News

JANUARY 6, 2009

I’m glad that Obama didn’t select Charles Stenholm, a former Texas congressman with a long history of defending animal abuse, who had sought the position with support from the factory farming industry. Tags: Obama USDA farm animal welfare factory farm us agribusiness.

Farm Sanctuary 100

Farm Sanctuary Factory Farm Factory Farming Sanctuary 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

When this native of Mesoamerica and South America is spied in the wild, usually in some corner of the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, it elicits admiring oohs and ahs. When a Muscovy is seen anywhere else, the result is rarely as positive: “What kind of duck is that and what happened to its face?!?&# Such is the lot of the Manky Muscovy.

Ducks 224

Ducks 2011 Deer New York 224

4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 25, 2011

I was happy to hear that during the cloning at Texas A&M, new rules were introduced that planned for lab dogs to be socialized and placed into loving homes (as apposed to the usual practice of putting them down after use). Would I clone my pet, even if I could afford the hefty price tag? Do I understand why others would want to?

Pets 100

Pets Sheep Science Dogs 100

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. Tags: born free fur fashion. BFUSA brings to America the message of “compassionate conservation”, the vision of the U.K.

Fur 100

Fur Animal Welfare Ethics Primates 100

Animal Person

MARCH 26, 2009

One good acquaintance I could probably call a friend is an ethics professor who flies back and forth from Texas to China frequently argued in a group pertaining to bestiality. Tags: Ethics. He was the only one against it for religious reasons. Any takers for any part of that?

Breeders 100

Breeders Laws Legislation Alaska 100

4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 18, 2010

Susannah Charleson, author of Scent of the Missing: Love & Partnership with a Search-and-Rescue Dog, works as a handler with her partner, a Golden Retriever named Puzzle, for the Metro Area Rescue K9 unit in Dallas, Texas, a volunteer canine search-and-rescue (SAR) team responding to local, state, and national search and recovery cases.

Rescue 100

Rescue Dogs Humane Dallas 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Texas and North Dakota together account for 88% of the total yearly kill of sandhill cranes. There is evidence that a unique Canadian prairie population of lesser sandhill cranes is being selectively wiped out, since they migrate over the most heavily hunted areas of Texas.

2011 253

2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 253