Archive for the ‘Animal News’ Category
Sunday, October 18th, 2009
Stockholm's homes are heated with bunny biofuel. Elmer Fudd must be fueling around in the wabbit patch. Swedish hunters kill thousands of pesky rabbits, that are said to be destroying the capital's parks. The bunny bodies are frozen, ground and mixed with wood chips, peat or waste, then incinerated to ...
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
And what does he have to do with critters? The new Regulartory Czar is a Harvard-educated lawyer. He co-edited a book with Martha Nussbaum, published in 2004, entitled Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions. In true academic-legalese form, the debate is framed in the book's introduction. And yet, the ...
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Sunday, August 9th, 2009
Australia has a problem. There are just too many camels and not enough food and water.
Camels are not indigenous to Australia. They were brought to the country in the period from 1840-1907, to aid explorers in the Australian desert. There are more than 1,000,000 feral camels now, and their population ...
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Someone in San Francisco is looking out for elderly dogs. Sherri Franklin, the founder and executive director of Muttville, started the organization in 2007 to find homes and provide foster care or hospice for abandoned senior and special-needs dogs.
Many of these old dogs end up in shelters because their ...
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Thursday, July 16th, 2009
Is your dog afraid of thunder? Does she suffer from separation anxiety? Sound researcher, music producer and authority in the field of psychoacoustics, John Leeds, has collaborated with veterinary neurologist Dr. Susan Wagner to write the book Through a Dog's Ear: Using Sound to Improve the Health & Behavior of ...
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Monday, July 13th, 2009
July 19-25, 2009, is Best Friends Week, marking the 25th anniversary of the Best Friends Animal Society (BFAS). The mission of Best Friends can be summed up in one phrase: No More Homeless Pets. The organization is a grassroots network of people and groups that care for and about animals.
In ...
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
"I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, it's possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon." Sydney Greenstreet as Kasper Gutman (from The Maltese Falcon, 1941)
And now there is not even one. Illegal hunting of the Maltese ...
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
The 2009 World's Ugliest Dog contest at the Sonoma-Marin County Fair broke with tradition in its 21st year. The Chinese Crested breed that has dominated the prize for the past seven years was bypassed this time for a boxer-mix with an under bite. Four-year old Pabst, a shelter dog belonging ...
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Sunday, June 28th, 2009
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Bo, the First Dog, has an Official Portrait and an Official Baseball Card. The photograph shows Bo on the South Lawn of the White House.
The card stats indicate that the name "Bo" is indirectly in honor of rock & roll great Bo Diddley (by way of ...
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Four year-old Daniel Blair of Northolt, Middlesex, England, decided to give his one-week old puppy a bath after a muddy excursion in the garden. The problem is that Daniel washed the puppy in the toilet, and then flushed. The hapless pooch vanished down the pipe.
The boy's mother, Allison Blair, 40, ...
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