Archive for: January, 2009

Please Help Billy the Elephant Move to a Sanctuary

Published under Action Needed!.

We urgently need your help to close down the Los Angeles Zoo elephant exhibit and send its lone elephant, Billy, to a sanctuary. We are hopeful that we can free him from his lonely existence — please don’t let him down!

Orphaned Elephants Forced To Forge New Bonds Decades After Ivory Ban

Published under News.

ScienceDaily (Jan. 21, 2009) — An African elephant never forgets – especially when it comes to the loss of its kin, according to researchers at the University of Washington. Their findings, published online in the journal, Molecular Ecology, reveal that the negative effects of poaching persist for decades after the killing has ended.

In Dog We Trust

Published under General.

In many ways, animal advocacy can be compared to Christianity. In Christianity, you have your Baptists, your Lutherans, your Catholics, your Methodists, and so on. Each one working on the same fundamental idea, but with off-shoots that have culminated into a religious structure that is specific to their own thoughts and ideas. In animal advocacy, you have your PETA’s, your Humane Society of the United States, your Animal Liberation Fronts, and so on

Follow-up to: Post-Tribune writer Jerry Davich is for the birds

Published under News.

Good news Mr. Davich, it looks like not only are animal rights activists not blaming airplanes for the birds that are killed mid-air, but…

Post-Tribune writer Jerry Davich is for the birds

Published under News.

I could not help but chuckle to myself a little bit when I came across this short post by Post-Tribune writer Jerry Davichon, in regards to yesterday’s plane crash in the Hudson river, claiming he was waiting for animal-rights activists to complain about the birds being sucked into the engine’s of the plane.

Who doesn’t like a good animal-rights protest?

Published under General.

Whether you are anti-hunting or anti-circus, is it worth it to protest? Or are other strategies your best bet? In the animal rights movement, sometimes less says more.

Bomb Detection Dog - Taking a Chance on an American Bulldog

Published under General.

When I worked at an animal shelter, that shall remain nameless, I worked on a particular “Dangerous Dog” case that resulted in meeting an amazing American Bulldog, doomed to die, but with an incredible will to live.

The intent is to educate; not to change.

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Here is a radical notion to [...]