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Warning Over Foreign Bumblebee Factories
Animals  (tags: animals, wildlife, protection, humans )

Cal
- 61 days ago - news.scotsman.com
HUNDREDS of thousands of foreign bumblebees are being imported into the UK each year by fruit farmers worried their crops will fail, The Scotsman has learned.
Second Cat Found With Arrow Shot Through Its Head
Animals  (tags: cats, brutally shot with bow and arrows, survivors, animal cruelty, investigation, hunting season )

Simone
- 61 days ago - content.usatoday.com
With bow hunting season getting under way in parts of the country, it might be wise for people in those areas to watch out for their pets. In Learned, Miss., Randolph Henderson is a bow hunter but couldn't believe a hunter would do what someone did
Berlin Boy, 15, Charged With Slamming Dog to Death
Animals  (tags: young scum, slammed dog, killed dog, horrific cruelty, charged )

Simone
- 61 days ago - delmarvanow.com
A Berlin teen was arrested and charged with animal cruelty and mutilation in connection with the death of a dog that was allegedly abused in the parking lot at the Best Value Inn on North Salisbury Boulevard.
Aggressive Dogs Get the Boot From Marine Corps
Animals  (tags: dangerous dogs, banning, military, housing, marine corps, controversy )

Simone
- 61 days ago - content.usatoday.com
The Marine Corps has issued the first worldwide policy banning Pit Bulls, Rottweilers, Wolf hybrids and any dogs with "dominant traits of aggression" from all U.S. Marine Corps bases and housing facilities, according to Stars and Stripes.
What's Ugly, Smells, Kills Dogs? Blue-Green Algae - VIDEO
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, pets, dogs )

Cher
- 70 days ago - fortheloveofthedogblog.com
I've written numerous time about blue-green algae which can be toxic, even deadly, to both dogs and humans. It seems to be cropping up right now in the midwest and although no humans have been seriously
Killing Wolves for Fun
Animals  (tags: wolf, idaho, montana, wolves, hunt, endangered, slaughter, sadness, suffering, hunters, extinction, environment, animals, animalcruelty, abuse, cruelty, fun, killing, law, wildanimals, wildlife, death, protection, ethics, morals )

Tom
- 90 days ago - ethicist.blogs.nytimes.com
The Idaho wolf hunt began on September 1; Montana's starts on the 15th. Many of the 14,000+ people who bought wolf-hunting licenses aren't interested in wolf sandwiches. They simply enjoy hunting. Is it morally acceptable to kill a wolf for the fun of it?
California Lawmakers to Make It Illegal for Palin to Shoot Wolves From Planes
Animals  (tags: animals, wolves, killing, aerial hunting, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 114 days ago - mnn.com
Alaska's infamous predator-control program is being challenged by two California Democrats.
Keep the Ban on Beak Trimming ! Send An ECard to Defra ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, beak trimming, AnimalCruelty, ban, environment, protection, suffering )

Cher
- 159 days ago - animalrights.change.org
UK legislation bans beak trimming in laying hens from 2011, however this ban is now under threat. A recent Opinion by the Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC) recommends that the ban on beak trimming should be repealed. Compassion in World Farming are
ACTION ALERT: Petition: "Stop Bullfighting in Tijuana"!!!
Animals  (tags: horrendous animal sufferin, ban bullfighting mexico, bull murdering, bull torture )

Simone
- 165 days ago - animalrights.change.org
An estimated 250,000 fighting bulls are killed globally on account of this horrible and tragic, violent and purposeless blood sport. And Mexico does in fact have a great power to begin to put the end to this. This a fervent and determined plea on behalf
ACTION ALERT: Keep Admitted Pig Abuser Jordan Anderson Away From Animals!
Animals  (tags: hormel supplier, investigation, pigs, tortured, kicked, abused, criiminal charges, factory farming, animal cruelty )

Simone
- 165 days ago - animalrights.change.org
During PETA's investigation of a Hormel supplier, they documented that workers were kicking pigs, beating them with metal rods, and jabbing clothespins into their eyes. Twenty-two criminal charges were eventually filed against six employees, and after
 
 
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