Animal Protection

May 28, 2009

ARISE Campaign: Animal Replacements Innovate Scientific Experiments

Forwarded message - for info, please visit www.AskUsWhy.com ARISE Campaign: Animal Replacements Innovate Scientific Experiments Dear friends, NJ Animal Rights Alliance is pleased to announce the creation and kick- off of the ARISE campaign. The mission of ARISE (Animal Replacements...

January 30, 2005

Animal Abuse Wheel

Hi SHARE Folks - I followed some links to this web page which shows Animal Protection Issues displayed as a wheel with 54 categories arrayed in a circular format. It's an interesting list, fairly comprehensive, showing the many ways that...

December 18, 2006

Animal Rights: Divide and Conquer

Forwarded message - for info, please visit http://www.satyamag.com/oct06/laveck.html Note: This is a very long article, but it is another one of those very important pieces that deserves to be read by everyone who cares about animals or any other social...

Animals Seem to Have An Inherent Sense Of Fairness and Justice

Forwarded message - for info, please visit http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116311525774919204.html Animals Seem to Have An Inherent Sense Of Fairness and Justice SCIENCE JOURNAL By SHARON BEGLEY Animals Seem to Have An Inherent Sense Of Fairness and Justice November 10, 2006; Page B1...

January 31, 2005

Breeding Misery - NY Puppy Mills

Article - Breeding Misery - NY Puppy Mills Sources in the Finger Lakes Region report that there are about 60 puppy mills in the area, most of them Mennonite, and many of the owners are former Lancaster County residents! (This...

January 30, 2005

Caring too much -

Forwarded message - for info, please visit http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/9708553.htm Posted on Mon, Sep. 20, 2004 Caring too much Experts call them "animal hoarders," people who keep more pets than they can manage. Helping the pet owner - and the pet -...

December 18, 2006

Dog Eat Dog: The Bloodthirsty Underworld of Dogfighting

Forwarded message - for info, please visit http://tinyurl.com/yfuzks Dog Eat Dog: The Bloodthirsty Underworld of Dogfighting By Rebecca Simmons In inner city alleys riddled with graffiti, quiet suburban backyards, and isolated barns on dusty country roads, the evidence is there....

January 30, 2005

Every Nine Seconds Campaign - Problems & Solutions

Forwarded message - for info, please visit www.everynineseconds.com Every Nine Seconds Campaign http://www.everynineseconds.com/ PROBLEMS - SOLUTIONS Each year in this country, 8 to 10 million lost and unwanted dogs and cats enter animal shelters. They have about a fifty percent...

May 14, 2005

Fear Factories: The Case for Compassionate Conservatism – for Animals

"Torture on the Farm" -- Cover of American Conservative, May 23 2005 edition The cover of the current, May 23, edition of Pat Buchanan's magazine, The American Conservative, shows a close-up photo of sows housed in gestation crates, so small...

November 4, 2005

Fur Free Friday

Although sporadic fur protests against department stores were carried out in the early 1980’s, none employed coordinated campaigns or strategies against the cruelties of the fur industry, and, as a result, failed to create the intensity needed for successful protests....

December 18, 2006

How to close a puppy store

Forwarded message - please reply to libbywill@embarqmail.com Reply - Lots of information - Help - How to close a puppy store? Subject - Pet Depot Complaint I hope the following info helps. Let me know if I can do anything...

August 31, 2007

Kennel trash - very sad story about euthanasia & dog fighting

Forwarded message - for info, please visit http://www.sptimes.com/2006/07/30/Floridian/Kennel_trash.shtml Kennel trash - very sad story about euthanasia & dog fighting This is what "euthanasia" and dog fighting looks like from the people who are trying to save them. Heartbreaking. The article...

November 12, 2005

Letter to send to people regarding adoptions on Internet

Letter to send to people regarding adoptions on Internet I'm passing this along in case anyone would like to use it. Whenever I see someone running a free to good home posting on the net, I send them the following...

December 19, 2006

Mirror test implies elephants self-aware

Forwarded message - for info, please visit http://tinyurl.com/ymuvvt Mirror test implies elephants self-aware By ANDREW BRIDGES Associated Press Writer Oct 31 WASHINGTON (AP) -- If you're Happy and you know it, pat your head. That, in a peanut shell, is...

May 16, 2005

Missouri Mill Auction Story - First Hand Account of a Dog/Puppy Auction

Missouri Mill Auction Story First Hand Account of a Dog/Puppy Auction http://www.geocities.com/jcrowe22/auction.html Auction Some of the details have been changed to protect both the innocent and the guilty. I want to continue rescuing animals from the puppy-mill system, so I...

July 4, 2008

Moving Beyond the Rhetoric of Apology in Animal Rights

Karen Davis: Moving Beyond the Rhetoric of Apology in Animal Rights http://upc-online.org/summer08/rhetoric.html Moving Beyond the Rhetoric of Apology In Animal Rights Some Points to Consider By Karen Davis, PhD If we find ourselves "apologizing" for other animals and our advocacy...

January 23, 2010

NJ - Reporting pet shop problems

NJ - Reporting pet shop problems NJ has about 55 pet stores that sell puppies. If you witness unsanitary conditions, over-crowding, sick puppies (coughing, eye & nose discharge, diarrhea, etc), here's what eyewitnesses can do: Contact the health departments that...

December 18, 2006

NJ - State sues animal charity for alleged donation mishandling

Forwarded message - for info, please visit http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-nj-charitysued0802aug02, 0,3552936.story NJ - State sues animal charity for alleged donation mishandling August 2, 2006, 4:48 PM EDT Newsday.com TRENTON, N.J. (AP) _ The state has sued a Bergen County animal charity, accusing...

January 31, 2005

Pet Abuse Web Site

Pet Abuse web site Pet-Abuse.Com is a non-profit organization that provides FREE online resources to empower animal welfare organizations and rescues to make informed decisions about adoption applicants by performing criminal background searches on potential volunteer and adoption candidates. You...

December 18, 2006

Pet store pups may be trouble

Forwarded message - for info, please visit http://tinyurl.com/y2u339 Star Ledger: Pet store pups may be trouble "To that end, HSUS is about to launch a national billboard campaign to expose the truth about 'that doggie in the window' and is...

August 7, 2007

Petting that dog, eating that cow

Forwarded message - for info, please visit http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20070726_Petting_that_dog_.html Petting that dog, eating that cow Editorial comment Crispin Sartwell teaches philosophy at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. Posted on Thu, Jul. 26, 2007 The Michael Vick dogfighting case, and all of...

June 25, 2006

Puppy e-Mills Churn Out Sick Dogs, Big Profits

Pet stores have typically been the most notorious venders of puppy mill puppies. However, to increase profits, puppy mills have turned to the Internet to hasten sales to unscrupulous buyers. Many people who have paid these charges have found that...

February 4, 2005

Skin Trade Threatens World's Few Surviving Tigers

Skin Trade Threatens World's Few Surviving Tigers HANOI (Reuters) - The world's tiger population has plummeted by 95 percent from the start of the 20th century to as few as 5,000 now and is further threatened by the lucrative trade...

January 30, 2005

Stray Dogs Deserve Back Rubs

Stray Dogs Deserve Back Rubs We kill millions of pets every year. Who cares if a few get posh shelters and humane laws? - By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist Friday, January 14, 2005 OK. So I tend to think...

May 18, 2007

Ten Ways You Can Help Fight Puppy Mills

Forwarded message - for info, please visit http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=cruelty_puppymills_topten Ten Ways You Can Help Fight Puppy Mills 1. Do Not Buy Your Puppy From a Pet Store That puppy who charmed you through the pet shop window has most likely come...

April 5, 2008

The Death of Animal Rights

The Death of Animal Rights (new blog post) Here's the latest post from HRC's blog, Humane Thinking. To join the conversation, please visit us online and post your comments (registered users only): http://www.humanespot.org/humanethinking ----- With nearly 40 years of history,...

December 18, 2006

The Pet Store Challenge - where does your local pet store buy puppies?

Forwarded message - for info, please visit http://www.stoppuppymills.org/petstorechallenge/ The Pet Store Challenge - where does your local pet store buy puppies? Have you ever wondered if your local pet store buys its puppies from puppy mills? Now you can find...

March 21, 2006

Watson is indeed a misanthrope and damn proud of it.

My clients, that is, those I represent and defend, are non-humans, Michael. I fight for whales, seals, wolves, trees, bees and plankton. I don't do much for people. People have enough champions. 99 cents out of every dollar going to...

February 2, 2005

Web site has disturbing information about the fur industry

Web site has disturbing information about the fur industry Hi SHARE Folks - I've just visited a web site that is horribly disturbing. It concerns the fur industry, and includes hideous descriptions and photos of all kinds of animals killed...

Web site with video of animal abuse

Web site with video of animal abuse Please visit http://www.peta.org and look at the video of KFC's chicken supplier. You may have seen parts of this on the news, but the media didn't show it all. And then look at...

February 1, 2005

What To Do If You See Animal Exploitation On Vacation

What To Do If You See Animal Exploitation On Vacation Send comments to schensul@northjersey.com "From one creature to another" By: JILL SCHENSUL The Record (Bergen County, NJ) August 5, 2001 This is a hard column to write, although I know...

September 30, 2009

Where to report Internet Animal Abuse / Cruelty Crimes

Forwarded message - please repy to conncat@fairpoint.net Where to report Internet Animal Abuse / Cruelty Crimes Please cross post WHERE TO REPORT INTERNET ANIMAL ABUSE/CRUELTY/CRIMES: If you see websites depicting animal abuse, it must be reported immediately. Please don't contact...