Feb
22
I was putting the last helmet away after teaching my morning riding lessons when Bob arrived to pick me up in a white station wagon. “Who’s car are you driving?” I asked and he answered, “It might be ours.” I blanched. Just what we need, another expense, I thought. We were about to turn our …
Feb
22
A traditional Chinese medicine company at the heart of an angry Internet campaign accusing it of violating animal welfare opened one of its controversial bear bile farms to journalists on Wednesday. An Asian black bear waits to be moved from a truck after being rescued from a bear bile farm in Chengdu. To extract the …
Feb
22
Like most young children, your youngsters most likely have a ton of stuffed animals. They cover the bed, sit on bookshelves, the floor, rest on the sofa and also tag along for car rides to the shop. To a child, a stuffed animal can represent a sense of familiarity and comfort. Sort of like the …
Feb
22
WOODSTOCK – Learn to canoe, explore wetlands, camp under the stars and more by taking advantage of McHenry County Conservation District programs this summer. MCCD will offer nine summer day camps for ages 6 through 15, community relations specialist Lora Petrak said in an MCCD news release.
Feb
22
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Feb
22
OPINION: A recent off the cuff comment by Galen Weston Junior, the Executive Chairman of Loblaws, and spokesperson for its President’s Choice brand, has unleashed a mini tsunami of criticism. On Feb. 7 the television face of the largest food retailer in Canada told 600 delegates at a Toronto food conference that, “farmers’ markets are …
Feb
22
ALPINE, Calif. (CBS – A controversial military training exercise, known as “live-tissue trauma training” involving the killing of animals has been captured on videotape, perhaps for the first time by any news media outlet in the United States. A U.S. Marine Corps spokesperson at Camp Pendleton confirmed the February 8 exercises conducted in San Diego's …
Feb
22
Every now and then I encounter somebody looking to buy livestock animals but they simply do not know where to look. Where do you buy a cow? Where can I buy chickens? Where can I get a sheep? Let us learn where a person can buy such animals as livestock. If you are not trying …
Feb
22
ScienceDaily (Feb. 21, 2012) — Parasites and pathogens infecting humans, pets and farm animals are increasingly being detected in marine mammals such as sea otters, porpoises, harbour seals and killer whales along the Pacific coast of the U.S. and Canada, and better surveillance is required to monitor public health implications, according to a panel of …
Feb
21
RALEIGH — Graphic images of the 160 dogs collected in a raid last week in Stokes County show the dogs sleeping in their own waste, in makeshift kennels that had exposed wires and an infestation of mice. But Kim Alboum, director of the Humane Society of North Carolina, which took the pictures, hopes some good …