Articles tagged with: Animals
Napoleon Buonaparte’s Army of Animals marches in on Facebook
Good Day Everyone. I am Admiral Tenenbaum of Napoleon’s Army of Animals on Facebook, an international Role-Playing Game. This is one of very few games on Facebook that doesn’t require any kind of application, only participation. It is a part of the great Napoleon Buonaparte’s army/navy. I started out as a Major General in the QFF (Quebec Feline Front) division, moved up…
Damned dead geese
If human and wildlife justice systems were the same, your whole community would be annihilated if you were hit by a car. Ridiculous, isn’t it? Well that is exactly what happened to 400 Canadian Geese in Brooklyn last July. The excuse for the mass killings was that a flock of Branta canadensis was sucked into an airliner’s jet engines that crashed in the Hudson River. Everyone on the flight survived. The geese were gassed under the cloak of night after New York o.k’d the removal of geese within an 11 km radius of the airport.
No monkeys were harmed in the programming of this computer software
Smiling from across the table sits Tyler Bonnell. A soft-spoken man with striking blue eyes and a well-trimmed beard, it is hard to imagine that this young parent is a world expert on mapping primate behavior.
Cat goes in, cat goes out
Cats generally live longer if they are kept indoors. House-bound cats are also at a lower risk of contracting ecto (on the body) and endo (in the body) parasites. Ticks, mites, worms, feline leukemia, distemper and Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) (the kitty version of HIV) are some of the pathogens that are itching to invade your furry companion. Cats are transmitters as well, and have been named a culprit in the acquisition of FIV to populations of the endangered Florida panther.
Against “fixing” pets that aren’t broken
I am against the “fixing” of animals. Before you decide to “fix” me for saying that, let me explain. This one might make you think about it a little too much. I’m sorry if I make you uncomfortable, but this practice makes the animals involved considerably more uncomfortable. The only reason that veterinarians recommend sterilization of pets is to keep the puppy and kitten mills in business.
Sick cat at the DMV or why our healthcare should never become privatized
“He’s not a nice cat.” That’s exactly what the veterinarian said. While that may not be a very professional thing for a pet doctor speaking to a distraught person caring for an animal to say under any circumstances, it was especially jarring under these circumstances.
