Eating Dog and Cat Meat is Cannibalism

The CNN columnist John D. Sutter has written a controversial article entitled “The argument for eating dog“.  It’s a long article and for me it rambles too much and doesn’t come to a conclusion really.  It is not clear and clean enough but I believe the point he is making is that it is …

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Almost 4 percent of all cats and dogs euthanised in Australia because they are unwanted

Almost 4 percent of all cats and dogs in Australia are euthanised as unwanted. As a percentage of the total numbers this is 2.3 times greater than in America. It is a shocking figure because there is a lot of discussion on how to save the lives of healthy cats and dogs in America …

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Pet “Euthanasia of Convenience”

Introduction “Euthanasia of convenience” is a quote from an English animal behaviour expert2 who was referring to two dogs that are in the news today (19th Sept 2013). They are Brus and Blade. They were the RAF dogs that guarded Prince William before he quit the service to take a year off. Rus was …

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USA: Animal Shelter Opt-out Clause To Euthanise

In general, across the United States, animal shelters have an obligation to hold, for a certain period of time, animals that are brought to them before considering euthanising the animal. This obligation comes from the law and it varies slightly from state to state. During this holding period the shelter must try and find the …

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Mass cat euthanasia perpetuates wrong attitude towards the cat

by Michael I have made this point before and I think it is the single most important point in the cat world. All the discussions about cat breeds and cat behavior is nothing if we cannot stop killing the domestic cat in such large numbers every day. Without a cat’s life there is no …

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