Bad enough we mutilate and murder ourselves; must we do it to INNOCENT and SENTIENT CREATURES?
It must be the Zionist-soaked, war-mongering culture we've been raised.
Absolutely no respect for life.
"Farm family makes way for ducklings" by Nandini Jayakrishna, Globe Correspondent | June 27, 2009
A dozen mallard ducklings are being cared for by Christine Ponte and her family after the mother duck was struck and killed in a parking lot. (Gretchen Ertl for The Boston Globe)
Did you ever quack to duck? They QUACK BACK!!!!
Look at those ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE CREATURES!!!!
DARTMOUTH - The ducklings were barely 2 weeks old when their mother was run over and killed earlier this month by a motorist in a parking lot at the Dartmouth Mall.
The 12 orphans have found temporary shelter at a Westport farm, and the man who allegedly ran over their mother June 13 could face several charges, including animal cruelty, animal control officer Sandra Gosselin said in an interview at the farm yesterday....
The New Bedford Standard-Times reported yesterday that police said a 25-year-old Acushnet man ran down the mother duck. He did not stop his 2003 Kia Spectra after the incident and left the mall soon afterward, the paper said. The newspaper also reported that the man later explained to the police that he left because a witness started yelling at him and he did not want a confrontation. Police, who have not released the man’s identity, did not return repeated calls yesterday.
Why not? I hate to even think why.
Meanwhile, the ducklings are being cared for by Christine A. Ponte and her husband, Joseph S. Ponte, who own the Westport farm. In another six weeks, when they are stronger and ready to fly, the couple will release them into the wild, they said.
Well, I guess there are SOME HAPPY ENDINGS.
That is WHERE THEY SHOULD BE!!!
The ducklings seem comfortable in their new home, which they share with a baby deer named Lucky. The dozen feathery brown ducklings move together as a group, often climbing on top of one another and looking around curiously.
At a glance they look identical, but some are just slightly smaller and tend to follow the biggest one, pecking at one another. At night they sleep in a cozy room with a heat lamp. They are growing by the day, almost like weeds, Christine Ponte said. She feeds them and pets them and cleans their cage, but also makes sure she does not grow too fond of them.
“I gave them a new life and a new start,’’ she said. “I try not to interact with them. . . . I want them to just go back where they belong.’’
Ponte said she could not believe someone would want to hurt the creatures intentionally. “How can you do something like this?’’ she said. “A lot of people do it and think it’s OK to do it for fun.’’
I must be a mushy old man, 'eh?
“Some people aren’t in their right minds,’’ Gosselin agreed. In her 15-year career, she said, she has seen only one case in which a group of young people intentionially injured some mallards.
“People just need to slow down when it comes to the wildlife,’’ Gosselin said.
How about RESPECTING IT period!!!!
"Stains on ice in Antarctica reveal new penguin colonies" by Alister Doyle, Reuters | June 2, 2009
Emperor penguins of Antarctica, adult and chick, are thought to be at risk because of global warming. (British Antarctic Survey/ AP)
BONN, Germany - Ten new colonies of emperor penguins have been found in Antarctica after satellite photos showing brownish stains on the ice turned out to be the excrement of thousands of birds.
The findings, revealed by the British Antarctic Survey today, will help scientists understand penguin populations and the vulnerability to global warming of their breeding colonies on sea ice....
Emperors breed on ice in the depths of the Antarctic winter. The males incubate the eggs in the dark, huddling together without food, their backs to the bone-chilling winds. The females trek about 60 miles to the sea and return with food in the spring. Emperors may be vulnerable to climate change, with sea ice breaking up earlier in spring, exposing chicks to water before they can fend for themselves.
Good thing the Antarctic is adding ice!
Also see: Animals Advance the Agenda: March of the Penguins
Birds SURE are SMART, people!
"Rooks are the latest bird to put tools to work" by Associated Press | May 26, 2009
WASHINGTON - Yet another animal has picked up a tool and put it to use.
Once thought to be a unique primate trait, toolmaking and use have been seen in a variety of animals in recent years. Now add to the list rooks, a bird once featured in European folklore as able to forecast the weather.
Checkmate, cap'n!
Rooks are not known to make or use tools in the wild, but quickly came up with the idea when confronted with problems in laboratory tests, British researchers report in today's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Faced with food that could be obtained only by pushing a small stone off a ledge into a tube, rooks quickly mastered the skill. And when the stone was placed elsewhere, they didn't take long to decide to pick it up and carry it to the tube, according to researchers Christopher D. Bird of the University of Cambridge and Nathan J. Emery of Queen Mary College, London.
A female bird, Fry, was first to figure out picking up the stone, followed by her mate, Cook. A second pair, Connelly and Monroe, also mastered the task. The birds also succeeded at other tasks involving sticks, wire, and even one where they had to figure out how to bend a wire into a hook to retrieve an item.
"We suggest that this is the first unambiguous evidence of animal insight because the rooks made a hook tool on their first trial and we know that they had no previous experience of making hook tools from wire because the birds were all hand-raised," Emery said in a statement.
The wire-bending task repeated the effort of Betty, a New Caledonian crow, whose skill was reported in 2002 by the University of Oxford. New Caledonian crows, however, were already known to use tools in the wild. Many animal species are now known to use tools, ranging from otters and herons to monkeys and chimpanzees. Emery and Bird report that as many as 39 species of birds are estimated to use tools in one way of another.
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And YOUUUU thought you were SOOOO SUPERIOR, human!
Superior beings don't do this:
"Grease-coated kittens found in Mattapan" by Michaela Stanelun, Globe Correspondent | July 2, 2009
It could take two weeks to fully clean the kittens’ fur. (Mspca)
Two kittens found coated in oil and grease on a Mattapan porch Friday may be victims of animal cruelty, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said yesterday.
The female kittens, which have been named Grease and Monkey, were discovered by a good Samaritan and taken to the MSPCA’s Boston adoption center, where they are being taken care of. Each is about 3 months old....
WTF?!!
MSPCA spokesman Brian Adams said the kittens may have endured their oil- and grease-covered condition for several days before being brought to the shelter, because the substances were matted into their fur. There are no other injuries to the kittens, but MSPCA officials are concerned that the tail of one of them is so saturated that it may need to be removed.
You can call her BOBBY from now on (for BOBCAT)!
“One kitten will try to clean the other, and they nuzzle into people who hold them,’’ Adams said.
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Not all stories end happily:
A dead whale that washed ashore on a private Rhode Island beach almost two weeks ago was finally buried. Ron Bogle, manager of Briggs Beach in Little Compton, said yesterday that about 20 workers spent more than six hours cutting blubber off the 30-ton humpback’s bones and burying the pieces. The whale, about 41 feet long, died at sea and washed onto the beach June 14. Beach officials attempted to bury the whale during low tide on June 20, but the carcass was almost completely exposed when Bogle got to the beach Monday (AP)."
Related: Boston Sunday Globe Omissions: Shotgun Willie
"Pet python escapes, kills girl in Fla." by Associated Press | July 2, 2009
OXFORD, Fla. - An 8-foot pet Burmese python broke out of an aquarium and strangled a 2-year-old girl in her bedroom yesterday at a central Florida home, authorities said....
The Humane Society of the United States said including yesterday’s death, at least 12 people have been killed in the United States by pet pythons since 1980, including five children. Some owners have freed pythons into the wild and a population of them has taken hold in the Everglades. One killed an alligator and then burst when it tried to eat it.
Moral of the story: Don't bite off more than you can chew.
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"3 labs are cited for animal violations" by Associated Press | June 13, 2009
WASHINGTON - Government inspection reports cited three research laboratories for a host of animal welfare violations, ranging from problems with surgeries that forced researchers to euthanize a dog and a primate, to leaving a live hamster in a walk-in freezer.
The reports, uncovered by an animal rights group, detail violations at
Related: Willard's Hotel
The USDA, which is charged with enforcing the Animal Welfare Act's standards for research animals, said it did enter into an out-of-court $10,000 financial settlement with one of the institutions, Charles River. But that settlement was for a different incident, in May, 2008, when too-hot temperatures led to the deaths of primates.
That's all their lives are worth?
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