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No
Sanctuary
Bonnie Stewart, Press-Enterprise, feature — December
2003
Talking
about the killing brings Collins to tears. “You
can’t save them all,” she said. “We do
the best we can, but we just can't.” Collins
and other Inland-area shelter workers do the public’s
dirty work every day...
Cat
Madness: Human Resesarch Using Cats
Crysal Spiegel, American Anti-Vivisection
Society, investigation — Winter 2003
Of
course, researchers do not use animals whose spinal
cords have been damaged accidentally; they actually
induce trauma to the spinal cords of healthy cats...
Companion
Cats and Dogs:
A Consumer Issue
Patty Adjamine, New Yorkers for Companion
Animals, essay — 2003
This
is because “euthanasia” of shelter animals
is not just a result of "overpopulation" alone,
but perhaps more significantly, a problem in consumer
attitudes, as reflected by current trends in rejection,
demand and human circumstances...
Kensington's
Death on Videotape
Audio transcript of Kensington's torture
— 2001
The
cat was hung by its neck from a telephone cord, then impaled
on a wall. An
unidentified voice: "I want to cut open its belly
while it's still alive and watch everything moving around"...
People
Who Hoard Animals
Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium,
Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, investigation
— 2000
An
animal hoarder was defined as "someone who accumulates
a large number of animals; fails to provide minimal
standards of nutrition, sanitation and veterinary care;
and fails to act on the deteriorating condition of
the animals...
Stevie
Carol Hamilton, essay
In
the grand scale of things, the death of a cat must seem insignificant,
and when Stevie died this summer, I tried to console myself
by thinking that she had lived a better life than most creatures
on this planet...
See
Spot Die
John Dorschner, Miami Herald, feature — 1995
Nationwide,
between 12 million and 20 million unwanted pets are killed each year.
The numbers are inexact, because this is one subject few want to research.
Man’s best friend has become man’s biggest victim...
The
Land of Broken Cats
Tamara
Burnham, The Animals Voice Magazine, poem — September/October
1988
Sometimes
the juggernaut's
wheel comes
/ slowly,
sometimes
fast, the
steely
/
ratio
of pounds
to ounces
one /
sure
way of
separating
all nine
/
lives
from feline
fresh...
Don't
Tell Me They Don't Know
Laura Moretti, essay
I
lifted back my head, welcomed the cool downpour into
my eyes and face and reveled in this unexpected connection
to Nature. Until I remembered the elk. When I lowered
my head to meet their gaze, their unalarmed curiosity
reminded me how far away I was still...
Epitaph
For A Friendship
Laura Moretti, essay
Mouser
died today. It had been 13 years since the black-and-white
kitten had come into my life (we called her Mouser
to make Dad happy about the mice in the barn). And
I think she wanted to live up to her name as well;
she was an aggressive mousing cat — except...
well... except she didn't seem to know a mouse from
a dog...
My
Soul and Inspiration
Laura Moretti, essay
The
police advised us to leave the city of Los Angeles
and go home the day after the riots had erupted, and
we heeded it. The surface streets were relatively deserted,
but the freeways were nearly a parking lot — in
both directions...
Pound
Seizure FAQ
Ban Pound Seizure
Common
sense indicates that the most desirable animals for
research or educational purposes would be healthy,
well-behaved, and well-mannered. These are the same
qualities that deem an animal ‘adoptable"...
Reason
for Surrender
Steve Grunow, Humane Society of Santa Clara commentary — 1990
"Doesn't
get along with other cat at home," "She plays too roughly with
my older dog," "can't keep," "chews," "moving"...
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