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“Animal Shelters and Animal Welfare: Raising the Bar.” By Patricia Turner (Professor in animal services); Jim Berry (Veterinarian); and Shelagh MacDonald (Federation of Humane Societies) discusses the ongoing crisis of animal overpopulation of shelters effecting Animal Welfare. Turner, Berry, and Macdonald make valid arguments with facts and research to back them up throughout the article. The authors state there are eight million animals entered into shelters yearly in the United States, out of…

Animal testing is any kind of scientific test in which live animals of sorts are forced to undergo something that is likely to cause them pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm. This has been a very controversial thing that people everywhere are protesting about. There are two main uses of animal testing: medical and federal approval of products. Other uses include: advancing scientific study, models to study disease, develop and test different forms of treatment, and to protect the safety…

what all these jobs had in common; animals. I knew whole heartedly that I wanted to work with them, to improve not only their health and welfare, but also that of the community they were in. So, come high school I focused in on sciences and when it was time to pick a college and a major, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a veterinarian. College excited a love of learning I didn’t know could exist.…

everything in this world can be categorized. Living beings include plants and animal. The plant has nutritive soul and the animal process both nutritive soul and perceptive soul. If we discuss animal further, we can divide animal into rational animal, which is human, and non-rational animal. The essential feature of “being an animal” is perception. From the Aristotle Introductory Reading: “413b2: What makes something an animal is primarily perception.” Perception is the ability to see,…

seems to have had help in bringing the rebellion down. Someone must have had felt the same as him, so they decided to work for him. Everything always seemed okay for Napoleon to do, but not for others to do. He always had backup to shut the other animals up. This proves he had help. We can agree Napoleon had help to overturn the rebellion, but he needed help to do it somehow. Our first thought could be the pigs, because they are the only ones who are always with Napoleon. “All orders were now…

For most people, it’s hard to wrap their head around the idea that animals all over the world are being abused, neglected, or even used in animal fighting. It’s a very sad concept to fully understand because most people think, “Why would someone do terrible things to an innocent animal?”. That is a type of question that many organizations are asking themselves today. Every day thousands of animals are brought to shelters because of the hardships that they had to go through during their life…

implications the baby tiger might endure? Is it morally justified for one’s wishes to be granted at the sake of an animal 's welfare? Should animals be used for one’s amusement or should they merely be left to their own device? Animal captivity brings forth its own set of problems even when the desire to conserve is present. Zoos and wildlife sanctuaries are the most common forms of animal captivity. In the episode Morgan See, Morgan Do, from the television show Inside Man, Morgan Spurlock…

This class has made me question everything we have learned as zookeepers/animal lovers, honestly. I started thinking about how we breed animals, how we house them, and how we feed and clean them. The biggest change I have made personally is to not clean the entire ferret cage in one day. Since it is 4 stories, I now clean 2 stories at a time. I noticed that their behavior towards the clean section is different and they spend less time in it compared to the section that I did not clean. This…

Dogs and cats are animals that we often think of as pets but so many of them get left out on the streets. This is what you could do to help. Every 60 seconds a poor animal gets abused and with 1440 minutes that means that 1440 animals get abused every day, according to The American Society of Cruelty Animals. Possibly the worst type is dog fighting where dogs are forced to fight for the entertainment of their owners or for money. What youkdidn’t know is that these dogs are forced to have…

just true for humans, but for animals as well. The more people fish and the more marine life that goes extinct the smaller the species get which could lead to a lot of diseases which could kill a ton of animals and soon there would not be a mass amount left. That is why Earle makes it very important that the reader knows that by every marine animal that goes extinct it doesn’t just hurt life in the water but eventually it will start to hurt life out of the water. Animals in the water already…