Marine mammals

Rabies is a serious disease that generates from a virus that normally occurs in animals. Humans can only receive this disease from being bitten by an infected animal. Human rabies is almost always fatal. Bats are the most common source of rabies in the United States. Coyotes, dogs, foxes, raccoons, cats, and skunks are also other animals that can spread and transmit the disease as well. (VIS) People at high risk are given the rabies vaccine to preserve them if they are exposed. If infected, it…

Larry Harbinger is a sophomore student at Floodrock High School. He is facing a possible five-day out-of-school suspension for theft of school property. Larry cares for animals deeply. In his biology class, they were about to dissect live frogs. Even though Larry’s mother wrote a note to excuse her son from doing this dissection, the teacher insisted that everyone observes the dissection. By observing the dissection, they will be able to get a clear idea of the anatomy. To protect the frogs, he…

A common opinion when discussing animal rights is “that we shouldn’t treat animals as brutally as we do now. We should kill them humanely, instead.” This opinion is the middle ground between “speciesism” (Cohen, speciesism, 485) and giving animals “inviolable rights” (Donaldson and Kymlicka, Zoopolis, 19). The questions then arise on whether this middle ground thought can provide enough meat for 7 billion people and reduce animal suffering? do the lives of other beings matter and what rights are…

Americans use twenty-six million animals for research, 95% are rodents, birds and fish.The U.S. consumes nine billion chickens and one hundred and fifty million cows,pigs,and sheep. Animal testing should be legal for many reasons. Some of the reasons include: medicine purposes, diabetes, pacemakers and many other stuff in the medical field. Animals themselves benefit from testing. Researchers found vaccines for rabies, Leukemia, and parvo all while using animals to test on. All the vaccines…

We normally don’t like to hunt humans. As long as they don’t bug us we don’t bug them. But this was the worst winter that we have had in a long time. All of the smaller animals that we would normally eat either died, or they are hibernating. Even with our thick fur we get cold. During the blizzards it gets hard to see even with our great eyesight and keen sense of smell, the blizzard takes any trail of food that we have away from us. There is nothing left for us to eat. We try to distract…

Animal abuse is seen wrong in the eyes of many but those same people also unintentionally encourage and endorse animal tested products. Animals are used to test and react to your favorite everyday items. This is scarring and harmful to them. Animal testing is beyond unethical. Animal testing is wrong and inhumane. Animal testing is unreliable. Animals do not get the same diseases as us, so people cannot accurately test drugs and medicinal substances on them. Animals have different allergies…

Another problem in our world is people owning illegal exotic animals that are dangerous to our economy and people, and the question is is the risk worth it. As normal people in our country people don’t have the proper materials needed to take care of these exotic animals. Exotic animals require special care such as certain housing and food that the average person can’t provide as average people, making the animals suffer poor lives. When living in these poor conditions the animals often…

End animal testing Since times unmemorable humans and animals have had a special relationship. Animals have kept us alive and we cared for them. The Bible speaks of Adam and Eve being clothed in animal skins at the time of their departure from the Garden of Eden. In those days animals were respected because of their sacrifice. Recent scientific discoveries and advances in medicine opened up a new field of uses for animals other than just food or clothing. To check for potential negative effects…

The worldwide massacre of consuming animals and wearing their skins is accountable for the massive deaths of more than 150 billion animals annually. So then wouldn’t it be reasonable to ask, “Is my sandwich or my leather shoes really worth the pain and endless suffering of innocent animals?” If you asked vegan animal liberation activist, Gary Yourofsky, the answer would be a definite and absolute no. When discovering the gruesome reality of animal injustice, his passion for spreading awareness,…

Mountain lions are known as cougars, pumas and catamounts. Mountain lions population is an estimated 30,000 in the western United States. They feed on other mammals such as deer, raccoons, beavers squirrels, mice and more. They have the longest range of any mammal except humans in the Western Hemisphere, mountain lions can be found from Florida to the Canadian forest. They are very territorial and avoid other cats except during their mating season(courtship). Usually they hunt at night or at…