Now that many more options are available for our pets, do people think advanced veterinary care is always a good thing or that it sometimes goes too far? Photo: SeventyFour/Shutterstock By Zazie Todd PhD This page contains affiliate links which means I may earn a commission on qualifying purchases at no cost to you. These […]
Congressional hostiles seek to “endanger” wildlife further still
Leave it to a chamber of Congress that in too many respects has lost its way on wildlife to embrace a full-scale assault on gray wolves in the immediate aftermath of one of the most sadistic acts of cruelty ever committed against a wild animal―a female gray wolf yearling―in the nation’s history. Just two months […]
Animal Spirits: Negative Arbitrage – The Irrelevant Investor
Posted May 1, 2024 by sean Today’s Animal Spirits is brought to you by YCharts: See here for the YCharts report builder and proposal capabilities to save time and add value to client relationships! On today’s show, we discuss: Listen here: Recommendations: Charts: Tweets: WALMART U.S. CEO: “.. we are now seeing prices that […]
Va. man who funded animal abuse videos in Indonesia pleads guilty
A Virginia man who funded videos shot in Indonesia of monkeys being tortured and killed, and shared them with other users via online messaging groups, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a conspiracy to distribute videos depicting extreme animal abuse. Federal prosecutors said Michael Macartney, 51, of Chesapeake, Va., and his associates used an encrypted messaging platform […]
Ignored the Sign | My Shetland
To town today as we have visitors next month and I want to be all efficient and have everything ready in the freezer so I can do minimal cooking at the time. First I stopped off at the feed merchants and bought animal supplies, and then went into town to get supplies for cocktails (Eurovision […]
Pharmacists, chemists could turn tide on plant, animal extinction
This article has been reviewed according to Science X’s editorial process and policies. Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content’s credibility: fact-checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread Ok! `Akikiki or Kaua`i Creeper (Oreomystis bairdi), a Hawaiian honeycreeper. Credit: Carter Atkinson, USGS, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons × close `Akikiki or Kaua`i Creeper (Oreomystis […]
Teatime | My Shetland
The ponies get called up to the wee paddock for teatime as there is not much on their track and I feel bad for them worrying that they will all now get ulcers from the hunger eating them inside. (And if it rains, I worry they will all melt). So I dish out soaked ad-lib […]
Breaking: ‘Horrible Hundred’ report exposes American Kennel Club as complicit in puppy mills
By Sara Amundson and Kitty Block Some of the findings of our latest Horrible Hundred report sound like scenes from horror films. A puppy mill operator in Iowa performed do-it-yourself surgeries on puppies. A breeder in Ohio is suspected of using rusty scissors to cut the tails off puppies. A breeding facility in Oklahoma was […]
Breaking: In a huge win for horses, USDA announces final rule seeking to end horse soring
By Sara Amundson and Kitty Block From the perspective of public policy, there are certain cruelties that seem to hang around forever, even when their depravity is abundantly evident, defying―in a way―the political equivalent of gravity. Horse soring, which involves the very intentional infliction of pain and suffering on Tennessee walking horses and related breeds […]
Cartilage healing discovery in animal models could lead to new human therapies
This article has been reviewed according to Science X’s editorial process and policies. Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content’s credibility: fact-checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread Ok! Model and approach to study fetal cartilage repair. a Schematic of a fetal skeletal element undergoing endochondral ossification. b–b” Potential outcomes of mosaic cell ablation […]