Pet News and Views

By  Farm Sanctuary, Guest Blogger

A lamb born on a transport truck on the way to a Bronx, NY, slaughterhouse was rescued yesterday by Farm Sanctuary, the nation’s leading farm animal protection organization, and brought to their shelter in Watkins Glen, NY. The minutes old lamb was discovered by a Good Samaritan who was shopping at [...]

By Jim Willis, guest blogger (copyright 2009)

Those of us who fight to protect animals have taken pages from history and learned from all the great campaigns for human rights and social equality–for religious freedom, for Jews, for women, against apartheid, for the American Negro, for the specially challenged, and for homosexuals. In each of those [...]

By June Collins, guest blogger

Bats—especially Vampire Bats—are the most misunderstood mammals. Depicted in movies as exhibiting vampire-like behavior, Vampire Bats live in Latin America and do not kill humans. They are extremely timid and only prey on small animals and insects—mainly mosquitoes. Some species of bats eat between 500 and 1,000 mosquitoes in an hour or [...]