Animals articles from June 2002

Animals archives from June 2002

Kindness and the best medicine. (View Point).(how veterinarians help animals)
June 22, 2002... Many years ago my love for animals steered me toward a career in veterinary medicine. The chance to work at the world-renowned Angell Memorial Animal Hospital, in turn, Led me to the MSPCA. Throughout these years, veterinary medicine and...

Mining's legacy. (Animals Talk).(environmental impact on animals)
June 22, 2002... Mining and wildlife don't mix. That's because arsenic, cyanide, mercury, lead, and other poisonous leachates ruin habitat and sicken or kill animals. And the blasting, digging, dumping, road building, and other disturbances associated with the...

Safer birds and cats. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
June 22, 2002... I enjoyed the last issue very much. I read the article about feral-cat release programs ("Report Card: Trap, Neuter, Return," Spring 2002) and noticed there was an important angle missing: free-roaming cats--wild or domesticated, hungry or well...

Wild about wolves. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
June 22, 2002... I support many environmental and wildlife groups and have read quite a few articles on the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone, and "Uneasy Neighbors" by Deborah Knight (Spring 2002) was by far the best treatment of the topic that I've...

Farm Bill becomes law.(major animal initiatives in 2002 Farm Bill)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... On the whole, the final Farm Bill, which President Bush signed into law on May 13, 2002, was a disappointment for animal advocates. Here's how major animal initiatives fared: Puppy Protection. The efforts of Senators Rick Santorum and Dick...

With a spot of Luck; jaguars face good survival prospects--if we take the right conservation steps now. (Cover Story).
June 22, 2002... Imagine that the 125-pound, densely muscled jaguar you have just tried to dart is raking his way down a tree. Coming straight at you, fury filling his golden eyes, he is an unstoppable force. But instead of pouncing on you, the stout yet nimble...

Dim prospects: an archaic mining law and environmental rollbacks threaten wildlife and their habitat.(Mining Law of 1872)
June 22, 2002... The Cabinet Mountains are a place of jagged, snowcapped peaks, glacial lakes, icy streams, and big Montana skies. They stretch across a federally protected wilderness area and border federal forestlands. Within their wilds, near the...

A mounting problem. (Case Notes).(the sexual behavior of neutered cats)
June 22, 2002... Our two male cats, ages 10 and 6, were both neutered when they were a year old. A year or two ago, the younger one started occasionally mounting the older one. Lately, however, the mounting has increased to several times a day. The older cat...

Bearly making it: grizzly bears face an uphill struggle in the lower 48 states.
June 22, 2002... The mother grizzly had been foraging with her two cubs when she smelled the carcass. The day before, a Yellowstone wolf pack had killed an elk. They had feasted and were hunkered down a hundred yards away. The grizzly must have known they were...

An oasis builder in a land of strife. (Profile).(Reuven Yosef helps run bird sanctuary in southern Israel)
June 22, 2002... For many, mention of the Middle East conjures up images of tanks, angry protestors, ambulances, and shattered glass. But in a nation where most of us see scenes of conflict, ornithologist Reuven Yosef remains focused on a lush sanctuary for...

Health Watch.
June 22, 2002... My rabbit's teeth are crooked, and my vet warned that this will result in overgrown teeth that may cause problems for her in the future. Why would crooked teeth cause them to grow too big, and what kinds of problems could she be facing? ...

Blueprints for change.(Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights)
June 22, 2002... Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights. By Steven M. Wise. 336 pages. Perseus. $26 hardcover. In a tour-de-force, lawyer and scholar Steven M. Wise examines minds both wild and domestic, both human and nonhuman--as well as...