Animals articles from March 2000

Animals archives from March 2000

Compassion: A Team Effort.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Every day, humane societies across the country strive to prevent cruelty to animals. One of their most challenging problems is dealing with people who amass large numbers of animals, most often cats or dogs, beyond their means to care for them....

Letters.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Don't Hound Hunters I find your magazine interesting despite its animal-rights bias. In "Crossed Signals" (November/December 1999), you printed something so ignorant and misleading that I had to write. Your so-called expert, Mike...

Visit to Encante.(dolphins of the Amazon region)
March 1, 2000... Realm of the Pink Dolphin The days are full of water. The wet season has drowned the village soccer fields and banana groves and manioc gardens, even flooded some of the less carefully placed stilt houses along the river. Young saplings...

COLD WARS.
March 1, 2000... Fighting upper respiratory infections in cats A sneeze or a sniffle from your cat may prompt little more than an "Ohhh" or an "Awww" from you and fellow family members, but the same event conjures an "Uh-oh" from caretakers in animal...

A Whisper in the Willows.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Ratty the British water vole, may well have saved the day a time or two in The Wind in the Willows, but it's questionable now whether Britain will be able to save poor Ratty. When Kenneth Grahame's story about calm and commonsensical Ratty...

Pigs AND THE FACTORY FARM.
March 1, 2000... When Hurricane Floyd hit the United States last September, the storm deluged North Carolina with 20 inches of rain, flooding 44,000 homes and causing the death of at least 49 residents. But as if this weren't damage enough, the devastation...

Heavenly Scavengers.(turkey vulture)
March 1, 2000... An unabashed look at our hero, the turkey vulture. Sarah Calendar was lowering the blinds of her kitchen windows one evening when she noticed the whirl of dozens of huge wings above the trees in her backyard. As 36 eagle-sized, red-headed...

TRADING POST.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2000... Great stuff for animals of every stripe. Cats: The Catalog It's all about your kitty at Cats, Cats & More Cats. Enhance your feline's dining experience with glossy cat-faced bowls with matching nonskid-rubber paw print place mat. Get...

Wise Counsel for Animals.(Steven Wise, animal rights activist)
March 1, 2000... Steven Wise admits that practicing animal law for the past 20 years hasn't made him an expert on the animal kingdom. But it has given him unique insight into human nature. The most important thing he's learned about people, he says, is-that...

HEALTH WATCH.(Brief Article)(Column)
March 1, 2000... Frances, our 10-year-old spayed cat, has taken two different antibiotics for a urinary-tract infection that still seems to be bothering her. Why hasn't the medication worked, and what should I do next? Is it safe for her to be on antibiotics...

Genetic Engineering and Animal Welfare: Preparing for the 21st Century.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Genetic Engineering and Animal Welfare: Preparing for the 21st Century. Edited by Janet C. Gonder, Ernest D. Prentice, and Lilly-Marlene Russow. 127 pages. Scientists Center for Animal Welfare. $40 softcover. Transplant-ready organs. Cures...

Beyond Evolution: The Genetically Altered Future of Plants, Animals, the Earth ... and Humans.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Beyond Evolution: The Genetically Altered Future of Plants, Animals, the Earth... and Humans. By Michael W. Fox. 256 pages. Lyons Press. $24.95 hardcover. Transplant-ready organs. Cures for cancer and Alzheimer's disease. Frost control....