Animal-human relationship

These are the recent articles. Please share this page. The underlying purpose of this site is to improve animal welfare. This site is an extension of PoC, a site dedicated to the welfare of cats; domestic, stray, feral and wild. I report and comment on current news stories regarding the relationship between animals and people in the context of animal welfare in addition to writing articles on animal behavior.

Dog shelter worker

California’s municipal shelters must release dogs to animal rescue organizations

We need more and better conservation

Wildlife conservation in the UK is in a dire state

Commander

11 bites by Commander, Biden’s dog

Adam Britton raped over 40 dogs

British crocodile expert admits to multiple acts of bestiality with 42 dogs

The world 250 million years from now

Human life extinct in 250m years max.

Bacteria that glows when it detects explosive vapours from landmines

Using bacteria to detect unexploded landmines

Dogs sniffing for truffles

Make thousands of pounds after training your dog to sniff out truffles

Law

6 Portuguese youngsters sue 32 governments for ruining their childhoods because of global warming

Wendy Hayes and her rescue dogs.

Brucella canis is a new zoonosis in the UK contracted from dogs

French Bulldog struggles with a test to find food and they look up at their owner for help which endears them to their owner which in turn makes them more attractive than a dog with a standard muzzle.

Flat-faced brachycephalic Frenchies are popular because they behave like infants

Little Lyntus from the air, an ancient woodland in Staffordshire wrecked by HS2

HS2 is an expensive folly causing mass destruction of woodland and habitat

Dog attack

Motorist uses car to stop a dog attacking a man and his dog

Guinea baboons

Endangered species’ poop could help fight diabetic foot ulcers

Witch

Why women were more likely than men to be called witches in the 17th century

Tesco

Tesco accused of greenwashing as it sells Brazilian meat it had banned

Killing XL bully dogs because of the UK ban.

American XL bully owners are abandoning or euthanizing them because of the impending ban

Destroyed trees Ukraine

Russia guilty of ecocide in their illegal invasion of Ukraine

American XL bully

Training American XL bully dogs to be weapons

Killer Kimbo

Owners of American XL bully dogs feed them steroids to make them aggressive

Animal shelter dog leads

Embedded negligence can sometimes cause mistaken killings of animals at shelters in America

Tiny fake aliens found in Mexico

Brian Cox gives his definitive assessment on the aliens discovered in Mexico

American bully XL

British government is going to ban American bully XL dogs but it is hellishly complicated and will it work?

Zeus - world's tallest dog died at 3.

Eulogy after the death aged 3 of the world’s tallest dog, Zeus, makes me sick

Use of glyphosate is demanded by farmers but detested by conservationists

Glyphosate-based herbicides are “absolutely fine” according to Britain’s environment secretary. Are they?

Canadian police officer kills an injured deer with an axe in suburbia on video

Canadian police officer kills a deer with an axe in suburbia on video in plain sight

Shot wolf tied to back of jeep by hunter who lives in Asturias, Spain.

Sport hunter illegally kills wolf in Asturias and shows off his kill

Sir Ian Wilmut and Dolly the cloned sheep he created

The man who cloned a sheep said it would be criminally irresponsible to clone a human

Small dogs are more likely to behave badly compared to big dogs because, I believe, they are more anxious due to their small size when living in a world of giants.

Smaller dogs are more likely to behave badly

A 25% reduction in food intake of companion dogs in America resulted in longer life spans and a delay in the onset of chronic diseases.

In America dogs fed 25% less lived longer and chronic diseases started later

"Peanut" is the world's oldest living chicken and a celebrity

Peanut at 21 years of age is the world’s oldest chicken thanks to human love and caregiving and good genes

Hope a disabled dog with a big heart

“Hope” a disabled dog with wheels for hind legs is climbing Mount Snowdon as I write this

60% human kidneys grown inside pigs

Kidneys that are 60% human grown inside pigs

Amarena a rare Mariscan bear shot dead

Salami seller shot a friendly, rare bear in Italy and received death threats

Dog bite statistics USA

Statistics on emergency department treatment of dog injuries in the USA

Adopting the oldest, sickest and sorest dog at a rescue center is a great thing to do and is admired.

People love it when somebody adopts the oldest and sickest dog at a shelter

A MUCH BETTER alternative to ULEZ

A MUCH BETTER alternative to ULEZ

The most famous picture of Nessie the Loch Ness monster is ridiculous and the recent 'exciting photos' are equally ridiculous!

The most famous picture of Nessie the Loch Ness monster is ridiculous and the recent ‘exciting photos’ are equally ridiculous!

The wild pigs of Central Europe are radioactive

Central Europe’s wild pigs are radioactive thanks to nuclear weapons testing

French bulldog is expensive to care for

The French bulldog money pit and dogflation

Parasitic worm discovered in woman's brain which she picked up from grass in New South Wales at a place where there were carpet pythons the usual host of this parasite

Wriggling parasitic worm 8 cm long removed from woman’s brain

Two useful tags. Click either to see the articles: Speciesism - 'them and us' | Cruelty - always shameful
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