Contact with a reptile is a major source of salmonella infection. About half the cases of salmonella in children under the age of 5 are caused by this. About 90% of all reptile pets carry salmonella. They may sometimes shed it in their feces, which causes it to remain on surfaces for a long period […]
The HSUS has informed us that there is a bill for consideration by our legislators to open more captive hunting ranches in Georgia. These captive hunts or “canned hunts” as they are called, are private facilities where customers kill semi-tame animals trapped in enclosures for trophies. The animals have no way to escape and these […]
Friends of Animals reports that there is a grassroots movement of conservation organizations to sue the Federal Government’s United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Game and Fish Department for removing gray wolves from the federal threatened and endangered species list in Wyoming. Because such a large number of wolves were killed since the de-listing, the […]
