One day Margo got a phone call from a woman who worked at the San Francisco Zoo. There was a laboratory rabbit and her baby whom a local medical facility had sold to the zoo for snake food, demonstrating the absolute cruelty of an industry that both exploits and typically kills rabbits for human needs, then, once the tests have concluded, exploits them for profit.

I know you have listened to me complain about our weather before but this year takes the cake I put out all the bird houses, set up the garden fountain and the birdbath, filled up the birdfeeders with the new mix and what does it do

She first came to our attention after we had visited a local show at the village hall organized by a nearby refuge for abandoned dogs and cats. At the ripe old age of eight Poppy, we were told, had been "rescued" from owners who had over time collected more than 30 dogs, many the result of interbreeding, and who understandably had found themselves no longer able to cope.

During 2006 over 62,000 non-human primates were the victims of experimentation in the United States.  These primates are spread out between dozens of universities, contract laboratories and government facilities.  One of the most common varieties of experimentation involves drug addiction experiments.  This experimentation often subjects squirrel monkeys, rhesus monkeys, baboons, or others primates to decades of isolation, confinement, and agony.

Mothering babies in need supercedes some of the most common predatory instincts, or so it seems in an article published by CBS in May of this year. Lily, a mix of Labrador and something, was rescued while wandering along an old farm road. She was pregnant and soon had six puppies who all got adopted. Lily did well at the shelter then the kittens showed up ... without a mother.

Truffles and Rudy have been inseparable since they both arrived at Farm Sanctuary as young piglets in September 2005. Both piglets had fallen out of two different transport trucks in Indiana on their way to “finishing” farms, where they would be fattened for a few months and shipped to slaughter – likely destined to become holiday hams.

Have you ever heard of a phrase called "The Abandoned Horses"? Do you know what it means? "Abandoned Horse" is a phrase which is used to describe horses which is considered no longer useful by its owners. Some horse owners are either dispassionate or they might not be capable in providing proper care for their horses. Due to the price hike of hay and grains, many horse owners are experiencing the economic pinch.

The Los Angeles Times ran a story about a “Celebrity Chimp” named Moe who escaped a wildlife refuge into the San Bernardino Mountains. This story is sad on many accounts. As the story goes, this chimp was “rescued” by Tanzanian poachers in 1967 by St. James Davis. It was raised in civilization for most of its life.  Moe, the celebrity chimp, was loved by the Davis’s, and was treated like one of their very own children. They took it to ribbon-cutting ceremonies and dressed it as a “girl scout” to sell cookies and the like.

Spain’s Parliament handed down a decision recently that on the surface looks good. However, closer examination reveals positives and negatives to the voice of support offered by this “progressive parliament” over the great ape project.

Animal experimentation is a huge issue. It’s so big that we really have no adequate idea of how many animals are victimized in labs every year. About 1,100 labs in the U.S. perform animal experiments. Tens of thousands of animal die every day – one at a time.