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9 March, 201713 January, 2017

How animal medicine went corporate

A veterinarian examining a cat.
Posted in animals by s.e. smith

The consolidation of veterinary clinics marks another important shift in the way Americans approach animal care, and it’s not a good one.

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31 January, 201710 January, 2017

Send nudes: PETA, misogyny, and animal welfare

A flock of sheep.
Posted in animals, gender by s.e. smith

The misogyny behind PETA’s publicity stunts is on painful display when you see who is allowed to wear clothes and who is not.

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3 January, 201714 November, 2016

Dog people: Leashes exist for a reason

A puppy walking on a leash.
Posted in animals by s.e. smith

Your dog belongs on a leash, period, no excuses. Yes, that applies to every dog. Yes, even yours.

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28 July, 20168 May, 2016

Barnum and Bailey got rid of elephants: What’s next?

Dappled grey horses performing in a circus ring.
Posted in animals by s.e. smith

The use of performing animals is on the wane in American circuses, but it hasn’t vanished from the landscape altogether. What’s it going to take to get animals out of the ring?

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11 July, 201624 April, 2016

No, your dogs do not belong everywhere

A snowy plover hanging out on a nest on the beach.
Posted in animals by s.e. smith

A brouhaha over dogs in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area highlights the fact that some dog owners have an overblown sense of entitlement that ruins things for other dog guardians in addition to threatening the environment.

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27 May, 20168 March, 2016

Animals aren’t toys to discard when they’re broken

Leila the cat.
Posted in animals by s.e. smith

One reason we have so many homeless animals is the belief that it’s acceptable to treat animals like garbage, paired with lack of information about options for treating sick animals and finding social supports. We can do better than this.

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7 March, 201615 December, 2015

Tragic animal stories and individual responsibility

Two puppies resting their heads on a rock wall
Posted in animals by s.e. smith

I am, as we know, a tremendous softie, and I always get very sad when I read tragic animal stories, which are the bread and butter of a huge number of websites, whether they’re highlighting the horrors of what we do to companion animals or telling success stories. I generally try to avoid these stories […]

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4 March, 201615 December, 2015

Monetising your pets is weird, right?

Grumpy Cat looking upset as someone pets her.
Posted in animals by s.e. smith

In a piece for Racked late last year, Kyle Chayka wrote about the ‘fast, furry rise‘ of pets on Instagram (and other social media), discussing the growing number of celebrity pets who captivate the internet, but, more critically, the smaller numbers among those ranks who turn into money generating machines for their handlers, instead of […]

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26 May, 201525 February, 2015

Farm reform matters for people too

A Holstein cow
Posted in animals, social justice by s.e. smith

The United States is having a big discussion about farm reform right now in spite of the ag-gag laws that are working double time to silence exposés of the reality of conditions on farms and the resistance to conversations about factory farming and animal abuse. Animal welfare has become a concern for a growing percentage […]

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24 April, 201521 January, 2015

As on land, so at sea: the extinction of marine life

A humpback whale's tail waving at the camera
Posted in animals, environmental issues by s.e. smith

We’re having a big conversation about species loss in the face of growing environmental problems. And a lot of numbers are being thrown around — 40% of birds, hundreds of mammals, at times it seems like no one even knows what we’re losing and things feel almost unimaginable. To some extent, that’s true. We didn’t know […]

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