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“There are only two ways out for animals at pounds--being adopted or being killed. And cats have such a low rate of adoption that many pounds, even in some larger cities, don't bother to take them in at all. Not for nothing is it always the "dog pound" and never the "cat pound.”

Way Two Animal Cities Dog Lows Cat Rate Bother Pounds Adoption Adopted Two Ways Being Adopted

Book:The cat who came for Christmas ; The cat and the curmudgeon ; The best cat ever

Source: The cat who came for Christmas ; The cat and the curmudgeon ; The best cat ever

“In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes.... In mid-nineteenth- century France, families abandoned their children at the rate of thirty-three thousand a year.... It took sixty years after the criminalization of cruelty to animals for cruelty to children to be made punishable under English law.... Industrialized America added brutalizing child labor to the oppressions of the young.”

“Studies show that people who abuse animals are far more likely to engage in interpersonal violence. Violent crime rates tend to be higher in areas where slaughterhouses are related, even when controlling for other variables.”

People Shows Animal Study Violence Crime Higher Areas Abuse Rate Violent Related Variables Slaughterhouses Interpersonal Violent Crimes Crime Rates

Author:Jonathan Balcombe

“The brain has a good error rate. But, the point is, you can function with that error rate. Animals do a lot of guesswork.”

Animal Brain Function Errors Rate Guesswork

Author:Usama Fayyad

“We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.”

Needs Different Animal Planets Losing Plant Rate Biodiversity Plants And Animals

Book:The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us

Source: The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us