Tales of WellBeing Archive

Oct 28, 2024

Posted at 12:55h In Articles, Companion Animals, Global Dog Campaign, Save The Dogs & Other Animals, Sloboda Zvierat, Street Dog Coalition, Tales of WellBeing, Tigers in America, Worldwide Vets - By

[caption id="attachment_12440" align="alignleft" width="296"] Helena who escaped Kherson with only her dog Kuzma gets a pet carrier from Save the Dogs. Dated 3/20/22. | Photo credit: Save the Dogs & Other Animals.[/caption]As the Ukraine Rescue, Relief, and Rebuild (U3R) coalition prepares for another year of...

Sep 30, 2024

Posted at 13:34h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Companion Animals, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing - By and

Image: Owney with Mail Clerk Friends | Image courtesy of the National Postal Museum, Smithsonian InstitutionDogs have magical qualities and abilities. They inspire love, affection, and a deep sense of connection. Their endearing antics, unique quirks, ability to "read" human emotions, and boundless loyalty never...

Sep 30, 2024

Posted at 12:16h In Animal Well-being, Articles, BCI (Blue Cross of India), Companion Animals, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing - By and

In 1959, Captain V. Sundaram, his wife Usha and their son, S. Chinny Krishna (then almost 15 years old), were three of the four founding members of the Animal Aid Association in Madras (now Chennai) in southern India. 1964, the organization was formally registered as...

Sep 30, 2024

Posted at 12:06h In Animal Well-being, Book Review, Companion Animals, Tales of WellBeing - By and

Book review of Cowpuppy by Gregory Berns, published by Harper Collins, 2024 As in the immortal film classic about the rescue of Elsa the baby lion, where the opening scenes cover the struggle to persuade the motherless cub Elsa to drink milk to survive, Gregory Berns also...

Aug 29, 2024

Posted at 15:42h In Animal Sentience, Animal Well-being, Articles, Farm Animals, Tales of WellBeing - By

In the early 21st century, several animal protection organizations in the United States were collectively spending approximately $6 million annually on farmed animal welfare campaigns. In contrast, the animal agriculture industry was worth over a hundred billion dollars in the country, and few advocates believed...

Aug 29, 2024

Posted at 15:40h In Animal Well-being, Articles, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals - By and

The tiger, a creature of almost mystical, magical, and majestic allure and the subject of Blake's famous 1794 poem Tyger, is battling for survival in its final refuges in Thailand and Myanmar in Southeast Asia. The populations of tigers in the neighboring countries of Cambodia,...

Aug 29, 2024

Posted at 15:38h In Animal Sentience, Book Review, Tales of WellBeing - By

Peter Singer is an Australian philosopher widely regarded as the "father" of the modern "Animal Rights" movement. However, as a Utilitarian, Singer does not agree with rights-based philosophical arguments. Like Jeremy Bentham, who argued that the criterion placing animals on the moral scale was their...

Jul 24, 2024

Posted at 13:43h In Articles, Environment Well-being, Ethics, Regulation, Law, Public Awareness/Attitudes, Tales of WellBeing, Wild Animals - By

The Wilderness Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 3, 1964. The USA system of wilderness areas now includes over 800 areas covering more than 110 million acres. Currently, all but six states—Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, and Rhode Island—have...

Jul 24, 2024

Posted at 11:10h In Animal Sentience, Book Review, Tales of WellBeing - By

Author David M. Peña-Guzmán, Ph.D., loves intellectual challenges. Previously, he wrote an article on whether or not animals can commit suicide, which has been downloaded over 44,000 times from the WellBeing International Studies Repository since its publication in late 2017. Now, the author has shifted...

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