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A Jumper For Christmas by Eleanor Newson

Chickens Are Animals, Too! by Tracey Winter Glover

Children's Stories for a better world

18 books — 7 voters

Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry

Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry

All the Animals Actually Survive the Story!

169 books — 15 voters

Hope for Animals and Their World by Jane Goodall

Animal Rights and the Conservation of Animals

191 books — 126 voters

How Shelter Pets are Brokered for Experimentation by Allie Phillips

Slaves of Our Affection by Charles Danten

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Pets (Non-Fiction)

79 books — 1 voter

A Dog Can Make a Difference by Randy Schaffer

Tails Are Not for Pulling by Elizabeth Verdick

A Small Brown Dog with a Wet Pink Nose by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen

Humane Education-Children's Picture Books

36 books — 2 voters

That's Not My Momma's Milk! VEGAN BOARD BOOK by Julia Barcalow

The Reality of Animal Agriculture in Children's Books

57 books — 6 voters

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“ Though Conny Gasser repeated his claim to have lost only two dolphins since 1971, even newspaper reports mention three dolphins dying at Lipperswil in 1973 alone. Also, his statement in 1985 that “I have a dolphin here who’s been with me for 14 years,” seems highly implausible since his first dolphins, imported in 1971, are both dead. Flipper’s longevity for instance actually spans at least three separate individuals — a juggling of identities intended to deceive the public. Indeed, since 1971, Though Conny Gasser repeated his claim to have lost only two dolphins since 1971, even newspaper reports mention three dolphins dying at Lipperswil in 1973 alone. Also, his statement in 1985 that “I have a dolphin here who’s been with me for 14 years,” seems highly implausible since his first dolphins, imported in 1971, are both dead. Flipper’s longevity for instance actually spans at least three separate individuals — a juggling of identities intended to deceive the public. Indeed, since 1971, Gasser has owned at least 36 dolphins, of which 24 have died or cannot be accounted for. It is known that two dolphins were sold to an amusement park in Holland and another two to a dolphinarium in the Far East, that four dolphins are currently held on long-term loan at Fasano, Italy, and another four at Connyland, but this still leaves unaccounted for, Lady No. 1, 2 and 3, Flipper No. 1 and 2, Didi, an unnamed dolphin which died in Manila, Skipper which apparently managed to survive the 1973 winter in Lipperswil when three others died, Bonnie and Clyde imported from Britain in 1980, and Sonny, Blacky, Poco and Chico who were reported to be ill in the summer of 1974. There is also the uncertain fate of Gasser’s orca whale which was sold to an amusement park in Argentina. Furthermore, according to the Klinowska Report, Gasser also obtained the following dolphins from the UK: Pebbles and Sonny Boy bought from Franklin and Holloway in 1972 — both of which are reported to have died in Switzerland in 1977 — Cleo purchased from Morecambe in 1977 (perhaps the unnamed dolphin that died in Manila?) and Baby, Speedy (No. 1) and Windy purchased from Don Robinson’s Flamingo Park in 1978. Strangely enough — though anything is possible in the dolphin industry — Klinowska speculates that the already ailing animal that Gasser purchased from Windsor in 1972 with a David Taylor health certificate, and which died a year later in Surabaya, Indonesia as Lady (No. 2), was actually a male dolphin called Flipper! Last, but not least, Klinowska cites two anonymous dolphins purchased from the UK by Gasser early in 1973 which died within two months. These are just some of the dolphins once under Gasser’s care that have simply disappeared, thus earning him the title, even in far away England and America, of “Conveyor Belt Gasser” — the dolphins would be alive at one end and dead at the other. ...more ”
― William Johnson, The Rose-Tinted Menagerie

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“ When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left? ...more ”
― Matthew Scully, Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

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