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Safe Crossings For Colorado Wildlife And Motorists Act
by Sunny Weber, President of Colorado Animal Protectors and Roland Halpern, Executive Director of Colorado Voters for Animals Colorado Animal Protectors (www.coanimalprotectors.org ) and Colorado Voters for Animals (www.covotersforanimals.org) awarded four state legislators for their actions on behalf of state wildlife at the annual Laws for Paws Gala on October 1, 2022. The four…
Read MoreDusty’s Story
Dusty’s earliest memories were of the cold ground, the dark night, and the soft crooning of a horse nearby. The nickers came closer to her wet body and then a warm tongue massaged her from head to hoof. Steaming breath from the one who stood over her eased the chill. Dusty struggled to stand—somehow knowing…
Read MoreTales from the Sand Wash Basin Wild Horse Roundup: StellaLuna – One Year Later
By Amy Hefestay CAP Vice President The 2021 wild horse helicopter roundup in the Sand Wash Basin Herd Management Area (HMA) in northwest Colorado took place in the first week of September, 2021. The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) own documentation states that, “Helicopters should travel at a speed that matches the slowest horse,…
Read MoreReading to Horses?
By Sunny Weber, President In Colorado, nothing is as iconic and western as children and horses. A new program now connects the two—the “Reading to Horses,” events sponsored by the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Mounted Unit and local elementary schools. But how and what does a child read to a horse? In May, 2021 the Arapahoe…
Read MoreBeavers Have a Hero at the Colorado Department of Transportation!
Photo by Manfred Richter by Sunny Weber, President Tim Funk, an environmental protection specialist at the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), based in Durango (CDOT Southwest Region 5), is also the wetlands subject matter expert. He has recently utilized a “beaver exclusion fence” for a project that posed a challenge to a 24…
Read MoreColorado Animal Protectors Partner in Pride: Luvin Arms Farm Sanctuary
by Sunny Weber, CAP President Arnie’s Story “The day started off quiet until Jale and Niblet started running up and down the track, notifying the team that something was the matter. We looked to see what all the commotion was and couldn’t believe our eyes. Running towards Luvin Arms from the vast open fields were…
Read MoreThe 2022 Avian Flu Pandemic
by Sunny Weber, President What is the Bird Flu? The bird flu, also known as the avian flu, refers to the disease caused by a family of flu viruses primarily transmitted between birds. The dominant virus strain circulating currently is called H5N1. It is extremely contagious among birds, who spread it by shedding the…
Read MoreLessons From a Mangy Coyote: Why Anticoagulant Rodenticides Must Go
By Guest Blogger Will Falk, Writer, Lawyer, and Environmental Activist Edited by Sunny Weber, Author, Behaviorist, Humane Educator Heartbreak in the Wild The first time I saw a coyote with mange my heart broke. Most of her fur was gone. Her skin, covered with scabs and lesions, had a sickly pink pallor. Her tail…
Read MoreColorado Animal Protectors Partner in Pride: Colorado Pet Pantry
by Sunny Weber, President Costs of living in our state have skyrocketed since I grew up. Shortly after my parents relocated from Ohio in 1954, relatives ridiculed my father’s goals and could not believe that he wanted to raise his family “in that cow town.” The entire state population was 611,000 people. Fast forward…
Read MoreSpring House Guests
By Jack Murphy, CAP Board Member & CEO of Urban Wildlife Rescue Spring is almost here and that means one thing–babies. Although mice, rats, rabbits and pigeons have young year around, most animals give birth in the spring. The majority of wild animals give birth to and raise their young outside, but squirrels and raccoons sometimes…
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