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Adoptive family seeks award for bomb dog that went to war
News Published: Wed, June 19, 2013
Ruby and Wade Ridpath with their combat veteran dog, Carlos, who served five years as an explosive-detecting dog in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Ridpaths nominated Carlos for the American Humane Association Hero Dog Awards in the military dog category. by Erin Prater erin.prater@gazette.com – “Bring him home.” As Ruby Ridpath typed those words into an [...]
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Life
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo’s ‘gentlest giraffe’ dies at age 32
Life Published: Tue, June 18, 2013
Courtesy of the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo The Gazette – The most recognizable giraffe at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, known for her unique, nearly all-white coloring, died Tuesday morning due to complications of old age. Becky, a 32-year-old reticulated giraffe, had been on a “quality of life watch” for about a year and a half, the [...]
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A&E
DOG DAYS OF SUMMER: The dogs who went Hollywood
Arts & Entertainment Published: Tue, June 18, 2013
by t.d. mobley-martinez tracy@coloradosprings.com – I love dogs. And I’m not alone. Which is probably why they have found themselves pictured or portrayed since men began to walk upright. Cave paintings and Egyptian murals. Those “Blue Dog” paintings. Tin Tin’s Snowy, L. Frank Baum’s Toto in “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” Astro, Scooby Doo and [...]
Sports
Sky Sox use Chris Volstad’s pitching, solid defense to top Tacoma 4-1
Sports Published: Tue, June 18, 2013
by JOE PAISLEY joe.paisley@gazette.com – Colorado Springs starter Chris Volstad got into a rhythm and the Sky Sox defense came up with three big double plays to down Tacoma 4-1 Tuesday night. The first two double plays ended Rainier scoring threats in the second and seventh innings and the final, a line drive grab by [...]
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Business
New hires, promotions & honors
Business Published: Wed, June 19, 2013
The Gazette – Tom Reiter has been named chief executive officer and president of Rocky Mountain Health Care Services, which provides a continuum of services to people who are elderly, blind, brain injured, disabled or living with diabetes or AIDS. Reiter will start July 1. He has more than 23 years experience in health-care organizations, [...]
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Military
Army show at home base brings a case of nerves for Fort Carson soldier
Military Published: Mon, June 10, 2013
In The Soldier Show, the stars of the show are not only performers, but soldiers. The Soldier Show travels the world to entertain our soldiers and their families. The show came to Ft. Carson on Thursday, May 30, 2013. (Jerilee Bennett, The Gazette) by erin prater erin.prater@gazette.com – hen the Army’s “Soldier Show” rolled into [...]
And the Romans once slaughtered humans for entertainment, are you going to cry about that also?
Um, who said anything about crying?
Not exactly sure what you point is, Mr. Rightswatcher.
@David Ramsey:
Thanks for bringing this esoteric bit of Olympic history to our attention, David. I had not heard of this before.
I imagine it was well in line with the sport of passenger pigeon shooting, back in the day when millions of those birds were on the wing. In fact, I’m curious if the steep decline in passenger pigeon populations, and eventual extinction, cast more of a negative light on the Olympic version than the idea of animal cruelty did.
Amused, actually market hunting was the demise of the passenger pigeon, not sport or Olympic shoots. Seems as if one time there was a high demand at fancy eating establishments.
David Ramsey-Be advised pigeon shoots are still very much in vogue in Europe and parts of the USA. After a good days shoot the local restaurants serve them up. No difference than slaughtered beef, chicken, lamb, hogs, ducks or lobsters from a holding tank. But just a minute, there is a difference, the pigeon can fly to freedom and have been know to do so.
@rightswatcher:
I am well aware that commercial hunting (in conjunction with habitat destruction) was far more responsible for the extinction of the passenger pigeon than sport hunting ever was.
My point was that due to the timing, efforts to save the PP from extinction were being attempted right about the same time as the Paris Olympics were being conducted in 1900, and I was wondering if guilt over this imminent extinction was more of a driving force in eliminating the sport from the Olympic program than just a generic “animal cruelty” argument. Even though PP were not being used as the targets in the Olympics, there could well have been carryover sentiment toward the common birds that were employed.
However, I have since looked into it and found that it was indeed the involvement of animal rights activists that led do its downfall.
BTW, the commercial hunting of passenger pigeons wasn’t conducted as much to serve the tastes of the East Coast elite, as it was to feed the poor in the big cities and the slaves…many of whom would rarely, if ever, taste any other kind of meat.