Animal Clock

If you own a pool and love animals (or at least don't hate them) then you need a FrogLog. It's remarkably effective at saving animals from one of the cruelest deaths imaginable. @thefroglog froglog.us

@CorcoranDesi Yes. I'd strongly recommend taking a look at 'What A Fish Knows' by @Jonathanpb1959 to learn more about fish sentience and the brilliant scientific studies that have been developed to evaluate fish pain sensitivity.

@animal_clock Have you scientific proof for that

Fish feel pain. Like other vertebrates, many fish have evolved complex nervous systems allowing them to feel and react to painful stimuli. Some fish demonstrate avoidance behavior for months following a painful experience. 🐟

@NikkiHJ4 @DaveLewis12 Our problem was never really with the shepherds. It's with intensive factory farming and animal suffering. Recognize that we're into a fairly absurd hypothetical at this point. There will always be farms and sanctuaries. Species extinction is not one of the possible outcomes.

@DaveLewis12 @animal_clock … and it would see an end to any of the rare, and the ancient breeds whose lines have been nurtured for hundreds of years.

Every animal deserves the opportunity to live a happy life; to be able to look up at the sky and dream. 🐷 #FriendsNotFood

@DaveLewis12 @NikkiHJ4 All fair questions. Outside the field of our expertise. From what I gather, wild cows wear down their hooves naturally from walking. Wild sheep naturally shed their coats and not need shearing. Domestic sheep, selectively bred for wool production may forever need human care.

@animal_clock @NikkiHJ4 Please explain how? Don't forget simple health like shearing a sheep, trimming hooves, etc. How you stop inbreeding? How you stop farm animals destroying the eco system, maintain pasture, etc, etc?

@DaveLewis12 @NikkiHJ4 You raised concerns of both animal extinction and rampant overpopulation. What we're saying is that there's a third and far more likely outcome somewhere between those two extremes.

@animal_clock @NikkiHJ4 So as I've been saying, farm animals will become extinct as so many need a farmer's intervention in their care, suplimentry feeding, husbandry, etc?

@DaveLewis12 @NikkiHJ4 As demand for meat declines, the industry slows breeding... fewer new animals replace ones that are killed for food production (chickens are slaughtered at: 7 weeks, pigs: 7 months, cows: 2-3 years). The population gradually declines.

@DaveLewis12 @NikkiHJ4 No. To be clear, there's no scenario in which billions of farmed animals are released at once into the wild. Farmed animals are bred into existence and slaughtered over a relatively short time span. Humans have great control over farmed animal populations.

@ulrik_gh That's more of an opinion.

Fact: Pigs are as smart as dogs. And when they're little, can be just as cute. Follow @animal_clock for more farm animal facts. 🐷

@JanSobieskiPW Pigs and humans and many other animals dream. There are some really interesting studies that have been done to figure out what other animals dream about. nationalgeographic.com/animals/articl…

@animal_clock How do you tell that a pig has a dream?

@Nadshots It's a great point. Our focus is on improving animal welfare and reducing meat consumption and waste. 26% of U.S. retail meat ends up in the trash. People can help reduce animal suffering even if they're not ready to make a dramatic diet change.

@animal_clock Your're up against humanity's universal love of bacon, and their preference for decently nourished, healthy children. I really don't see how you can win this one.

@LogKa11 Pigs can look up... just not straight up. Sitting on their haunches, they get a pretty good view of the sky. They can also tilt their head to the side or lay down for a solid sky view.

What’s funny about this is that pigs can’t even look up at the sky

@BarbaraBeKind Look closer. 🙂

@animal_clock All animals deserve compassion or just dogs?

RT if you believe that all animals deserve compassion regardless of their shape or size. animalclock.org

@NikkiHJ4 @DaveLewis12 There's quite a lot of open land not occupied by humans. Even in populated areas, you'll find deer, geese, rabbits, wild turkeys and plenty of other animals not raised for food. Southern states are dealing with a feral pig overpopulation problem right now.

@animal_clock @DaveLewis12 Who is going to look after them, provide medical care and somewhere for them to “roam free”? BTW, what are you going to feed all the big cats in the breeding programmes that keep some species from becoming extinct?

@DaveLewis12 Not following. Animals have been doing it for millions of years without our help.

@animal_clock Don't be silly. If no income no one breeds them. No breeding they go extinct. Basic biology.....

@SoundEngUK @xReality_Checkx No dumb questions. Yes, without factory farming, there would be far fewer farm animals. I think the question is whether more lives are always better? Is existence always a good thing regardless of the degree of guaranteed suffering.

@xReality_Checkx @animal_clock Not entirely sure how you work that out... Pigs are domesticated animals, if we don't breed them, they cease to exist. I'm not sure how realising that is "dumb"

@TGC_Cartoonist Regarding #2, does the humane treatment rule only apply to the method of slaughter or to the treatment of the animal through its entire life?

@DaveLewis12 No. Not extinct. Just not bred by the billion into very brief lives of cruelty and neglect on factory farms.

@animal_clock Friends? Seems @animal_clock wants farm animals to become extinct! If not all, all, bar the very pretty ones that may end up in a zoo?!

@BaptistCarlo @RealUtahMan No. We were just suggesting reading up on modern industrial farms, which is where the vast majority of farmed animals actually live.

@RealUtahMan @animal_clock Google the extreme so you can see what we want you to think is the norm. I got not but farms all around me, and they're living good lives, though maybe not the chickens cause of the constant quarantines from the gov.

@RealUtahMan Bing "factory farm".

@JamieGavin20 You ate a dog?

@animal_clock They are tastier than dogs though.

@RealUtahMan Google "factory farm".