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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 16h

🐙 #WorldOctopusDay
Same as all animals, octopuses are sentient beings with the ability to suffer. It is our obligation to avoid harming octopuses by the fishing industry, pollution and climate change.

🚨 TAKE ACTION to ban octopus farming in the US ➡️ aldf.org/project/octopus-act-federal/

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 19h

🚨 Speak up for grizzlies. Contact your members of Congress and tell them to oppose any attempt to weaken the Endangered Species Act or delist grizzlies.
➡️ bearsbelong.com

#grizzlybears #endangeredspecies #protectwildlife #conservation

Bears Belong

bearsbelong.com

Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 19h

🐻 Grizzlies are dying at record rates in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem — and politicians are still trying to strip their federal protections.

⚠️ These bears are already squeezed by climate-driven food shortages, expanding human activity, and a system that too often treats wildlife as expendable.

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 1d

Make your windows safer by adding simple bird-friendly treatments that prevent deadly collisions. Each year, more than a billion birds are lost to glass strikes. Learn effective and inexpensive ways to protect birds as they migrate south ➡️ stopbirdcollisions.org
🔄 @cornellbirds.bsky.social

Stop Bird Collisions

Birds flying into windows, railings, balusters, and other structures made from glass is a leading cause of global bird loss.

stopbirdcollisions.org

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 1d

🐦 Migration Alert!

MILLIONS of birds are forecasted to take flight across the eastern Midwest over the next few days. Help keep them safe by turning off all nonessential lights between 11pm - 6am. Bright lights can disorient migrating birds.

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 1d

Two elk squared off in Gatlinburg. It's elk rut season when the males spar to establish dominance and defend their harems for mating.

Elk can be dangerous, especially during rut. Please give them plenty of space.🦌

#protectwildlife

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 2d

If you’re still consuming dairy that means a baby cow isn't. They've been stolen from the comfort of their mother & fed milk replacer to become a milk machine. Male calves are killed between birth - 4 months old because they're useless to the dairy industry. 🐄

Let dairy die 🪦 #DitchDairy

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 2d

Memphis & Nashville activists encouraged circus goers in Memphis to boycott the animal cruelty of Carden Circus. The circus is no fun for animals. 🚫🎪🐘

🚨 TAKE ACTION
peta.vg/44e6

🗣 Please join us Oct 11 & 12 to protest all 3 Carden Circus shows in Nashville
facebook.com/share/1A2KvgmyP7/

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 3d

“They are easily, by far, the most important of all predators on insects.” If spiders were to disappear, “there’d probably be little room left for mammals like us, because we’d be so overrun with insects.” says Rod Crawford, curator of arachnids at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. 🕸

Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 3d

🕷 Your garden is a habitat full of wildlife, and while predators like the praying mantis and the ladybug tend to be celebrated, there’s another that’s more often reviled: the spider.

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 4d

🌳🍂 When you let leaves stay, they become nutrients for the soil, homes for wildlife, and protection for the roots. Nature already knows how to recycle — we just need to get out of the way. 🌎✨🦋

🎥 newconsciousworld (IG)

#leavetheleaves #climateaction #autumn #protectwildlife #worldanimalday

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 4d

On dairy farms, calves are taken so humans can have their mothers’ milk. 💔

Hanni’s story is different — at 11, she is still with her sons, free to be a mother. 🐄

#DitchDairy #EndAnimalAg #WorldAnimalDay

🎥 moustace_farmer (IG)
🔄 @dairy-truth.com

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 4d

#WorldAnimalDay 🦥🦉🐠🦆🐎
We must learn to appreciate the beauty & diversity of all animals. Recognize & respect their sentience while ending our contribution towards their exploitation. Animals play a crucial role in their ecosystems.

Veganism is a moral baseline to protect animals & our shared world.

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 5d

Animal agriculture goes in our #burnbook 😎

#october3rd #meangirls #endanimalag #govegan

Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 5d

🦉 Tips for wildlife #Halloween safety

How to Make Halloween Safer for Wildlife

Halloween can be a dangerous holiday for our wild animal neighbors! Between entangling decorations, shorter days and the temptations of candy and pumpkins, animals face a lot of hazards this month. Le...

discoverwildcare.org

Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 5d

🕸 Skip the fake webs—protect wildlife!

🐦 Spiderweb decorations can trap birds, insects, bats, chipmunks & even spiders leading to countless deaths each fall.

🎃 Make Halloween spooky without harming wildlife
• Pumpkins + gourds
• Dried corn stalks
• Paper lanterns
• Wreaths with autumn leaves

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 5d

🐻🐻 Bears are smart, curious and love to explore, but at Three Bears General Store, they have have nothing to do but pace back and forth and beg tourists for food 💔

Urge Three Bears General Store to close the pit and send the bears to an accredited sanctuary
➡️ peta.vg/3yfu

#EndCaptivity

Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 6d

Join us to protest animal abuse at Carden International Circus in Nashville. Animals perform under threat of the bullhook or whip. Animal cruelty isn't entertainment. Circus animals deserve sanctuary, not screaming kids, chains & cages. 🎪🐘

Event 🔗 facebook.com/share/1BRqpwwMQ3/

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 6d

#WorldDayForFarmedAnimals 🐓
Each year +80 BILLION land animals & +120 BILLION fish are farmed & slaughtered, suffering from disgusting confinement, mutilations, diseases, stress, physical & emotional trauma, & denied motherhood & natural behaviors. 💔 #GoVegan
nashvilleanimaladvocacy.org/resources

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 7d

Farewell to the esteemed and inspirational Dr. Jane Goodall. Thank you for your legendary work and dedication to a kinder world. 🪽

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 7d

#NationalBlackDogDay intends to bring awareness to black dog syndrome, a phenomenon in which black dogs are passed over for adoption in favor of lighter-colored dogs, simply because their sweet features may not stand out against their dark fur. Black dogs are just as loving & silly as other dogs. 🐾

Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 7d

With great sadness, the Jane Goodall Institute confirmed this morning the passing of Dr. Jane Goodall, age 91 who died peacefully in her sleep while in Los Angeles, CA for her speaking tour in the United States. 🪽

janegoodall.org/RememberingJane

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 7d

Hello October 🎃

October symbolizes the changing season with vibrant fall foliage, crisp autumn air & fall harvest celebrations. 🍂

It's also when animals are preparing to overwinter with food storage, building fat reserves & restoring shelters. Please be mindful of their survival activities.🦌

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 8d

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 8d

❌️🥚 BREAKING DOWN THE BACKYARD CHICKEN MYTH
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Think backyard eggs are the “humane” solution? Think again.⁠
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veganreportpodcast latest episode exposes the uncomfortable truths about backyard chickens that the industry doesn't want you to know.

🎧 rss.com/podcasts/veganreport/2214334/
➡️ @egg-truth.com

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