1.   Some of them were skinny, he said, because people had given him sick animals to nurse back to health.

2.   The groups are asking the U. S. Department of Agriculture to do a better job of identifying sick animals before slaughter.

3.   This does not necessarily mean sick animals - many are perfectly healthy, just unwanted.

4.   THE experience of putting down sick animals may make veterinarians more likely to consider taking their own lives, a Government report suggested yesterday.

5.   And just as the body of a sick animal will fall prey to parasites, a terrible plague of lice spread in the camp.

6.   And some very sick animals are killed.

7.   And the last team is talking with local veterinarians for suspicious cases of sick animals and could assist the county medical examiner in reviewing any unexplained or suspicious deaths.

8.   Caring for sick animals is a full-time job and can be draining.

9.   I spent a few years as a vet tech in private practice taking care of sick animals, assisting with surgery and dealing with the pet owners.

10.   If animals grazed in fields where sick animals had urinated, they might become infected.