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Hard for Russian Veterinarians to Use Anesthesia Due to Russian Drug Laws

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Ketamine has long been used for operating on animals throughout the world, but when it came in vogue as a party drug in the late 1990s, Russia's response was to ban the substance entirely in 2003. It is really painful for your pets to undergo operations [without ketamine]," Aristov said. "It It hurts them."

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Star-Powered Auction for Animals!

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Pet lovers will be seeing stars November 5 – 15 at the Celebrity Experience and Entertainment Memorabilia Auction , launched online to support Precious Paws , a non-profit animal rescue organization based in Encino, Calif. About Precious Paws.

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Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Book Review

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In addition to habitat loss, extreme weather, invasive species, hunting, and the illegal capture of birds for pet markets are major contributing factors. Press in 2003. Raffaele, James, Wiley, Orlando H. Garrido, et al., published by Princeton Univ.

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

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In some cases, their research suggests that our pets are manipulating us rather than welling up with human-like feeling. In 2003, Hare traveled to Novosibirsk and ran his pointing test on baby foxes. .&# See TIME’s video “ The March of TIME: Hunting Dog Field Trials.&#. The ordinary ones failed miserably.

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Nature Blog Network: A Eulogy

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Other bloggers were writing about birds and nature back in 2003, some even before then, and many of us found a communal spirit sparked by comments and crosslinks that carried into the world we wrote about. The former condition obviously improved rapidly over time as luminous new blogs populated our starry skies.

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Do Birds Feel Love?

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It’s easy to observe this attachment behavior in parrots, especially pets. While we’re used to declarations that our pet parrots “love” us just as we love them, and they can be quite demonstrative in showing their affection, the evidence is thinner for wild birds. My three orphans had left for Central America in September 2003.

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