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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.

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Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Book Review

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Rather than painting all bird images to face the same direction, as is customary in many field guides, the Navarro combines images of the bird looking left, right, up, even right at you, the sums of the images creating compositions of diagonal lines, circles, and mirror images. Press in 2003. Raffaele, James, Wiley, Orlando H.

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

4 The Love Of Animals

Instead, he simply points at the cup on the right. In some cases, their research suggests that our pets are manipulating us rather than welling up with human-like feeling. What’s at play here, she concluded, is not some inner sense of right and wrong but a learned ability to act submissive when an owner gets angry.

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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. That’s right…. The former condition obviously improved rapidly over time as luminous new blogs populated our starry skies.

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Do Birds Feel Love?

10,000 Birds

It’s easy to observe this attachment behavior in parrots, especially pets. She’d then climb down my leg, waddle across the room, climb up Bill’s jeans, and bite him, once right in the middle of his back. In 2003, I raised three orphaned ruby-throats from the early pinfeather stage to release at around 30 days of age.

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