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Can Birds Be Safe? If Only.

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Created by Nancy Brennan, Birdsbesafe looks like a stiff, brightly-colored Elizabethan collar – not the long plastic post-surgical cones that pets occasionally have to wear, but a small donut that fits around the cat’s neck without getting in the way. Her product could have a large impact on pet cat-caused bird mortality rates.

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Preparing Your Pet for Winter

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The following is a great guest post from the folks at Pet Care Education! PREPARING YOUR PET FOR WINTER. However, before you start getting comfortable for the winter months, it’s very important that you first get your pet ready for colder weather as well. Good tips for the coming cold season. INDOOR OR OUTDOOR? FOOD & WATER.

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Clean and Green Giveaway

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According to the Environmental Protection Association (EPA), typical household cleaning products and air fresheners are one of the leading contributors to poor indoor air quality. Clean+Green® are the only eco-friendly aerosol pet cleaning products on the planet. Clean+Green permanently cleans pet stains and eradicates odors.

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The Parakeet of City Streets, the Monk Parakeet

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But it is most probable that the birds are released or escaped pets. There are a lot of pet psittacines out there that escape or are released. Some articles speculate that the nests offer protection against the cold. Not many survive, and very few flourish. The answer lies in the nests.

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From Today's New York Times

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22, 2009 The writer teaches philosophy at Southern Methodist University and is the author of the forthcoming “ Animalkind: What We Owe to Animals.” How far do we go in protecting them? 22, 2009 To the Editor: I am an ethical vegan. 22, 2009 To the Editor: Gary Steiner’s case for veganism founders on the facts. Lawrence S.

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

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Read Tim’s account and enjoy his (and the Tambopata Macaw Project’s Alan Lee’s) photos judge for yourself… (NOTE: we first published this post in January 2009 but have to run it again because it is so good!) Is this one of the ornithological highlights on the planet? Licking Clay’ Text and Photographs copyright T.

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Reasons Consistently Applied

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Journal of the American Dietetics Association 109(7), July 2009: 1266-1282.] I shall endeavor to protect and take care of all living creatures. Vegetarians also appear to have lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, lower blood pressure, and lower rates of hypertension and type 2 diabetes than nonvegetarians.