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Data, safety regulations lacking when it comes to pets and vehicles

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households own dogs and 26% of households own cats out of the total U.S. population of 128 million households in 2020, according to AVMA data. However, no data exists on how many pets have been injured or killed in car accidents. Around 45% of U.S.

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Better Living Through Birding: Notes From a Black Man in the Natural World–A Book Review

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Eight years later, Christian Cooper birding Central Park became a very different kind of media image: the black man falsely accused by a white woman of threatening her life after asking her to leash her dog in the Ramble, an area where unleashed dogs are not allowed. It was the same day George Floyd was killed.

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

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And, in “The Black and White,” Sara Crosby tells the evocative tale of finding a deceased Black-and-white Warbler on Charles Street while walking her dog. Press, 2020, 304p. When Birds Are Near: Dispatches from Contemporary Writers , edited by Susan Fox Rogers. Comstock Publishing/Cornell Univ.

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Collaborative list – December 2018

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301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). Marathon Prairie Dog Town. Western Australia. 12 Jan 2018. Little Tern – Sternula albifrons. Western Australia. 01 Jan 2018. Least Tern – Sternula antillarum. 03 Apr 2018.

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