Critter News

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Scores of abandoned dogs, cats and livestock from Utah animal shelters become subjects of laboratory research at the University of Utah each year. They say cats and dogs at the lab get excellent veterinary care and survivors are placed into a volunteer-run adoption program. From the AP.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

In the morning, still sleepy, we enter the jungle, where a sounder of Indian Boars (a long-maned subspecies Sus scrofa cristatus ) is watching us, standing among the first trees, right next to the road. One White-eyed Buzzard has turned its back to us. It is too early to show.

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Animal Person

JULY 8, 2009

Here's a Gray Matter for you (or maybe not): A humane society near me is doing a cat- and dog-adoption promotion this month. You can adopt a dog for $75 rather than $100, and if you adopt a cat for $50 you can get a second one for half the price. Two questions: 1. What do you think about discounted adoptions (or even giveaways)?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

If the crows can distinguish between UCA and HCA, they should treat UCA related events with caution, but be more indifferent to events caused by a HCA, unless of course the HCA is a cat. The next graph shows the average number of times per trial that the crow decided to abandon an effort to get at the food.

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Animal Person

MAY 22, 2009

So here I am, on the third anniversary of Animal Person, asking for advice that has nothing to do with veganism or animal rights (and I've tweeted about this so some of you already know what's coming). The good news is that, including the kittens' mom, there are only four cats remaining at the site who need to be sterilized!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2011

I know about the common mistakes people make when they find young birds, assuming that because they’re on the ground with no other birds in sight they must be abandoned or in need of rescue. Even though I was too ignorant to identify the bird, the intake volunteer on the desk recognized him right away.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

If you are looking for a use of a cardboard box, one of the more interesting ideas is to use it to house an abandoned juvenile Striated Heron. ” It is a bit similar with my cats – I like to watch them eat but rarely wait until they throw up. Many birdwatchers seem satisfied merely in the identification of birds.”

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

He is happy the bluebird has returned and he hopes that it will nest by his house in “Downy’s cell,&# that is, the abandoned hole of a Downy Woodpecker. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2011

The thought of an Oriole foraging in bare winter branches is as foreign as a Petrel on a pool and yet, there it was in my yard picking through an abandoned squirrel’s nest for what appeared to be spiders. Wicked, right? Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

He sat…his crown giving searing shafts of violet as the light caught the feathers at just the right angle. Complementing Dunn’s exquisite descriptions are his photographs of 27 species plus the mysterious Nazca hummingbird geoglyph, an abandoned Juan Fernández Firecrown nest, and the aforementioned photo of Sr.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

Now, most people are dealing with grackles on their northward migration right now. If you have been feeding black-oil sunflower and suddenly switch to straight safflower, birds will abandon your feeders. Wicked, right? Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct.

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Reddit Animals

JANUARY 11, 2024

I have two cats: Tj (F, 10) and Mango (M, 3). She is an outside cat so she would spend some of the day outside and then come inside and chill with me and sleep inside. Eventually, they would even buy cat food to feed Tj because she would be around their house often. He has still remained as an inside cat.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. You’re read or seen Jurassic Park , right? (No On the WCS web page, Ms. What happened to Thelma and Louise?

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 21, 2009

When I informed Dave of what Emily and I were doing, he reminded me that some frogs are fatally poisonous to cats. He started frolicking with abandon in the dried green moss at the base of Bob, our resident Spathophylum. And right before my eyes, I discovered that Muscovy ducks eat frogs. So much for the predator instinct.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 22, 2009

A fun and easy holiday treat to make for your dog, and for the other dogs in your life, can be found right here. Get down on the floor and play, maybe even invent a new game with your dog or cat. If dogs have to be in a shelter, at least they will be more comfortable. Love that they are a great alternative to store bought treats!

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