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My pet cat has grown so much.

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My family found her abandoned at 1 week old and we saved her life. She is so adorable and has grown so much. I love her so much. submitted by /u/LionDirect7287 [link] [comments]

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Flock to Marion

10,000 Birds

A family motel and passion for responsible ecotourism brought her home to the Oregon Coast where she and her husband, Erik, adventure and record a podcast ( Hannah and Erik Go Birding ), created in an effort to inspire others to get out and bird. The cats were eradicated by 1991, which left the mice population to go unchecked.

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“New York’s Kindest” includes Rock & Rawhide!

4 The Love Of Animals

Rock & Rawhide , the charity that helps increase adoption levels of dogs and cats in shelters, announced today that it is included in Animal Care & Control of NYC (AC&C)’s latest advertising campaign, “New York’s Kindest” for their donations and assistance in increasing adoption levels through distraction therapy.

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A Rehabber’s List of Worst Bird Myths

10,000 Birds

Had they been able to make the jawbone talk, no doubt its first words would be, “You can’t put a baby bird back in the nest, because the parents will smell your hands and abandon it.”. Bells keep cats from catching birds,” wrote Maureen Eiger, whose original furious email was the inspiration for this blog. million-year-old early human.

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Epic Birding Weekend Part 1: Chasing a Pacific Loon and a Western Tanager

10,000 Birds

I figured a Pacific Loon is a Pacific Loon no matter how far away it is and made the hour-drive from JFK Airport after dropping my family off Saturday morning. And when it completely abandoned Hart Cove and went around the point into Seatuck Cove and out of sight, I was even more unsure. And scanning. And scanning.

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How To Help A Baby Bird

10,000 Birds

They need another day or two to figure out how to use the flappy things on the sides of their body and yeah for a week they are going to be awkward in their movements and very vulnerable to predation (especially cats, keep them indoors) but this adults hang out and watch them. Birds of prey look cool, but they can’t count.

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Consider the Chickadee

10,000 Birds

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. And that he brought his friends and family back to my feeders. So I carefully picked him up and carried him home.

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