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Saving Jemima and Julie: a Book Review

10,000 Birds

— but there is apparently an entire literature about women who adopt wild birds and devote substantial portions of their lives and psyches to those birds thereafter, often for years and, necessarily, to the point of obsession. As she has done for many years and with more than twenty species, she adopted a baby bird, a blue jay.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. Reference books are supposed to be full of documentable facts, not stories from people without a PhD next to their name.

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On Coping Mechanisms

Animal Person

And I know that, for instance, I simply don't have the skill set to be an undercover person who documents abuse. I rescue, I adopt, I do TNR, and I connect others to resources to do the same. How do you deal with this and diffuse the anger and sadness that you must feel? So I take care of myself.

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