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Adopt-a-Pet.com Guest Post

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The following is a guest post from the amazing animal lovers of Adopt-a-Pet.com. Adopt-a-Pet.com is the world’s largest non-profit pet adoption website. Sadly there are 4 million healthy adoptable companion animals killed in shelters each year due to overcrowding. Tags: guest post.

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On the Keeping of Endangered Fishes

Animal Person

Assuming that the fish are kept in a large aquarium that mimics their natural habitat, and that the keeper treats the fish as family (as they would a rescued dog, cat, rabbit, etc.), would you see keeping these fish confined in an aquarium as a rescue effort or as a selfish act by humans that interferes with Nature?

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San Francisco Considers Banning Pet Sales

Critter News

Pet sales would be banned altogether, except for the sale of pet fish. If it passes, San Francisco residents would have to go to a shelter or rescue group to adopt an animal. Tags: california san francisco legislation pets. Sounds good, but I just don't believe this will pass.

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Male Ruddy Ducks Oxyura jamaicensis in Basic Plumage

10,000 Birds

Tags: digiscoping , ducks , jamaica bay • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Jochen: I like that name and I might just have to adopt it. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. There is something for everyone at 10,000 Clicks ! Get yours today!

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Getting out of line

10,000 Birds

Ospreys are so common here that when I noticed one on a branch eating a fish, I pointed it out to a chap nearby who remarked, “Hmmm, nice fish.&# The nom de blog Redgannet was adopted to add an air of mystery and to make himself more attractive to women. There are more at the Orlando, Florida post on Redgannet.

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See OCEANS, Save Oceans!

4 The Love Of Animals

These filmmakers have given us the pleasure of looking over their shoulders—of doing what I have dreamed of being able to do—to get in a school of fish, to be a dolphin, to be a whale—and swim along with them,” said Dr. Sylvia Earle, Explorer in Residence at the National Geographic Society. Tags: events. See OCEANS, Save Oceans!

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Conserving the Future: Bold Bird Ideas

10,000 Birds

Fish and Wildlife Service desperately needs your feedback as they craft a new vision for our National Wildlife Refuge System. The results will inform a vision document to be adopted in July 2011 at a national conference to guide the NWR system for wildlife protection into the next decade and beyond.

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