10,000 Birds
JANUARY 30, 2015
The early teen years are prime time for kids to adopt environmentalism as a cause. The human sense of fairness and empathy is strongly in place by age eight or so, while puberty sparks the sense that authority figures don’t always know best and that heady idealism that old fogies tend to see as self-righteousness.
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 1, 2010
She presents the information in a great way. Early Adopter. The Shift: Instead of buying your new friend from a pet store or breeder, adopt one from a shelter. The Shift: Instead of buying your new friend from a pet store or breeder, adopt one from a shelter. Here are a few great tips for future and current pet owners.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
And when writing a field guide, it is accepted practice to adopt one of the above and to stick to it, with any questions or disagreements safely ensconced in the text, not in an actual change of species. These are convincing, smartly presented arguments. Fantasy is the key word here. Doing this work takes time!
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
And I received confirmation of something I've known since 2004, when we adopted retired racing greyhound, Violet Rays: That there's sort of a critical period for dog-behavior acquisition, and if it's missed, the dog isn't likely to mature into the type of loving being whose behavior we've come to associate with "pet" dogs.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2014
It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. 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. Larks, for example.
4 The Love Of Animals
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
But, pets also become bona fide family members with which we establish genuine relationships—incomparable emotional bonds that can have extraordinarily positive physical and psychological impacts on humans. Having an ever-present dog or cat, for example, can help ease separation anxiety in children when mom and dad aren’t around.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 12, 2013
But its not just parrots that are doing well in their adopted city. The population has been present for at least 15 years. The population is not directly dependent on human support. Nearly 70 species of parrots have been recorded flying free at some stage or another in Miami, including Hyacinth Macaws.
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