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5 Pet Projects to Bring the Family Together

4 The Love Of Animals

If your family is starting to get a little stir-crazy as summer winds on, it’s a good idea to find constructive ways to keep everybody occupied. Coat a pie pan or cookie sheet with cooking spray , and then spread your feeder goop evenly. Then, the whole family can braid the fabric into the desired shapes. Make pet toys.

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Rename All Birds Named After White People

10,000 Birds

And we poor birders have to use those names because otherwise no one will know what bird we are checking off our list and bragging about having spotted to fellow birders, bored families, and unimpressed romantic interests. Well, no more!

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Victoria’s Riflebird, a Bird-of-paradise

10,000 Birds

There are few families of birds as bewitching as the birds-of-paradise. They have been a crucial part of the culture of the islands and forests where they are found for the last 50,000 years, and were amongst the first animals of the East to make it back to Europe with the earliest Portugese and Spanish explorations.

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On Teaching Children

Animal Person

Farmer writes about the Creative Cooks Culinary Center in Brooklyn, where kids 5 to 11-years old are taught cooking in a place "that treats the culinary arts as an anthropological adventure." For me, the focus on culture and tradition is basically an excuse for "anything goes" when it comes to animals. One is male.

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Dog Collars

4 The Love Of Animals

Archaeology has demonstrated that humans were crafting collars for their animals at least 7000 years ago and the possibility that this is a conservative estimate is large. In situations where dogs were primarily guarding domestic animals, collars tended to have studs or spikes to frustrate the jaws of a marauding wolf.

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Guest Post: Understanding Pet Food Labels

4 The Love Of Animals

watch out for animals fats which are all highly preserved. Raw diets require strict discipline by the pet owner to avoid cross contamination of the raw pet food with their own food or family members. Fresh Cooked diets are becoming more popular as an alternative to the raw.

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On "The Road" and Humanity

Animal Person

Bad guys treat humans the way they'd treat animals. They corral them, lock them up, and take them out to kill, cook and eat them as needed. Even the good guys sometimes treat people the way they'd treat animals. But more important is that the man has a family: a wife, a boy, a girl and. They hunt them down in "the wild."

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