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Thought experiment

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If you put some animals (both wild and domestic) on an island and left them there to roam free and we come back after a few years who would survive. Would suprisngly rodents and small animals. In my opinion dogs would be the first to go. From the ones that have a good chance to survive. Horses have a good chance.

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On Dominance and Animal Birth Control

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Yesterday, regarding being a minority within a minority , mikey commented (among other things): While I am fairly new subscriber to this blog, therefore not knowing your particular stance, I've often felt like a minority within a minority for my stance on animal birth control. Hence, it's a Gray Matter.) And this is one of them.

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A True Mouse Anecdote -- does anyone have a similar story?

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I have read that they "self domesticate" -- just like feral wolves will occasionally befriend humans, so apparently will mice. I even met a feral racoon at like 3 or 4 am. Because the mouse in my apartment, after I guess it figured I meant it no harm, one night came into my bedroom, stood on its hind legs and looked at me.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

10,000 Birds

He also had tigers, cougars, and some other animals. I new him because we enlisted his Dryfus Lion and one of his tigers to carry out experiments with bones (this is something archaeologists do). I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. That was one of his cats.

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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

10,000 Birds

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. I wish for a federal law prohibiting domestic and feral cats from roaming free outdoors. It’s August, and first on the menu is: Fried Rehabber. Summer is high season. Change in Law. That’s easy!”

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Falconry – Bloodsport or Alternative Form of Birding?

10,000 Birds

During the filming of this production, I got to experience “dirt hawking&#. There are many examples in the animal world of pack behavior. I have never been one to advocate the needless killing of animals for whatever purpose. Raptors are wild animals that are driven by their instinct to find food.

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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

10,000 Birds

About a quarter of the world’s Brown Bears live in Europe (including the Russian part of it), some 55,000, divided into nine separate and evermore fragmented populations – some of them dangerously tiny, a dozen or two dozen animals only. After all, bears are solitary and elusive animals. Feral Pigeon – Columba livia dom.

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