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Humane rat control?

Reddit Animals

Hello, We have some big fat rats in our backyard. At night I hear things on the roof but dont know if its possums, cats, rats, who knows. I dont want to kill them. I cant purchase a cat because we are not allowed animals in our rental. They seem to know each other. They hang out in one of our trees. Ive seen 3.

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Weird animal

Reddit Animals

it had the face of a capybara but the body and tail of a rat and about maybe a foot or less long im in the Appalachian mountains in a very rural area never seen anything like it before it killed one of my cats and hurt another (pretty sure the one that died went into shock and the one thats hurt now will be okay) other people in my town has said they (..)

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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

10,000 Birds

Let me introduce my guest blogger, Lisa Owens Viani, co-founder of the California-based group RATS ( Raptors Are The Solution ), which educates people about the dangers of rat poisons. I’ll leave today’s blog in her capable hands. Syngenta warns that “Talon” is “hazardous to dogs, cats, pigs, poultry and other wildlife.”

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If you live near a petco

Reddit Animals

trigger warning for animal death neglect abuse and torture Please please please for the love of God or whatever you believe in do NOT buy animals from them. The ginuea pig cages are small with very little toys same with the rat cages. They also sometimes house rats and Guinea pigs alone wich will cause depression.

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Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer

10,000 Birds

Thus the decision was made to kill 3,600 Barreds, and it’s hard to fault the inescapable logic of doing so, as one Audubon Society director expressed it: On the one hand, killing thousands of owls is completely unacceptable. Other animal control issues that involve mass killing make for easier decisions, according to Peter P.

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On "Knockout Animals"

Animal Person

Today's New York Times gives us Adam Shriver's Op-Ed " Not Grass-Fed, But at Least Pain-Free ," which presents its dilemma at the end: If we cannot avoid factory farms altogether, the least we can do is eliminate the unpleasantness of pain in the animals that must live and die on them. It would be far better than doing nothing at all.

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Military Used Pigs in Brain Injury Research

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For an 11-month period that ended in December, researchers subjected pigs and rats to about 200 blasts, according to Pentagon documents and interviews. The explosions have ranged in intensity, wounding some of the pigs and killing others. car companies used live animals, including pigs, for crash tests until the early 1990s.

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