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Can A Hawk Carry Off Your 12-Pound Pet?

10,000 Birds

No hawk can carry off a 12-pound pet. No hawk can carry off a 3-pound pet. That did not stop a New Jersey animal shelter from publishing this rabble-rousing flyer on Facebook, all written in alarming red capital letters: PARK RANGERS AND VET OFFICES ARE PUTTING OUT WARNINGS. The answer is: no.

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Regarding Snow Leopards

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5 things to know about pets and pests

4 The Love Of Animals

5 ways to de-bug your pet this spring: Ticks can be difficult to spot. 5 things to know about pets and pests originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on June 1, 2010. Tags: guest post pet care. Ticks are tiny, some about the size of a pin head. They can resemble freckles, moles or even specks of dirt.

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1,200+ Canines Don Tiaras & ‘Tails’ This Week for Doggy Proms

4 The Love Of Animals

More than 600 doggy couples – decked out in bow ties and boas, tiaras and tails — will attend one of 38 Doggy Proms hosted by Best Friends Pet Care at its doggy day camp centers across the country. Pet parents can log in from home or the office to Best Friends doggy cams and watch the fun on their computers or smartphones.

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Paws UP for Union Township Animal Shelter

4 The Love Of Animals

Across the country, Rock & Rawhide (R&R) will produce a series of music, art and culinary events designed to bring together various communities to collectively make donations for animals at kill shelters. Union Township Animal Shelter goes without the great importance of a washer and dryer. pounds with a value of $42,923.50…and

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Beagles Rescued from Bankrupt Lab

Critter News

On Friday, the beagles — owned by a research facility in New Jersey whose parent pharmaceutical company went into bankruptcy — were released to the care of animal rescue groups that, after socializing them, hope to adopt them out as family pets. Tags: animal research dogs Best Friends animal laboratories.

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Is fostering the answer? We think it is.

4 The Love Of Animals

NEW JERSEYAnimal shelters are full, they have no space, they often have no money, and they have a small amount of dedicated volunteers. Many of these boarding animals are forgotten. There is an estimated 3-4million pets euthanized each year in US animal shelters. That’s 10,000 per day on average.

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