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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

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People have moved useful plants and animals around with them as long as they had the wit to do so. So that New Zealand would end up with quite a few species of animal not originally found here is hardly surprising of itself. Brush-tailed Possums were brought from Australia to help start a fur industry.

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Keep finding decapitated mice/rats under car

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We do have a possum and a raccoon that live somewhere on the property. Ocassional robins, sparrows, crows. I have never once seen a cat anywhere in my neighborhood. or even this city for that matter. None of my neighbors have cats and I'm only aware of one dog owner blocks away. Lots of squirrels, chipmunks, deer, rabbits.

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