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How to befriend a wild rabbit?

Reddit Animals

I moved to an area with a small nature area that is for wildlife behind my backyard (about 1/3 acre with a small pond, trees, bushes, etc) and recently a rabbit has started coming into my backyard to snack on grass. I passed back by it a few times and did the same, though it was frozen it did not run or move after I had walked off.

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Animal Rights Zone Launches Today

Animal Person

I'm excited to be a blogger for Animal Rights Zone because its target market is people who don't usually subscribe to blogs. More >> Animals. You can search Animal Person's content (posted on AR Zone) using the search box on the right, under the AR Zone badge. Today is the launch of. Project Treadstone.

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Woman Who Posted Picture of Herself Holding Two Dead Wet Rabbits Denies Drowning Them

Critter News

The image, posted on Carlisle's Facebook page, appears to show her holding a soaked and drowned small black rabbit in each hand. Carlisle is seen smiling in the photo and a comment on the social Internet site says the animals were euthanized through drowning. Tags: animal cruelty. They died from heart disease.

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Cat Owners: Can You Help Me?

10,000 Birds

My friend Nina is an animal lover. But one day, unbeknownst to her, a wild rabbit dug under the fence. She let her dog out, he spotted the rabbit, and took off like a bullet. She let her dog out, he spotted the rabbit, and took off like a bullet. All her pets are rescues. She keeps her cats inside. Nina was distraught. “I

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

People have moved useful plants and animals around with them as long as they had the wit to do so. They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. Rabbits are still an agricultural pest. In many ways, that is exactly what happened.

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The Queen

10,000 Birds

Just before Thanksgiving, 2010, a driver spotted a Red-tailed hawk sitting on a dead rabbit in the middle of the road. She wasn’t about to leave her rabbit, and the driver figured something was wrong, so he picked her up. One of the animal keepers brought her to me, and I put her in my clinic. And to prove it, there’s The Queen.

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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

10,000 Birds

Somehow they manage to get the bird or animal to a rehabilitator, even though finding one is often a feat in itself. For one – and we’ll stick with this one issue for now – because sometimes the public decides to keep the animal they have found, just for a little while. To these people, we owe our gratitude.