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How Pets Can Improve Your Health

4 The Love Of Animals

But, pets also become bona fide family members with which we establish genuine relationships—incomparable emotional bonds that can have extraordinarily positive physical and psychological impacts on humans. Having an ever-present dog or cat, for example, can help ease separation anxiety in children when mom and dad aren’t around.

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Sibley Birds East & Sibley Birds West: A Review

10,000 Birds

Am I willing to give up the field guide which bears the mud and dirt of so many falls on so many birding trips? It gets very confusing when I’m trying to look at subspecies descriptions in multiple field guides (“Slate-Colored Fox Sparrow” in Sibley West, for example, is “Western Slate-colored Group” in Stokes West).