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H1N1 and your pets.

4 The Love Of Animals

With the latest news of finding the virus in a cat, here is an update about the H1N1 virus and how it affects your pets. The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and the American Association of Feline Practitioners (AAFP) are reminding pet owners monitor their pets’ health closely. Pet pigs may contract swine flu.

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San Francisco Considers Banning Pet Sales

Critter News

Pet sales would be banned altogether, except for the sale of pet fish. All companion animals including dogs, cats, hamsters, mice, rats, chinchillas, guinea pigs, birds, snakes, and lizards would be considered as pets. I can't believe the pet industry would allow such legislation without a fight.

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H1N1 and Your Pets

4 The Love Of Animals

It can spread to other pets however, such as turkeys and pigs. You should also be careful if you have a pet bird as they have sensitive respiratory systems that are susceptible to other human illnesses (such as colds). H1N1 and Your Pets originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on October 20, 2009.

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If you live near a petco

Reddit Animals

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. It's so f *d and all of these little lives are considered "property" please don't buy from the pet store. Each other.

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

10,000 Birds

Not only do we take care of zillions of injured and orphaned birds/mammals/reptiles/whatever, we also have to deal with and educate the public. I had a finder bring me a bird he’d correctly ID’d as a merlin – a not-too-common falcon – but when he brought him in, I could see he’d been trying to feed it BIRD SEED!”

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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

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Motomco’s Material Safety Data Sheet for “Hawk” warns that the product “is extremely toxic to fish, birds, and other wildlife” and that “dogs and predatory and scavenging mammals and birds might be poisoned if they feed upon animals that have eaten this bait.”

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Animals Have Personalities? No WAY!

Animal Person

Angier writes: "Scientists studying animals from virtually every niche of the bestial kingdom have found evidence of distinctive personalities — bundled sets of behaviors, quirks, preferences and pet peeves that remain stable over time and across settings." Angier can't resist writing: "A bird in the lab worked like a bird in the bush."

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