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Outdoor/Feral Cat Problem? Call the SWAT Team

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Thanks to groups like Alley Cat Allies, outdoor and feral cats have become above the law. Enough hand-wringing, enough taking butchered birds to exhausted, emotionally drained wildlife rehabilitators. Human rights, property rights, and wildlife rights – all in one steel container. It’s time for this to end.

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When Feeding Birds Runs Amuck

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Feeding birds is generally regarded as a harmless past-time, a wholesome way for people to share nature and enjoy wildlife with the family. Sometimes people find themselves the victims of ill-informed home owners associations that have a phobic view of wildlife. How do you know when you are a little too involved with feeding birds?

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Birding Protection Island, Washington

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at least one Bald Eagle is required by law to sit on this sign for an hour every day young Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus While waiting for the salmon to spawn the eagles have an easy life, occasionally raiding the gull colony for fat young birds, and otherwise loafing on and around the island.