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California Budget Woes May Lead to More Shelter Deaths

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It's the constant and conscious culture of killing animals in this society that I absolutely hate. Tags: animal shelter management euthanization california strays. It's not the animals' fault that they have found themselves in this situation. Thanks to LA Unleashed for the story.

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It’s Time to Clean Out Your Nest Boxes

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Birds can be attracted to your home simply by offering food, water and shelter. Tangles of wild plants and dense undergrowth left to thrive in chosen areas of your property will provide shelter, protection, and natural nesting and roosting sites. If you don’t kill the adult wasp, she will soon return and rebuild.

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Cliff Swallows and Pest Management

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The term “take” is defined as killing a listed species but also includes “harm,” which is defined in regulation as including “significant habitat modification or degradation where it actually kills or injures wildlife by significantly impairing essential behavioral patterns, including breeding, feeding, or sheltering 2.

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The Animal Legal Defense Fund Public Registries

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They are pioneering legislation in California to make public animal abuse registries. Please take time to read it, and if you are in California, get in touch with your representative and encourage them to support this if you believe it’s a good thing. . – Two months later, he killed another neighbor’s Welsh Corgi with an ax.

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My Subtropical Bird Garden

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Every other year or so, we experience the lightest of frosts, nothing killing, and our warmest temperatures (in the 80s and 90s) occur in late spring. We share some plant options with southern California, and others with Florida. My climate is very wet in the summer, and bone-dry in the winter. Mostly, we don’t let them.

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

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The Service also proposes expanding hunting and sport fishing on the following refuges: California. It provides shelter for many songbirds and water-associated animals, including the river otter, turtles, beaver, American pelicans, ospreys, and migratory songbirds. Rose Lake National Wildlife Refuge : Open to sport fishing.

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