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RATS, Raptors, and Reckitt Benckiser

10,000 Birds

Mice/rats in your house or business? When queried, he admitted he had recently hired a local company to get rid of the mice in his house. When queried, he admitted he had recently hired a local company to get rid of the mice in his house. Call the pest control company. Alert: they’re lying. He seemed baffled.

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African Pythons Targeted for Removal

10,000 Birds

The analysis of Python stomach contents indicates that they eat mammals, as small as mice, and as large as a fully grown deer. Given the possibility for expansion onto the Florida Everglades and potential hybridization with the Burmese Python, local and State stakeholders organized search and capture campaigns.

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Make Your Cat an Indoor Cat

10,000 Birds

I can remember when I was a kid we always had a bunch of cats that had the freedom to go in and out as they pleased and I can remember the dead things they brought home, everything from mice to snakes to baby bunnies to birds. Below is a list of resources that will help you and your pet make the transition.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

New Zealand has been the recipient of a higher than average number of introduced species, in particular a range of mammals from elk to mice. This is quite a big deal for an island group that had no mammals save bats for millions of years. In New Zealand at least public opinion is generally behind 1080.

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On "Animal Activism"

Animal Person

If you believe your dog has a right to a life free of torture and slaughter for no reason, then you really ought to think about extending that right to mice, rats, chickens and fish. I want to talk about why we shouldn't be using animals and that it's infinitely easier to be a vegan than it was 20 years ago.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

Engber mentions that in 1972, the USDA put into place "a special exemption for rats, mice, and birds, allowing scientists to treat them however they saw fit—in cages of any size, in experiments with any degree of pain and suffering. And thanks to the efforts of groups such as PCRM, that ample use isn't so ample anymore.

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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?

Animal Person

Latimer's ignorance also comes across in his discussion of anti-fur campaigns, so it's easy to miss this potentially good point (about some animal activists): But did you ever notice that we don't hear very much from them if anything about shoe leather?