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Western Snowy Plover

10,000 Birds

There were many weekends at the Oregon coast, and as always I was on the look out for this diminutive little shorebird. We bring along our dogs, cats, condo developments, four wheel vehicles and even that romantic sunset walk on the beach, can end up being a substantial disturbance to a nesting pair of shorebirds.

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Birding Shanghai in February 2022

10,000 Birds

” “You only need to change your direction,” said the cat, and ate it up. (If Tianmashan bonus mammal: a Raccoon Dog – though it looks a lot like a raccoon, it is actually more closely related to foxes than to raccoons. I just want to point out it could be much worse. … and a Ring-necked Pheasant.

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On THE DOG WHO COULDN'T STOP LOVING

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When I agreed to read and review Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson's THE DOG WHO COULDN'T STOP LOVING (Harper 2010), the regal Charles Hobson Booger, III was still with us. He was adopted by the Masson family and was apparently the most loving dog all who met him had ever had the pleasure of being licked by. And the crying would never stop.

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The Animal Legal Defense Fund Public Registries

4 The Love Of Animals

ALDF points to the following examples for why a registry is needed to help animal guardians, law enforcement and shelters protect their animals: Robert Rydzewski : In 2004, the then 29-year-old upstate New Yorker shot his neighbor’s dog in the face twice. Two months later, he killed another neighbor’s Welsh Corgi with an ax.

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The Problem with Weight is NOT Losing It

4 The Love Of Animals

Rigorous dieting is the animal handling equivalent of a corrective jerk on the dog collar. A resident of Bend, Oregon, McGee Bennett lives on a 10-acre farm with her husband, Brad, two dogs, two cats, five llamas, 11 alpacas, and super composting red wigglers, number unknown.

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