10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
Let me introduce my guest blogger, Lisa Owens Viani, co-founder of the California-based group RATS ( Raptors Are The Solution ), which educates people about the dangers of rat poisons. Syngenta warns that “Talon” is “hazardous to dogs, cats, pigs, poultry and other wildlife.” Thanks for your concern for wildlife, Syngenta.).
4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 25, 2010
Long before CAT scans, X-rays, blood samples and colonoscopies, physicians used the good sense they were born with: their sense of smell. Recently, another powerful little nose has joined the diagnostic force: that of the African giant pouched rat. The sizeable rodents are helping to detect tuberculosis (TB). Liver disease?
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2013
A wildlife rehabilitator friend, newly licensed, recently called to ask if he could feed a recovering Turkey Vulture anything besides defrosted rodents. Normally I feed vultures, as well as hawks and owls, defrosted mice and rats. Did I have an answer for him. Sometimes a defrosted chick. So: a broken-winged vulture came in.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 4, 2015
Inserts in rodent poisons that assure the public they will not kill anything but the offending rats or mice pedal the same questionable claims as those of the snake oil salesmen of bygone days. We use toxins, pesticides, and herbicides in many ways, from dusting our pansies to increasing the yield of thousands of acres of crops.
Reddit Animals
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
5 or 6 times over the last year I have found decapitated or otherwise "dissassembled" mice or small rats near or under my car. The first time I noticed it, it was actually a rat leg wedged through a bolt hole on my chassis that I noticed hanging under the car. I have never once seen a cat anywhere in my neighborhood.
Animal Person
JUNE 8, 2009
He's right with his implication that stopping the seizing of pets and strays simply created a more efficient, effective means of commodifying and torturing dogs and cats. He concludes this segment with: Meanwhile, rats and mice are subject to some of the most extreme and invasive experiments in biomedicine. Maybe on paper.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 4, 2011
He was a careful and vigilant bird, traits that had saved him from the hawks and the cats on so many occasions while those around him had perished over the years. One of the two birds I found last weekend had me convinced I was about to see a rat when I spotted movement in the nearby ground vegetation. But this was different.
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