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Protecting Your Pets from Pests and Disease

4 The Love Of Animals

Perhaps the most well known mosquito born disease, heartworms can be fatal to dogs and occasionally cats and foxes. Because the illness is mosquito-borne, the best way to avoid it is to kill the insects with something like a Mosquito Magnet or a product with DEET before the mosquitoes have an opportunity to pass on the virus.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Common sense tells us not to put the foxes in charge of the henhouse, but politicians repeatedly deny common sense in favor of the needs of special-interest groups. 21, 2008 To the Editor: You rightly capture the magnitude of the problem of ensuring safe food products. Peters Paso Robles, Calif., Bertha Rogers Delhi, N.Y.,

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Collaborative list – May 2019

10,000 Birds

For those of you whose summer and winter are opposed to the northern version, we wish you a productive approach to the colder months. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Fox Sparrow – Passerella iliaca. Scaly-headed Parrot – Pionus maximiliani. Hotel Colonial, Iguacu.

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Collaborative List – April 2017

10,000 Birds

Humiliating him in front of his public had a far more productive effect than I could have hoped for in fact, as he upped and took himself off to Panama in an attempt to appease the compiler. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Fox Sparrow – Passerella iliaca. Airport Mangroves. 01 Jan 2017. Airport Mangroves. 01 Jan 2017.

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Combined Beats List – June 2016

10,000 Birds

I am delighted to say that despite her initial reluctance to embrace eBird, Clare was the most productive beat this month, responsible for nearly all of the new stuff. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. Fox Sparrow – Passerella iliaca. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Imagine that, Mike! 09 May 2016.

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