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Cat Owners: Can You Help Me?

10,000 Birds

But one day, unbeknownst to her, a wild rabbit dug under the fence. She let her dog out, he spotted the rabbit, and took off like a bullet. This was followed by, “I have one who is a chipmunk murderer.”. She doesn’t use pesticides, she loves the local wildlife, and she does everything a good pet owner should do.

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Chipmunk and (Hare/Rabbit?) I met near the Poconos in Pennsylvania. The rabbit was a bit distant, but chipmunk was perfectly comfortable to stay a while, even eat a little.

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There’s More to Birding than Birds

10,000 Birds

In New York and Chicago, they’ve been pretty mundane—a White-tailed Deer here, an Eastern Cottontail rabbit there. And of course, way too many chipmunks and squirrels and raccoons and turtles to count. Nothing, however, prepared me for the fauna that awaited last weekend at the Spring Wings festival in Fallon, Nevada.

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What’s In the Freezer for Tonight?

10,000 Birds

He then ate a screech owl, a robin, two squirrels, a mourning dove, three chipmunks, and a rabbit. He ate through my remaining supply of rats and mice, as well as all my pinkies (hairless, day-old rodents, easily digestible and good for starvation cases). He ate my last quail.

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How To Help A Baby Bird

10,000 Birds

You typically do not find a bird this naked or featherless outside of the nest unless there has been a storm or the nest has been attacked by predator like a raccoon, chipmunk, squirrel or corvids. But maybe this will help you triage the situation when you see a baby bird: This is a very young House Wren. That is probably one of the adults.

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Keep finding decapitated mice/rats under car

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Lots of squirrels, chipmunks, deer, rabbits. the last part is raptor behavior but I can't imagine what kind of bird would be small enough to choose this space when there's 300 yds of chain link fence right there, and I've yet to see a dead squirrel, rabbit or chipmunk.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

He never chased the rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, or deer who regularly visited. Over the years Jethro approached rabbits as if they should be his friends, but they usually fled. Jethro the dog. After I picked Jethro from the Boulder Humane Society and brought him to my mountain home, I knew he was a very special dog.

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