Critter News

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Quantico Military Base is really behaving cruelly when it comes to the feral cats on its base. We do not support or promote feral animals on the base,” flatly stated Bruce Frizzell, head of the Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs office. Feral cats may be an animal problem, but there is a human solution.

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Feral Cats Feral Compassion Cats 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

They may have no idea what they’re doing, but their compassion overrides their doubt. And they would realize that any species whose young tried to nurse with a pointed beak would be a short-lived species. That is, until the ducklings grow up, are released into a pond, and greet the local feral cat colony as long-lost relatives.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Feral Cats Hamburgers 257

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

However, the species sometimes referred to as the Barbary Duck appears very much out of place just about everywhere else. Feral Muscovy Ducks seem to attract many of those epithets. Not only are the individual ducks hard to look at, but in groups, the feral populations create the same messes other masses of waterfowl do.

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Ducks 2011 Deer New York 221

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

Every March, hope springs anew that I’ll cross paths with one of these feral fluffballs, but as April ends, so do another year’s delirious dreams. Driving along ice-choked inlets off Lake Ontario, admiring Mute Swans and scaup species, my commitment to nail this nemesis never wavered. Enjoy the details and proof here.

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2011 Owls Deer New York 168