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Showjumping Cow!

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We have all heard the saying “when life hands you lemons, make lemonade&# , well when Regina Mayer wasn’t able to have a horse, she found the next best thing! She, and the cow, are both amazing! Enjoy the video.

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Cow Birds

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home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds , Terminology / Cow Birds Cow Birds By Rick • March 22, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share So what do Buffleheads and Bitterns and Hornbills have in common? They’re all named for livestock.

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Dogs ? or cats ? or do you prefer other.

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Personally ig it depends on how the animal behaves I’m 95-100% more of a horse person my self or cow. I have gown up with a lot more dogs then cats and say I lean against more of a cat person not saying that I still do like dogs, but I have grown to not like them as much if there not trained. Probably the same with cats.

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On the Renewed Debate Over Horse Slaughter

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" Surge in Abandoned Horses Renews Debate Over Slaughterhouses " in today's New York Times begs a lot of questions that I wonder how you would answer. Let's deconstruct: The facts of the case: "Emaciated horses eating bark off trees. Abandoned horses tied to telephone poles. Horses subsisting on feces, walking among carcasses.

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Tufted Titmouse Plucking a Raccoon

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Naturalists examining old nests have identified raccoon, opossum, dog, fox squirrel, red squirrel, rabbit, horse, cow, cat, mouse, woodchuck, and even human hair in titmouse nests.

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Newly Hatched Baby Birds Actually Look Kinda Like Dinosaurs

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The Ash-throated Flycatchers ( Myiarchus cinerascens ) pictured below start their nest base with dry cow or horse dung. The cup is made up of dry grasses, rootlets, and weed stems, then lined with finer grasses, hair and fur. The nestling has darker down and whiter gape flanges than the nuthatch nestlings.

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Critically Endangered: Sociable Lapwing

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These birds even lay their eggs on piles of cow or horse dung, most likely to elevate them from the cold ground and possibly provide some heating through the process of rotting plant material. That can be traced back in time to 1875, when Alfred Brehm wrote that he had found Sociable Lapwings only alongside the domestic cattle.

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