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Pet Safety During Home Improvements

4 The Love Of Animals

If you have a bird, small mammal, or reptile in a terrarium, don’t leave them in their normal place while you paint or sand paint fumes and dust that are only a mild annoyance to you can make small pets (particularly birds) very sick, or even kill them. She lives in Dallas.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Jean Kazez Dallas, Nov. To the Editor: Soon after I read Gary Steiner’s article, my wife asked me to kill a spider, which I did. We kill so many living creatures when we build a house, construct a road, drive down that road or just walk on a path. It’s all good advice from the point of view of doing better by animals.