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Who's the "top dog" in your life? NPR documents the pet revolution ?

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Who's the "top dog" in your life? NPR documents the pet revolution:

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Soup kitchen for pets

4 The Love Of Animals

This pitiful story fired Claudia’s imagination and even though she holds down a full-time job, she managed to find the time to open a soup kitchen for pets including dogs, cats, rabbits and any other animals people had in their homes but were having trouble feeding. If we see someone who is already poor get a new pet we won’t support them.

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Birding the Drakensberg, South Africa

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The Common Waxbill looks like it belongs in a pet shop rather than in the wild. In fact, this is probably a species that has substantially expanded its original range through the pet shop route and the resulting escapees. No photoshop was needed to document this bizarre creature encountered somewhere along the road.

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Man Kills Goldfish in Domestic Violence Attack, Gets Probation

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From Pets News. A 27-year-old man who attacked his ex-girlfriend and killed her pet fish has been sentenced to two years probation and a psychological evaluation. Court documents say Donald Earl Fite III wanted to reunite with the woman in July, but she wasn’t willing. Who knows what the next step could be? PORTLAND, Ore. —

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RATS, Raptors, and Reckitt Benckiser

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The rodents eat the bait, stagger out of the building looking for water, and are easy prey for whatever carnivore happens to be passing by, be it wildlife or someone’s pet. This means not only can they continue poisoning kids, pets, and wildlife for years while the case drags through court, but now they have a monopoly on the market.

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Do birds avoid predators because of culture?

10,000 Birds

Part of that research was to document human avoidance by ground mammals, and that was stark and apparent. If you capture birds (to make them pets) from the wild, and they get out, they are good at avoiding predators. If you take birds that have been pets for generations and they get out, they are bad at avoiding predators.

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