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Need Help Finding a Home for my Mothers Cats

Reddit Animals

I’ve reached out to about about a million shelters, all around the Houston area. I haven’t found any shelters that’s willing to foster. I’ve even been reaching out to shelters of north to see if they work with any shelters in the Houston for transporting animals to their shelters up north. So far no luck.

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Is Shelter Appreciation Week a Sham?

Critter News

Nathan Winograd has an interesting piece in the Examiner about the recent HSUS Animal Shelter Appreciation Week. It's not that he's unappreciative of people that work with animals, but rather the state of many of the shelters that are being appreciated. Tags: animal shelters. You can read about his background here.

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The Uncommon Demise of a Wood Thrush in Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

Each day, the small bird then has to fly down and find a resting place, an area to feed and take shelter. If it finds a good spot to survive for several months, a spot with enough food and shelter, it might be able to fly all the way back to the north for another summer of song and nesting. Birds too, if they can catch them.

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Living in, on and around cactus

10,000 Birds

The basic requirements for survival, food, shelter and water never seem to be in surplus. When it comes to a one stop shopping for food and shelter, no other plant is as widely used as the Cardon Cactus family. As you can see below, I have tried to document the action, and of course, like much of nature, the biggest eats first.

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Soup kitchen for pets

4 The Love Of Animals

The family simply did not have enough money to feed their beloved dog and with breaking hearts they relinquished him to a shelter where he died shortly thereafter of a broken heart after being so loved by this family for many years. Claudia Hollm saw a TV show about a family who had to relinquish their dog because of economic hardship.

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Humane Society Exposes Petland Practices

Critter News

Documented USDA violations at some of Petland's breeders and suppliers included dirty, unkempt enclosures; inadequate shelter from the cold; dogs kept in too small cages; and inadequate veterinary care. The investigation revealed that some of Petland's brokers are also buying from puppy mills.

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A Tale of Two Tropical Terns: Sooty and Bridled

10,000 Birds

On land, nesting occurs inside sheltered crevices on small offshore cays and islands. Within the continental United States, nesting was first documented in 1987 in the Florida Keys, and since 2005 nesting has occurred in small numbers on Bush Key in the Dry Tortugas.

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