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Birds and Bling

10,000 Birds

First of all: most of us don’t have much, because we spend all our money on gauze, antibiotics, and frozen rats. Michele rushed him to the vet, where x-rays revealed the anklet had passed through his crop, through his proventriculus, and into his ventriculus. Now my vet always removes her rings before the exam.”.

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Wildlife Rehabilitator War Wounds

10,000 Birds

I went into a cage of young Great Horned Owls one night carrying thawed rats,” said Linda Hufford. “I When I threw my arms out for balance it apparently set off a life-like movement of rats, which one of the GHOs couldn’t resist. A Bald Eagle took a chunk out of my jaw,” said Vonda Lee Morton. “I She left her mark.”. “A