4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

As you may remember, we lost our sweet Maltese Baby to canine cancer in January. It’s hard to lose a pet, even more so when they are taken early by cancer. November is National Pet Cancer Awareness Month. You can … Continue reading → The post Help raise awareness and $20,000 to #CurePetCancer appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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Raised Pets Animal Dogs 182

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

As I always do on the way home, following a short visit to the San Francisco Bay Area, I take in at least one of the National Wildlife Refuges (NWR) found in the Sacramento Valley. I usually stop at the two refuges that have easily accessed auto tour routes, the Sacramento NWR and Colusa NWR. California is blessed with 51 NWRs and Wildlife Management Areas (WMA), second only to North Dakota with 77.

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Wildlife San Francisco Sacramento North Dakota 158

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

It is important when writing for respectable media sources, such as this site, not to jump to conclusions or resort to resort to stereotypes, even when dealing with birds. It simply wouldn’t do to describe all American wood-warblers and pointless fairy-birds or shorebirds as depressingly dreary indistinguishable blobs. So it was with some interest that I saw an article in my local paper describing a bird here in New Zealand as having joined the criminal fraternity.

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New Zealand Birds Branding Family 150