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That Awkward Moment With Feral Cats and Family

10,000 Birds

I come from a large family: five sisters, two brothers and almost everyone has kids. Most of my family lives in Indiana, but thanks to social media we can easily keep in touch. Case in point: some of my family members have become active with feral cat colony organizations. Well played, older sister, well played.

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Managing Emotional Problems in Rescue Dogs

4 The Love Of Animals

Many dogs are rescued out of abusive or traumatic situations, causing them to exhibit a wide variety of emotional and behavioral problems. However, that doesn’t mean they can’t make great companions for the right adoptive family. Reward Method. Above All, Patience.

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Better Living Through Birding: Notes From a Black Man in the Natural World–A Book Review

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A description of the parenting habits of Emperor Penguins begins the lengthy chapter, “Family Matters,” about Chris’s difficult, intense relationship with his father. But before that, it was these feathered dreams that would carry me across the globe on adventures, in search of birds in faraway places. (p.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Many animals also display wide-ranging emotions, including joy, happiness, empathy, compassion, grief, and even resentment and embarrassment. It’s not surprising that animals—especially, but not only, mammals—share many emotions with us because we also share brain structures—located in the limbic system—that are the seat of our emotions.

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On Letting Your Emotions Rule the Day

Animal Person

However, many of our concerns about modern food production stem from purely emotional concerns, in which we try to overlay our social mores onto sectors where they traditionally haven’t been applied. I don't think anyone is campaigning for "farm" animals to become pets, as many of us don't even think the family cat should be the family cat.

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Getting sentimental: Birding at Baihualing, China

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On the other hand, another species – the Red-tailed Minla – is not a member of the Actinodura family. It likes to be in its own family, confusingly named Minla (of which the Blue-winged Minla and the Bar-throated Minla are not members). The Maroon Oriole thus is not as much of an outsider as I thought.

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Trauma bonding in Animals

Reddit Animals

I read about the leopard and a cow being an adoptive family because of trauma bond (Media here ). I love how living things are connected and emotional. I just knew about this and it's the most endearing thing ever!! ah, life does have pretty things :) submitted by /u/No-Quail1037 [link] [comments]