4 The Love Of Animals
AUGUST 30, 2011
On the other hand, kids that don’t get the experience of having a pet early may become afraid of animals, especially if their parents don’t particularly care for animals. For these folks, I recommend a nontraditional pet like a rat or a guinea pig. Many mutts you can get from the pound or animal shelter make terrific pets.
4 The Love Of Animals
AUGUST 1, 2011
Hospice Tails is a series of true stories about my experiences with pets and patients as a hospice social worker. The thin, spider-web scars on her knuckles spoke to intimate experience with hand-to-hand combat. He’s only about the size of a rat.”. I gave the shelter a call, expecting to hear the worst.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2018
The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Women gathered their long skirts and hurried for the shelter of stores. Is this the type of avian experience we want?
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