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5 Vital Questions When Adopting A Rescue Dog

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The decision to add a canine companion to your family is certainly a big one. With the growing awareness of pet overpopulation more and more families are choosing to adopt a shelter dog and save a life. Right at the top of the list is the awareness that your new rescue has a shady history, especially if it was a stray.

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The Hummingbird that Answered My Heart’s Calling by Noelle M. Meade-Izzi

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From Owls in the Family to Wesley the Owl , the narrative in which a human interacts with another species and learns a bit about life along the way has long been a popular and affecting one. This is a pretty good model of the modern environmental ethic of self-restraint and respectful watching.

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Andalucia’s City-Slicker Falcons

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They can be challenging to identify, especially if you haven’t seen one before, though with experience they are not really so difficult. If you see a flock of kestrels in southern Europe, then the chances are that they will be Lessers, for the Common Kestrel never flocks, though occasionally in summer you will see a family hunting together.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

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Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

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Ingrid Taylar: Bridging the Divide Between Cat and Bird Lovers

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day, I had come home to a scraggy, skittish stray of my own. The process of taking in a stray isn’t usually instantaneous and straightforward. There’s an imperative to get this message across to cat people who, like me, can be educated to value wild lives as much as we value the lives of our four-legged family members.

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Lewis's Woodpecker in New York State

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Second of all, Lewis’s Woodpeckers are birds of the west and they rarely stray to New York State. … Tags: Lewiss Woodpecker , new york , woodpeckers • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Melanerpes lewis is, to put it simply, a really cool bird.

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Is fostering the answer? We think it is.

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Imagine the heart exploding with happiness that the beautiful pet you have supported and loved, has found forever love with a great family. Fostering is a wonderful experience. A pet needs time to decompress, to learn trust, to “get over” the shelter experience. The former could not be further from the truth. Look at tail wag.

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