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Pet Adoption Tips from Adopt-A-Pet.com

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This helps ensure that the pet is right for you and your family. People can encourage other pet owners to spay or neuter their pet (link to our spay neuter page) to help prevent unwanted births. Thanks to Adopt-A-Pet.com for these great tips! Q: What are 5 positive aspects of pet adoption, and why it’s a good option?

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National Dog Bite Prevention Week

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Here are the tips and stats that they sent us: Nearly 2,900 letter carriers were bitten by dogs last year, yet that pales in comparison to the 4.7 Your dog’s instinct is to protect the family. Spay or neuter your dog. Neutered dogs are less likely to bite. That is, not until we got an email from the USPS.

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February Birding in Tybee Island, Georgia

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The week of President’s Day this year found me, my family, and some close friends spending a week in a beach house on Tybee Island, a low-lying, barrier island just east of Savannah. It is clear that the trap-neuter-release efforts are doomed to failure, as they always are, and I saw three obviously pregnant cats in my short time there.

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