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So Far, So-So

10,000 Birds

This area did seem to be suffering quite a bit from the drought. Still, there were plenty of beauties (or plainer species, posing beautifully) to rescue the day for me. One group that was mostly absent was the hummingbird family. So I will have to show you colorful birds from other families.

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82-foot-long “Rescue Rig” on Way to Missouri

4 The Love Of Animals

The team is just coming off its rescue efforts in Memphis, where floods of historic proportions affected uncounted numbers of domestic and wild animals. The Red Star team consists of 13 staff and volunteers who will begin work tomorrow. The Red Star team will also be assisting at the Emergency Animal Shelter.

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Nothing Funny About Cat Cruelty

4 The Love Of Animals

However, while we all enjoy a chuckle at that funny cat image, it is easy to forget that out there in the real world many cats are suffering at the hands of cruel owners. Not only do these poor cats suffer physical damage at the hands of their owners, but often they end up emotionally scarred as well.

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Bubbles the Chimp Resurfaces

Critter News

I had forgotten all about Michael Jackson and his chimp Bubbles whom he rescued from a research facility. Chimpanzees, like Travis the chimp who mauled the woman in Connecticut, are not meant to be family pets. They are wild creatures and their psychology must suffer from these abnormal arrangements. This is not surprising.

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Walk for Farm Animals Scheduled for this Fall

Critter News

These family-friendly events are an opportunity for those concerned with the cruel and horrific practices of factory farming to take a stand in support of compassion for animals and raise awareness about the mistreatment of animals raised for food. For more information, please visit farmsanctuary.org.

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Rachel Carson: Secret Birder

10,000 Birds

After experiencing the Rachel Carson Commemorative in Duxbury, MA, she was moved to share some little-known facts about this tremendously influential nature writer’s interest in birds… I was thirteen when my mother and I took turns reading aloud the new bestseller, Silent Spring , on family vacation the summer of 1963.

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Consider the Chickadee

10,000 Birds

I know about the common mistakes people make when they find young birds, assuming that because they’re on the ground with no other birds in sight they must be abandoned or in need of rescue. The chickadee that I discovered on the sidewalk was suffering from dehydration and hypothermia.

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