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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

10,000 Birds

A pet cat raising orphaned ducklings! That is, until the ducklings grow up, are released into a pond, and greet the local feral cat colony as long-lost relatives. Explanations are simple: only a mother rabbit or a highly trained rehabilitator has a chance of raising and releasing a healthy wild bunny. How cute!

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Rescue Spotlight: Rabbit Meadows

4 The Love Of Animals

Our first rescue mission was at a business park in Redmond where we saved 650 feral rabbits from the ultimate fate of the arriving bulldozers. who feel comfortable enough to return to Rabbit Meadows each year to raise their young. They also sell supplies for your pets, the proceeds of which support their rescue efforts.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

10,000 Birds

I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. This almost certainly can be argued to be true just on the basis of logic, because feral Cats are proficient hunters and are entirely out of ecological place. Unless we put them there.

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Unlikely Healer Walks on Three Paws

4 The Love Of Animals

Half a decade ago, in a little mountain town about 60 miles northeast of San Diego, a feral kitten dragged his front left leg uselessly. Once gregarious and outgoing, she withdrew from her family and friends, from everyone except her pet cats. They tell pets their secrets; they speak in a different tone to them.”.

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Australia’s extinct and threatened bird species

10,000 Birds

The huge population of feral cats undoubtedly is having a detrimental effect on our bird life. On a local level we need to consider if we really do need to let our pets chase shorebirds and whether we really do need to drive along our shoreline. Until the problem with invasive species is addressed they will always be at risk.

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