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RATS, Raptors, and Reckitt Benckiser

10,000 Birds

The rodents eat the bait, stagger out of the building looking for water, and are easy prey for whatever carnivore happens to be passing by, be it wildlife or someone’s pet. This means not only can they continue poisoning kids, pets, and wildlife for years while the case drags through court, but now they have a monopoly on the market.

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Can Nature Take Care of Itself?

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Lead remains in both fishing and hunting products, with strong lobbies that insist lead poisoning is not real, even as our facilities fill regularly with birds afflicted with it. Rehabilitators also cooperate with law enforcement on illegal activity, and even monitor emerging diseases in avian species.

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Feral Cats in American Cities

10,000 Birds

…a City Council committee voted 5-0 to recommend a new law that in essence licenses the care and feeding of free-roaming cats as part of a larger effort to reduce their numbers. Nonprofit pet protection groups would manage the program and be responsible for ensuring that cat caretakers take the required steps.

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Melange Monday

Animal Person

Also at Parade , which reader morganna alerted me to, is " Should Apes Be Allowed as Pets? The Fish and Wildlife Commission and Governor Crist need to hear there is an outcry in order for Nosey to be confiscated. which includes a poll. Please, read the action alert at the end of this email. The situation is dire. education [link].

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Environmental Groups Call For End To USDA Wildlife Killing

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Fish and Wildlife Service biologist and killed his dog. Yet, Wildlife Services not only kills tens of thousands of targeted wild animals annually, their activities also result in the unintentional deaths of many others, including pets, using indiscriminate and agonizing poisons, torturous traps, and even dynamite.

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