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Protecting Your Pets from Pests and Disease

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A lot of very important information for pet owners, especially as we go into the summer season. As a pet owner, you will be obviously concerned about the safety and well-being of your beloved pet. Perhaps the most well known mosquito born disease, heartworms can be fatal to dogs and occasionally cats and foxes.

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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

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In addition to killing birds of prey, brodifacoum has also killed coyotes, grey foxes, red foxes, kit foxes, mountain lions, bobcats, black bears, Pacific fishers, and other animals, including domestic dogs and cats. Thanks for your concern for wildlife, Syngenta.).

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Dogs of Courage

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From wildlife protection and conservation, as service canines for inmates, during search and rescue missions, in fires, as therapists, and for medical-detection purposes, and more, dogs are working hard for us all the time. Boomerang Pet Awards in London.

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

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Dogs are similarly dispersed across size ranges, with Foxes, Coyotes, and Wolves taking prey across different parts of the size range. among the Mustilids, and Coyotes and to a lesser extent Foxes. Un-owned cats, as opposed to owned pets, cause the majority of this mortality. On an island, the feral Cat eats all of those birds.

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Australia’s extinct and threatened bird species

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Rats arrived on ships and cats, foxes and rabbits were all introduced and they were all detrimental to the bird population. Foxes have also been known to take their eggs and there are now numerous local groups who endeavour to help the populations of Hooded Plovers along their local coastlines. Handbook to The Birds of Australia, 1865.

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