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Adopt Me Because I Need You

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Many factors can make a pet seem “less adoptable&# , from special needs, to age, and even just the color of their fur! You can check them out in the gallery , and even use the pet-search tool to find a special pet for adoption near you. To help find homes for these special pets Petfinder has designated Sept.

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Six Ways To Keep Pet Hair Off Your Clothes

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I know I have a lovable fur ball too who lives to be picked up right before I leave for work. Did you know that regularly brushing your cat with a tool called a Furminator will help reduce shedding? So, as a survival method I quickly figured out a thing or two about how to keep hair or remove pet hair off my clothes.

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Dog Collars

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Flea collars– Flea collars are a simple plastic collar impregnated with chemicals or oils designed to discourage fleas from taking up residence in the choicest part of a dog (from a flea’s perspective), the bushy fur surrounding a dog’s neck. Choke collars– These collars serve a training function.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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Crows from the remote Pacific island of New Caledonia show incredibly high-level skills when they make and use tools. They get much of their food using tools, and they do this better than chimpanzees. They can add features to improve a tool, a skill supposedly unique to humans. As we all know, dogs are “man’s best friend.”

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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

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Each fly has a name and a ‘recipe’ to follow for its creation, a complicated procedure utilizing a hook, sometimes fur, sometimes wool, but always brightly colored feathers from rare birds. The skins were invaluable tools for ornithological, ecological, environmental research. Kelson, published in 1895.