10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2016

Sometimes people – including veterinarians who haven’t studied wild birds – suggest feeding Exact (or a similar brand) Pet Bird Formula. A raptor raised as a pet can never be released – imagine a hungry bird of prey trying to land on an unsuspecting person, hoping to be fed. Like human babies, young birds are messy.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2013

Like cats, the rat was introduced over much of the world by humans. Like cats, the rat is admired and loved by many who keep them as pets. Like cats, the rat has been the victim of campaigns to make it the bad guy in terms of disease and damage wildlife. Please consider donating your time and money.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

This guest blog was written by Debbie Souza-Pappas, the director and founder of Second Chance Wildlife Rehabilitation in Price, Utah. Ipsen of Payson Family Pet Hospital in Payson, Utah, is our wildlife vet and very skilled at orthopedic surgeries. Our veterinarian, Dr. Jay D.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

“I’ve seen her around, when I was setting my traps,” said the trapper himself, who brought her to Tamarack Wildlife Center , in Saegertown, PA. This is why certain wildlife rehabilitators end up misanthropic and homicidal. Birds Albino leghold traps leucistic Red-tailed Hawk wildlife rehabilitators' Will she be releasable?

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2015

Burmese pythons either escaped from pet trade breeding facilities in South Florida after Hurricane Andrew or were released by people who no longer wanted them as pets. The impact that pythons are having on native wildlife is not well understood. Photo Credit: Invasive and Exotic Species of North America (www.invasive.org).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The rise in drone popularity over the past few years has been meteoric — and in our typical human arrogance, we’ve once again ignored the fact that for the past 150 million years, the sky has belonged to the birds. You can follow her on Twitter @LizVGreene or dig deeper into her internal musings on InstantLo.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Set in an abandoned oil refinery where wildlife is slowly regaining control save for the desperate attempts of golfers to retain all eighteen holes, industrial ghosts loom over rolling freshwater lakes bordered by fifty foot tall trees. These scarce residents are rarely seen – and even when visible, are usually quite wary of humans.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

Wildlife rehabilitators are a multi-tasking lot. People walk in and hand you a box, which you know will contain the wildlife and some bizarre food item. Baby birds/wildlife and milk is another entire blog, there are so many. Human breast milk – no, don’t get me started. The baffling, mind-boggling public.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

If it is an emergency and since I get calls and texts from all over the country (even a few out of the country), I direct people to Rehabber Search or Wildlife Rehabber. That’s an old wives’ tale that says bird won’t take care of a baby bird with a human smell on it–not true at all.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

. … The ordinance would allow Minneapolis residents to establish cat “colonies” where abandoned and wild cats can be fed but also vaccinated, neutered and identified in an effort to humanely cut their population and control disease. Cats are domesticated animals that are not indigenous wildlife in North America.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2012

I’m now petting my rabbit Dougal, 6 more birds dead. I get that we need to look and see how humans affect birds and things we construct like glass covered skyscrapers, wind farms and cell phone towers can kill a lot of birds, but is going after yards with bird feeders the best way to go about it? Never put up a bird house?

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 10, 2012

There are also tales of dogs who weren’t specially trained, but who turned out to have skills that helped their humans in unexpected ways! Bilbo, a Newfoundland, who was Britain’s only canine lifeguard in 2005 and named “Pet Hero of the Year” at a ceremony for the U.K. Boomerang Pet Awards in London.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2012

I’m now petting my rabbit Dougal, 6 more birds dead. I get that we need to look and see how humans affect birds and things we construct like glass covered skyscrapers, wind farms and cell phone towers can kill a lot of birds, but is going after yards with bird feeders the best way to go about it? Never put up a bird house?

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Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2009

The National Animal Interest Alliance is an association of business, agricultural, scientific, and recreational interests dedicated to promoting animal welfare, supporting responsible animal use and strengthening the bond between humans and animals. NAIA Trust is a 501 (c) (4) so contributions to it are not tax deductible. Clever bastards.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Of course, this is the military, so why should they be any better than humanity in general?) They’re a big impact on wildlife. It is their belief, he said, that rendering most of the feral cats sexually inactive will humanely decrease their numbers. ‘‘The We worry about wildlife, disease and nuisance animals.”

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2015

Do I have sympathy for haunted people who subject animals – be they captive wildlife or household pets – to all kinds of atrocities, then are held up as tragic examples of struggling humanity? Do I have sympathy for haunted people with bad childhoods?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Not sure why they spend time in Shanghai in winter when they could come here though, but then again, I usually do not understand most of the behavior of humans either. He was also nearly strangled by a pet python that he kept. Yes, we have them in Shanghai as well. At between 4 pm and 6 pm, to be exact.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

An abstract from a recent paper in Nature : Anthropogenic threats, such as collisions with man-made structures, vehicles, poisoning and predation by domestic pets, combine to kill billions of wildlife annually. Free-ranging domestic cats have been introduced globally and have contributed to multiple wildlife extinctions on islands.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2012

Once upon a time, people and especially children felt free to interact with wild birds in any way that would satisfy their curiousity — watching and learning, yes, but also harassing and chasing, collecting eggs and nests, stealing nestlings as “pets”, and killing birds for amateur taxidermy efforts.

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Animal Person

MARCH 23, 2009

Also at Parade , which reader morganna alerted me to, is " Should Apes Be Allowed as Pets? Finally, there's an alert from Susan Hargreaves, who is a humane educator here in South Florida (via Trish). The Fish and Wildlife Commission and Governor Crist need to hear there is an outcry in order for Nosey to be confiscated.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 29, 2009

To accommodate the sanctuary rabbits, our adoption center and our compassionate human visitors, Rabbit Meadows plans to build a series of small cottage-like structures among the picturesque fir trees on its grounds. They also sell supplies for your pets, the proceeds of which support their rescue efforts.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2013

But I don’t agree with the supplemental feeding that happens with feral cats–if you’re gonna call them wildlife, treat them as such. ” I argued that the kittens were young enough to be socialized and pointed out that she had pictures of them letting her hold them and pet them.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2011

9): The Fish and Wildlife Service is right to propose a ban on the sale of nine large constricting snakes for the pet trade. In addition to the effects of these invasive species on ecosystems, there are also compelling humane and public safety arguments for restricting trade.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Thankfully the days of visiting Africa purely for slaughtering its wildlife have mostly come to a merciful end, and safari operators have adopted the Big Five term to market tours that offer sightings of the fortunate remanants of Africa’s once teeming great herds. In Asia they are even commonly kept as pets!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2016

Dragan continues to be teacher’s pet simply by sharing as he goes. Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Big Egg Marsh.

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