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Sherry Turner Teas: Brown Thrasher vs. Black Widow

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In a soft release, you let the bird you’ve raised go but continue to provide food until they choose to be independent.) It took her several minutes to kill and eat it. Even though I hand raised her from a baby, she was very wild so this was no easy task. I am terrified of spiders.

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Joy for Orphan Elephants

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Most likely orphaned by poachers who killed her mother for profit, the one-year-old baby is believed to have been subsequently attacked by local Maasai tribesmen who were angry about losing their traditional grazing land to the park. A mobile vet unit was able to tranquilize her, clean her wounds, and extract the spear.

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Smattering Sunday

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Dr. Newest Vet sent this to me from yesterday's day at "camp" for Charles. Next, to today's New York Times and Gary Steiner 's fantastic Op-ed called " Animal, Vegetable, Miserable ,"which begins with: "LATELY more people have begun to express an interest in where the meat they eat comes from and how it was raised." (Try

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Spotlight: Lisa Beth Acton, Raising Ravens

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This summer Lisa raised three orphaned Common Ravens. They were not aware of wildlife laws, and thought they could raise and release them. We took her to the vet and put her on medication, and somehow she pulled through. We released live mice into the flight so they could learn to catch and kill live prey.

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Managing Emotional Problems in Rescue Dogs

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The no-kill shelter I adopted them from didn’t know too much about them except that they were found half-starved in the Jasper area after Hurricane Rita tore through areas of the east Texas coast. Before I ever started with the training of Juliet and Foxy, I arranged for vet appointments. Get Them Healthy First.

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Hornbills of Sabah

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The latter is even captured in a somewhat gruesome video , in which the hornbill plucks a caged bird out of its cage and kills and eats it. At 15h59, the female picked up the fourth chick and killed it by repeatedly crushing it with her beak. Then she tried to feed it to the remaining chicks.