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10 reasons why guinea pigs make great pets

4 The Love Of Animals

10 reasons why guinea pigs make great pets – by James Alston writing for ExoticDirect ExoticDirect offer pet insurance for guinea pigs, rabbits, ferrets, hamsters, mice and other small pets. They also insure parrots, reptiles, tortoise and even pygmy hedgehogs!

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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

10,000 Birds

Rabbits have become surprisingly scarce close to home, but I don’t have to go far to see warrens of them, with as many as 30 or 40 in one field. Hare taxonomy is confusing, but I’ve seen Iberian hares in Spain and Portugal, Corsican Hares in Corsica (where else?), and Mountain Hares in Scotland and Scandinavia.

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What’s In the Freezer for Tonight?

10,000 Birds

Normally I feed vultures, as well as hawks and owls, defrosted mice and rats. He ate through my remaining supply of rats and mice, as well as all my pinkies (hairless, day-old rodents, easily digestible and good for starvation cases). He then ate a screech owl, a robin, two squirrels, a mourning dove, three chipmunks, and a rabbit.

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Owls, the debait

10,000 Birds

She got out and began taking photos and quickly realized that the owl was being baited with white mice. But as she stayed and mice were being tossed out, she decided it wasn’t for her, and she left the birds, and the group. I question the release of non-native mice into the wild. My own take on that mirrors it.

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Welsh Report Shows Increased Animal Research at Cardiff University

Critter News

In four years it experimented on 157,839 mice, 17,324 rats, 11,096 fish, 1,941 birds, 1,253 guinea pigs, 933 pigeons, 884 frogs, 207 cats, 54 rabbits and 18 tree shrews from the tropics of south-east Asia. According to a Wales on Sunday investigation, the number of animals used at Cardiff has risen by 13 percent since 2006.

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A Trip to an Animal Lab

Critter News

but did experiment on mice and guinea pigs. There was a poster in the lunch room with four cute animals (a dog, cat, rabbit and something else.) Then, heading out, I noticed three little knitted mice. Tags: animal experimentation mice Guinea Pigs medical research biotech. They did not experiment on primates (I asked!),

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Keep finding decapitated mice/rats under car

Reddit Animals

5 or 6 times over the last year I have found decapitated or otherwise "dissassembled" mice or small rats near or under my car. Lots of squirrels, chipmunks, deer, rabbits. I moved into this house about a year ago. That one was really confusing and concerning because it had to have been shoved through from above.

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