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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. Brush-tailed Possums were brought from Australia to help start a fur industry. Possums still strip our native forests, ferrets and stoats and possums still devastate our native birds.

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Keep finding decapitated mice/rats under car

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We do have a possum and a raccoon that live somewhere on the property. Lots of squirrels, chipmunks, deer, rabbits. I think I heard an owl once last winter. None of my neighbors have cats and I'm only aware of one dog owner blocks away. And I have found one small dead garden snake in the street. Oh and a turkey one time.

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