4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

You’re not so keen on the idea of leaving your pets to your next-door neighbor. It sounds a bit over-the-top but a lot of people have experienced separation anxiety when they go for days without seeing their pets. Disneyland has a Kennel Club where you can board your pet for a day. That is one pet on vacation, I’ll say!

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Reddit Animals

JULY 9, 2023

The reptile care is horrible with the humidity levels being too low and they house chameleons together. It's so f *d and all of these little lives are considered "property" please don't buy from the pet store. The ginuea pig cages are small with very little toys same with the rat cages.

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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. Reptiles' Photo Credit: Invasive and Exotic Species of North America (www.invasive.org). All methods used to capture pythons have had little success.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2012

Birds are, with reptiles amphibians, and mammals, the prey that feral cats kill. The fact that they have supplemental food means nothing in terms of their hunting as even well-fed pets hunt and damage bird populations. Feral cats kill huge numbers of birds.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2012

The biggest threats to their continued survival in the wilderness are habitat destruction and hunting, for both food and for the pet trade (though they are not considered in the least bit endangered).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2022

The Scaly Laughingthrush (Baihualing, Yunnan) once finished as runner-up at a birds-that-look-like-reptiles contest that was won by a Scaly Thrush (not shown). In retrospect, I bet they kept White-crested Laughingthrushes as pets (Hongbenghe, Yunnan). Paul, I think we are soulmates.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2011

Italian Wall Lizard at the Queens Botanical Garden (click for a bigger version) The Italian Wall Lizard , also known as the Ruin Lizard was introduced to Nassau County, New York City’s eastern neighbor, in 1967, most likely from an accidental pet escape, and made its way west into Queens relatively rapidly.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 11, 2009

Adopt-a-Pet.com is the world’s largest non-profit pet adoption website. We are like an ad agency for shelters and shelter pets. We do our best to relieve that problem and put pets from shelters in the homes of pet seekers all over the country. For more information visit this page [link].

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

Even though the English name may indicate that it mainly feeds on crests, it really mostly eats reptiles, primarily tree snakes (HBW). If you are afraid of spiders, you might want to get a pet Streaked Spiderhunter. This species is fairly widespread, with 21 subspecies, some of which may eventually turn out to be full species.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

Not only do we take care of zillions of injured and orphaned birds/mammals/reptiles/whatever, we also have to deal with and educate the public. Bottom line: so many of these well-meaning people picked up their information from the internet, from pet supply companies, or from – cringe – even veterinarians.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Nonprofit pet protection groups would manage the program and be responsible for ensuring that cat caretakers take the required steps. They may be “outdoor cats” with a specific owner, stray pets, feral, or may have originated in one household and are now fed or cared for by other households in the neighborhood.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 25, 2011

As a boy myself, and again as a father of three boys, I can tell you, I’ve had some pets in my life. Dogs aside, I’ve tended to plenty of small mammals and reptiles in my years, and have seen some pretty interesting things. “A new pet,&# I remarked, knowing the feeling. by Garth Stein. She rolled her eyes.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Turtles are the reptile everybody loves. I happen to be particularly fond of turtles because my family has taken care of a small box turtle for 30 years (beware–turtles are extremely low-maintenance pets but will outlast your child’s youth and probably your life). ©2021 text by Jeffrey E. .”

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2012

As anyone who follows this blog knows, outdoor cats are a veritable holocaust for wild birds, small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and even insects. Almost every single outdoor pet cat, feral cat, or stray kills other animals , no matter how well fed the cat is through other sources. Attention : They are your pets so pet them!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

And for rodents and reptiles as well. 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. Un-owned cats, as opposed to owned pets, cause the majority of this mortality.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2011

According to the Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of New Jersey (link is a PDF) there are thirteen species of turtle that can be found in the state, so I have already spotted just under a third of the turtle species that there are to see in the Garden State. It is bad for the turtle and could be bad for you! … a.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2014

We (and, by then, this blog was a wonderful “we”) enjoyed a good volume of relevant traffic from toplists like the FatBirder 500 but had to jockey for position with forums, merchant sites, and even pet sites. We deserve our own toplist, don’t we?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Rehabbers see reptiles in glue traps, gulls entangled in fishing line, raccoons used as target practice, raptors dying from rodenticides, and songbirds shredded by domestic cats … cats like Puck. It’s the bane of many rehabbers that they simply can’t get through to cat owners on this critical issue of free-roaming pets.

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Iams and longtime partner Helen Woodward Animal Center, along with more than 3,500 animal organizations from around the world once again joined forces to help reduce pet homelessness. 23,051 other animals (including rabbits, reptiles, horses, birds and more). Here are how the numbers break down: 593,146 dogs. 509,470 cats.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2011

The hollowed-out bones connected to the lungs for respiration that we see today as a key bird adaptation to the aerobically challenging behavior of flight existed in many dinosaurs that were as far way from being bird-like as, well, as a T-rex is from being your pet parrot. Archaeopteryx always seems to get all the attention.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

It took several days in Florida for the idea that I was pretty much surrounded by giant reptiles that could kill me to sink in to my brain. Alligator bites are serious injuries due to the reptile’s sheer bite force and risk of infection. Even with medical treatment, an alligator bite may still result in a fatal infection.

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