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Birding Around the Farm

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While they didn’t let me walk right up to them, they didn’t fly away from the moment we pulled in the parking lot. I honestly don’t understand the need to sneak up on a snail but then again what do I know, when I was little I had a pet turtle that ran away. I had never before seen a Limpkin do this.

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The Reva Situation

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Personally I wasn’t happy, but I do not live there and do not have a septic tank in my backyard, so I felt that I had no right to complain. People came to see what it was all about, with their children and pets, rambling around the green oasis for the first time. Photo by Vesna Petrakovic. On weekends there were larger gatherings.

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Reasons to Choose a Pet-Friendly Retirement Community

4 The Love Of Animals

One of these things is how the retirement community regards its residents owning pets. If you’re a pet owner, you know from experience how tricky it can be finding places to live (other than buying a house) where you’re allowed to own pets. Which is what makes finding a pet-friendly retirement community so important.

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Birding Shanghai in November 2022

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On the other hand, in the West, mice, and rats are also kept as pets, maybe with the same logic. I do not have anything interesting to say about the Red-flanked Bluetail right now, but the male is a very beautiful bird. Possibly a survivor of siblicide (which would make it a killer, right?).

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Wildlife Rehabilitator War Wounds

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And I was pecked in the eye by my pet chicken, does that count?”. “I Yeah right! Right now I have a nice hickey on my arm from a Canada Goose. Turtle bites hurt!”. “I They don’t love us like we love them, right? He knew right where to bite, too – the skin between the thumb and first finger.

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M. P. Golding on Animal Rights

Animal Ethics

One aspect of the question of whether animals have rights may now be treated. If animals have rights, then these are welfare rather than option-rights. My pet turtle does not exercise, at his option, any rights over itself, things, or people. a nonhuman animal) the sort of being that can have rights?

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

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THEY’VE BEEN FEEDING HIM LOW-SALT HAM,” she wrote, all in caps, then added some choice commentary which I can’t seem to locate right now, but which inspired all her rehabber friends to add their two cents. “A A woman showed up unannounced just as I was leaving for vacation with two hatchling mourning doves,” wrote Linda Hufford.

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