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10,000 Birds Launches Alley Rat Allies

10,000 Birds

Like cats, the rat is admired and loved by many who keep them as pets. Like cats, the rat has been the victim of campaigns to make it the bad guy in terms of disease and damage wildlife. Rats are cute! Imagine a world without rats! The garbage would be waist high in any urban area.

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RATS, Raptors, and Reckitt Benckiser

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The rodents eat the bait, stagger out of the building looking for water, and are easy prey for whatever carnivore happens to be passing by, be it wildlife or someone’s pet. This means not only can they continue poisoning kids, pets, and wildlife for years while the case drags through court, but now they have a monopoly on the market.

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

10,000 Birds

Thankfully the days of visiting Africa purely for slaughtering its wildlife have mostly come to a merciful end, and safari operators have adopted the Big Five term to market tours that offer sightings of the fortunate remanants of Africa’s once teeming great herds. In Asia they are even commonly kept as pets!

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