4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 30, 2013

Ducks and geese may not be a particularly unusual sight in the wild, but have you ever thought about keeping them as pets? They can make excellent, if slightly quirky, pets. Ducks and geese make excellent pets because it is interesting to watch them as they go about their activities and engage with their environment.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 9, 2008

It sure looks like India is taking wildlife crime investigation seriously. In its first ever independent operation since its inception last year, the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau has unearthed an illegal pet trade racket arresting one and seizing four live Indian Tent turtles from Mahipalpur area here.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2014

This was more than 30 years after these types of anti-coagulants had first been implicated in the deaths of protected wildlife and pets, as well as the sickening of children. Bromethalin comes in worm-like shapes, all the better to entice ingestion by moles, voles, and protected songbirds, not to mention adventurous children and pets.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2021

That’s quite the list of charismatic and unique wildlife to add to your potential list of sightings. Giant anteaters are just one of the wildlife highlights of the Rupununi. Decades of trapping for the pet industry drove them to the brink of extinction, and their survival into the future was seriously in doubt.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Agonizing quandaries concerning invasive species are well-known to wildlife biologists. Still, with the help of various sources, the authors have a try: Ninety million cats live in 46 million American homes; There are 100 million feral cats that live outside and eat mostly wildlife, and 50 million owned cats (i.e.,

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

My work as a wildlife rehabilitator over the past forty-five years has allowed me a unique perspective on a disturbing trend. Consider this: ninety percent of birds treated at wildlife centers are admitted as a result of human interactions that have nothing to do with “nature.” Gratefully, we now acknowledge that was wrong.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife trafficking asia pet trade.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2014

It’s a wonder wildlife rehabilitators have any hair left by the end of the summer, as we’ve been so busy tearing it out over people who have found a baby bird and tried to help by squirting milk down his throat or stuffing him with bread. Call a wildlife rehabilitator! Milk + Wildlife = Big Mistake.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

This guest blog was written by Debbie Souza-Pappas, the director and founder of Second Chance Wildlife Rehabilitation in Price, Utah. Ipsen of Payson Family Pet Hospital in Payson, Utah, is our wildlife vet and very skilled at orthopedic surgeries. Our veterinarian, Dr. Jay D. We have some ways to manage this, but nothing 100%.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

of Wildlife Services , which is involved in mainly predator control programs (coyotes are a big target). In 2008, the Environmental Protection Agency charged Wildlife Services for its illegal placement of a sodium cyanide M-44 (a highly lethal booby trap) on public land, which harmed a U.S. Ranchers oppose the move.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2016

Sometimes people – including veterinarians who haven’t studied wild birds – suggest feeding Exact (or a similar brand) Pet Bird Formula. A raptor raised as a pet can never be released – imagine a hungry bird of prey trying to land on an unsuspecting person, hoping to be fed. Broad-winged Hawk.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2016

Sometimes people – including veterinarians who haven’t studied wild birds – suggest feeding Exact (or a similar brand) Pet Bird Formula. A raptor raised as a pet can never be released – imagine a hungry bird of prey trying to land on an unsuspecting person, hoping to be fed. Broad-winged Hawk.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2016

All her pets are rescues. She doesn’t use pesticides, she loves the local wildlife, and she does everything a good pet owner should do. My friend Nina is an animal lover. She keeps her cats inside. Unless she is accompanying her dog, he stays in a fenced-in area. We have a cat that is a hummingbird murderer.”

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Motomco’s Material Safety Data Sheet for “Hawk” warns that the product “is extremely toxic to fish, birds, and other wildlife” and that “dogs and predatory and scavenging mammals and birds might be poisoned if they feed upon animals that have eaten this bait.” Thanks for your concern for wildlife, Syngenta.).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

“I’ve seen her around, when I was setting my traps,” said the trapper himself, who brought her to Tamarack Wildlife Center , in Saegertown, PA. This is why certain wildlife rehabilitators end up misanthropic and homicidal. Birds Albino leghold traps leucistic Red-tailed Hawk wildlife rehabilitators' She is a medicine bird.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2021

People came to see what it was all about, with their children and pets, rambling around the green oasis for the first time. There was a panel discussion too, where I gave the opening lecture on Reva’s wildlife and the value of this area for the polluted city with 2M people.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2020

But our rainy season, while bad for wildlife photography, has encouraged some beautiful non-feathered life forms. ” These guys would have let me pet them, had I been so inclined. (As You could say that I don’t bird just for the birds. My recent drizzle-days produced some particularly bad bird photos.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2014

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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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2014

“I don’t even own a pet, and yet I’m dealing with the pet problem.” As we have mentioned many times here on 10,000 Birds, cats belong indoors because it is better for them, better for wildlife, and better for people. “They poop in my lawn continuously,” said Stella Street resident Judy Mahon.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2013

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.

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Critter News

APRIL 24, 2009

The bad news is that the pet trade is decimating the population on Sumatra. Tags: wildlife crime exotic pets wildlife trafficking animal cruelty orangutans pet trade endangered species. The good news is that a new population of about 2,000 individuals was discovered in Borneo.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2012

It’s safer for your cats and for wildlife for your pets to be kept indoors! Even though only 12% of the kills were birds, if you extrapolate the data it leads to huge estimates of the numeber of birds killed by free-roaming cats each year.

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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. The impact that pythons are having on native wildlife is not well understood. Photo Credit: Invasive and Exotic Species of North America (www.invasive.org).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2014

People who want to release birds on the cheap buy doves – usually Ring-necked Doves – from pet stores, and release them themselves. Birds white dove release wildlife rehabilitators' Ring-necked doves don’t fly well and have no survival skills. After a few days they will die of starvation, unless a predator gets them first.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

While drones have the potential be a great tool in the world of wildlife conservation, they can also pose a serious problem for the animals they’re trying to protect. In 2014, the National Park Service banned drone use in all 58 national parks in order to protect wildlife and precious ecological landmarks.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

Wildlife rehabilitators are a multi-tasking lot. People walk in and hand you a box, which you know will contain the wildlife and some bizarre food item. Baby birds/wildlife and milk is another entire blog, there are so many. The only source of good information is a well-established wildlife center. He had a big heart!”.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2022

So armed with some knowledge from the “ Access Considerations for Birding Locations ” page on the Birdability website and some research, I twice visited the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge near Portland, Oregon with accessibility in mind. Pets are not allowed, nor are joggers, runners, or bicyclists.

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Critter News

MAY 10, 2010

Here's an interesting perspective on the practice of some religious groups' (such as Buddhist monks') practice of purchasing birds from pet stores and then releasing them. Tags: birds buddhism wildlife asia. This writer contends that the birds are not suited to the wild and actually end up starving or being eaten by cats.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Workers at an Ohio pet shop are used to worried pet owners bringing their animals in to be treated in the store's clinic. Tags: wildlife deer. Lucky deer! She was treated and then released. But an unaccompanied visit Saturday by a deer to the PetSmart in Rossfield was a first for the store.

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Reddit Animals

APRIL 11, 2023

New England Reptile Distributers just released a video explaining a terrible incident involving the FWC (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission). So what should have happened is: the FWC should have given Coffee the deadline extension, and allowed him to rehome the remaining pets within whatever timeframe was needed.

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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. The problem of free-roaming cats — and their predation on birds and other wildlife — is hotly contested in communities across the country, and it triggered a lively exchange in the hearing room.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2011

Mitred Parakeets are popular pets, commonly known as Mitred Conures. JFK Airport was a major hub for the importation of wildlife for the pet trade, and it is likely that birds escaped from quarantine during this period. The population may also be supplemented by releases of pet birds. from South America.

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Critter News

JANUARY 23, 2009

You can do a name search on pet-abuse.com to see if there is any information in their database. Tags: wildlife crime animal abuse animal cruelty. But remember, "all individuals are innocent until proven guilty. Still, what an awesome resource. Still, what an awesome resource. These people are amazing.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 10, 2012

From wildlife protection and conservation, as service canines for inmates, during search and rescue missions, in fires, as therapists, and for medical-detection purposes, and more, dogs are working hard for us all the time. Boomerang Pet Awards in London.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2011

Asian Leopards are about house cat sized and can breed with house cats giving a bit more wild animal to your domestic pet. According to US Fish and Wildlife domestic rural cats kill roughly 39 million birds annually. Bengals with actual leopard in them are even harder on wild birds. The police were really nice and inspected it.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2012

I’m now petting my rabbit Dougal, 6 more birds dead. Sometimes, I feel that competing bird conservation groups are trying too hard to get my attention and give the impression that just by sitting here on my futon and breathing, I have killed several birds. I just looked over at my husband–bam 5 birds dead.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Set in an abandoned oil refinery where wildlife is slowly regaining control save for the desperate attempts of golfers to retain all eighteen holes, industrial ghosts loom over rolling freshwater lakes bordered by fifty foot tall trees. Fortunately, throughout the tenure of the refinery many of the older, larger trees were preserved.

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