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82-foot-long “Rescue Rig” on Way to Missouri

4 The Love Of Animals

The team is just coming off its rescue efforts in Memphis, where floods of historic proportions affected uncounted numbers of domestic and wild animals. The Red Star team consists of 13 staff and volunteers who will begin work tomorrow. The Red Star team will also be assisting at the Emergency Animal Shelter.

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The Medicine Bird

10,000 Birds

However, ongoing research at Sia Essential Species Repository (see below) reveals this is not always the case, and that there are actually five phases between albino and leucistic. Leucism, however, is the result of reduced coloration of all types of skin pigments, which sometimes leads to mottled coloring and patches of white.

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A grounded Brown Booby

10,000 Birds

They feed on small fish and recent research is showing that the smaller male bird suffers more than the female during chick rearing. We do not have a seabird rescue service in Broome and the kindest thing I could think of was to approach it and see if it could be moved into the shade. Brown Booby grounded.

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Bubbles the Chimp Resurfaces

Critter News

I had forgotten all about Michael Jackson and his chimp Bubbles whom he rescued from a research facility. They are wild creatures and their psychology must suffer from these abnormal arrangements. Apparently, Bubbles is now 26 years old and living at an animal sanctuary. He got too aggressive to live with Jackson's kids.

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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

10,000 Birds

But I only rehabbed birds, so I had to do research and call my mammal rehabber friends. I do occasional rescues, though, because everyone still has my number. Occasionally I’d drink way too much vodka and write my long-suffering agent long diatribes with the subject line SHALL I TELL YOU HOW MUCH I HATE BEING A WRITER???

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Paws UP for Union Township Animal Shelter

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Research has shown that if noise and stress are reduced, adoptions go up! The animals at these shelters suffer extreme stress from deafening noise levels, horrible environmental conditions, and many other factors that contribute to behavioral problems. They do this by providing toys and other items.

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Make sure you look after your pet with insurance

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Sheila Stewart, of Capricom Animal Rescue centre in Mold, United Kingdom, said that she believes that this can be overcome by the animal’s owners taking out pet insurance. Research suggests that you are more likely to make a claim on your pet insurance than on either car or home insurance. The importance of pet insurance.

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