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Star studded Valentine Doggie Dinner Party

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Star studded Valentine Doggie Dinner Party originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on February 15, 2010. We count our pets as our year round Valentines, but they did get a lot more love yesterday with special treats! How about you, was your pet your Valentine?

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“Ya’ll know Kanye West-ie?”

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Starting with the dogs: congratulations to “McLovin the Stud Muffin,” “Kanye Westie,” and “Angus Von Wigglebutton” earning … Continue reading → The post “Ya’ll know Kanye West-ie?” The results are in for the 2016 wackiest name contest sponsored by Nationwide. Categories include both dogs & cats!

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Boy Crazy: Why Older Loon Ladies Chase Young Studs

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Image by John Picken/Wikimedia Commons. When aging male Common Loons begin to lose their mojo or die off, females are still going strong—and ready for action, even if that means seeking the attentions of younger males.

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Guest post: How to build a cat house.

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Follow the procedure given below to build your cat house: Purchase a 4×8 Sheet of plywood, a box of 5/8” wood screws, three 2×4x8 stud and some small pieces of carpets. Take the three of the 2×4x8 studs and cut them into twelve equal sized sections. You can also remove any feature that seems to be unnecessary.

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Celebrity Casino Royale Benefiting Charity

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The star-studded, red carpet event benefits spcaLA, as well as the I’m Too Young For This! Celebrity Casino Royale, hosted by The H.O.M.E. Foundation , will take place at Avalon in Hollywood, CA on May 24th, 2011. Cancer Foundation.

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Walter’s Book Now Available

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It is studded with the wonderful images that his fans will surely associate with him and is well worth checking out. Walter Kitundu, who loyal readers will remember as an excellent Beat Writer here on 10,000 Birds , has a new e-book available. You can get Bird Knowledge: Little Life Lessons Learned from Birds on the iTunes store here.

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Dog Collars

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In situations where dogs were primarily guarding domestic animals, collars tended to have studs or spikes to frustrate the jaws of a marauding wolf. Wolf collars– Modern studded collars exist primarily as decoration intended to make a pet look tough, but this type of collar has a historically important function.

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Tribute to War Heroes…at Both Ends of the Leash

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Eight extraordinary canine finalists, selected in a nationwide online search, were honored at this red-carpet star-studded award gala for their remarkable devotion, bravery and companionship. The American Humane Association Hero Dog Awards™ presented by cesar canine cuisine® celebrates the powerful relationship between dogs and people.

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Sad End for Vagrant Swift, Happy Ending for Wrong-Way Pigeon

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Lucky for him, a Canadian racing club is giving him a new home, and may even put him out to stud, a reward this pigeon has no doubt earned. Yup, this one-year-old pigeon, who was released for a race near Sapporo, Japan, flew clear across the Pacific ! Photo from ABC News.

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Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of October 2011?

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Clear skies over the classic Acacia-studded grasslands of the Serengeti a. Whatever your plans this weekend, make time to enjoy SkyWatch Friday. Also be sure to come back Monday to share your best bird of the weekend !

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Tanzania – Africa at its best

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Nowhere else in Africa do the preconceived ideas of the continent really exist in such living detail; tall, red-robed Maasai herding their skinny cattle, endless grasslands studded with flat-topped Acacia trees and grazed by herds of zebras and wildebeest, and dramatic volcanic calderas brimming with big game and fierce predators!

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Going to Ohio for the Midwest Birding Symposium. Wait, Ohio?

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Why would I not be wholeheartedly gung-ho about going to what is unanimously and resoundingly considered an excellent, fun, exciting, star-studded, bird-filled, and magnificent event? One little four-letter word.

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Quinta do Casal Branco: Lobo e Falcão Reserva (2016)

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The estate is also a stud farm for puro sangue Lusitano horses, considered one of the world’s oldest breeds. José Lobo de Vasconcelos has been the winemaker at Quinta do Casal Branco since 1986, and has spent much of his time experimenting with a range of grapes to find the varietals best suited to the estate and the wines it produces.

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Getting the Guan (Pawi Edition)

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A brush that close with a bird so big and so rare has to be one of the highlights of a trip studded with spectacular moments. Consequently, I was well-positioned when THE TRINIDAD PIPING GUAN FLEW RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY FACE! The Pawi didn’t stick around to sign autographs but instead dove into the dense undergrowth of the slope.

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Moorcroft Manor, a Great Place to Lay a Birding Head Down

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The tall flower studded grasses to the north were a mess of seed-eaters from the Red-billed Quellea to the astonishing Long-tailed Widowbird , a sparrow-sized bird with a massive tail twice as long as its body. The lake with the Drakensberg Mountains in the background. The fields around the gardens added some other great birds.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Even the 1986 Kentucky Derby winner Ferdinand ended up in a Japanese slaughterhouse because he wasn’t proving his monetary value as a stud. Most wind up auctioned off for a few dollars each and sent to the foreign slaughterhouses to be made into pet food or dinner for someone overseas. It’s not just the injured horses that suffer.

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The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – and Us: A Book Review

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Prum has had a long, productive, award-studded ornithological career, a chaired professor of ornithology at Yale and recipient of a prized MacArthur fellowship.

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Nice, Nice Birding in Narita

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This terrific waterway, flanked with paths and studded with stepping stone bridges, is home to a lot of Eastern Spot-billed Ducks and Eurasian Teals. Every species I mentioned appeared often throughout the day, but diversity improved considerably as we headed towards Naritasan Temple by way of the famed irrigation channel.

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Campbell Park, Canberra

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Australia’s capital, set in the eucalypt-studded Great Dividing Ranges, has not got a fantastic reputation as an exciting place to be, but in truth its an attractive garden city with a lot of green spaces, parks, and other pleasant paces that make it a nice place to live.

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