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On Discounts on Adoptions

Animal Person

Here's a Gray Matter for you (or maybe not): A humane society near me is doing a cat- and dog-adoption promotion this month. You can adopt a dog for $75 rather than $100, and if you adopt a cat for $50 you can get a second one for half the price. 2. If you don't mind sharing, on average, what are your "pet"-related expenses?

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Economic Troubles in Portugal Lead to More Abandoned Animals

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Thousands of pets are being abandoned across Portugal, either being dumped at the gates of charitable associations or simply taken far from home and left behind, as owners struggle to make ends meet due to the continuing financial crisis. From the Portugal News Online.sad stuff.

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A Nice Walk in the Woods

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The fact that Mexico recently abandoned daylight saving time has made this problem more serious.) As so often happens when I go birding, I was adopted by a couple of local dogs. And this Monday was not a spectacular birding day. I had stayed up too late on Sunday night doing church accounting, so I got a late start on Monday morning.

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The Elusive GUIANAN TROGON: A Serendipitous Backyard Encounter

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As a new birder, I had always been fascinated with the GUIANAN TROGON and while it is a shy bird, it is by no means a rare and difficult-to-find bird, except for me that is … My journey to find the GUIANAN TROGON began in the lush landscapes of my now-adopted home country of Panama, a birdwatcher’s paradise.

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Birding Eastern Zimbabwe

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This forced us to abandon the vehicle and walk the 15 miles to the nearest village where a bush-mechanic walked back with us at night to our vehicle and temporarily patched the hole. End result – precious birding time lost and 43 adopted African kids.

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Utah's Shelters Providing Strays to Labs for Research

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Scores of abandoned dogs, cats and livestock from Utah animal shelters become subjects of laboratory research at the University of Utah each year. They say cats and dogs at the lab get excellent veterinary care and survivors are placed into a volunteer-run adoption program. From the AP.

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The Cattle Egret Expansion

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While equally at home among cattle and elephants in areas where neither are available it has adopted airports, where they feed on insects that get stirred up by passing planes. In the northeastern United States, Cattle Egret rapidly advanced in the 1960s and 1970s, before declining just as quickly in the 1980s and 1990s.

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