AVMA News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Leaders with the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine recently outlined the agency’s plan to support the development of safe and effective new products, spur innovation, and adopt smart improvements to regulatory pathways for new animal and veterinary products to reach the marketplace.

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AVMA News

MAY 2, 2024

The AVMA Board of Directors (BOD) updated and adopted several policies during its April 4-5 meeting at AVMA headquarters in Schaumburg, Illinois. The policy topics ranged from horse tripping to goat and sheep disbudding and dehorning to the veterinarian’s role in the opioid epidemic.

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AVMA News

AUGUST 9, 2023

The AVMA House of Delegates adopted a handful of revised animal welfare policies, including one on “Canine Devocalization” that supersedes the previous policy, approved a new policy on “Canine Hybrids,” and referred two other policies back to the AVMA Board of Directors (BOD).

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 21, 2015

October is National Adopt a Shelter Dog Month. There are so many wonderful dogs waiting to find forever homes, now is a great time to adopt!

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 30, 2015

We want to wish you a very HAPPY national shelter pet adoption day by introducing “Happy” the Cat and “Happy” the Dog! These beloved Pet Ambassadors of Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries were adopted last year by Crown … Continue reading → The post Happy National Shelter Pet Adoption Day!

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OCTOBER 17, 2013

The post October is Adopt a Pet Month appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals. BlogPaws'

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OCTOBER 18, 2013

Pet Supplies Plus is teaming up with local animal shelters to host a monumental Adopt-a-Pet Weekend on October 19-20. Coinciding with National Pet Adoption Month and its annual October Donation Drive, the goal of Adopt-a-Pet Weekend is to place countless deserving pets with forever homes.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2012

No worries – it was adopted and cared for by a veterinarian in the audience. Lead singer Josh Williams managed to keep the song going and the crowd sure appreciated the unexpected guest star in this video shot almost a year ago at the Doyle Lawson Bluegrass Festival in North Carolina. As for the bird? … a.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 16, 2019

These factors converge to present an opportunity – and challenge – for B2B merchants: adopt an omni-channel sales approach or miss out on significant revenue. Further, the landscape is expanding – 81 percent of potential buyers conduct online research prior to purchase, and 30 percent of all ecommerce purchases are from mobile devices.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2021

When the variety was first planted on the West Coast of the United States in the 1970s, American winemakers might have adopted the literal translation “pinot gray” as a linguistic compromise, but perhaps that would risk sacrificing too much invaluable European cachet in those early days of domestic winemaking?

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

It is the primary mission of every animal refuge to find a loving home for cats and dogs in desperate need of one. Could it be possible that your home is that loving home? Even a very comfortable shelter is.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 16, 2020

Case in point, my best bird of the year so far, at least in terms of my state and county lists, manifested in the form of two ridiculously unlikely Swallow-tailed Kites who have adopted improbable momentary residence in the Rochester area.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Donna Lynn Schulman was one of the kind Queens birders who helped Corey find his way around his adopted borough when he moved to New York City. Just make sure you stay quiet when reading her posts because she is, after all, a librarian! Want to learn more about Donna? Read on dear reader, read on.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Yet another bird that seems to adopt a different personality depending on the environmental conditions. The Hadada Ibis is another common African species but I can never tire of seeing it. Looks almost like a souped-up Glossy Ibis with all those iridescent feathers! Hadada Ibis.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Here, for example, is the emblem of Italy, adopted by the Italian Republic in 1948. (Europe, let alone Italy, doesn’t have bluebirds.). The lack of a national bird is not because Italy has a paucity of birds or a lack of interest in symbols. Sadly for Italy, the Italian Wolf is not considered a full species by any scientists.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

In May 1992 European Union governments adopted legislation designed to protect the most seriously threatened habitats and species across Europe. This legislation is called the Habitats Directive and complements the Birds Directive adopted in 1979.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2024

As so often happens when I go birding, I was adopted by a couple of local dogs. It’s like a northern autumn, but down south, and in July: Mushrooms were also everywhere: Most plants are still in their vegetative phrase, but one little plant seemed to be in a big hurry to bloom. The second plant captivated me with its decorative leaves.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

But one that hasn’t been widely adopted, at least in the United States, is avian radar, according to a recent New York Times op-ed. Whither the solutions to this dangerous (for all parties involved) problem? Engineers, airport managers, and wildlife authorities have devised a number of strategies.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 13, 2024

The post 4 Steps to Drive Seller Adoption of Digital Tools appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. This four-step plan allows sales enablement leaders to transform buyer enablement and empower sellers to leverage and reinforce new content and tools in response to an evolving buying landscape.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 4, 2017

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10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2011

Watching green herons deploy that impossible neck is always a shock, but never more so than that first time one sees it since this bird usually adopts a hunched, short-necked profile. Here is a green heron (of the subspecies B.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2024

It initially ran off, but then adopted a different strategy by crouching on the ground and relying on its camouflage, its big eyes looking up at me. Red-backed Shrike Eurasian Blackcap A massive European Hare was cute to watch as well, a nice change from the European Rabbits that are very common in our local park.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 29, 2022

But with its wide adoption comes a new skill set to learn. Virtual selling will continue to play a pivotal role in sales organizations, whether they have fully remote, in-person or hybrid work environments. The post How Sales Enablement Can Improve Virtual Selling appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2023

I waited for a long time, at one stage losing all hope, but finally, 23 ha / 57 ac of this tiny reserve are off the hook for the future development plans.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

They even breed there, though the chicks look a bit different and presumably sometimes ask whether they have been adopted. Yet surprisingly, it sometimes matches the color of the surrounding wetlands quite well. Grey-headed Swamphens are quite widely distributed – I had seen them before at Sultanpur, a wetland near Delhi, India.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 27, 2022

The post 5 Ways CMOs Can Benefit from Adopting Innovative Technology to Source Suppliers appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. AI’s ability to manage complex data sets and to interpret intent means it’s ideally placed to help CMOs source the services they need.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2024

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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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

A digital adoption platform (DAP) can be used to not only drive adoption of sales tech, but remove friction from the sales process. The post A Little DAP Will Do You appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2014

KWWC captures injured, sick or orphaned wild chickens, then adopts them out to homes on the mainland. It turns out that back when cigar manufacturing was big in the Keys, Cuban laborers arrived with their chickens. Eventually the business and the workers moved to Tampa, leaving a sizable chicken population behind.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2013

She adores her new adopted home, especially because she lives in jogging distance of its birding mecca, the Magic Hedge.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2024

Among the myriad of birds was a single Black-tailed Trogon, not ten meters away from me adopting the typical very upright stance. It perched completely still, like a statue. At times it just looked so fake. It’s amusing to think we simultaneously took photos of each other, it probably with a hidden spy camera for an eye.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2013

This form is thought to be a different species and the name Golden-bellied Woodpecker has been adopted by some. In the southern part of their range, they sport a golden yellow on breast and belly. The male wears the red malar with the female preferring the slimming qualities of black.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2022

Extra points to these American Avocets for adopting a different pose for each numbered group. After contributing almost 100 posts to 10,000 Birds, I’ve kind of lost track. I’ve thought of contributing this photo to Sesame Street , for teaching children how to count backwards from three.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

And with no natural predators or resistant trees in their adopted territory, things have been looking pretty grim. These bark-burrowing beetles, which apparently hitched a ride in cargo shipments from their native Asia, have been starving the ash trees of eastern and midwestern North America to death for a dozen years now.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Virtually overnight, the Whinchats had disappeared and were replaced by European Stonechats adopting the same positions on vantage points across the island. These birds were omnipresent on the bushes and fence posts on the upper land of the island during the first weeks of my stay.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 19, 2016

Joplin Humane Society, ASPCA Host Adoption Event and Free Microchip Clinic to Commemorate Five-Year Anniversary of Joplin Tornado “Paws in the Park” adoption event held at Parr Hill Park as part of Joplin Proud events This Saturday, the Joplin Humane … Continue reading → The post Free Microchip Clinic to Commemorate Five-Year Anniversary (..)

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Adopted as the state bird in 1948 , the Carolina Wren actually superseded another species: the Northern Mockingbird. If you live in the eastern United States, chances are you’re familiar with the clear, loud, teakettle teakettle teakettle song that reverberates through woods and thickets.

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