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Big Cat Week 2012 Starts Sunday!

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Nat Geo Wild presents the third annual Big Cat Week starting Sunday, Dec 9th. From Cougars, tigers, cheetahs, jaguars, and snow leopards and more, it’s a great time to learn more about these amazing cats! Big Cat Week is part of the Big Cats Initiative to stop poaching, save big cat habitats, and “ Cause an Upraor “!

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Big Cat Week, day 3

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Warrior Initiation” – By killing lions, Maasai warriors protect their livestock and officially become men.

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Cow Birds

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They’re all named for livestock. These Blasts From The Past Reason To Become a Bird Watcher #2: Birds Are Everywhere You Are Why Cats Love FeederWatch Where Are You Birding This Last Weekend of October 2008? Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct.

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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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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

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Syngenta warns that “Talon” is “hazardous to dogs, cats, pigs, poultry and other wildlife.” In addition to killing birds of prey, brodifacoum has also killed coyotes, grey foxes, red foxes, kit foxes, mountain lions, bobcats, black bears, Pacific fishers, and other animals, including domestic dogs and cats.

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Protecting Your Pets from Pests and Disease

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Perhaps the most well known mosquito born disease, heartworms can be fatal to dogs and occasionally cats and foxes. The disease can attack domestic pets, such as dogs and cats, as well as livestock, such as horses, chickens, and cattle. It can affect humans, birds, horses, dogs, cats, and other mammals. Heartworms.

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Tiger Killed in India

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With this, the big cat death toll in the national park rose to three this year. Over the past week, tigers have frequently lifted livestock from the villages outside Kaziranga, with a tiger killing a domestic pig in the park's Sildubi area on Saturday itself. We found the ninth rib of the tiger broken and partially calcified.

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