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Tufted Titmouse Plucking a Raccoon

10,000 Birds

Naturalists examining old nests have identified raccoon, opossum, dog, fox squirrel, red squirrel, rabbit, horse, cow, cat, mouse, woodchuck, and even human hair in titmouse nests.

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What’s In the Freezer for Tonight?

10,000 Birds

As long as they had no drugs in their system, and as long as they weren’t touched by a cat (and thus contaminated with salmonella/pasteurella/Bartonella, etc.) He then ate a screech owl, a robin, two squirrels, a mourning dove, three chipmunks, and a rabbit. My mammal-rehabber friends give me their unfortunates, as well.

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Can Stewart Island become Pest Free?

10,000 Birds

Getting rid of rabbits and goats was something that had been done for many years, but it was generally thought that rats and cats would be impossible to remove from all but the smallest islands. Of particular interest would be the commitment of the islanders to give up having cats as pets. Insanely ambitious?

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Etched In My Heart

4 The Love Of Animals

Another thing we love about Etched In My Heart is that they donate part of their proceeds to The PetSave Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by Bona Tucker in June 2000 as a rescue, rehabilitation, and adoption resource for domestic rabbits, cats and dogs. We loved that they included animals beyond just dogs and cats.

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Starling & Grackle Bird Feeding Tips

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She wrote the books Disapproving Rabbits and City Birds/Country Birds. Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. When she’s not digiscoping, tweeting or banding birds, she’s a part-time park ranger and award-winning beekeeper. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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Welsh Report Shows Increased Animal Research at Cardiff University

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In four years it experimented on 157,839 mice, 17,324 rats, 11,096 fish, 1,941 birds, 1,253 guinea pigs, 933 pigeons, 884 frogs, 207 cats, 54 rabbits and 18 tree shrews from the tropics of south-east Asia. According to a Wales on Sunday investigation, the number of animals used at Cardiff has risen by 13 percent since 2006.

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

10,000 Birds

Nestling songbirds fed hamburger and cat food,” wrote Sean O’Brien. Perhaps she had been watching Monty Python’s Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.). “I “Mourning Doves fed cheerios, raptors fed hot dogs, infant squirrels fed watered down peanut butter because squirrels eat peanuts at the feeder, right?” wrote Maryjane Angelo.