October, 2013

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Nom-Nom-Nominate Beggin’ Giveaway

4 The Love Of Animals

'Beggin’ has a special program going on with Sam’s Club through the end of October. You get to cast your vote to help get your dog’s favorite Beggin’ flavors featured in a special Beggin’ Party Pack that will arrive at Sam’s Club in March 2014. There are 5 varieties of Beggin’ up for vote – Bacon, Bacon & Cheese, Thick Cuts Hickory, Collisions Bacon & Cheeseburger, Collisions Bacon & Peanut Butter.

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Vulture vs. Bunny

10,000 Birds

'This is the story of an attitudinal bunny and the Black Vulture who dared to encroach on her territory. Two years ago I finally caved and told my daughter she could have a rabbit. She had wanted one for a long time, but I was convinced I would end up taking care of it, plus there were carnivorous birds in my house. But Skye wore me down, and in her junior year of high school we went to the local Rabbit Rescue.

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5 rules for authentic B2B branding

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'Issue Date: 2013-11-01. Teaser: As the blathering bozos in Congress say (when they’re not reading from Dr. Seuss books), I yield my column this month to the distinguished gentleman Michael Chasen, who helped build the education software startup Blackboard into a booming business that sold for $1.64 billion in 2011. Chasen summarized five brilliant rules for authentic B2B brand communications recently.

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'This blog had 1,349 visits during September, which is an average of 44.9 visits per day. A year ago, the average was 79.2.

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The Bolo Project, A Puppy Shower for Bolo

4 The Love Of Animals

'Dog is Good, one of our personal favorites for gifts and apparel for dog lovers, will host The BOLO Project Puppy Shower to benefit Leader Dogs for the Blind from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013 at the Waterfront Hilton Resort in Huntington Beach, Calif. Special features at the event include a meet and greet opportunity with BOLO, the future leader dog; auditions to be a star on DOGTV, the first television channel scientifically designed for dogs; a Pamper Your Pooch Station hosted by

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Jewelry for animal lovers

4 The Love Of Animals

'If you are looking for a wonderful gift for the animal lover in your life, visit The Magic Zoo. Each piece is handmade by artist Merry Rosenfield, and the variety of animals to choose from is truly amazing! For the first time, I was able to find a Maltese represented in “puppy cut” which is how we keep our sweet pup. I am in love with my Maltese charm , it’s truly adorable (even better in person).

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Definitively the Egyptians!

10,000 Birds

'Scientific papers are simply boring. That is why they have sections Abstract and Summary, to allow you to read the digested versions and skip the rest. Somehow, it seems, beginners writing their first papers ask their older colleagues for advice and hear something like: That writing of yours is way too amusing – that is not the way to build the career!

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Pet Supplies Plus Hosts National Adopt-a-Pet Weekend

4 The Love Of Animals

'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. Located in 23 Eastern states, each participating Pet Supplies Plus location will partner with a local rescue organization in order to host Adopt-a-Pet Weekend onsite at the store.

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Chaser, the dog that knows 1000 words! #Chaser1000

4 The Love Of Animals

'Most dog lovers will tell you that their dog is smart. In fact, it’s something that dog owners have known for some time, that dogs do indeed know what we are saying. Sometimes, they might even know too much! Just try tricking your pup into going to the vet or getting a bath! Well, a dog named Chaser and her beloved owner “Pop-pop” are challenging what science thinks about dogs and language with a vocabulary of 1000 words!

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Why Aren’t Birds Using My Bird Bath?

10,000 Birds

'Common questions I get: “I put out a bird bath and no birds are using it. Why?” or. “I have a heated bird bath and I never see birds at it. Do they not like it?” This is a typical heated bird bath known as the API Heated Bath. When I worked at the bird store it was a popular model because it held a lot of water in the winter and could be mounted on a deck or pedestal and could be used year round.

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Winter Pet Care Tips

4 The Love Of Animals

'Winter is just around the corner, and you can help prepare your pets with these winter pet care tips. Click the photo above to read the full article. The post Winter Pet Care Tips appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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No Other Way by Roger Real Drouin

10,000 Birds

'For some reason, this post did not go up in August when it was scheduled. My apologies to Mr. Drouin and the readers! As I noted last week , No Other Way is about the search for a ‘grail bird’ Not, in this case, THE grail bird — the Ivory-billed Woodpecker — but for the Northern Stilted Curlew, a stand-in for the Eskimo Curlew (don’t worry — other birds are given their proper names, it’s just the main player who is in the witness protection program.

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Pet food, is natural enough?

4 The Love Of Animals

'What is the first thing you do when you are looking for natural foods for your pet? Me? I always look at the ingredients. What I didn’t know was that while ingredients are important, it’s what is IN the ingredients that matters. The ingredients are what give your pet their nutrients. Ingredients are things like chicken, vegetables, fruits, etc.

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Four wings good two wings better?

10,000 Birds

'Birds may have evolved from an ancestor with four wings. This is an idea that has been around for more than a century, to which recent research has given considerable support. A recent analysis of 11 fossil birds suggests that feathers found on their legs had features similar to primary wing feathers that would be used in flight. Scientists are divided on the interpretation, some suggesting that the hind limbs of these basal birds served as wings involved in powered flight, others acknowledging

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Audio Playback May Be Bad for Birds, Says Study

10,000 Birds

'Rufous Antpitta, listening intently, as photographed by Renato Espinosa. How many times have you been out in the field, failing to find the bird you were looking for, a bird you were certain was there? Maybe you heard it chattering way up in dense foliage, but needed a visual sighting to feel satisfied. In this situation, you might have reached for your smartphone to broadcast a call to which you know your target bird would respond.

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The First Ever Diabolical Sparrow Quiz!

10,000 Birds

'We here at 10,000 Birds have had many difficult identification quizzes, quizzes that we try to make so difficult that “difficult” is no longer sufficient as a modifier for them. We call these quizzes diabolical. And this one just might be more diabolical than most. It involves sparrows. Just sparrows. You know, those flighty birds that disappear into the underbrush as you approach?

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The Marvelous Spatuletail on Display!

10,000 Birds

'In preparing for my first trip to see the Marvelous Spatuletail ( Loddigesia mirabilis ), I decided to read as much as I possibly could. I had “The Birds of South America” by Rudolph Meyer de Schaunsee; which described the locality where this bird occurs, and had a brief description that highlighted the long tail feathers with terminal racquets. Back then, there were some odd paintings of this outlandishly ornamented hummingbird, but the graphic material at a time was nowhere near the stunning

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Waxwings

10,000 Birds

'I think people who are aware of birds but would never call themselves birders don’t pay as much attention to migration apart from “it’s a spring and fall thing.” I love migration and I love how it stretches from August and well into December where I live. And I love are all the Cedar Waxwings in my neck of the woods. When people ask what they can do to attract more birds to their yard, one of the best answers is, “To plant more fruit bearing trees.” The cha

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The Fourth Record

10,000 Birds

'Two days ago, I’ve found the Great Black-backed Gull – the fourth ever record of this predominantly marine species for land-locked Serbia (previous were in 1857, 1993 and 2012): Down at the riverbank in Belgrade, I am mounting the scope onto the window clamp and making myself some coffee in a small water bottle, often used as an instant coffee shaker, while scanning the Danube water surface for gulls.

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Birds at Tanner’s Spring, Central Park, Manhattan

10,000 Birds

'Hidden away on the west side of Central Park, easily accessed from the 81st Street entrance by the American Museum of Natural History, and adjacent to the Diana Ross playground is a marvelous bird magnet. Tanner’s Spring is its name and the small pool of water, really more of a large puddle, is a favorite place for New York City birders and bird photographers to get great looks at and images of a wide variety of birds coming in to bathe and drink.

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Are Black Cats Really Bad Luck?

4 The Love Of Animals

'The history of black cats being the harbingers of bad luck dates back centuries, and tall tales around them can be found in the history and lore of many countries. The ancient Egyptians embraced the black cat and treated it as royalty. Black cats were also kept by fishermen’s wives and thought to keep danger at bay. Can you believe that even in these modern times, some people won’t even give a black shelter pet a second look?

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Pet food ingredients and sourcing. It matters!

4 The Love Of Animals

'I have mentioned before that we have fed both of our dogs Hill’s pet food. I mention it again because it plays an important role in why you are seeing a lot of posts about Hill’s Ideal Balance on our site recently. You see, we have always felt great about Hill’s pet food, and were excited that they came out with a new, natural line.

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Puppies Predict the World Series

4 The Love Of Animals

'Calling all baseball fans! The puppies predict the world series in this adorable video. That’s right! Jimmy Fallon welcomes back his panel of puppies to predict the winner of the 2013 World Series between the Red Sox and Cardinals. The post Puppies Predict the World Series appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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The Chukar Situation

10,000 Birds

'The Chukar is the most widely distributed and the most numerous of all the partridges that scientists assigned to the genus Alectoris. All these factors combined make for a great bird. Its range is not difficult for an Old World birder to visit, and once there the bird is not hard to find – for a partridge. Then there is the fact that its plumage (the original to the copy-cat New World quails) can easily rival many a spring’s warbler, and there you have it: just look up “marv

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‘Scuse Me While I Catch This Fly

10,000 Birds

'I miss Eastern Kingbirds. It’s not that they’re not around — I’ve seen them at the National Bison Range, to name but one definitively Montana location — but they’re not AROUND, like they always used to be back on the Olde Homestead. Instead we have other flycatchers, and I am not a fan of other flycatchers. Other flycatchers are not fans of me.

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A Preening Savannah Sparrow

10,000 Birds

'This morning – 26 October 2013 – at Jacob Riis Park in coastal Queens, New York, I was very pleased to see hordes of sparrows in every bit of brush, long grass, and anywhere else that you could fit a sparrow. Overnight, northwest winds had been blowing which made for perfect migratory conditions and the number of sparrows around showed that the birds had taken advantage of them.

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Tino’s Couture for your best friend.

4 The Love Of Animals

'Baby recently got a package from Tino’s Dog Couture. She was very excited to see what was inside! The packaging was so pretty, but she didn’t stop long to admire the wrapping paper, she wanted it open! And as you can see, what was inside was an even prettier package, with a pink polka dotted bow and collar! This is called the Sofia set , but there are other choices too to suit your dog’s taste.

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US Government Shutdown Affects Birders (and Birds, Too)

10,000 Birds

'Kings Canyon National Park in California is just one of hundreds of shuttered U.S. parks and preserves. (Photo by the National Park Service). If you’re in the U.S. and you’ve got good weather forecast this weekend, you’re probably looking forward to some birding. After all, we’re in the peak of fall migration. (Disclosure: the White-throated Sparrows and Brown Creepers have started invading Chicago this week, and on my morning rounds I spotted a first-of-season Dark-eyed

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of October 2013)

10,000 Birds

'Even the solo birders out there have to appreciate that birding together is often better than birding alone. Corey and I don’t get out in the field together much, since we’ve determined that the ongoing security of 10,000 Birds requires the two of us to live in separate cities. Blog security is serious business! But when I do get to go birding with him or any of my other friends and colleagues in the natural history space, I remember what about this hobby I enjoy so much.

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Ducks Invade CVS!

10,000 Birds

'What happens when a bunch of Mallards and Manky Mallards invade a CVS? Nothing much, but it is entertaining to see a bunch of ducks wandering around in a drugstore in Saratoga Springs, New York. Hat-tip to Gothamist.

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