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10 reasons why guinea pigs make great pets

4 The Love Of Animals

10 reasons why guinea pigs make great pets – by James Alston writing for ExoticDirect ExoticDirect offer pet insurance for guinea pigs, rabbits, ferrets, hamsters, mice and other small pets. They also insure parrots, reptiles, tortoise and even pygmy hedgehogs!

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

10,000 Birds

It seems that these people, who purport to claim to care so much about animals, are completely ignorant of the existence of any animal life beyond horses, cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys. Yes, of course it is too bad that so many animals (most often rats, mice and rabbits) have to be killed. The logic of this is ridiculous.

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Finally. Jasmine the Greyhound

Animal Person

It wouldn’t matter if it was a puppy, a fox cub, a rabbit or, any other lost or hurting Animal, Jasmine would peer into the box or cage and, where possible, deliver a welcoming lick. But she is like that with all of our animals, even the rabbits. But Jasmine had other ideas. Geoff relates one of the early incidents. “We Link: [link].

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Invasive species in Australia

10,000 Birds

The feral cats were thought to have arrived as pets during early European settlement and then more were introduced to control rabbits and rodents, but now they inhabit all of Australia including offshore islands and are responsible for a high percentage of native species loss. Feral cat predation on Pied Oystercatcher eggs.

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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

Probably because people see so many Red-tails taking down pigs.”. “At Perhaps she had been watching Monty Python’s Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.). “I “Poor thing was hyperglycemic.”. How many hawks have we taken in who have been fed bacon?” asked LouAnn Partington. At least bacon is meat,” added Letitia Labbie. “We

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A Trip to an Animal Lab

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but did experiment on mice and guinea pigs. There was a poster in the lunch room with four cute animals (a dog, cat, rabbit and something else.) Tags: animal experimentation mice Guinea Pigs medical research biotech. In a brief tour of a particular biotech research company, I was taken to the animal lab. It was a jarring moment.