Showing posts with label cats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cats. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 07, 2018

Curiosity Kills the Rat

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Rat hunting, 1850. One of the many diseases harboured by rats is toxoplasmosis . Toxoplasmosis is a major livestock disease and is ...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

The Always New and Continuing Evolution of Dogs

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A repost from this blog, circa February 2007. A lot of people want the undifferentiating affection of a dog, but are not entirely will...
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Rats Like Cats and Dogs That Work

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It's always amusing to me to read the hunting stories of others. The rats are always as big as cats , the fox as big as coyotes. ...
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Monday, October 29, 2012

The Architecture of Burrows

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A repost from 2005 The list of animals that hibernate in underground burrows, live in burrows or nest in burrows is astounding: fox,...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

The Beast of Exmoor and Other Nonsense

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A repost from February 2009 Stories of feral "beasts" lurking in the darkness of the English countryside have been around f...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Why Anti-Hunt Vegans Should Get Sterilized

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A repost from December of 2004. Most animal rights activists do not spend much time thinking about how animals die in the woods. Her...
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Saturday, December 24, 2011

Predator Fear, Alone, Results in Fewer Birds

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Fear of meso-predators, and fear alone , results in fewer successful clutches according to a paper by Liana Zanette entitled "Percei...
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Thursday, June 02, 2011

Coyotes are a Birds Best Friend

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Researchers have found that areas with the most coyotes had the fewest cats and the most songbirds. The reason for this is pretty simp...
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650,000 Feral Cats in Detroit?

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From The Detroit Free Press comes this little gem  about feral cats in the city of Detroit: By one calculation cited by the Petsmart Cha...
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Saturday, October 23, 2010

Skunks: When You May Need to Breathe for Two

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For all the discussion and advice written about terriers skunked underground, it's odd that almost no one talks about the most common e...
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Friday, July 02, 2010

Truth Hurts

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Saturday, October 31, 2009

Fantasy Creatures and Halloween

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This post is recycled from 2004. People seem to have a need for fantasy. I have written in the past about " fantasty diggers " bu...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Crazy Cat Ladies Deny They Are Crazy Cat Ladies

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Put out a press release : " Crazy Cat Ladies Deny They Are Crazy Cat Ladies ." Where is the edge of crazy? Ten cats? Twenty? Thir...
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Sunday, October 11, 2009

A Vulgarity of Starlings?

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A hawk hunts a flock of panicked starlings. What, exactly, do we call the massive flocks of starlings we see so often this time of year? Su...
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Monday, September 21, 2009

Roadkill Blues

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Roadkill is a 20 th Century phenomenon , which is to say that we did not have it in the 19 th Century when the roads were populated by hor...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Certified Pre-Owned

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What, no cash for clunkers program? Hat tip to Paul H. for this one. .
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009

What Happens When a Cat Meets a Coyote?

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What happens when a cat meets a coyote? Most of the time, it's lunch , according to The Journal of Wildlife Management which abstracts ...
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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Cats as Predators

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In his excellent book, Running With the Foxes , wildlife biologist David MacDonald writes that "foxhunting is of minor significa...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

The Epidemiology of Rabies in the U.S.

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In any given year about 7,500 cases of rabies in nonhuman animals are reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Wild anim...
Saturday, August 09, 2008

Dog Food Secrets "They" Don't Want You To Know

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This stuff costs $34 for 4 pounds -- more than prime steak. What's in it? A lot of stuff a wolf never ate. Stuff like sweet potato ...
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