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Available for adoption at Cedar Rapids Animal Care & Control Mar. 11, 2024 6:00 am, Updated: Tue. 11, 2024 1:02 pm Sophie is a 9-year-old female domestic shorthair cat available for adoption through Cedar Rapids Animal Care & Control. Affectionate and social, Sophie would make an excellent lap cat. He also lives with other cats and can do it again. Call (319) 286-5993 for more information. (Cedar Rapids Animal Care & Control) Sophie is a 9-year-old female domestic shorthair cat available for adoption through Cedar Rapids Animal Care & Control. Affectionate and social, Sophie would make an excellent lap cat.…

Quail-doves seem to be looming from the field of birding dreams. The chubby birds are not quail but you could be forgiven for thinking so. They are real doves but far from everyday, easy mourning ones.Instead of sitting in the open or lounging in the middle of the road, quail-pigeons hide in the shadows. Quail-pigeons are shy by nature take care. I can’t blame them. I mean if I have to walk on the same forest floor as hungry Ocelots, boas, and other animals that can’t wait to devour me, I’m pretty shy too!Most birds on the forest floor are…

The winning team will receive a local pet food pantry $5K of food and the other team’s pet food pantry will receive $1K of foodOAKVILLE, ON, March 11, 2024 /CNW/ — Pets Plus Us, a Canadian pet insurance company, is pitting the Toronto Maple Leafs and Edmonton Oilers against pet food pantries. To honor the company’s Canadian roots, when the two teams compete March 23Pets Plus Us will make a donation $6,000 CAD of pet food to the team’s local pet food pantry.Pets Plus UsPets Plus Us is dedicated to pets and the community and recognizes the value of pet…

Veramaris, a producer of an algae-based alternative feed ingredient, has completed the required three-year registration process for its inclusion in aquafeeds for Canadian salmon farming. As the first authorization of its kind, this marks a significant step towards greater sustainability within the Canadian salmonid aquaculture industry. The authorization will allow Veramaris to provide the Canadian salmon industry with an environmentally responsible source of essential nutrients for fish health and welfare. Algal oil, produced in Nebraska, USA, is a regional solution that contributes to the industry’s move towards adopting alternative sources of Omega-3 and reducing the dependency on fish oil as…

Gain Confidence in Pet Nail Trimming with Dremel’s Digital Pet Pedicure School – Expert Guidance and Premium Tools Delivered to Your Doorstep for Happy, Healthy PetsMT. Prospect, Ill., March 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Dremel is excited to announce the launch of its new online platform dedicated to pet nail trimming. The platform was developed to empower users, including pet owners and professionals, to trim their pets’ nails with ease and confidence using Dremel tools.Dremel launched the Digital Pet Pedicure School to help users gain confidence in pet nail trimming and enjoy a fearless trimming experience at home.The online shop offers…

We all worry about leaving our dogs alone, even for short periods of separation. We want to do what’s best for them so they can be happy when we have to leave them (to earn money to buy them things, for example!). Sure, that’s part of us know the best way to keep them happy is to skip our obligations and take them out for a run oa walkingwill open in a new tab or hang out at home and play in the yard. But what is the best way to keep them happy when we really have to go…

Courtesy photo An angler poses with his catch in the waters of Bays de Noc. ESCANABA — The unusual weather — a mild winter marked by sparse ice coverage followed by an early spring — will almost certainly have an impact on the walleye populations in Bays de Noc. Nature is resilient in the face of some variability, but experts have raised concerns about long-term effects if extreme weather repeats. In the short term, seasoned anglers are likely to adjust their skills based on observed conditions. Spawning is associated with thawing in freshwater bodies. Consistent weather…

The following is a statement from the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. Just when you thought it was time to start trading snowshoes for wading shoes, Mother Nature had other plans. That said, Idaho Fish and Game hatchery personnel will bring more than 23,000 catchable-sized rainbow trout to Southeast Region fisheries this month. Get them! Here’s a quick summary of what you need to know about some of these fun fisheries. American Falls Reservoir – 18,000 rainbow trout. At 55,000 acres, this body of water is the largest of Idaho’s Snake River reservoirs. However, due to its various bays,…

Every winter, St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation water levels in certain channels and canals to facilitate maintenance procedures prior to the navigation season. (Rowan Kennedy/CBC – photo credit)When environmentalist Gina Philie sets out to assess whether the La Prairie Basin on Montreal’s South Shore is due for a cleanup, she finds herself stumbling upon more than just trash.Hundreds of dead fish and other creatures washed ashore.”It was very disgusting because you’re literally just walking on different carcasses and you just have to go back to figure out what’s going on,” said Philie who is also a director at Vigile Verte,…

The Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) has shared its concerns for the current version of proposed federal legislation that would reduce state oversight and authority to review the marketing or labeling of pet food. HR7380, the Pet Food Uniform Regulatory Reform Act of 2024, or the PURR Act, was introduced in Congress on February 15, 2024, with the goal of creating a more streamlined federal regulatory process that would prohibit state governments from direct or indirect establishment, maintenance. , enforcement or enforcement of any authority or requirement relating to the marketing or labeling of pet food. AAFCO is…