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Here is a little-known side of the foreclosure crisis: exotic birds abandoned or dropped at shelters because their owners cannot move into an apartment or a relative's home with the sometimes noisy creatures.Animal rescue groups say they're becoming inundated with calls from people who lost their houses desperately trying to find a new home for their macaw or cockatoo.
Adding to the problems of finding new homes is the life span of the birds, which can run from 20 years for a cockatiel to between 50 and 80 years for the larger birds.
Intelligent, lively birds like parrots, cockatoos and cockatiels can be time-consuming to care for, loud, and destructive to themselves or their surroundings if neglected or mistreated.
Source: Reuters
Photo: Julie Corsi
During the next few months, Google will be digitizing the entire LIFE photo archive — about 10 million photos stretching from the 1750s to today.This photo:
Edwardian era group of women, children and pet dog posing for informal portrait outside at resort.
| Location: | Lossiemouth, Scotland |
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| Date taken: | 1910 |
| Size: | 1280 x 991 pixels (17.8 x 13.8 inches) |
A Sheboygan, Wisconsin, woman has been cited for animal neglect after leaving her overweight dog outdoors in single-digit temperatures, where it froze to a sidewalk but survived.Shelter workers say 120-pound Jiffy was left in frigid weather last week but the "morbidly obese" border collie was protected by layers of insulating fat.
Police issued 59-year-old Alice Bigler an ordinance violation for animal neglect.
Source: USA Today
American photographer Sharon Montrose who is smitten with dogs and photo booth strips. See more of her work at The Dog Photo Booth
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