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#321 Mike K.

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Posted 08 March 2024 - 08:18 AM

my neighbors have 10+ bird feeders around their yard. It's a mess. Squirrels, rats, birdseed all over the place.


No cats is the problem there.
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#322 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 08 March 2024 - 08:22 AM

Cats are both the problem and the solution.
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#323 Mike K.

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Posted 08 March 2024 - 08:27 AM

Like most things in life!
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#324 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 08 March 2024 - 01:17 PM

Toxic amphibians gather in Langford, common across B.C. coast

Rough-skinned newts gather in large numbers around wetlands from February to April


https://www.vicnews....c-coast-7327497



Is this like a trade show?

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 08 March 2024 - 01:17 PM.


#325 Matt R.

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Posted 08 March 2024 - 07:06 PM

I heard they are running for Langford Council!



#326 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 23 March 2024 - 08:15 AM

The cats' guardian, Bruce Robinson, told CBC News he has about 298 cats, 15 of which are expected to have kittens in the coming days.

"I ended up in a crazy situation," he said.

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He said people in the community starting dropping cats off on his property during the COVID-19 pandemic, and his pet cats ended up pregnant. He didn't have the money to get them spayed and neutered, and couldn't get outside support to do so.

"I made a bad decision," he said. "I thought I could handle the cats."

Drever said one cat can have three litters a year.

"So, in a seven-year timeframe, you're looking [at] up to 5,000 cats. So we're looking on the bright side — 280 isn't as bad as 5,000," she added.

Robinson said he wanted to give cats away, but said no one in the area wanted them.

"No one likes cats up here."

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Robinson says he isn't working at the moment and can no longer afford to care for the cats. The animals go through 28 kilograms of cat food a day, as well as cat litter for his 10 litter boxes, he said, costing him upwards of $3,000 a month. He says he has gone without food himself in order to pay for cat food and litter.

https://www.cbc.ca/n...escue-1.7152586

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 23 March 2024 - 08:16 AM.


#327 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 26 March 2024 - 05:33 AM

'Complex operation' underway to save orphaned orca calf

The whale’s pregnant mother died after beaching itself Saturday morning while hunting and likely drowned about an hour later as the tide came in.


https://www.timescol...ca-calf-8508702

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 26 March 2024 - 05:34 AM.


#328 Victoria Watcher

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Posted Yesterday, 04:47 AM

The Ehattesaht/Chinehkint First Nation is pulling together amid the death of a stranded orca and efforts to save its orphaned calf.

Chief Simon John said Tuesday the community continues to work with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, scientists, its own members and neighbouring First Nations to rescue the two-year-old orca from a shallow inlet near Zeballos. The whale’s 15-year-old mother drowned on Saturday after becoming beached on a gravel bar on Little Esperenza Inlet.

The young orca still hasn’t left the area and appeared traumatized as a rescue team tried to coax it out of the shallow lagoon to open water, according to marine scientist Jared Towers of Bay Cetology.








https://www.timescol...ogether-8514720




Maybe mom just wasn’t equipped to be a teen mother.
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#329 Victoria Watcher

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Posted Yesterday, 05:05 PM

Orphaned orca remains stranded as rescuers consider all options

A 120-foot-opening, under a roadway span, and the changing tides that rush through it are proving to be a barrier in leading the calf out to open ocean.

https://www.timescol...options-8520419






Err, leave the wildlife alone.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, Yesterday, 05:05 PM.


#330 max.bravo

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Posted Yesterday, 10:00 PM

Seems like capturing and selling it to sea world is the only viable option if it’s gonna die anyway.

Maybe we can recoup some of thousands of tax dollars already spent on this welfare project…

#331 Victoria Watcher

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Posted Today, 03:10 AM

Orca calf rescue team considers changing tactics to save stranded B.C. whale: DFO

New strategy to free 2-year-old whale could include lifting the whale out with a sling

https://www.cbc.ca/n...escue-1.7157812

Edited by Victoria Watcher, Today, 03:11 AM.


#332 Nparker

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Posted Today, 06:50 AM

Or maybe, just let nature take its course.
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