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Thwarting A Squirrel Attacking My Bird Feeder

Thwarting A Squirrel Attacking My Bird Feeder

I really have no idea when or why I started to feed birds but I have not stopped since starting.  It seems that in a lot of endeavors I try there crops up some element that tends to spoil the experience sometimes.  For me it’s squirrels.  I had no idea going into this hobby how much a squirrel can challenge my bird feeding efforts. I started putting my bird feeders in the back yard hung from a patio cover.  The…

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Results of surgery, Chylothorax.

Results of surgery, Chylothorax.

May 9th we found out what surgery had determined. There is a duct that takes fatty material from the intestines and moves this fluid up to the heart. Some time this duct ruptures and the fluid does not make it successfully to the heart but dumps into the lungs. This is what happened to Whiskers.  Some cats are prone to this problem. The surgeons would expect to find one duct but Whiskers had multiple ducts which they cut off and…

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