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She lived in an ultra-modern house whose decoration, appointments, paint, and even pets were chosen to complement her coloring ; ;
But most often her illustrations were fantasies featuring her own pets: mice, rabbits, kittens, and guinea pigs.
For example, during the 872-day Siege of Leningrad, reports of cannibalism began to appear in the winter of 1941 – 1942, after all birds, rats and pets were eaten by survivors.
A few months later, in August, an eyewitness, Madelyne Tolentino, reported seeing the creature in the Puerto Rican town of Canóvanas, when as many as 150 farm animals and pets were reportedly killed.
Notified of the evacuation on October 22, evacuees were told to pack one suitcase per family member, to bring evacuation and immunization cards, to tie pets in the yard, to leave the keys to the house on the dining table, and to wait in front of the house for buses.
Years later, animals of this original breeding colony were exported to the USA, where Syrian hamsters became one of the most popular pets and laboratory animals.
They were initially sent to Alaska and Canada as sled dogs but rapidly acquired the status of family pets and show dogs.
Domesticated animals that were also eaten included chickens, Mandarin ducks, geese, cows, sheep, pigs, camels and dogs ( various types were bred specifically for food, while most were used as pets ).
Cheetahs continued to be associated with royalty and elegance, their use as pets spreading just as their hunting skills were.
Onions were also prescribed by doctors in the early 16th century to help with infertility in women, and even dogs, cats and cattle and many other household pets.
Some species are kept as pets, and several color mutations were selectively bred in aviculture.
At first they were called pits de monja ( nuns ' nipples ) but time has changed their name to current pets de monja ( nuns ' farts ).
In Minoan art, it is assumed that they were exotic pets: "... the monkeys, which were imported to Crete, were pets that would have been placed where they could be seen and used by their owners, rather than simply abandoned in the countryside ," Maria C. Shaw concluded.
In the first millennium BC, when domesticated cats were popularly kept as pets, Bastet began to be represented as a woman with the head of a cat and ultimately emerged as the Egyptian cat-goddess par excellence.
In 2006, 52 % of French households had at least one pet: In total, 9. 7 million cats, 8. 8 million dogs, 2. 3 million rodents, 8 million birds, and 28 million fish were kept as pets in France during this year.
Some people were reunited with their lost pets at this same location.
The occasional long-haired kittens in a Siamese litter were seen as an oddity, and sold as household pets rather than as show cats.
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In January 2004 the Fung Wah Bus Company refused to sell tickets to a blind couple traveling with a guide dog under the company's policy barring pets from buses.
This wandering, working couple consists of Sebastian, a powerful-looking man who is nonetheless gentle — he keeps a number of unusual pets with him, his " flapping black gillies "-- and his companion, Tyÿ, a quiet mysterious woman and tarot-card reader.
In 2007, Film and Video Umbrella commissioned Arcangel to produce a new work, a couple thousand short films about Glenn Gould, using tiny fragments of video, each containing a single note produced by various instruments ( and some performing pets ) to create an arrangement of Bach's Variation no.
However, she loves animals and in fact has a vast collection of stuffed animals and a couple of pets to show for it.
The central " living room " housed the school library and the school's pets: a couple of guinea pigs and some budgerigars.
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About three to five pets attacked by coyotes are brought into the Animal Urgent Care hospital of south Orange County ( California ) each week, the majority of which are dogs, since cats typically do not survive the attacks.
The most popular pets are dogs and cats, but there are also rodent pets, such as gerbils, hamsters, chinchillas, fancy rats, and guinea pigs ; avian pets, such as canaries, parakeets, and parrots ; reptile pets, such as turtles, lizards and snakes ; and aquatic pets, such as tropical fish and frogs.
The two most popular pets in most Western countries have been cats and dogs.
Pet rats do not pose any more of a health risk than pets such as cats or dogs.
Rabbits as pets can find their companionship with a variety of creatures, including humans, other rabbits, birds, chinchillas, guinea pigs, and sometimes even cats and dogs ( however they require supervision when with dogs and cats, as they might be preyed upon or attacked by these animals ).
Some seafood is feed to aquarium fish, or used to feed domestic pets, such as cats, and a small proportion is used in medicine, or is used industrially for non-food purposes ( leather ).
Some members of the genus Tradescantia may cause allergic reactions in pets ( especially cats and dogs ), characterised by red, itchy skin.
Unsuspecting cat lovers bought them, unaware of the danger, their unpleasant elimination habits and the unsuitability of keeping wild cats as pets.
Not all pedigreed cats are show cats, many are just pets but the ones with the best conformation and personality are often shown in associations such as the CFA and TICA in the US, the GCCF in the UK or the FiFe in the rest of Europe.
They can be spayed or neutered for the same reason as cats and dogs and other pets.
It is considered by many to be different from pet keeping in that a few of its practitioners consider theirs animals as " pets "; most herpetoculturists do not give names to their animals, and most do not bond in the same way as pet keepers bond with their cats and dogs.
His trademark " Kitty Litter " brand cat litter led to the popularization of cats as household pets after World War II.
Each of the households averages 5. 2 pets, with the majority being cats ( 67 %) and dogs ( 12 %).
They also love to play with other small pets, such as dogs and other cats.
Sharon has five pets ; her dogs, Pigger and Sampson, and her cats Moshie, Rocky, and Lawrence.
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Mrs. Coolidge would knit, and the President would sit reading, or playing with the many pets around them.
This of course was not true of the educated and sophisticated people we met, who loved their pets, but kindness is not a basic human instinct.
My husband enters the motel office, signs up for a room, and then solemnly asks the proprieter if he accepts pets.
* The name of a number of pets and the Patlabor of Noa Izumi from the anime Patlabor.
Some species, particularly songbirds and parrots, are popular as pets.
As children, Beatrix and Bertram had numerous small animals as pets which they observed closely and drew endlessly.
In their school room Beatrix and Bertram kept a variety of small pets, mice, rabbits, a hedgehog, some bats along with collections of butterflies and other insects which they drew and studied.
* Corvus: A Life With Birds, a non-fiction tale about keeping corvids as pets.
The ability to produce synthetic forms of essential nutrients such as taurine in the lab has allowed feed manufacturers to formulate foods for carnivores including domestic pets and zoo animals with varying amounts of plant material.
In Florida, the toad is a regarded as a threat to both native species and to pets, so much so, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission recommends residents euthanize them.
Other modern applications of the cane toad include pregnancy testing, as pets, laboratory research, and the production of leather goods.
As such, coyotes have been known to eat human rubbish and domestic pets.
They found, among other things, that urban coyotes tend to live longer than their rural counterparts, kill rodents and small pets, and live anywhere from parks to industrial areas.
Scat analysis collected near Claremont, California revealed that coyotes relied heavily on pets as a food source in winter and spring.
Capybaras are occasionally kept as pets in the United States, though it is illegal in some states and in various other countries.
They have a relaxed and humorous approach to cars, car repair, cup holders, pets, lawyers, car repair mechanics, SUVs, and almost everything else.
* Catwatching: & Cat Lore ( 1986 ) — a study of one of the most popular of household pets across the centuries.
Dachshunds may not be the best pets for small children.
Dachshunds are one of the most popular pets in the United States, ranking seventh in the 2008 AKC registration statistics.
* A pet door ( also known as a dog door or cat flap ) is an opening in a door to allow pets to enter and exit without the main door being opened.
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