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Birding Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo – 10,000 Birds

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My wife and I are, in one way, very unusual Americans. While our compatriots seem to only want to visit Mexico’s touristy beach cities, we would rather go anywhere else in this country. Indeed, even though I just celebrated 40 years of living in Mexico, we have never been to Cabo San Lucas, and our only experience with Cancún was going though immigration in that city’s airport. But a week ago, we drove downhill to the beach town of Ixtapa, five hours from Morelia, for a young friend’s wedding. Its twin town of Zihuatanejo (see-wa-ta-NAE-hoe) was a sleepy fishing village…
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Veterinarians are borrowing big to create palatial pet clinics

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Comment on this storyComment To start 2020, Morgan McDaniel fulfilled a lifelong dream: She bought her own veterinary practice, a financial leap that took a $4.5 million loan. Then the pandemic hit, as did America’s pet adoption boom. Cat and dog parents kept asking McDaniel’s Montgomery Animal Hospital in Pineville, La., for more services. Could it provide long-term care for a dog’s torn ACL? Did it offer overnight boarding? McDaniel decided she could, tacking on a $750,000 loan to expand her practice by more than two dozen doggy bedrooms, an exam room for specialty procedures and an artificial turf play…
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How many can YOU see in a day? – 10,000 Birds

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EBird really knows how to push my buttons. I mean that in a good way: By automatically showing one’s new year list each January 1st, and comparing it to one’s last several year lists, they always make me want to hit the ground running with as many species in my first week as I can manage. And in my case, that means heading up to Lake Cuitzeo. (Except in the sad year of 2020, when Lake Cuitzeo had almost completely dried up by January 1st.) Most years, a day in January of serious birding around Lake Cuitzeo can give me…
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Pet owner shoots, kills vet tech during argument at animal clinic, police say

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE/Gray News) – An employee of a veterinary clinic in Kentucky was shot and killed by a pet owner during an argument, police said. Veterinary technician Trent “TJ” Taylor, 21, was killed Sunday in a shooting at Shively Animal Clinic just south of Louisville. According to Shively police, the investigation is still ongoing, and officers are still interviewing dozens of witnesses. Police said it could be a case of self-defense, and the woman who shot Taylor has not been charged as of Thursday. But Taylor’s family – who witnessed the shooting – tells a very different story. Taylor’s…
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