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lover of horses, dogs, cats and all animals in general, nature lover, Penn State alum BLM 🐎🐕🐈🐑🐤🐮🐢🐋🐬🌸🌳🦋🐝🌼🐾

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Quick tip: cut your plastic drink rings. It'll only take a second out of your life and you'll save wildlife.

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@bunsenbernerbmd Is he doing ok now?

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@DRFLivingston He was one handsome horse!

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@giveashitnature I grew dill and parsley for the butterflies only. 🐛🦋

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This drives me nuts, seeing a ton of mulch piled around trees. Volcano mulching 😵‍💫🤯

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Walk outside and look at the base of your trees. If the mulch is piled up against the bark in a cone, pull it back.

That volcano holds moisture against living tissue. Bark is a tree's skin, the barrier keeping disease and rot out of the living wood underneath. Pack mulch against it and you're keeping it chronically wet, which invites fungal disease and insect damage. Do it long enough and it kills the tree, slowly, from the base up.

The fix takes 2 minutes. Rake the mulch back so there's a clear gap between the pile and the trunk, a flat donut instead of a cone. No mulch touching bark.

Once you see it, you'll notice it on every street in your neighborhood.

[Cornell Feline Health Center @cornellcats]

Each year, hundreds of thousands of stray cats are found & brought to shelters throughout the Unites States. The percentage of returned cats would be much higher if they all had correct registration information. Reminder: Make sure the registration is correct and up to date!

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THIS FANCAM OF NAMJOON DANCING ON "DIMPLE" WHILE HAVING THE MOST DIMPLIEST DIMPLE ON HIS FACE😭😭😭

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@dalbit_bangtan You can't help but smile when you see him, our sunshine 🌞☀️

[BTS Updates & Translations 🌙 Back-Up @dalbit_bangtan]

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Happy 13th to my guys #BTS #BTS_ARİRANG

[BTS Charts & Updates @charts_k]

Happy 13th anniversary to @BTS_twt 💜

#13YearsWithBTS and many more to come!

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

“How many windows did you wash today?”

“One” 😂

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@FeelYouHappy Can you do ET?

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@bts_bighit So cute, humming along while packing!

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@bts_bighit These guys really inspire me to work out harder

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Keep our streams and creeks clean. Don't throw cigarette butts or trash out of your car window or anywhere else! We only have 1 planet that can sustain life, keep it clean!!!

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The storm drain at the end of your street empties directly into waterways. Not a treatment plant, but the nearest creek, river, or bay, with nothing in between.

This surprises almost everyone. We picture that water going off somewhere to be cleaned, the way our household waste water does. But sanitary sewers and storm drains are two separate systems. Whatever lands on the pavement finds the drain, and the drain finds the stream, usually within a few miles.

This makes the small stuff matter more than it looks. Sweep the grass clippings back onto the lawn and they feed your yard instead of feeding algae blooms downstream. Grabbing a piece of litter off the ground directly stops it from entering waterways.

The drain is a straight shot to the water, so anything you keep off the pavement is something the creek never sees.

You are closer to that stream than the map makes it look, and that's good news.

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Gotta be at an animal hospital

[cats with jobs 🛠 @CatWorkers]

The new interns have arrived.

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Cool, see we can make a difference

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Frank Newell spent 38 years in the military. When he came home to his family farm in North Carolina, the bluebirds were gone.

When Frank was young, the fence posts around the pastures in Warrenton were wood, and Eastern bluebirds nested in them by the hundreds. When he came home decades later, the posts had been replaced with metal. The bluebirds had nowhere to nest and were disappearing.

Bluebirds can't excavate their own nest cavities. They depend on old woodpecker holes and natural rot in dead wood, both of which vanish when a landscape gets tidied up. So Frank started building them nest boxes by hand, 25 a week, with donated lumber and a Sears table saw that lasted him 33 years.

The word spread, volunteers joined, and businesses donated wood. The Eastern Bluebird Rescue Group, which Frank founded in 1996, has now built and distributed more than 500,000 bluebird houses, sold at or below cost. Warren County is now believed to hold the largest concentration of Eastern bluebirds in the United States.

Frank Newell has since passed away, but the group he started is still going, run by his daughter and son-in-law and a few dozen volunteers.

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@atrupar Is he an idiot?

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

An owl can eat over 1,000 rodents in a year. If you poison the rodents, you poison the owl. And almost every raptor in the US is already being poisoned.

A 2020 Tufts Wildlife Clinic study found that 100% of the red-tailed hawks they tested were positive for anticoagulant rodenticides. Every single bird.

A follow-up study of 46 hawks, owls, foxes, and coyotes from a Massachusetts rehab center between 2022 and 2024 found the same thing: 100% had been poisoned.

Rat poison works by preventing blood clotting. The rodent doesn't die immediately. It bleeds internally for days, becomes lethargic and easy to catch, and gets eaten by something hungry. The poison moves up the food web in their gut, their liver, their carcass. A single bait box can take out an owl, a hawk, a fox, even a bobcat.

The pests you're worried about (mice, rats, voles) are the same pests an owl can take 1,000 of in a year, for free, forever, if you let her.

Use snap traps indoors only away from pets. Seal the entry points and lock food away. Put up an owl box. Keep cats inside (they get poisoned eating poisoned rodents too).

Rat poison sales need to drop to zero.