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    Gerbils, snakes, rabbits, hedgehogs, ferrets and even pot-bellied pigs are only part of a growing list of exotic animals that are legal and fun to own. Just like other household pets, these unique family members require veterinarian care to keep them healthy and happy. Monfort Heights Animal Clinic is one of the rare pet care facilities that offer specialized veterinary care for small and exotic domestic animals. Locating an animal clinic for unusual pets is not always an easy task. Each species

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    Medical testing on animals kills more than one hundred million animals every year! Animals are sometimes used in the testing of drugs, vaccines and other biological tests, and medical things, mainly to determine the safety of the product. Even though there are many other ways to test this still goes on. Many people think its the best way to test but it is not. Many many animals are tested on and few end up alive in the end. It seems like they would have stopped it by now but they have not. Medical

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    Black Plague Dbq

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    The Black Death was a very devastating time for people in Asia, China, and, Europe. The Black Death was during the Fourteenth Century which lasted from January 1, 1301, through December 31, 1400. In fact, there were only 4 years of the black plague out spree. 1347-1351. The plague reappeared in China during the 1860’s. During the second half of the nineteenth century. China was not the only place the plague spread there are many more areas. The black plague spread throughout Asia, Europe, and

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    The Speckled Band

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    closer to the solution was the dummy bell rope. It was used by the snake that climb down it and go into the bed of Julia Stover. Another clue was the ventilator that was very small and tight where it was only big enough to pass by a rat, hamster, gerbil, and a snake. The snake would go through the ventilator and then climb down the the dummy bell rope. Another clue that goes along with

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    rodents, but they have a long list of fellow members in the scientific order called Rodentia, which is from a Latin word, rodere, whose definition is “to gnaw”. All of the familiar animals below are rodents. Beaver Capybara Chinchilla Chipmunk Gerbil Gopher Groundhog Guinea Pig Hamster Lemming Marmot Mouse Muskrat Porcupine Prairie Dog Rat Squirrel Woodchuck Rodents are mammals, just like the cats and dogs that we keep in our home as pets – and just like man himself! And, almost 40 percent of

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    It twas the night before Christmas and all through the house a creature was banging on the door Yolanda the magical Christmas hippo of dreams. “Let me in it's freezing’ out here!” Yolanda screamed while banging on the door. She then realizes this isn’t her house, she was out to get mangoes when she took a wrong 2,000 miles to the North Pole. “Oh well i’ll let myself in” Yolanda thought headbutting the door. The door then creaked open showing a huge workshop full of toys and magic. “My boyfriend

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    extremely contagious, and was originally brought by rat fleas. The disease was airborne, and could also be caught through the bite of infected fleas and rats. The disease mostly spread by infected rats living on ships (although some say it was actually gerbils), which sailed from one European port to another. Giovanni Boccaccio wrote that, ”The plague caused swellings on either the groin or under the armpits… waxed to the bigness of a common apple, others to the size of an egg, some more and some less

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    Spirillum Minus Essay

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    such as; canal water, creeks, ponds, and small lakes. It can also be found in different non-water places such as decaying grass cuttings (Krieg, 1976). S. minus can also live in the respiratory tract of rodents like rats, mice, ferrets, weasel, and gerbils. The rodents most likely get the disease from contact with rat feces or saliva. Another way they may possibly get S. minus is through infected food, water, milk, etc. (Streptobacillus moniliformis and Spirillum minus, 2015). Humans, on the other

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    Some people wait or bust tables; others stand at a register all day, but not me. I shove pills down rabbit’s throats, fix a snake’s prolapsed rectum, count out up to 100 crickets by hand—live, I might add—clean cages again and again, etc.: all in a day’s work! From the beginning, I knew I did not want an ordinary part-time job. Teenagers, even some adults, complain about their jobs all the time and I knew I would not enjoy a job at a fast-food restaurant, let alone gain anything from it besides money

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    Visit To America

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    I go there every Friday for two hours to help with the care of the cats and small animals (rabbits, gerbils, etc.) Originally when I applied I wanted to work strictly with dogs because those were my favorite, but I was not old enough, so I had to compromise with the cats. Nevertheless, I took this compromise with pride knowing I’d still be helping the overall

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