Pets and Animals
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Watch what you use to clean house - your pet's health may depend on itSep 21, 2019 8:00 am - Do you consider your feline's health when choosing household cleaning products? Perhaps you should. Many cleaning products contain toxins and chemicals. Your feline can ...
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Here's the scoop: Swans use elegant long necks to eat and preenSep 17, 2019 6:00 am - On a sunny August Saturday, 8-year-old Isabella watched the mute swans and their cygnets (baby swans) gliding across the Schaumburg Village Hall pond and wondered why t...
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Get tickets for Save-A-Pet's Tuxedos for Tails fundraiserSep 16, 2019 11:00 pm - Tickets are now available for Save-A-Pet's 33rd annual Tuxedos for Tails Gala event at 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, at The Arboretum Club, 401 W. Half Day Road, Buffalo Gro...
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Tickets available for Save-A-Pet's 33rd annual Tuxedos for Tails Dinner & AuctionSep 16, 2019 11:00 pm - Tickets are now available for Save-A-Pet's 33rd annual Tuxedos for Tails Gala event to be held at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19, at The Arboretum Club 401 W. Half Day Road...
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Pets-a-Palooza returns with stunt shows, contests Sept. 21Sep 16, 2019 11:00 pm - Anderson Animal Shelter's fifth annual Pets-a-Palooza will be 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, in Kane County Cougar Stadium at Northwestern Medicine Field, 34W002 ...
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Suburban habitats: Readers' photos of local wildlifeSep 16, 2019 6:00 am - Check out our Daily Herald Suburban Wildlife page on Facebook, www.facebook.com/group/suburbanwildlife/. There, you will find what many people have asked us about: A pla...
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Solitary eastern red bat seems to break all the rulesSep 16, 2019 6:00 am - Now is the time when leaves fall and some birds head south. There is an often-overlooked warm-blooded migrant that benefits from the colorful autumnal leaves: the easter...
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Ecologists continue to monitor Herrick Lake near Wheaton for harmful algal bloomSep 16, 2019 1:00 am - A harmful algal bloom first detected almost two weeks ago at Herrick Lake Forest Preserve near Wheaton is apparently subsiding. Water samples on Monday tested negative ...
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It's All About The Paws to host adoption event at Scarecrow Fest Oct. 12-13Sep 15, 2019 11:00 pm - Join It's All About the Paws for the fifth annual adoption event during Scarecrow Fest. It will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 12-13, at Baker...
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Itasca's Springbrook Nature Center offers chance to quietly reconnect with natureSep 13, 2019 6:00 am - It's not exactly Atlantic City, but Itasca's Springbrook Nature Center features plenty of boardwalks and other paths that wind their way through marshes, prairies and wo...