The sock puppet's creation was almost as well thought out as Pets.com's business model.
They quietly mourned the days when people had bought pigeons as pets for their children.
Meaning that they are mainly owned as pets AND used as a food source.
The Chinese also raise pigeons as pets, but those tend to be a different type.
Silva never gives her animal charges names so they don't become seen as pets.
Cardenas said Amazon-region monkeys are often hunted for meat, for experiments or as pets.
Indonesia's loris population has been devastated by the boom in people wanting them as pets.
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Or some of them may have been intentionally carried into the country as pets -- and then released.
First imported as pets, the feral snakes vie with native animals for food and have devastated mammal populations.
While many owners choose to keep the animals as pets, the fate of some dogs continues to cause concern.
He said she worked mainly with small animals such as pets and dogs since joining the surgery in May 2011.
There was a significant trade in the animals during the 1980s and 1990s, when they were sought after as pets.
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Some of the animals were caught in the wild to be used for medical testing, while others were purchased after being kept as pets.
However, some Aboriginal groups kept them as pets or as hunting dogs.
Moving through dense jungle, I watched for green vervet monkeys, brought to Saint Kitts as pets, and then left behind when the French departed in 1783.
More than 600 people have backed Mr White's campaign to get micro-pigs reclassified as pets rather than livestock to prevent restrictions on their movements.
Langurs are often treated as pets in north Indian villages, but for Chhotu a life of recreation has been surrendered to a life of work.
Stories of big cats in the UK go back to the 1960s and 70s when it was legal and fashionable to keep exotic animals as pets.
Just over 27% of 134 children with cats as pets had eczema by age one, compared with 17.8% of the 286 without cats in their household.
Marketing chief August Busch IV hopes the Clydesdale spot will help the brewer make a classy stand against the eye-grabbing ads of such Weblets as Pets.com and E-Trade.
In the jungle town of Thmar Baing--population about 150--wooden huts are springing up along a logging road, where residents, mostly military men and their families, keep gibbons as pets.
Chickens, hogs, cattle are raised as food animals and given drugs that the FDA approves of for human consumption, horses are raised as companion animals and medicated as pets such as dogs and cats.
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It is useful to reiterate that they should take extra care but there is no need for people to get rid of their pet cats or choose not to have cats as pets.
Eventually, Birute Galdikas was recognised as the foremost authority on these auburn-coloured primates, and Camp Leakey became inundated with orangutan orphans, illegally kept as pets before the owners found them too difficult to handle.
City officials say pigs, even smaller breeds that are kept as pets, are a public health risk because they cannot be vaccinated for rabies and can become aggressive, especially during their first few years.
Outfit7 hopes to capture the mobile market which already has multiple offerings such as Virtual Pets by Wiky, and All 20 Virtual Pets by DS Effects, as well as Touch Pets Cats by ngmoco, Inc.
Mobile-phone users have also taken a shine to such games as Wireless Pets (about the trials of pet ownership), as well as such tried-and-tested time-killers as Hangman and Blackjack.
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The animals are endangered in the wild and protected by international law, but are sometimes illegally smuggled as exotic pets.
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