Great Apartment Pets
October 28, 2007 by Kimberly · 10 Comments
Live in an apartment? Are you an animal lover? That was our predicament too, when we were in college…
Well, even if you live in an apartment and are restricted with space, you too can have a pet!
You need to find a pet that is easy to care for, requires little space, and makes minimal mess…
Check out these great choices for apartment pets…
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6 Unique Apartment Pets
By Jeff Swett
Nothing makes apartment living fun like a playful pet. Fido and Felix bring a number of new elements to an apartment other than the additional smell. On any given day pets add companionship, humor, personality, and tons of fun to even the most monotonous dwellings. Although dogs and cats lead the pack of domesticated pals there are a number of untraditional, unique, and exotically extravagant creatures available. So, if you are seeking a cute, small, or just out of the ordinary companion check out the little buggers that round out my list of Top Six Unique Apartment Pets.
6) Pot-Bellied Pigs- While slightly destructive at times, Pot-Bellied Pigs can be as easy, if not easier to train than dogs. They’re playful, curious, caring, surprisingly odorless, and they don’t bark. Natural “rooters” and highly intelligent, these pets can get quite stubborn in their desperate search to feed their addiction to food, learning to open cabinets, drawers, bins, and find their way into making a real mess of the kitchen. Keeping food locked up is only a fraction of commitment to caring for these lovable little oinkers. Pot-Bellied Pigs may require much care, financial, and time commitment, but make an extremely fun pet and incredible family member.
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Crocodile Repopulation In Australia
Australian Crocodiles are absolutely massive when full grown. When I was on a 3 day tour in Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory of Australia, I was just awestruck and dumbfounded when we came close up with the crocodile population.
My Story:
We were to go out in 3-seater boats with small outboard motors on the waterways of Kakadu National Park with a tour-guide that could have been Steve Irwin’s twin brother in action! He was in the water pulling in the boats with the water up to chin, and I am thinking, “I know what I read…There have to be crocs in the water here!”
A group of about 15 tourists from all over the world were in our company, and once we were all aboard our boats, the 2 English guys in my boat nudged me to ask what we were doing out there…So, I did…
He answered me, “We’re Croc Spottin’!” I thought, okay, I know there has to be crocs out here, as I suspected earlier, but for the past 10 min, we hadn’t seen anything yet…So, I just repeated what he said as a question…”We’re Croc Spottin’? But we haven’t seen anything yet…”
He responded, “Well, don’t stand up, move quickly or shake your ponytail…There’s one beside your boat” calmly. So, my 2 English comrades and I moved our eyes from side to side to see what he was talking about…
Sure enough, an enormous crocodile emerged from the beneath the water a few seconds later…Bigger Than Our Boat!!! Longer and a little wider than our 3-seater boat. The belly was almost as big as our boat alone! Needless to say, we didn’t move an inch!
The entire day was filled with gigantic saltwater Australian Crocodiles close up!
What an experience that I will never forget…
Scientific Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
(unranked) Archosauria
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Crocodilia
Family: Crocodylidae
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Northern Territory Crocodile Farming Raises Wild Population
By Chris M Jones
Published in Reptile Care Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 4.
The first rush of crocodile hunters began in 1945. It is estimated in their first year alone, they killed around 80’000 crocodiles in the Northern Territory. This carried on right through to 1971, when a ban on the export of crocodile products was put in place. It is hard to judge exactly how many crocodiles were killed, but Estuarine (Saltwater) Crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus) were thought to be on the brink of extinction, with only a handful of animals left.
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Sugar Gliders 101
October 12, 2007 by Kimberly · 3 Comments
Sugar Gliders are Australian marsupials that also inhabit New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago.
Scientific Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Petauridae
Genus: Petaurus
Species: P. breviceps
Conservation Status:
The Sugar Glider is considered to be a species of least concern. That’s awesome!
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Sugar Gliders: Tiny Acrobats
By Miles Fowler
In the last decade or so, the popularity of sugar gliders as pets has grown considerably. The small size of these furry acrobats, their personalities, their plush fur, their large eyes, their agility and their ability to bond closely with humans have attracted legions of new sugar glider devotees.
What is a sugar glider and where did they originally come from? Sugar gliders are Read more
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Which Amphibian Is Best For You To Adopt?
Amphibians are animals that live in both water and on land. They are ectothermic, previously termed as cold-blooded, meaning that their internal body temperature is regulated by their external environment.
Scientific Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Amphibia
Photo above: Green Tree Frog
Some of the orders and subclasses of Amphibians are:
Order Temnospondyli – extinct
Subclass Lepospondyli – extinct
Subclass Lissamphibia
Order Anura
Order Caudata
Order Gymnophiona
* Neat Fact: Most interesting is the fact that amphibians breath through their skin!
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Tips on Buying an Amphibian for a Pet
By Katie Gee
So you are in the market for a pet frog, toad or salamander and you are wondering what your first step should be? We can spell it out in one word: Read more
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Canada Goose – The Most Famous In Canada
October 6, 2007 by Kimberly · 14 Comments
In the Spirit of Canadian Thanksgiving on October 10th, I thought I would cover one of our most famous avian inhabitants of Canada…
The Canada Goose!
Scientific Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anatidae
Genus: Branta
Species: B. canadensis
Conservation Status:
The Canada Goose is considered a species of least concern.
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Canadian Geese
By Emma Snow
Few spectacles symbolize autumn better than a gang of Canada Geese crossing a cloudy sky in V-formation. Common throughout most of North America, Canada Geese live around ponds, rivers, and lake shores where they feed on aquatic grass, roots, and young sprouts, as well as corn and grain. A strong inward pull called instinct urges these waterfowl into the skies to make this great annual southward migration. But instinct does not determine the route the birds take. Canada Geese migrate in family groups, and they will travel the same route year after year. The young geese learn the route from their parents, and use the same route in subsequent years with their own young.
Canada Geese are more family-oriented than many other species of waterfowl. Adults mate for life, although a widow will often choose another mate. Pairs look for appropriate Read more
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Big Cat Quiz!
Can you name your Big Cats?
Check out this awesome video and test your Big Cat skills!
Big Cats! Can You Name Them? – Watch the best video clips here
Live Exotically,
Kimberly Edwards 
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