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  1. If you're a clinician, student, or vet tech, with interest in bird and exotic pets, and live in the Milwaukee or Chicago area, here's a good looking CE opportunity for ya! October 25-26 in Rosemont (right near O'Hare).

    #veterinary #CE #avian #medicine #exotics #reptiles

  2. The hunger for invasive weeds on the NSW Mid North Coasts

    On the Weed Wide Web "we found 155 different declared invasive plants just being sold on one platform, and just in one year...Invasive plants have effectively cost Australia an estimated $200 billion since 1960, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to monitor online trade of species."

    abc.net.au/news/2023-11-18/inv
    #weeds #online #flora #gardens #exotics #NSW #MidNorthCoast #InvasiveSpecies #biosecurity #biodiversity

  3. So you have to watch rabbits a little closer for problems. By the time you actually see that they're "a little #sick", they may in fact be quite sick indeed. Add to this that rabbits can be prone to G.I. #stasis (which I understand is also a big deal in #horses, and probably #donkeys?), which can be fatal very quickly, and it means you need to keep on your toes.

    If your rabbit isn't well - uncharacteristically refusing food or something - get them to an #exotics #vet #pronto.

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