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4. I work with native plants and ecosystems and feral cats are just a hammer to our native pollinators,

Tue Jan 6, 2026, 08:50 PM

Jan 6

song birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects, and mammals. The hunting instinct is so strong with cats
is just so strong. People feeding them in my neighborhood don’t help the problem. If people want
to adopt them great but the least they could do is catch them and have them fixed. Feral cats live
short and brutal lives with feline leukemia, fights, coyotes, owls, foxes, other critters, and cars.

Weather Underground’s home page for your area has a nice feature that tells you how much longer
each day is per day light.

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Spring will be here in the blink of an eye. [View all] LuckyCharms Jan 6 OP

Tomorrow the length of day light will be 1 minute and 1 second longer than today. Thursday the day light Botany Jan 6 #1

Before we got flooded in 2011... LuckyCharms Jan 6 #2

I work with native plants and ecosystems and feral cats are just a hammer to our native pollinators, Botany Jan 6 #4

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