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These puppies have to be hand-reared away from the pack well before 14 days of age.
Sophia Yin: Why It's Risky to Have Wild Animals as Pets Sophia Yin 2011
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It was more like slaughtering fat hand-reared pheasants on the English preserves he had heard about.
Chapter V 2010
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Next he remembered the old woman of the chaparral, pressing grapes in her mountain clearing; and Ferguson, the little man who had scuttled into the road like a rabbit, the one-time managing editor of a great newspaper, who was content to live in the chaparral along with his spring of mountain water and his hand-reared and manicured fruit trees.
Chapter XXII 2010
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Hoover's deepening, marriage-like relationship with his hand-reared assistant director Clyde Tolson is intercut with glimpses of canned history – the Palmer raids, the slandering of Dr King, the compromising private files … But no Joe McCarthy nor his ruthless chief counsel Roy Cohn, not enough Nixon and no substantial mention of Cointelpro, the pharaonic, black-propaganda campaign against 1960s civil rights workers and the student left.
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The code states: "Primates used for entertainment and in the media are often removed from their social group and hand-reared, causing distress to the infant, mother and other members of the group."
Animal charities want Costa Coffee to drop advert that stars monkeys Jamie Doward 2010
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These puppies have to be hand-reared away from the pack well before 14 days of age.
Sophia Yin: Why It's Risky to Have Wild Animals as Pets Sophia Yin 2011
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According to The Times, the cubs are being hand-reared by surrogate parents after their tiger parents, Bianca and Paul, rejected them.
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According to The Times, the cubs are being hand-reared by surrogate parents after their tiger parents, Bianca and Paul, rejected them.
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According to The Times, the cubs are being hand-reared by surrogate parents after their tiger parents, Bianca and Paul, rejected them.
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According to The Times, the cubs are being hand-reared by ...
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