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Veterinarian warns pet owners: up to 14 dog bites in Juva over one weekend

Veterinarian warns pet owners: up to 14 dog bites in Juva over one weekend

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If you find a kyy in your cottage, you should move it further away from the settlement. Archive photo.

About 50 dogs are brought to the Juva Municipal Veterinary Hospital every year because of a dog bite. Sometimes there can be up to 14 cases in one weekend.

The spring sunshine draws the pens out of their hiding places.

No pets have been brought in yet this year because of a kyy bite, but that could change this weekend.

For a few years, the Korpikallio clinic has been recording the number of treated bites by vipers. There are about 50 a year.

On warm weekends, customers may be in queue.

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The pups have been sedated for almost two years – no one knows if there are more now

The pups have been sedated for almost two years – no one knows if there are more now

Närbild på en brungrå huggorm med tydlig svart Sicksackönster.
They wake up from hibernation as soon as the snow is covered with bark beetles. Spring is the breeding season.

The warm weather has set the vipers on the move. They thrive in rocky terrain with lots of holes.

The warm spring weather brings out the vipers to bask in the sun.

The viper has been restricted in Finland since the beginning of June 2023. Many people wonder when they see a pigeon whether their numbers have increased as a result.

Locally, the number of villages can vary greatly.

– It is impossible to calculate the number of Kiidi because they stay so much hidden.

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Metsähallitus appeals to people in the fells and wilderness: the golden eagle now needs nesting peace

Metsähallitus appeals to people in the fells and wilderness: the golden eagle now needs nesting peace

Eagle (Aquila Chrysaetos) in Kuusamo in September 2021.
The golden eagle is an endangered bird of prey, and its nest tree has been protected.

An eagle can flee from its nest if it detects a human hundreds of metres away. The chicks are then badly affected.

Metsähallitus is appealing to free-flight skiers and hikers in the fells to circle the nests of the golden eagle as far away as possible. The breeding season for the endangered golden eagle started in February and the hatching season is currently underway. A golden eagle can abandon a nest at the slightest disturbance.

According to Metsähallitus, hikers should continue their journey quickly if they spot a golden eagle nest or a bird flying from the nest. A golden eagle may spot a person hundreds of metres away and flee from its nest, in which case the eggs may freeze and the chicks may die.

An eagle builds a large nest of twigs in old trees on the slopes of fells and dunes and in forest islands in bogs.

Metsähallitus hopes that snowmobilers will remain on the routes used and free -to -free areas in hobby areas to keep natural peace on the other. The eagle has abandoned nests in areas where people have begun to move.

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