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		<title>Whisper Sweet Nothings in My Ear…Emotional Intelligence and Our Exotic Birds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 23:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was laying in bed this morning, the wee early morning hours, you know, when you are trying to wake up, but you still are in those twilight minutes still not quite awake, in that dreamy state wondering if you are in the real world, or off in some other alien world?  And I heard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebestbirdfood.com&#038;blog=19456953&#038;post=2381&#038;subd=thebestbirdfood&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gut Flora Building Smoothie!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 22:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Machelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A nationally known and recognized bird magazine shared a smoothie recipe for our companion birds recently. It was a good recipe I have to admit. But I came up with one that would do what, well smoothies are supposed to do, rehabilitate the natural digestive enzymes. So I thought I may as well share it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebestbirdfood.com&#038;blog=19456953&#038;post=2359&#038;subd=thebestbirdfood&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dietary Fiber and The Exotic Bird: The Right Kind of Fiber</title>
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		<dc:creator>Machelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We often hear that getting enough fiber into our human diet is vital to the prevention of colon cancer as well as just good overall health. Recent research indicates that the right kind of fiber in our human diet probably has an effect on lowering blood cholesterol levels as well, and may even prevent or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebestbirdfood.com&#038;blog=19456953&#038;post=2343&#038;subd=thebestbirdfood&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Best Bird Toys: Now on Ebay!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 16:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Machelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have now made it really easy for our customers to purchase our Best Bird Toys through purchasing them on Ebay! Until we can get our official website built you can visit www.TheBestBirdToys.com and find the toys you want there and then email us at AidForTheBirds@yahoo.com with your order&#8230; Or&#8230; you can visit Ebay and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebestbirdfood.com&#038;blog=19456953&#038;post=2313&#038;subd=thebestbirdfood&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fatty Liver Disease: Starch and Glycogen</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Machelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foods such as potatoes, yams, rice, corn, wheat and other grains as well as legumes such as peas, lentils and beans contain multi-unit carbohydrate polysaccharides known as starch and glycogen. These are termed “storage polysaccharides” because they are stored in the liver and slowly metabolize into the blood as useable sugars as the body needs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebestbirdfood.com&#038;blog=19456953&#038;post=2286&#038;subd=thebestbirdfood&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spring is in the Air! And it&#8217;s Allergy Season!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Machelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spring is definitely in the air and besides dealing with mating season many of us are also dealing with our own allergies. That brings something to my mind about how our companion birds may be feeling with all of the flowers, trees and weeds in bloom. In addition to their already frustrated nature surrounding their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebestbirdfood.com&#038;blog=19456953&#038;post=2277&#038;subd=thebestbirdfood&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More &#8220;Toys in Action&#8221; Videos!</title>
		<link>http://thebestbirdfood.com/2012/03/25/more-toys-in-action-videos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 04:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Machelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have uploaded more &#8220;Toys in action&#8221; videos to our Best Bird Toys blog site! Just follow this link to take a peek at our Yam and Butternut Squash Fiddle-Diddles!™ in motion: http://wp.me/P2g1Rc-5R Filed under: Best Bird Toys! Enrichment Widgets &#38; Gizmos, XYZ...But REALLY Good Files!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebestbirdfood.com&#038;blog=19456953&#038;post=2211&#038;subd=thebestbirdfood&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Bird Toys!</title>
		<link>http://thebestbirdfood.com/2012/03/23/the-best-bird-toys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Machelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Help us bring our BirD-elicious! Bird Foods back to market while enriching your bird&#8217;s foraging experience! with The Best Bird Toys!™ Click on the link above and visit our toy shoppe today to make your bird really, really happy! Brought to you by&#8230; www.TheBestBirdToys.com Filed under: Best Bird Toys! Enrichment Widgets &#38; Gizmos<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebestbirdfood.com&#038;blog=19456953&#038;post=2190&#038;subd=thebestbirdfood&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Toys in Action! Cholla Chew</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Machelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Cholla Chew™ is one of our Arizona Collection™ items featuring the great Cholla Cactus spine. The spine is considered a hardwood, difficult to chew, but fun to try to gnaw nonetheless! These are actually from the Arizona Desert, pressure-washed and then naturally sun-dried, not kiln-dried or pressure-treated which makes wood too dry and brittle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebestbirdfood.com&#038;blog=19456953&#038;post=2178&#038;subd=thebestbirdfood&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Toys in Action! O.C.D. Ball &amp; Rain Forest Forager</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Machelle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Understanding how difficult it is to conceive what our toys would be like in your bird&#8217;s environment, we decided to put a couple of them on video and present them to you here! So hopefully you will see just how much your bird will enjoy these forage-able, edible, shreddable, rip-able, absolutely, totally more-than-fun toys! Here [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thebestbirdfood.com&#038;blog=19456953&#038;post=2164&#038;subd=thebestbirdfood&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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