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U.S. Cops shooting people's dogs

tetleytea — Mon, 28 May 2012 6:26:08 PM -0400

I'm surprised this hasn't already been brought up in this forum, but it seems in the U.S. that cops are posing a substantial danger to people's dogs. Here is the latest incident just yesterday:

http://www.the33tv.com/videogallery/70167662/News/5/27/12-dog-shot

If you look at the video, the cop was well within the victim's private property. Allegedly the cop visited the wrong address on a call for a robbery--which is only all the more en...

Of course it's going to rain... [Annular Solar Eclipse]

LizMarr — Sun, 20 May 2012 12:06:41 PM -0400

All photos linked from articles that are public domain or similar.

May 20, 2012 is an annular total solar eclipse. The last visible in the US was 18 years ago, the next will be 14 years from now. The path takes it right over the USA and I guess people living in Oz with have a good view too. I live in Oregon, of course it is going to rain. There are some wonderful articles about the phenomenon and how to observe it safely. I remember as a little girl turning my back to the sun an...

Pets; Man’s Best Behaved Children

GirlFriendTess — Thu, 03 May 2012 3:49:04 PM -0400

We have 2 cats and a dog now and they are so different from each other. Shadow the mutt (not to loudly) got his name from a habit he always seemed to have … and in the morning if you forget your panties, he gives a whole new meaning to ‘a dog’s cold nose’. He runs around 48 pounds and is composed of a muscle with teeth on one end and daggers on the other … but he is such a lover??? Black lab and pit mix and definitely an alpha male who clips his own claws (remembe...

Beekeeping: Split the hives

Draginol — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 4:23:19 PM -0400

Today was a reasonably warm day and very sunny. I used the opportunity to split one of my beehives into two.

Here’s how that works.

I have a beehive that’s doing pretty well. To split a hive, you take a bunch of frames from inside the hive that have eggs and open celled larva and move it (and the bees on the frame) to the new hive. In a few days, week, the bees will realize there’s no queen and feed one of the larva royal jelly which will turn that bee into a queen.

I ...

Meet the Tervuren

LizMarr — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:47:13 PM -0400

One thing that usually happens right away is someone says, "She has Tervurens" No, I have Tervuren<-- singular Tervuren are Tervuren. One, two, twenty. It is one of those rare words that single and plural are the same. I guess perhaps because the breed is named after an area in Belgium.

There are four currently existing varieties of the Belgian Sheepdog (Chien de Berger Belge) - Groenendael, Tervuren, Malinois, Laekenois. Although in other countries the dogs are considered four...

Crazy birds

LizMarr — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 8:55:20 PM -0400

I live in the suburbs. For over 20 years I lived so far out in the forest that it took half an hour to get to town, and if there had been a storm recently I wasn't getting there at all. Two weeks without electricity was not a burden. I miss living in the forest. Anyhow, I live in town now. My husband and I can't afford to live on our own (damn economy) so we live at a woman's house and trade paying some of the bills for a room. So, for the birds.

The last few days the wild birds h...

Puppies and little girls

Draginol — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 3:30:01 PM -0400

The puppy likes our sons but absolutely adores the 5 year old. It’s a weird thing.

A Little of This..and a ...

Trudygolightly — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 1:33:40 AM -0500

Saw the movie "Water for Elephants", my son rented it for me for a Valentine gift. It was fairly good. Some of the scenes were hilarious, some were tearjerkers and it was a whole lot better than the movie I rented! got "Skateland" cause it sounded like a movie about rollerskating...and it is possibly the worst movie I've ever seen!

Mason M mentioned "Firefly". I saw the preview for it about 2 or 3 weeks ago, want to see it. Looks like...

Bailey turns 1

Draginol — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:27:30 AM -0500

It’s hard to believe that our dog Bailey was just born one year ago tomorrow.

Here’s how she looked 1 year ago:

At 4 weeks:

Here’s how she looked at 8 weeks.

Now, fast forward about a year…

Therapeutic Garbage

Tractormansavesthedayagain — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 1:52:30 PM -0400

On Saturday, a group of us turned out at 9AM for a township clean up of our valley. The reason the township does this is that we are in a beautiful area that seems quite remote once you enter, but is close to town. It's a great place to drive through and enjoy the beauty, and it's a great place to come and dump your garbage. Your garbage may just be leaves or a couple stumps, or it could be large cement pylons, old hot tubs, tires, waste oil or couches. Perhaps 25 of us spread ...

Children a good practice run for dogs

Draginol — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:56:19 PM -0400

My puppy can be pretty disgusting. The things it tries to eat. The things it rolls in. It’s all bad news. And if it’s an indoor dog, it becomes your problem.

And I have to say, I’m glad I waited until after having 3 children because when it’s your own child, you grin and bear it as you learn to deal with icky gross stuff. By the time you get the dog, you’re numb.

Cats rule, dogs drool

terpfan1980 — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 1:51:38 PM -0500

LOL.

The cat (Patches the cat) got her spay surgery today so she was sent home with the lampshade (Elizabethan) collar around her neck. The same type of collar that the Pom puppy here got to wear after her surgery several weeks back.

The dog wore the collar for about 10 days before we finally took it off and let her leave it off. She tried pretty hard for a day or two to get rid of the collar herself but was not successful in pushing it off or otherwise escaping it. Not s...

Putting Your Pet to sleep...stay? or leave ?

Moderateman — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 4:52:27 PM -0500

When your pets get old or injured or just very ill and that dreaded time comes to put them down, a decision we pet owners hate to make, then we have to make another gut wrenching choice.

Do we stay at their side as they slowly slip into death? or do we choose to leave them there, go home and weep in privacy?

Do we want our last memory of our loved ones to be of them dead or alive?

After thought: I am not thinking about putting one of my own animals down, thank GOD they are 10 but so far...

Does catnip affect dogs?

dharmagrl — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 4:50:00 PM -0500

Henry got ahold of Polly's catnip-filled spider.

I don't know for sure if catnip has the same effect on dogs as it does on cats, but Henry's actions tell me that it does. First he rolled around on the loveseat with it.

Then he took it to the floor and 'killed' it.

When Shea took it away from him....

...sat up and begged for it.

He's got it now, as I write this. He's laying on his back on the floor with it held between his front paws, chewing it.

...

The Best Low Maintenance Pets

JillUser — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 4:46:15 PM -0500

I am a dog person at heart but our lifestyle right now isn't very dog friendly. The kids are to little to help out with a dog and we are too busy these days to take the time to properly train a dog. It would be like having another baby (not prepared for that either).

I think pets are a very important part of life. We have had fish, frogs, turtles, and an iguana. These animals are pretty low maintenance but still are entertaining and teach the kids responsibility. The iguana was something I wa...

Natures Handiwork

jennifer1 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 7:32:30 PM -0500

Natures Handiwork

You sit so splendidly and so proud

Your vibrant colors gloriously displayed

An irresistible fragrance surrounds you

Your gown an array of softness

Enveloping your secrets

You look skyward for the day

Basking in the sunshine

Reflecting the dancing rays at your will

You sway your body

And nod your head

With such charm and grace

People look and are amazed

You are a rose

The crowning glory of Natures handiwork!

Sad news: Gifted research parrot Alex found dead

terpfan1980 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:03:08 PM -0500

The news found in the article here: Gifted research parrot Alex found dead makes me sad.

Not that I knew directly of the subject of the article (Alex the Parrot), but I am a bird 'owner' and have several as pets. I know they are smart creatures, with many having learned relatively large vocabularies, and 'tricks' that they perform for their owners and care-givers.

Parrots and other birds can be very intelligent creatures, as it seems Alex the Parrot was. Learning to count, and ...

Global cooling...ha

judah528 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 3:47:15 PM -0400

I live in an area of the country where the summer has not felt like summer at all. There were only a few weeks of blazing hot weather, which is nothing compared to last years summer where I felt like it never cooled down. Instead of the heat, there have been beautiful, cool days. The reason for the title of the article is that I heard someone attributing this to global cooling and I just thought it was funny because this time last year someone was attributing the weather to global warming. I'm j...

Goodbye Jules bird

terpfan1980 — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:30:25 AM -0400

It's a sad day in the Terpfan1980 household as we lost a beloved pet today.

Quite a while back (long before a bunch of spammers came along here offering deals on DirecTV or Dish Network) I wrote an article or two about some of the family pets including a wonderful little green cheek conure that the family had named Jules bird.

He had picked up that name because of his apparent intelligence and curiousity, with the Jules name being a variant of Jules Vern the author of so much fame.

Jule...

My Cat The Bag Man

jennifer1 — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:43:20 PM -0400

I loked high and low for this little bugger and look where I found him!

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He normally comes running when I call, he was obviously very comfortable!

I'm heartbroken

KarmaGirl — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:27:33 AM -0400

I am completely an utterly heartbroken. Last night, I came home from work, had a normal evening, ate dinner, fed the dogs, put the dogs in their crates and we headed off to Sasha Farm (a farm animal sanctuary that we volunteer at). Same thing we do every Monday. Nothing different. All the dogs were their normal selves. All ate well, all acted normal, all barked and ran up the stairs when we yelled "bedtime"..well, except Roscoe- we carry him because his hind legs ar...

Wander

Rebel-wolf — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:38:32 PM -0400

Snow Wolf

Rebel-wolf — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:01:12 PM -0400

Taz Portrait

Rebel-wolf — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:35:52 PM -0400

Cute frog

Draginol — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 2:52:57 PM -0400