Animals
My Dog Almost Died Last Night
Our gardeners left a box of snail killer on the back steps last week. The box was closed and seemed to go unnoticed by Joe, so we left it there thinking they would pick it up when they came back. Well they were back yesterday and they did not pick it up. Last night around…
Read MoreOdd Animal Pairs
I love little stories like this – Willy the Hog Pairs With Antelope at Zoo – I think it’s just further proof of how other mammals have emotions and that they’re not so different from humans. Though it saddens me that the zoo will be separating them eventually.
Read MoreMonarch Migration
This morning we went to see the butterfly migration that I mentioned a couple of days ago in San Leandro. There weren’t as many as I was hoping to see, but the clusters were still amazing.
Read MoreButterflies in the Bay Area
Yet another reason that the Bay Area is awesome… I’ve always wanted to see the migration of the Monarch butterfly, so I was delighted to find out that there are several spots in the area where they stop and rest. We don’t have anywhere near the same numbers as central Mexico, but still a significant…
Read MoreBack from Texas
I just got back from another trip to Texas, my half-brother Ricky got married in Galveston. My dad rented a beach house there for two nights. While there I found a much better way of collecting sea shells – here they are in my Flickr photoset. The water was very strange, on Friday there were…
Read MorePhotography of Motion
I was looking for some pictures or stills of a horse running that I remember seeing a long time ago, and finally I stumbled on the Science and Society Picture Library. These search results in particular are a great resource if you need to animate a person, horse, dog, bird or other animal in motion.
Read MoreJoe’s a Spunky One
After Joe’s two-week medication trial, he went in again for more tests. This time his thyroid level was normal! So it’s two pills a day for the rest of his life. Well worth it though for the spunkier, happier, warmer-eared dog that is the result of it. (Original post about Joe’s thyroid.)
Read MoreJoe’s Not Just Fat
Since I’ve had my dog he’s been a little over weight and not very energetic. I fed him diet dog food – the proper portions – and he’s only lost a little weight. He was never much for playing, and when he did it was only for extremely short bouts. This past week Joe was…
Read MoreAmazing Rats
I just watched an amazing show on Animal Planet, “Jane Goodall: When Animals Talk.” Most of the stories are astounding, about how animals communicate with us. One of the stories that I think is especially neat, is about rats sniffing out landmines in Africa. They’ve been trained to sniff out the TNT and scratch at…
Read MoreSkunked… Again!!!
My dog – sweet, cute little yellow thing – has no brain in his head. I let him out in Steve’s back yard Friday night, which is nicely fenced in, and all of a sudden from inside the house I smelled skunk and knew he was in trouble. You would think that he learned some…
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