Showing 33 posts from March 2009
Win a copy of the book One Nation under Dog chronicles the phenomenon of the pet culture in America today. Once mostly an outdoor working animal, today’s dog has become part of the family and serves as both child and companion to many single people. Because of the love for fur babies, the pet industry has grown to $4.3 billion....
Thanks to JackieSue for sending me this story. The last picture is a classic. In 2003, police in Warwickshire, England, found a frightened cowering dog who had been locked in a shed and abandoned. She was dirty and malnourished, and had clearly been abused. The police took the dog, a Greyhound female, to the nearby Nuneaton Warwickshire Wildlife Sanctuary, run...
A Michigan woman, Inez Starks, 55, filed a lawsuit against the city of Warren, several police officers and Liberty, the police dog, claiming he bit her in the buttocks during an altercation outside her daughter’s home, according to the Detroit News. In April, 2007, police were called to the home because of a truancy issue with her daughter’s child. During...
I recently found an old notebook from a time when my friends and I were writing double dactyls. What? Didn’t everyone? In case you didn’t misspend your youth, a dactyl rhythm is dot dit dit-- A double dactyl is like “pocketa, pocketa.” Sometimes nonsense words are used to start the double dactyl. The rules for writing them are quite strict,...
Bears are very smart animals. They can figure out that rather than searching through the forest for food, a whole smorgasbord awaits them in the garbage cans, pet dishes, and bird feeders in suburban backyards. Bears from the Cascade Mountains in Washington have become not just a nuisance, but a danger to themselves and the people living in the area....
