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36 Giant Pandas Make Their Public Debut Together
People, via Andrew Y.
Pet shops must source from shelters instead.
California Bans Pet Shop Sales Of Non-Rescue Cats, Dogs And Rabbits
Huffington Post, via Me
Not even singed!
Family dog emerges alive and happy from California wildfire aftermath
Denver Post, via Me
"Otter McOtterface." Book it. Done.
Help Name This Baby Otter at Kansas City Zoo
Zooborns, via Murray C.
Wow, I really need to condition!
Hiker Finds Lost Rooster In Woods, Decides To Take Him With Her
The Dodo, via Faye
And finally: Lip-Smackin’ Dee-licious!
https://twitter.com/otohime0905/status/917770851512082432
via Faye.
Yay for the California law!
I agree! This is heartless of me, but I don’t have much sympathy for the supposed job losses (which may never come about). Weigh that against an estimated 1.5 million euthanized pets, and it’s no contest.
Job losses is what businesses always say to oppose any regulation.
A zillion upvotes for the California law. I’d like to see it happen in New York, too. It’s well past time.
That chicken is fantastic. I’ve hiked portions of the trail, but only ever saw songbirds, deer, bear, and snakes.
Some of those deer are so bold they’ll shove their heads in your bowl while you’re eating.
That’s not a commercial breed, wonder if he got lose from someone’s back yard.
I’d be worried about the little lizzzzzard getting poke with those tweeters.
He’s like a 8 oz Kibble Seeking Missile
(www) 🙂
He’s got a “what the f is your problem?” vibe.
Stop teasing or someone’s going to regret it
Why can’t I have two baby pandas clinging to my ankles?! *pouts*
Yay California!
The mall near me got rid of the pet store several years ago (from what I understand, it was the company that owns the mall that decided to get rid of all the pet stores in their malls). It was turned into an adoption center for the county SPCA.
The only down side is that I don’t get to go sit and cuddle with a puppy anymore. (The adoption center doesn’t always have dogs there; they stay at their main facility and they bring a few over for part of the day, so often when I go there are only cats.) I would never buy from a pet store but I figured they needed some love. Sometimes if I was waiting for my car at Sears or something I would kill time at the pet store and ask to play with one. One day a tiny Boston Terrier baby just slept in my lap for 20 minutes.
Why did the Polish Crested Chicken hike the Appalachian Trail? To find a forfeather home!
Lizard eyes!
I love this collection of links. The 3 bottom pictures show how I felt last night.
My favourite metal band (from the UK ) came to play to my country, which does not happen every week. The first band that played before them was so terribly bad…
At the beginning I looked like a slightly annoyed otter and then with every song it was becoming worse and worse — they were really hair/feather -raisingly bad even if I have seen a thing or two regarding amateur metal bands 🙂 Then when my favourite band started playing I was like a happy lizard 🙂 (I saw exactly as much as a lizard would have among 1000 giraffes)
What band?
I always wonder where they find the apparently obligatory terrible opening act. Like, the very first one that isn’t even listed on the ads. What’s the thought process for choosing? “I can’t tell any of these Z-list melodeath bands apart except for this one that has a terrorcore loop playing continuously in the background. We’ll hire them.”
Paradise Lost was awesome, Pallbearer was quite good, but Sinistro….
Sinistro singer looked as if she had badly needed an exorcism, which I would have gladly done for her at discount price just to end her spectacular suffering.
The dramatic monologues in Portuguese ( or at least I hope those weren’t in English) whispered/screamed did not help either.
The artists get some input but I think that the labels/promoters/management have a roster of bands that they’re trying to develop.
Like a really bad farming program. The Guitar Center League, not Grapefruit
This choice actually worked. Normally when I don’t like the opening band, I just walk out to grab a drink. But in this case people stayed in shock because they just couldn’t believe their eyes and ears. The band might have thought: so many people stayed, we were good 🙂
The lizard!
Oh, I just love all of these so much – saw the Bernese Mt. dog item earlier and it was so uplifting – I know I let everyone know my bro and SIL and their two scotties are fine, and pretty sure their house is OK – now it’s looting that’s the problem. But the big dog’s happy reunion was really uplifting. And that ROOSTER! He’s FABulous – Project Runway material. Lizard is so adorable – love his eyes and intensity. And, yes, YAY for California. May all states follow suit.
On another subject – people whom you would prefer didn’t exist – people who raise female deer to collect their urine to attract bucks within firing range. Real sporting.
grrrr
That grrr was for people who raise female deer. So glad Murray C.’s family, and this lovely doggie, are all okay.
I sent Mike the video from the panda photo shoot, btw. It’s fantastic, as you might expect.
Yep, and here it is. Speakers UP!
I’m amazed at the squealy-squeaky sound they make – it sounds sort of human, or like a human trying to imitate a baby animal sound.
I am glad to see the new law in CA. My town has 2 pet stores, and neither of them has ever sold puppies or kittens. Petco has adoptions, where they bring adoptables from the animal shelter. The local owned pet store is dark and dirty, and the fish tanks are gross. We had an adoption event last week, where a used car lot sponsored free adoptions (they covered the adoption costs), and 39 pets were adopted, emptied the shelter of all their adoptable pets. We do have an extraordinary amount of backyard breeders here, though.
Murray, as to the doe urine, it’s more about covering up the scent of the hunter, than it is attracting the bucks. Hunting is a good way of keeping the deer population down, helping farmers save their crops, and allowing balance so other wildlife will have enough food to eat. There are limits on how many one hunter can take, depending on the population numbers (in Kansas, anyway). They enforce the laws pretty heavily in my area, with a hefty fine, along with losing a fishing/hunting license, and having your rifle confiscated, if you are caught with a deer or turkey that is not tagged. They will get a search warrant and search your freezer, and you will be expected to have tags for any frozen game. I know a guy who shot turkeys out of a truck (illegal, unless you have a handicapped tag), and his fine was $500, he couldn’t get a fishing or hunting license for 5 yrs, they took his rifle, and a turkey he had in the freezer which he could not produce a tag for. It cost him the irreplaceable rifle he had inherited from his grandfather, not worth being so lazy you can’t get out of your truck to actually hunt.
I was just repeating what the article said – I do know that deer need to be culled but I do think a certain amount of sportsmanship is desirable. But I do appreciate what you’re saying. and I’m happy to hear there are rules guiding shooting from a truck. Reminds me that years ago I went out briefly with a fellow from south Africa whose family owned an enormous amount of land and they would cull animals – zebra, I think he said – from a helicopter and sell the meat to restaurants. That relationship didn’t last long! That was one reason of many.
I’m really glad about the no animal sale rule, too. When I lived in L.A. many years back, there was a grotty little pet store in Santa Monica that had two really pretty kittens. At 2 months old, one got sold, but her brother just sat in this case….and sat….and sat, because he didn’t even have anywhere to run around. Hideous store, horrible owner. I finally paid money to get the kitten out of there and then spent even more than his $400 purchase fee at the vet trying to get him healthy. When I sent the store owner a bill for the vet costs, he just laughed in my face, the creep. I still regret not taking him to court.
That was the one and only time I’ve ever bought a pet, but I consider it more a mission of mercy than buying a pet, to be honest. Cloud was a wonderful kitty. He ended up moving out with Rachel when she got her own place, and lived with her for many years, until circumstances dictated that we simply could NOT have him back in our house with two cat-hating dogs when she moved home years later. And we could NOT find him a new home even though he was alleged to be a snow leopard Bengal. (He was beautiful white with Bengal markings — a gorgeous kitty.) So we finally drove him to Florida to a rescue, and he got adopted the following week and lived happily ever after with a family in Mississippi.
So I’m really glad that store is GONE if it was still open. Their fish were always dying, they had snakes that had only partial sheds and couldn’t eat as a result and starved to death, and on and on. HORRIBLE place! And that is why this new California law is real blessing for the animals in California!
Sorry to go on and on at such length, but I still get mad thinking about that s***ty little pet store…
“…the Weavers and many others were forced to leave behind their pets because they couldn’t be found or there was simply no time to get them.”
Umm…okay, a show of hands: who else would have made (expletive deleted) sure their companion animals were close by, if there were *the remotest possibility* that we’d have to, y’know, run for our lives? Or was this all within the first half-hour of the initial spark?
Sorry if I marred the emotional-reunion story, there.
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That would be my choice but we all know how hard it is to find and grab our animals when its time to go to the vet’s. Look at how many dogs lose it and get out when they hear fireworks
Under those circumstances, the animals may have freaked out early and badly by heading for the hills or hidden too well to find them if they were scrambling.
After the Northridge earthquake in LA, one of my friend Carole’s cats couldn’t be found for several days. It turned out to have crawled *inside* the kitchen wall through a hole behind the stove! If her building had been red-tagged (no entry for *any* reason), Carole might never have gotten her cat to safety.
And we had a gas volcano behind our house and had to evacuate on a moment’s notice; I think I had the only cat in LA that came when I called her that morning!
A fire can move so fast that people who are safe one minute can be in mortal danger 2 minutes later and have to run for their lives. So i can understand a pet being missing, especially one that has the run of a spacious country property.
I like to believe that people make the best possible decision that they can in the moment. It’s easy to second guess someone else’s choice and hind sight is always 20/20. Let’s give people the benefit of the doubt. It’s possible that they were trying to evacuate small children and/or elderly or infirm parents.
I do know that the fires were moving so quickly that sometimes there was no time for that – I feel similarly but one can’t know the individual circumstances. They were waken in the middle of the night in some cases, or the fires were so close so fast that they didn’t really have time to think. Someone did get killed going back for an animal.
Laura, you are a hero as far as I’m concerned for saving that cat – kudos. And you’re now on my list of “someone for whom heaven should be invented if it doesn’t exist now”.?
Aww…thanks, Murray. He was a great cat, and I just couldn’t stand seeing him so badly treated. Oh, and he’d never had his shots, either. It was such a seedy hole of a store! You would have done the same thing, I’m sure — heck, anyone with even a speck of human decency would have!
My husband said he was a dog in a cat suit. I had no trouble believing him, either! Our favorite escapade was when we caught him trying to make off with a 2 pound package of thawing chicken –i guess he just wanted a big chicken dinner!
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