Fellow falconer, writer and digger-to-dogs, Teddy Moritz of New Jersey, offers her recent fave reads and allows us to share them with you: “After reading Lyall Watson’s wonderfully informative book ‘Elephantoms‘ about his youth in South Africa and the disappearing herd of elephants, plus a knowledgeable but shadowy native figure named Kamma, I read his …
Author: Matt Mullenix
Fear and Loathing
In a recent comment, Black Dog Lady (BDL) said of animals, “They are born knowing.” A great line that reminded me of another one from Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty, which my kids are listening to on CD: “God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves; but He gave animals …
Presidential Note
Just saw a story on the presidential candidates’ (both parties) penchant for evoking Teddy Roosevelt’s policies in their rhetoric. Question: Which do you think will be first to support hunting rats with terriers in the White House basement, or coursing coyotes with greyhounds in Yellowstone?
Ida Hurt 1931-2007
Ida Marie Hurt, 75, of Baton Rouge died Sunday, August 12, at the Ollie Steele Burden Manor on Essen Lane. Hurt was born October 1, 1931, in Albany, Georgia, to forester Henry David Story and Marie Agnus Story. Hurt moved with her family to Amite, Louisiana, as a young girl and later to Baton Rouge …
Larissa gets fired
In favor of two illiterate interns. Sometimes I despair of the magazine world. Go here to see what they are missing as she blogs on harsh truth and loving lies.
Extremophiles
Owners of animals (and we must be in the majority among Q. readers) ought to check out Prairie Mary’s recent essay, “Two Tails of the Social Dog,” an excellent response to the state of polarization over animal issues that accounts for much of the chatter on this blog. “When it comes to domestic pets, a …
PETA Opines On Animal Breeding
Lending her support to Verlyn Klinkenborg’s comments of July 30, PETA director of Domestic Animals and Wildlife Rescue & Information Daphna Nachminovitch had this to say about the value of breeding animals [emphasis mine]: “Given the current dire shortage of homes, no breeding is responsible. Every time someone buys a puppy or kitten from a …
OvoControl P
Reid spotted this one at LAT: Hollywood turns to birth control to clean up its (pigeons’) act. Francisco Vara-Orta writes, “Eager to reduce the neighborhood pigeon population and the mess that comes with it, Hollywood residents appear ready to try a new birth control method on their wild birds. “Beginning within the next couple of …
Endless act of transference
Thanks both to Mary and Reid for forwarding this NYT editorial by Verlyn Klinkenborg, Should Most Pet Owners Be Required to Neuter Their Animals? (subtitled: “When it comes to pets, Americans are lost in a seemingly endless act of transference.”) “…the opponents of mandatory neutering make it sound as though the problem can be solved …
Breeding Like Rabbits?
Trivia: China claims to have cloned the first rabbit from fetal cells (evidently the French cloned a rabbit earlier from adult cells). It should be noted that this is NOT the easiest way to breed rabbits. I was warming up for a tirade on the evils of cloning. My point was not to be that …