My friend Janell has done it again. This week, her nature study involves Mama Squirrel. Enjoy! “Spring is here, spiders are making beautiful vaselike egg cases and squirrels are lining their burrows with … toilet paper. “At the beach, I have noticed the ground squirrels filching TP from the public bathrooms and bringing it into …
Tag: Animal Behavior
“Zoos and Flies”
Dr. Hypercube has an essay up linking zoo architecture, raising poison dart frogs, and how to design an effective (fishing) fly. (The last references my late friend Datus Proper, who died with his waders on while fishing Hyalite Creek). What these pursuits have in common is they all make an effort to communicate something intelligible …
At War with ARistas?
I usually think it is not quite this bad yet, but when Phyllis McDonald sent me this from the UKC I nearly choked. RTWT, but here is an excerpt. “Robert Attleson lives in Littleton, Colorado, where he and his long-time partner, Melissa, raise English Setters. In addition to breeding and showing dogs, Bob is active …
Some Real Dogs
A few of us who love the primitive sighthounds worry that the program of breeding them to standard and closing the studbook, as is being proposed in Almaty, could be the first step on their road to ruin. Vladimir Beregovoy has found a scientist and dog breeder in the far western Karatau range, 400 miles …
Crow and Kitten
Annie D sent this remarkable video. It seems legit!
New ( to me) blogs
Here are some good ones I have found by looking around in the comments sections of my and other’s blogs. First, Luisa’s GREAT dog blog Lassie Get Help. Luisa is a native Californian who trains Border collies and defends Pit Bulls. Vicki Hearne would have loved her. She also blogs on other subjects dear to …
Flock Protectors
We have been talking a lot on our private lists lately about another loose group of working dogs now being minutely divided into “breeds”, the great flock- protecting dogs of the middle east and Asia, with some historical extensions into parts of Europe that had the “transhumance” or flock migration. I have seen working examples …
Pictureblogging 2: Partnerships
Blog- friend Cat Urbigkit is a rancher, sheepherder, and dog breeder who runs stock in southwestern Wyoming and writes wonderful children’s books. She recently told me a tale of the rivalry between a young stock- protection dog and a burro with the same job over who would control the sheep, especially five sheep the young …