Dog owners in Toronto are no longer allowed to walk bitches in heat or any unaltered males in parks, period, full stop. Canadian saluki breeder Maril Semph sent text from a friend but no link: “Effective February 01 2008 Toronto did ban all intact male dogs and females in season, not just from off-leash dog …
Tag: Doom
Unspeakable Allies
ANOTHER “You Can’t Make It Up” moment: Ingrid “Holocaust on your plate” and “A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy” Newkirk has bonded with “Hang ’em if they won’t fight” dogfighter Michael Vick. “Vick, demonized by PETA for more than a year, could become the bridge in this divide. Newkirk struck …
Links
More and longer and prettier soon, but here is the usual presentation of friends, foes, follies, and gallimaufry, not to mention science.. Which first: a very old bat. (Zimmer has also devoted a new site to his collection of “Science tattoos”. Love that Archaeopteryx!) The long- distant migrant known as the red knot is in …
Bear with me..
Two weeks of agent & publisher hell, slowly receding. Blogging may be light for a bit yet but here are some links, and there will be photoblogging of various creatures later. Nature and science. Carel blogs on an extremely odd, newly discovered snake that apparently has evolved a “lure” on the end of its tail. …
Links, Apologia…
If I can ever finish the saga of my completed but yet…unfulfilled?.. book, it will be a good one, or at least a lesson in the vagaries of contemporary publishing that would fulfill every cynical belief of Michael Blowhard. It has been that kind of month. Meanwhile, links and various photos. Science and nature: Paleoblog …
It begins again
Congressman Lloyd Levine introduces mandatory spay- neuter in California again.
Dog News Around the Web
The California Mandatory Spay- Neuter bill may be on hold, but affluent Huntington beach wants to enact an ordinance of its own, complete with microchips. “Competition dogs” ie show dogs–see below– would be exempt but at higher fees. Also: “The council asked that the program’s annual cost to the city be no more than $50,000 …
Doom
England is having a bad week. First, from The Daily Mail (HT Maggie’s Farm): omnipresent video cameras: “Britain has more than 4 million closed-circuit security cameras, more than any other Western democracy. “Police say the average Briton is on as many as 300 cameras every day, usually unaware. “The density of surveillance is significantly higher …
Decline and Fall (with Hawks & Pigeons!)
Rebecca sends this item from England. It needs deconstructing. All emphasis mine… “The mechanical birds — called “Robops” — have been placed on rooftop locations around the British city of Liverpool and will flap their wings and squawk loudly to scare the problem pigeons away.” Yeah, that’s what falcons do.. “The initiative was launched to …
Crybaby
Worse and worse. “He cried himself to sleep after his Iranian captors likened him to the comedy character Mr Bean.”