The Animal Rescue Site
posted about 1 year ago | 10 comments
From time to time on eons, well meaning people will post messages suggesting that going to the Animal Rescue Site and clicking on it every day will help feed animals. This is not entirely accurate. The Animal Rescue Site is one of a collection of ...
HSUS - wolf in sheep's clothing
posted about 1 year ago, updated 3 days later | 2 comments
The wealthiest animal oriented non profit organization in the United States is the Humane Society of the United States. With net assets of well over $200 million, they have the resources to make a huge difference in the lives of many animals. Inst...
The Questions Oprah Didn't Ask about Puppy Mills
posted about 1 year ago | 1 comment
Oprah's show on puppy mills has ignited a veritable storm of verbiage flowing across the internet. I have been following some of it, because of my concern that the show would lump all breeders together with the lowlife's that wound up being pictur...
Ouch!
posted about 1 year ago | 0 comments
For a couple of months I have been taking care of my friends' three year old daughter on Fridays, as her grandmother was recovering from open heart surgery. Three weeks ago, I was leaving the house, going down the stairs sideways as the treads are...
Honors
posted over 2 years ago | 0 comments
I returned to college in January 2007. At first, I planned on becoming an MRI tech, until I learned how physically demanding the job was. I went back to school so I would no longer have to work at physically demanding jobs. My back wasn't liking m...
V is for ...Viburnum?
posted over 2 years ago | 1 comment
On Saturday Sept 22, I was able to go to something called the Heronswood Open at Fordhook Farms (home of Burpee, the seed people). I got to hear Dr. Michael Dirr speak about and show many slides of some of the many types of Viburnums available. Vi...
Liza becomes a porcupine
posted over 2 years ago | 1 comment
Today, Liza went for her regular every-other-week visit to the vet who does her acupuncture. You see, Liza is twelve and rather arthritic. She also gets an assortment of chinese herbs, including two new blends to help perk her up a bit and hopeful...
