Prepare to have your mind blown re: octopi and other cephalopods. (Unless you’re already in the know.) Exhibit A is this article in Orion Magazine, which I read some time ago, and which knocked my brain on its ass with its central premise that octopi seem to think and experience things in a way that’s […]
Animals
Feeding a carrot to Golondrina
It took me almost two weeks of trying in order to get a good “selfie” of me feeding a carrot to this neighborhood horse directly from my mouth. This is why I need a girlfriend.
Proof: animals are people too (VIDEO)
Moose are, at least: I don’t really understand the impulse that people have to try and separate animals from humans (even though of course, humans are animals). And I love that the Internet and modern technology is helping to tear that imaginary wall down. Love, fun, parenting, friends & siblings, fear, happiness, sadness, preferences, desires, FUN…animals feel […]
From Baiting to Bliss: a Tale of 3 Bears
Thank you to the World Society for the Protection of Animals for working so hard to rescue these poor bears from their horrible lives as “bait bears” in one of the most disgusting “sports” still existing in the world today. I support the WSPA. You should too.
Raising a dog, boiled down to the basics
Treat your dog like a prisoner and an animal, and that’s how he or she will behave. Treat ’em like an intelligent and sensitive individual, and you’ll get that instead. It’s not rocket science.
Goat heads – bane of my dog’s existence
Little known fact: tumbleweeds* are covered in these vicious little thorny things, which fall off and get stuck in shoes and feet, to painful effect. *Update: A friend clarified that while tumbleweeds do have thorny growths, they aren’t the source of goat heads. That source is a ground-creeping plant called (among other nicknames) “Goat head”. […]