Category: Animal World
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I learnt some new facts about my co-author Sujatha in a post she wrote at her blog. Responding to an Internet game of tag among bloggers, she revealed a few hitherto unknown (to me) talents and proclivities. The two that caught my eye particularly are: 3. Languages known: English (best of all), Tamil (really well, but…
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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. – Garrison Keillor
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The scene of this chronicle is the town of Dawson’s Landing, on the Missouri side of the Mississippi, half a day’s journey, per steamboat, below St. Louis. In 1830 it was a snug collection of modest one- and two- story frame dwellings, whose whitewashed exteriors were almost concealed from sight by climbing tangles of rose…
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I am writing this as a follow up to Sujatha’s post below. Readers can leave a note of protest against such inhumane and unethical treatment of animals here. Also, if you wish, please make a donation to the Humane Society to help with the campaign against cruelty to all animals, including factory farmed animals used…
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A recall of 143 million pounds of beef, one of the largest in U.S. history was made recently, affecting thousands of school districts supplied by a California plant under the National School Lunch program. This stemmed from an undercover investigation of practices at the plant, complete with a disturbing video shot of animals being forced…
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O little emperor with no orb, conqueror without country, ….. tiny tiger of the living room, posing four delicate feet on the ground sniffing, mistrustful of everything on earth, because everything is unclean for the cat’s immaculate foot. The above is an excerpt from Pablo Neruda’s poem Ode to the Cat (Oda al Gato) which…
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He who dislikes the cat, was in his former life, a rat. Chinese Proverb (This is the beginning of a regular series of cat quotes that will appear here)
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A sad, sad poem. Dying–you wouldn’t do that to a cat. For what is a cat to do in an empty apartment? Climb up the walls? Brush up against the furniture? Nothing here seems changed, and yet something has changed. Nothing has been moved, and yet there’s more room. And in the evenings the lamp…
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Monday’s Democratic debate in South Carolina had more than its share of fireworks. Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama went at each other with passion and fury. The bitter exchange continued beyond the debate stage next day when both candidates addressed reporters to harp on the weaknesses and dirty tactics of their main rival. Yesterday…
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A spectacular and heartwarming declaration of love and gratitude.
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A few interesting links I picked up over the past week: Morford and the Art of Zen Maintenance The Thinking Baboons Right Brain or Left : Which type are you? JK Rowling vs. Parvati (the deity, not the Hogwarts student) Colbert ,NYTimes columnist?!!
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Early last year I wrote a post on pet euthanasia when the memory of a beloved and very loving pet’s death was painfully fresh in my mind. The article was linked to a Newsweek essay by Jonathan Cooperman who had just gone through the wrenching experience of putting his playful Doberman to sleep. I argued that…
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Two animal posts in a row – no it’s not going to be a pattern. Having written a harrowing and depressing story yesterday about cruelty to animals, I hope to cheer things up a bit with a heart warming and curious tale of peaceful animal-human co-existence. I have a favorite old Edward Gorey t-shirt. The…
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No, it is not the one on the left. Taking into account a few rare exceptions, I don’t like, watch or follow the game of football. But from time to time I catch the news of some or the other high priced, high profile athlete indulging in foul or criminal behavior. Mostly I shrug. Assault,…
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