I think that the time has come to move the blog from wordpress to it’s own domain name. I am currently looking into how to do this with very little stress on my part. The blog may end up at All the Creatures and take the place of that website. At this point I am [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘general animal’
August 5, 2008
125,000 rare gorillas found
I think that nature has a way of surviving the odds. The Western Lowland Gorilla has been on the endangered species list for at least the last 20 years. In 1980 the estimate was that there were only 100,000 gorillas left in the world. This week a special announcement was made. In a swamp in [...]
August 4, 2008
Human doctor makes 900 pet beds for animal shelter
Doctor Phyllis Popp of Mesa, Arizona has a sewing hobby. She got tired of making clothes so she decided to sew beds for the animals in the local shelter. She has made over 900 beds in her spare time. Some are used in the shelter, others are given to the foster homes that take care [...]
July 22, 2008
The video that made the national news and is the talk of YouTube
This is Christian the Lion. The video has subtitles so you can follow along with what is happening. A few things that are not mentioned are:
Harrods is a department store in England
The other man in the video is George Adamson, made famous in the movie “Born Free”.
This was the last time that anyone saw Christian [...]
July 11, 2008
The Rabbit Ripper
Rabbits have been the target of a killer in Germany. The culprit has been nicknamed “The Rabbit Ripper”. Over 40 pet rabbits so far have been brutally mutilated and killed. Most were kept in secluded backyard hutches that only the owners had known about. The police are wondering how the culprits are finding the hutches [...]
June 23, 2008
A moose in the house
This has got to be the most hilarious video I have seen this week. There is a moose in their bedroom!!!
June 19, 2008
An alarming number of dogs being bred
A down turn in the economy and what do some desperate people do? They breed anything with a uterus. That thought came to mind just now when I was at lunch reading one of those local free newspapers. The growing amount of ads for dogs and puppies is alarming. Most of the ads are for [...]
June 19, 2008
Animal welfare website
A friend of mine just pointed me to an interesting website. It is the Animal Welfare Institute. The website has the latest new items of what animal related bills are in congress or at the state level. This site is a must visit for all those animal lovers that are concerned about what laws are [...]
