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Now I Love my cats but at the moment they are driving me mad. They like to show their love by bringing me little presents normally late evening and deposit it on the kitchen floor and walk off with a meow leaving me to deal with it. Last week in he came deposited the mouse, fine, but it was still alive. Open the door out comes the brush and the game begins, OMG they can shift fast but after about 30 minutes it's out. Well this morning I come downstairs to have another run across the floor and the game starts again. I now have one cat asleep on the back of the chair totally oblivious, another Sat on the stairs I swear he was smirking and the third looking at me like well you can get rid of it. Out the door it went. Great now to chill, but the smirker had also disappeared yes you've guessed it he's gone back out and brought it back in. The game recommences.

Retail pet stores in California will only be able to sell kittens, rabbits, and puppies if they come from a rescue organization after a new state law goes into effect Tuesday.

With AB 485, California became the first state to implement such strict new rules on pet stores. Retailers are banned from selling live dogs, cats or rabbits unless the animal was obtained from a public animal control agency or shelter, humane society group, society for the prevention of cruelty to animals shelter or a rescue group that’s in a cooperative agreement with at least one private or public shelter.

Suna and Mitch Kentdotson were visiting the SD Humane Society to adopt a new kitten on Friday. They said they'd like to see the state restrict neglectful breeders from profiting off the sale of puppies and kittens.

“I think it’s better to rescue these animals instead of having like a puppy mill or something like that where these animals are raised super inhumanely," Suna Kentdotson said.

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“It takes the emphasis off the profit of animals and puts the emphasis back on caring for and getting these cats and dogs a good home," Mitch Kentdotson said.

San Diego County has a few retail pet stores left, including Broadway Puppies in Escondido, which has a sister store in National City.

According to the company’s website, they only use responsible licensed breeders. Come Tuesday, they'll only be able to sell pets from shelters.

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The Humane Society said it hasn't been contacted by any local retail pet stores inquiring about the purchase of its animals. But even if they do contact the group, the Humane Society isn't sure it would partner with the stores.

"We're not prepared to do that ourselves, because we have a fairly robust adoption program," MacKinnon said.

The organization sent letters to all local stores reminding them of the new law, which does not impact the sale of dogs, cats, and rabbits direct from breeders.

Dey Ran Out Of Captain Morgan

My job with a house building firm has moved. They moved to a building in Riverside, CA and it's pretty cool. There's a lot of new stuff so I am still learning about the new area. We are butted up against a hill that was once a wilderness area and is home to the strangest animals. The one familiar animal, however, are the Cotton Tail rabbits.

Today as I was cleaning in this kinda isolated area and a small newborn, or actually days old, animal came crawling out from under the stack of PVC pipes. It was so young it's eyes were still closed and it was hairless.

As he crawled onto the asphalt it started getting burned, it's been in the 90's here, and it started squirming. The little guy was pretty strong because it was crawling at a fast pace and when it hit the asphalt it really squirmed. Poor little guy!

I put him in a box and covered him with a rag and he just snuggled and got quiet. I told a lady in the office and pretty soon everyone had to look with ooh's and ahh's. It was really cute.

Well, then the guys in the warehouse started getting interested and the Wascally Wabbit was finally adopted by this guy whom I think will make a great "Mr. Mom". One of the ladies printed a bunch of advice sheets on how to adopt an abandoned in the wild animal and so the man that adopted "Wascally" will have a good start.

I kinda miss the little guy now! Hee Hee!

This mother and baby giraffe was recently discovered in Kenya.
They are not simply albinos.
Albinos have a mutation which prevents the development of the natural
pigment melanin.

Instead, these giraffes have a more complex mutation, leucism,
which actually prevents the formation of several natural pigments,
but it also does it incompletely.
Those afflicted often display a feint ghostly image of their pigmentation pattern.
This is very rare and only observed in one other instance in Tanzania.

But, you probably don't care about any of that.
You just want to see the white giraffes.
So, with no further ado here they are.

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P.S. Just because giraffes are supremely tall,
indeed, the tallest animals, and these 2 are white,
this, however, does not make them white supremacists.

And so it has begun. A war of world's x 10,000
Here in the big F. Complete hysteria with 2, yes two, confirmed cases locally.
Just came from the store. And the scene was unreal.
No shopping carts in the stall, every parking space taken, cars cued up in the lanes, add hard rain, add Calif. Stupidity on the self locking shopping cart, and I fled from the place... before that I offered to help an old Lady....and she of course ( remember this is Fresno ) snapped at me.

This is going to get ugly....Quickly .

No, Mr. Giraffe,

Perhaps Goldilocks was sleeping in the bear's bed ?