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I love animals as much as the next guy...maybe more. It might be the reason I was banned from the petting zoo. If I had my way we'd have 'heavy' petting zoos, but I digress.

It seems to me that there are way more 'service' animals than services needed. Dogs aren't allowed on the bus unless of course it's a seeing-eye dog or something of that nature. Ok, I get it. That's actually a thing. Therapy dogs are a thing too, but now we're treading into ambiguous territory. And who's to say where the line is drawn?
No dogs are allowed at the farmers market...well unless it's a cancer-sniffing dog. Hey, I could get cancer any minute so I need to have the dog with me at all times. I just get a cute little doggy jacket and a tag and now my pet is a necessity while at the library.
And why limit these animals to dogs? How about a gluten-detecting squid? An autism armadillo? If I'm so obese that I can't reach my own backside, l could use a butt-wipe orangutan...um

I think Melania Trump already has one.

Change your used sailboat's name, you die at sea. Since I'm a bit stuporstitious, I never dared such. But all my dogs are adptees, and I always tried to keep the names the original humans geve them. Usually, these were much better than what I could have come up with. Such as our Bravo. Plus, they are already usually used to these. But folks give their pooches and kitties silly names. Speaking of sails, sorry to take the wind out of yours here, Biff.

The other day I was reading how someone was bringing a stray home from the country they were visiting. What? We don't have enough unwanted pets here in shelters that you couldn't find one here?

I really have an issue with this, as we have so many pets that need homes in our own country.

On Saturday evening, a member of a local hiking group fb page posted a desperate plea for help in getting two dogs off a cliff ledge. According to the post, the dogs had been up there for four days crying and barking.

Apparently, a friend of the poster lived right under where the dogs were located and could hear them barking and crying all night, but couldn't get at them to bring them down. The poster had contacted the RCMP and the local Search and Rescue (SAR), and both had told them it wasn't a human and there wasn't anything they could do.

The poster was at his wit's end, begging for someone with climbing experience to help get these two dogs off the ledge and not leave them to starve to death. As many in the hiking group had dogs, the response was immediate and encouraging, with offers of a canine stretcher and various other paraphernalia possibly required.

Receiving enough help, they organized a group to attempt to get the dogs at 6:30am yesterday morning.

A local SAR volunteer apparently offered to help, and probably advised the team that unqualified and inexperienced climbers were going to try and rescue the dogs. Rather than risk the lives of humans trying to rescue the dogs, the SAR team stepped up and in and asked people to stay away from the area in the morning, as they'd be going in themselves to get the dogs.

With bated breath, everyone that was aware of the dogs waited for word on the rescue. Finally, about mid-morning, photos were posted of the SAR rescuers with the puppies in their arms. The dogs were only about 17 weeks old and St. Bernard mix, so still very little. How they got to the ledge and who they belong to is still a mystery, but there are all kinds of offers of adoption.

I can't, for the life of me, understand how two puppies could be left on a ledge and the owner not frantic to get them down. At this point, no one is owning up to ownership, or how those two puppies ended up being there.

My big question is, did the owner and puppies fall and are they missing the owner somewhere down the cliff? Hopefully, no humans are out there, injured, but I'd think SAR would check. So many questions with no answers, but the great news is that the puppies were rescued and are safe.

How is it that we naturally know when a dog is using play behaviors? Probably coevolved with us, Methinks. The front paws low on the ground, arse up in the air, Eyes bright, ears partially back, tail a waggin' a mile a minute, and that broad open mouth doggy smile. Who doesn't naturally sense all this is saying, "let's romp?" OK, can't resist making this at least a little political. Bravo loves TV, especially animal shows. But he only watches Republican adverts. He's glued to the boob tube whenever our brilliant POTUS gives a thoughtful speech.

My caption So that's the way you want to be? I'll just take my ball and go home.

If for any reason you have to give up your loved pet please call a animal rescue most of which are no kill they will find a good home it's also helpful to tell of it's personally to find the best forever home.and there's no fee or questions

I got up a bit late yesterday, as there was a birthday party the other night that made me slept late. Though I felt like want to be on bed for a bit more, but tried to got up, as my plants waited for me to be watered. I immediately opened the water faucet connected to a sprinkler, somewhat a water irrigation, to water all my plants. With much surprised I heard kittens crying. Ohhh they were hit by water and cats just afraid of water. I tried to take a look. And a cat is giving birth to 5 kittens,I thought. But there came another one..so 6 kittens. But since they were wet, I put a cloth to kept them warm. At mid day I checked and saw one died..so I threw in a trash. Before I got dark I checked again and gave food which I previously cooked for that mother cat. She keeps on going around me, instead of eating the food I gave. She already hid her kittens transferred to another place, but they kept crying so I wanted to check as they might be wet . Huhhhh I made a step, and the cat bit me up....I wonder why???
Good thing she did not bite me that hard, but I got an anti tabbies shot anyway .
In my thoughts, why she did it, when I was trying to take care of them. I just realized, she was searching for her one kitten I threw. Touched me a lot, how this cat cared so much when she has 5 kittens with her. And humans, there's been news, a fetus in a trash , a baby wrapped with plastic bags ..Ghosh, and the kind news.
Cats have more heart and conscience than humans??? Cats has no shame??? Humans was designed by God as highest form animals, with instinct ...why shame overpowers the thought that a fetus,a baby is innocent, they might have a better contributions in the world if given a chance to live..
Am seeing my wound, a cat is ready to kill, to protect her kittens. Yes I could die because of rabbies....lol..

Florida has been invaded by Burmese pythons as the result of an intense storm that accidently freed
these captive pets near the Everglades years ago.
Some estimate that there are now over 100,000 of these invasive snakes in the everglades,
where no natural predator has evolved to control them.

They can grow up to 26 feet in length and in that area have decimated the populations
of many mammals such as deer, raccoons, bobcats, rabbits, etc .
In response Florida has hired about 25 professional snake hunters to capture these invasive snakes.

In the following video we get to see one of these snake hunters capture such a Burmese python,
that was in the process of strangling an alligator. They have been known to kill much larger gators.

So, man rescues alligator is perhaps something you never thought you would hear, nor see;

It spent so long gnawing hard on my leg and is now literally bouncing around the room off everything periodically chomping into my ankle