Category Archives: Animalia
Dog Smart
“I used to think my human was smart, but I now realize he only looks that way. I know I shouldn’t be anthropomorphic about one I’m particularly fond of.” **************************** Did you ever suspect that dogs often turn out looking … Continue reading
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Tagged Dog training, Dogs, intelligence, operant conditioning
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Our Mutual Friend
What species has been domesticated for thousands of years, lives in our homes, helps to feed us, comes in different strains (‘pedigrees’), was one of the first to have its genome sequenced, and has limited alcohol tolerance—like us? I’m not … Continue reading
The Wolf Sharing my Fire
There is something incongruous about the notion that the golden warming herself by our fire is still mostly wolf. It doesn’t fit her doggy nature. But how much shaggy wolf is still inside her remains a moot point. They are … Continue reading
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Tagged Cesar Millan, Dog training, Dogs, Golden Retriever, gray wolf, Little Red Riding Hood, sociobiology, Victoria Stillwell
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Groundhog Day
My groundhog day will arrive when the raider of our strawberry patch sits in the cross-hairs of my sights. Last year the little ‘hog’ grazed it to the ground, leaves and all. A neighbor over the fence told me he … Continue reading
Scavengers
“Half savage as the man showed, with no covering on his matted head, with his brown arms bare to between the elbow on his shoulder, with the loose knot of a looser kerchief lying low on his bare breast in … Continue reading
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Tagged bald eagle, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Dickens, rag-and-bone man, road-kill, scavenger, Steptoe & Son, vulture
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