Category Archives: Animalia
Rehabilitating Rabbit
I lifted a sodden fur ball out of the pool skimmer one morning. It lay motionless in my hand with its life almost burned out. But when I peeled back an eyelid to check for the glazed eye of death, … Continue reading
Voice of the Lobster
There was one lobster left in the tank when I left the restaurant. I felt sorry for the lonesome crustacean, but sadder for its late companions whose carapaces lay empty on customers’ plates. I had no reason to feel guilty because … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice in Wonderland, animal cruelty, Lewis Carroll, lobster thermidor, Monty Python, pain physiology, Peter Singer, Rene Descartes, spam meat
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Here Be Dragons
Butterfly numbers are down this year in Tidewater Virginia. Since 1999 when local naturalists began annual surveys there have been large fluctuations from year-to-year, but the numbers recorded this year on a hot July day were almost half the reckoning … Continue reading
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Tagged butterfly, Charles Elton, Dragonfly, Dragons, lemmings, Mary Pickford, snowy owls
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Badger Bother
Some years ago while following a wide trail through a Yorkshire wood I came across a bunch of roughnecks in muddy boots who were offloading shovels and pickaxes from the back of a rusty van. Terriers were barking furiously in … Continue reading
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Tagged badger, badger baiting, badger cull, badger sett, Badger state, bovine tuberculosis, The Badger Trust
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Candid about Cats
When a gray cat started prowling around our yard I assumed it was a new neighbor. I was wrong, she was a new resident! I stumbled on her nest by chance a few days later. It was sheltered against the … Continue reading
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Tagged animal rescue, animal soul, C.S. Lewis, cats, feral cats, kittens, stray cats, trap-neuter-return, wild bird mortality
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 