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Resources for Backyard Chickens

Volume 13 of MAKE Magazine has hit the newstands, and it includes an article I wrote about raising backyard laying hens, Backyard Hens…that link takes you directly to the article in the MAKE Digital Edition - read it online! Here’s som...


Something Cute for Sunday: Baby Panda Sneeze


Animals at Play

I grew up in a culture where where animals were simply put on earth to be used by people. To perpetuate this myth, corollaries like “animals don’t have feelings or emotions” were also espoused. If an animal “played”...


The Carolina Circus Clowns and Their Delightful Dogs

Aren’t they fun? The signals for the dog’s tricks seem to be very subtle!


Have an insistent fetcher?

Do you have a dog who will try every opportunity to get you to play? This cute ball-throwing device might alleviate some of your pressure to perform: Mark Pascua has some more information about the device and its maker: lamgngo, the creator of t...


Urban Honey

Via Justinsomnia, we have this sort of peculiar video about urban beekeeping:


Short-tailed Weasel

Yesterday I hiked one of my all-time favorite trails, the Tomales Point Trail at Point Reyes Nationals seashore. It’s always a great hike for viewing wildlife, and yesterday I got to watch Tule Elk, Northern Harriers, and even a big Striped...


Anger, Unleashed

I’ve seen them on the trails at Ragle before…sometimes a woman is with the dog, sometimes a man. If they see another dog coming, they pull off the trail and hold the dogs head, bent over, telling the dog to be quiet as it growls becau...


Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia

A few years ago, Steve and I attended several lectures about raptors by Alida Morzenti, in preparation for training to handle captive birds of prey. The lectures were fascinating, but one image stuck with me more than any other…the eagle hu...


Teach your parrot his address

Here’s a beautiful thing…a family in Japan taught their African Grey parrot to say his name and address. When the parrot was lost and came into the care of a local veterinarian, he eventually began talking and gave them the informatio...


Tour de Coop

Today Steve and I spent the morning touring…chicken coops! Generous members of the California Wine Country Chicken Chat group opened their coops to others in the group for an informal tour of member coops. It was a great chance to see how o...


Penguin Release

The IBRRC team who’s been working on the Patagonia oil spill (yes, another one) have a reason to smile…and let us in on the feel-good moment: Read more on the International Bird Rescue Research Center blog.


links for 2008-01-22

A tough time for horses An article about horses that are abandoned or neglected in Sonoma county, possibly related to harder economic times. I’ve been seeing lots of posts about this on local discussion forums. (tags: horses neglect rescue ...


Another Version of the Laika Story

In keeping with other recent memorials to Laika, the Soviet space dog (and namesake of Critter Geek’s mascot), here’s a sweet movie imaging a slightly different voyage: Pass the kleenex! <sniff> Thanks, Nat! (and Lulu!)


Meet the Vick-tims

Bad Rap, a non-profit group working to respond to the needs of oft-misunderstood pit bulls, has an excellent site describing how they worked with the dogs rescued from Michael Vick’s yard to evaluate them as individuals and rescue the ones t...


How Do You Use Twitter?

The folks over at Twitter posted a video starring yours truly with a few other twitter users in support roles. Check it out: How Do You Use Twitter? from biz stone on Vimeo.