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 fo...

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 ...

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...

Something Cute for Sunday: Baby Panda Sneeze

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 perfo...

The Carolina Circus Clowns and Their Delightful Dogs

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

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 t...

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...

Urban Honey

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

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 ...

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 co...

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 l...

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 m...

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. IR...

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 ima...

Vinnie’s Odyssey

The Marin Independent Journal published an article that follows a Double-crested Cormorant through the Cosco Busan oil spill in Oil spill disaster ...

A letter to the future

Dear People of 2107 - Yesterday I joined a group of five other people to count the birds present in the Tom’s Point area near Tomales, Califo...

Julie Zickefoose on Goats

If you like Critter Geek, you definitely want to follow the blog of Julie Zickefoose, author of one of my favorite books, Letters From Eden: A Year...

Fresh Air Interviews with Animal Migration and Baboon Authors

NPR’s Fresh Air program yesterday featured an interview with author, David Wilcove, about his book No Way Home: The Decline of the World̵...