Pet Monologues

Center for Biological Diversity. Support fossil creek wild and scenic designation!

Thanks to your support, Fossil Creek in central Arizona is one step closer to becoming a congressionally designated Wild and Scenic River! Read the rest of this entry »

This post celebrates World Animal Day and Bless the Animals. Follow the links to learn more about PM’s initiative which started on October 4.

A new category: critter labels.
A leading market-research company, ACNielsen, has decided to define a wine category by its label design. A “critter label” is any label that features an animal, from a hippo to a frog to a penguin. They say 438 viable table-wine brands have been introduced in the past three years, and 18 percent— nearly one in five— feature an animal on the label. “Combined with existing critter labels,” the firm said in a summation of its research on this matter, “sales of critter-branded wine have reached more than $600 million.”

Finishing touches on billboard

Yellow Tail has recently launched one of its largest ad campaigns in the brand’s history, created by Cramer-Krasselt (New York). Featuring a tag line that reads “Tails, you win,” the ads include a variety of three-dimensional billboards and interactive print advertisements, including massive replicas of the famous 1930s Kit-Cat Clocks, glowing fireflies and temporary tattoos. The campaign also includes TV ads and event sponsorships and runs through December 2007.

Creative background: the distributor
WILLIAM J. DEUTSCH was apprehensive when he first agreed to import an unknown Australian wine called Yellow Tail into the United States in 2001. Its handsome black-and-yellow label featured what looked like a kangaroo, and he felt that animals had no place on wine labels. But he liked the wine. “So,” he said recently, “I agreed to take 25,000 cases.”

His son Peter disagreed about the animal. “That label is fabulous,” he told his dad. Read the rest of this entry »

True. If, and I say only if, there are no cats on the premises.

Opus by Berkeley Breathed.

Found on salon.com and Bark Bark Woof Woof’s “Sunday Reading.”

TGIF. One day later.

Check out the Friday Ark roster for this weekend. And Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday.

and…

Announcing new carnival. Caw to art! #1 will hopefully go up Wednesday, November 7.

It’s Friday early evening and waiting for a ride to a restaurant. I find myself visiting a site I have not been back to for a bit of time. This site has proven to be a source of inspiration. I have permission to browse and this feels like I am peeking in someone’s attic as these archive posts—in blog years—are “older” like April 2004.

Yes, yet another great visual! This one reminds me of outsider art, a genre collected 15 years ago. I’ll ping the author of this post, a writer/poet, and maybe we will find out who the artist is. Maybe more.

Inspiration: Watermark (I can’t quite figure out the exact link so we go to home page.)

We are also going to send this to Friday Ark and Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday.

This is such a nice piece of art it could also be sent to Announcing new carnival. Caw to art! #1 will hopefully go up Wednesday, November 7.

HSUS reveals extensive puppy mills in Virginia.

An HSUS undercover investigation in Virginia revealed that puppy mills are out of control. Read the rest of this entry »

Irving council approves ban on unattended tethered dogs.

Owners of unattended, chained pets to receive Class C misdemeanors. Read the rest of this entry »

Do people choose dogs or dogs people?

Invertebrate is an English word that describes any animal without a spinal column. The group includes 97% of all animal species—all animals except those in the Chordate subphylum Vertebrata (fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals).

Carolus Linnaeus’ Systema Naturae divided these animals into only two groups, the Insecta and the Vermes.

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who was appointed to the position of “Curator of Insecta and Vermes” at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in 1793, both coined the term “invertebrate” to describe such and divided the original two groups into ten. They are now classified into over 30 phyla, from simple organisms such as sponges and flatworms to complex animals such as arthropods and molluscs. (thank you Wikipedia!)

Do you want to see words and pictures of spiders, sponges, snails, sea mats, squids, leeches, jellyfish, crabs, and of course graptolites?

Go no further. Visit The Other 95% who hosts Circus of the Spineless #26. We will let the author explain the 2% difference.

This event happens monthly. Have fun!

Don’t forget to check out Friday Ark hosted by Modulator for a chance to catch the entire 100%. Here is a peek at last Friday’s Friday Ark #162