Pet Monologues

Happy endangered species day.

PM — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:49:59 +0000

Hey, did you know today’s a holiday? That’s right: it’s Endangered Species Day, 5/16/08, a national celebration to spread awareness about all our planet’s wildlife, fish, and plants—including the beloved polar bear—that are threatened with extinction. It’s also a great day to take action to help save them.

One of the most important actions of all? Spreading the word. Species need help every day, from everybody, so use this holiday as a jump-start for a year of conservation actions to be carried out by you, your friends and family, and your community. To start, all you have to do is wish someone a happy Endangered Species Day with one of these attractive and witty postcards, humbly brought to you by the Center for Biological Diversity.

Oh, and we do have a present for you after all—if you haven’t already, you can download free endangered species cell phone ringtones from our Web site here. Choose from the sounds of lots of cool owls, frogs, whales, wolves, and other species.

Thanks for caring about our planet’s imperiled inhabitants, and a Happy Endangered Species Day to you. via Center for Biological Diversity

Tags: Endangered, extinct, owl, polar bear, whales, wildlife, wolves

The ark.

PM — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:20:33 +0000

When PM discovered this image there was no doubt this post would acknowledge Friday’s Ark.

the ark via paintalicious

If you look at our Top Commentors list you will notice “Modulator” at the top. The ranking in this case represents both Modulator’s and Pet Monologues collaborations each and every Friday when possible. Interestingly, especially with post, one never knows when a submission will be accepted on Friday’s Art.

Tags: animal art, Artists, Artworks, carnivals, fine art, friday ark, herron, rabbits, turtle, wildlife

Birds do it.

PM — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:16:32 +0000

HELLO. S.E.X. Chirp. Mature post!

The birds are certainly chirping in our hood these past few weeks. Maybe it is just Spring in the air. Maybe it’s just romance. Let’s fall in love.

Sex and single bird.

Written by researchers around the world, highlights new discoveries in the sciences and what they mean for your outlook.

hawks do it

macaws do it

peacocks do it

ostriches do it

flamingos do it

A parakeet does it

THE BIG IDEA: Every summer, male songbirds called lark buntings shed their dull winter plumage and fly north from Mexico and Texas to build ground nests on the short-grass prairie of the Pawnee National Grassland, northeast of Denver. By the time female birds arrive two weeks later, the males are brightly adorned, often with glossy black feathers and white wing patches that flash as they zoom skyward and float back to the ground, singing all the while. These fancy traits and aerial displays may ward off other males, and they also send a come-hither signal to females. Scientists have always assumed that female birds, looking for good fathers, consistently choose males that exhibit the same exaggerated sexual traits. But my research shows that their preferences change from year to year. Sometimes females even select partners that look completely different from the previous season’s mates.

HOW WE DISCOVERED IT: For five summers, I teamed up with Bruce Lyon, a biologist at the University of California at Santa Cruz. We lured male birds to baited feeders, tagged them with colored bands, took blood samples and documented their traits — from body and wing-patch color to body and beak size. Then we released the birds and used binoculars to follow their breeding success. When the chicks hatched, we ran paternity tests and tracked the number of offspring fathered by each male.

WHAT WE FOUND: For male lark buntings, reproductive success depends on whatever traits are in vogue among females that season. By staying flexible and seeking out partners with the physical qualities most needed at the moment, females ensure that more chicks successfully leave the nest. If the prairie is overrun by ground snakes, for example, mother birds might choose the most protective males — a quality that might be signaled by wing-patch size. If grasshoppers are scarce the next year, maybe they will look for partners with big beaks, which might make them good providers.

WHY IT MATTERS: Female mating preferences are nothing new — female guppies look for males with bright orange and black spots, for example — but scientists generally believed that those preferences were fixed, as if coded into the species’ genes. Now we’ve shown that female birds can change their minds from year to year, which means that they help drive genetic variation. So what might explain the many bright colors and elaborate songs of birds of paradise? The woman’s prerogative. —Alexis Chaine is a researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research in Moulis, France

In cooperation withScience magazineand theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science. To see videos of lark buntings, visit the Web sitewww.sciencemag.org/wpoutlook. via

Science: X + Y

We’ve all heard about the birds and the bees. But apparently when it comes to birds, they have an unusual take on his and hers — and the difference is genetic. Species with differentiated sex chromosomes (X and Y in humans, for example) get around the fact that males and females get different-sized portions of sex chromosome genes with a balancing act geneticists call dosage compensation. But research published in the Journal of Biology shows that birds are extraordinary, because some bird genomes can live with an apparent overdose of sex-related genes.

US researchers Itoh, Melamed et al. working in Arthur Arnold’s University of California, Los Angeles laboratory used RNA microarray analysis for their dosage compensation study. The team sampled chickens and zebra finches, and compared the results with data from humans and mice. In several types of finch and embryonic chicken brain tissue, Z chromosome genes were expressed up to 40% higher in ZZ males than ZW females. This contrasts with findings from the mammal samples, where dosage compensation meant that the male: female ratio of X-linked genes is similar to that of autosomal genes.

In mammals, mismatched doses of X genes between males and females threaten to upset the gene network in one or both sexes. Fruit flies (Drosophila), roundworms (C. elegans) and humans each work around this dosage problem using different molecular pathways. By contrast, for birds it appears that most genes on the Z chromosome are not fully dosage-compensated, at least at the transcriptional level.

The study challenges current thinking about the role and mechanisms of dosage compensation in species with heteromorphic sex chromosomes. “Unlike mammals, birds have an ineffective dosage compensation,” says Arnold. “The finding is surprising because dosage compensation was previously thought to be critical for survival. Birds, however, seem to be doing just fine without sexual equality of Z gene expression”. via Science Daily

Tags: behavior, Birds, body language, chromosomes, companion, dancing, discovery channel, friday ark, genetics, girlfriend, hawks, instinct, love, mating, ostrich, outdoors, parakeets, parrots, peacocks, play, Science, sex, Spring, video, wildlife

The polar bear makes endangered list.

hesso — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:39:32 +0000

The polar bear is finally getting a break and maybe global warming worries have made it possible: The government has declared it a threatened species in need of increased protection. But another round of legal battles surrounding the majestic animal may be just beginning.

The Interior Department put the bear under the protective umbrella of the Endangered Species Act on Wednesday, concluding what biologists have been saying for years—the bear is on the way to extinction because of the rapid disappearance of the Arctic sea ice upon which it depends.

Scientists predict sea ice melting will continue and even accelerate because of global warming.

“This in my judgment makes the polar bear a threatened species, one likely to become in danger of extinction in the foreseeable future,” said Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, punctuating his point with an array of slides, charts and maps showing the changing ice flows of the Arctic.

But Kempthorne also said that he did not view the increased protection of the bear afforded by the Endangered Species Act as a back door to regulate greenhouse gases coming from power plants, automobiles and industrial sources.

“That would be a wholly inappropriate use of the ESA law,” declared Kempthorne as he outlined a series of administrative and other actions he would take to stop anything like that from happening.

The restrictions, including one that would provide the bear no more protection from oil drilling in Arctic waters than it now has under another federal law, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, prompted environmentalists and some members of Congress to questions whether the bear will get any more protection at all.

“They’re trying to make this a threatened listing in name only with no change in today’s impacts and that’s not going to fly,” said Jamie Rappaport Clark of Defenders of Wildlife and a former director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the Clinton administration.

Three environmental groups whose lawsuit forced the Interior Department to make a decision on the bear’s status, indicated they are preparing to go to court again to challenge some of the provisions Kempthorne outlined.

These measures amount to the bear not getting all the protections it in entitled to under the Endangered Species Act and won’t hold up in court, said Kassie Siegel of the Center for Biological Diversity.

Andrew Wetzler of the Natural Resources Defense Council said the Interior Department’s decision allows loopholes in the law “to allow the greatest threat to the polar bear — global warming pollution — to continue unabated.”

Kempthorne acknowledged that the polar bear — 25,000 of them that roam the Arctic region from Russia and Alaska to Greenland — “poses a unique conservation challenge.” It is the first time in the history of the Endangered Species Act that the law has been used to protect an animal whose nemesis is global warming.

“I want to make clear that this listing will not stop global climate change or prevent any sea ice from melting,” said Kempthorne. “…The ESA is not the right tool to set U.S. climate policy.”

Kempthorne sought to assure the business community that the bear’s protection would not keep someone from building a coal-burning power plant or drill for oil in Arctic waters.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce applauded the decision. “It will protect polar bears while also protecting American jobs and businesses,” said Bill Kovacs, the Chamber’s vice president for environmental affairs.

But some business groups weren’t as impressed.

The ruling “will unleash a torrent of lawsuits” by environmentalists and “give them a powerful new legal sledgehammer” against businesses and agricultural operations especially in the West, warned Jim Sims, president of the Western Business Roundtable.

Reed Hopper, an attorney for the Pacific Legal Foundation, which frequently has challenged the Endangered Species Act in property rights disputes, said he plans to challenge the bear listing as well in court.

The polar bear “already is the most protected (animal) in the world and needs no additional protection,” maintained Hopper. He noted the number of polar bears have more than doubled since the late 1960s from 12,000 to about 25,000 across the Arctic region from Alaska to Greenland.

Interior Department scientists in a series of reports last September that were heavily relied on by Kempthorne in his listing decision, concludes that continuing melting of sea ice will lead to a two-thirds decline in polar bears by mid-century, meaning the disappearance of at least 15,000 bears.

Tags: Alaska, bears, danger, Endangered, environment, ESA, extinct, global warming, Green, Law, polar bear, water, wildlife

Bloggers Unite. Streetwise #2

PM — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:43:14 +0000

In Chicago there is a visible, successful, inspiring organization, Streetwise.

Who We Are and What We Do
StreetWise is a social enterprise designed to help severely impoverished men and women out of poverty. We publish weekly a general interest newspaper with a gritty “from the streets perspective” to give insite to its readers on what is really going on in Chicago. By using vendors as the distribution mechanism, we are able to personalize the face of poverty and create income for the vendor.

In April, 2008, there was an article about a vendor who was no longer selling Streetwise. He was a vendor for two years and during that time was able to pull it together, save some money to go to school. He is currently paying his rent, buying his food, and going to school. Bravo!

PM supports this organization, the vendors, whenever the opportunity presents itself. If you are in Chicago, please do the same when you see a Streetwise vendor. Also visit the Streetwise site. If your city does not have a similar program think about introducing the business model to your city.

Tags: Chicago, culture, Food, school

Caw to art! #17.

PM — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:38:55 +0000

Caw to art! is an effort to showcase animals and pets in an ARTFUL manner. A photograph, fine art, a scribble, sculpture. A poem, a monologue, a short story, motion.

Submissions: Beginning Wednesday 5/14/08 thru Friday and maybe
a bit longer…

diane clancy submits allysa in flowers
helen read submits plant play
paintalicious submits the fortunate flock
paintalicious submits booze bosses

allysa

plant play

the fortunate flock

booze bosses

Still steeping…

…in the meantime. Questions? Comments? Editor’s note: please look at Comment 1 below for more C2a! details as well as look at the previous editions of Caw to art!…

and while you are curating your submissions don’t forget Friday Ark roster for this weekend. And Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday.

Tags: afghan, animal art, Artists, beach, butterflies, carnivals, cartoons, cats, cows, culture, deer, design, dogs, elephant, elephants, fine art, Fish, flowers, friday ark, Green, jewerly, lion, monologues, mouse, painting, pet art, photography, rabbits, sculpture, seals, sheep, short story, spiders, UK, video, vulture, wildlife art, wolf, zebras

Caw to art! #17. Reminder.

PM — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:55:57 +0000

Caw to art! #17. Reminder.

Caw to art! is an effort to showcase animals and pets in an ARTFUL manner. A photograph, fine art, a scribble, sculpture. A poem, a monologue, a short story, motion.

Submissions: Beginning Wednesday 5/14/08 thru Friday—and maybe
a bit longer…

Tags: animal art, Artworks, authors, carnivals, fine art, painting, pet art, pet stories, photography, poems, sculpture, writers

Pets on lap while driving may soon be a no-no in Calif.

hesso — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:40:49 +0000

Pets on lap while driving may soon be a no-no in Calif.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)—Pull over and put down the dog. A California lawmaker wants to ban motorists from holding pets on their laps while driving and getting caught can net a $35 fine. The bill passed the Assembly on a 44-11 vote on Monday, and heads to the Senate.

Assemblyman Bill Maze says his legislation has nothing to do with pet-loving celebrities who are photographed driving around Los Angeles with their small dogs.

Maze says he introduced the bill after seeing a woman driving with three dogs on her lap.

He says pets are a distraction that put motorists and their passengers at risk.
via app.com

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Australian pokes shark in eye to survive mauling.

hesso — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:30:15 +0000

Australian pokes shark in eye to survive mauling.

SYDNEY, Australia (AP)—An Australian swimmer says he survived a mauling by a 16-foot shark by wrestling with the beast, finally getting free by poking it in the eye.

The shark, believed to be a great white, seized Jason Cull by the left leg as he was swimming at Middleton Beach in southwestern Australia on Saturday.

The shark was one of three that swimmers reported seeing at the beach Saturday. Officials closed the beach after the attack.

From his hospital bed where he was treated for deep lacerations, Cull, 37, told reporters Sunday he saw a shadow moving in the water just before the attack and mistook it for a dolphin.

“It was much bigger than a dolphin when it came up,” Cull said. “It banged straight into me - I realized what it was, it was a shark.

“I sort of punched it, and it grabbed me by the leg and dragged me under the water,” he said. “I just remember being dragged backwards underwater. I felt along it, I found its eye and I poked it in the eye, and that’s when it let go.”

Tom Marron, a spokesman for the lifeguards at the beach, said volunteer lifesaver Joanne Lucas lept into the water to help Cull after swimmers at the beach started panicking when they saw Cull struggling.

“She heard the cries and splashing and knew they needed assistance and just went straight in,” Marron said.

“She got hold of the injured swimmer and brought him back to shore,” he said. “There was a fairly comprehensive mauling of his left leg, lost a lot of his calf, severe lacerations.”

Last month, a shark killed a 16-year-old surfer off Australia’s eastern coast.

via app.com

Tags: attack, Australia, bites, ocean, Rescue, shark, swimming, water

$2,500 HSUS reward. Dog killings.

PM — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:56:23 +0000

$2,500 HSUS reward. Dog killings.

The HSUS Offers Reward In Lincoln County, Mont. Dog Killings. The Humane Society of the United States is offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for killing at least nine dogs in the Libby, Troy and Eureka areas of Montana over the past five weeks.

The Case:

News reports and Libby County Animal Control give the following account: Six dogs have been found dead in the Libby area and one has been found dead in the Troy area in the past five weeks. All but one were found with gunshot wounds. Three of the animals were chained.

In the Eureka area, a young Labrador retriever who had been tethered was found dead in the river. A bloody paw print on the rail of the bridge indicated the dog was still alive and struggling as she was dropped 20 feet off the bridge into the Tobacco River. A report has also just been given to Lincoln County Animal Control that another dog has been found in the woods near Eureka with a gunshot wound to the chest.

Animal Cruelty:

The connection between animal cruelty and human violence is well documented. Studies show a correlation between animal cruelty and all manner of other crimes, from narcotics and firearms violations to battery and sexual assault.

In Montana, aggravated animal cruelty is punishable by up to two years in prison and/or up to a $2,500 fine.

“Those who abuse animals can be dangerous to people, too,” said Sylvia Lee, of The HSUS’ Northern Rockies regional office. “Montana residents should have no tolerance for cruelty to animals.”

The Investigators:

Anyone with information on any of the dog killings are asked to call either: Sarah Caswell, Libby County Animal Control Officer, at 406-293-4040, or Jim Sweet, with the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, at 406-293-4112.

Resources:

The HSUS Animal Cruelty Campaign raises public awareness and educates communities about the connection between animal cruelty and human violence while providing a variety of resources to law enforcement agencies, social work professionals, educators, legislators and families. The HSUS offers rewards in animal cruelty cases across the country and works to strengthen laws against animal cruelty. Visit: humanesociety.org/cruelty.

The Humane Society of the United States is the nation’s largest animal protection organization — backed by 10.5 million Americans, or one of every 30. For more than a half-century, The HSUS has been fighting for the protection of all animals through advocacy, education and hands-on programs. Celebrating animals and confronting cruelty — On the web at humanesociety.org.

Tags: abuse, anger, crime, cruelty, Death, dogs, Humane Society, Law, outdoors, penalties, police, reward, water

Picasso. Dumbo.

PM — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:14:31 +0000

Here’s a whole new meaning to animal art.

Can an elephant hold his/her own with Picasso? Maybe. There is enough evidence that experts are pondering similar questions.

There are art schools in Thailand that train the elephants to paint and sell the art to raise awareness about the Asian elephant. An elephant can be trained to paint an object, say a flower in a pot, a tree, a self-portrait. Some like abstract art as the example above shows. Want to see more elephant artists? One video puts an elephant painting next to a William de Kooning. There are unsettling similarities. Enough to freak out William (1904 - 1997) if he was with us.

Animals as Friends alerted PM to this phenom and has a really good video. Take a peek.

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Name: Sri-Siam

Sex: Male

Born: 2000

Origin: Sri-Siam was born in Phrae Province and came to The Thai Elephant Conservation Center with his Mother, Boonmee, in 2001.

Nature: Sri-Siam is a very good elephant who is very easy to train. In addition to painting he plays music too, as well as performing for tourists in the daily elephant show at the Center.

Special Story: Sri-Siam and his mother were purchased and then donated to the Center by a generous and good natured English couple. Sri-Siam, like most other elephants, loves playing games and he has a talent for treading on and bursting balloons. In the â€˜Elephant Gamesâ€™ held at the Center, Sri-Siam was the winner of this event. He likes to tease his mahout and turns and waves his tail at his face every morning.

Artistic Talents: Sri-Siam paints lovely pictures that have an almost human touch and he has great spatial awareness, usually starting each stroke by dabbing the brush near the top of each paper/canvas and then dropping the stroke toward the bottom in a flourish. His paintings are among our most expensive because they invoke clear images and are quite outstanding in terms of elephant art. We eagerly await the further development of his style.

Mahout: Sri-Siamâ€™s mahout is 25 year old Somchai Jantapaeng, born in September 1980. Somchai has been a mahout at the Center since he was 17 years old. He is married to Banyen and they have a daughter.

More information at The Elephant Art Gallery

Tags: animal art, Artists, elephants, friend, Gallery, mother, nature, painting, Picasso, school, Thailand, video, YouTube

You stunning swine.

PM — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:36:31 +0000

swine n. , pl. swine . Any of various omnivorous, even-toed ungulates of the family Suidae, including pigs, hogs, and boars, having a stout body.

nellie, a hampshire from indiana is a clone

clone “offspring” pork chop from indiana

acorn-fed iberico pig in eastern spain

a proper carving jamonero with hoof properly up

chow time

Top two photos from Wired magazine [wired 15.11] discussing cloning. “The other other white meat”â€”it looks the same, it cooks the same, it tastes the same. but this pig, a Hampshire from Indiana name Nelly, is a clone. And cloned bacon? It may already be at your supermarket. The second photo deck copy reads “My fist-size chop is glazed in a sugary, thick-as-molasses marinade. It tastes better than anything I’ve had at a restaurantâ€”moist, succulent, and wonderfully tender.”

There’s a big difference between a clone and the offspring of a clone, the offspring presumably being much safer for human consumption: many experts agree. Clones appear to have many abnormalities due to an accelerated gestation among other things. Whereas, a clone offspring resets chromosomes and erases the birth defects naturally.

Today, while the FDA has been reluctant to give a green light due to public opinion a cloning company executive says, ” The likelihood that anyone could credibly say ‘Our animals are not descended from clones’ is zero.”

The second two photos are from a magazine produced by the Spanish Institute of Foreign Trade. A little blurb about the area where these pigs are born and bred sounds, heavenly.

The dehesa, home to the Iberico pig, the last remaining free grazing pig in Europe, is a unique and valuable Mediterranean ecosystem. Years of adaption of man and beast alike have made its more than two million hectares of open cork, holm and gall oak forests and ecologically and economically sustainable system.

The production of cereal, combined with beekeeping, charcoal production and the complex free-grazing method for Iberico pigs and other native breeds of livestockâ€”such as Retinta cows and Merino sheepâ€“are the economic mainstays of the region. the lo-impact human activity allows the massive spread of land to remain virtually untouched for the benefit of wild species such as deer, wild boar, red-legged partridges or wood pidgeons and endangered species such as, to name a few, the Iberian Lynx, the Iberian Imperial eagle, the black vulture, and the Iberian stork.

The dehesa is also a valuable haven to many of plants and mushrooms, not to mention its role in sustaining flocks of birds from Central and Northern Europe on their yearly migration to South West Spain in the winter.

These were great articles and I wish I could offer links. Hope your interest was peeked to dig deeper.

authors Ben Paynter for Wired and Benjamin Jones for Spain Gourmetour See this post among others at Friday Ark #186

Tags: authors, Birds, clone, culture, deer, eagle, Endangered, environment Spain, family, FDA, Google, Green, home, Indiana, pigs, sheep, sustainable, swine, vulture, winter

Show-me.

PM — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:28:43 +0000

To put a face to the name of the person you are blogging with, here is my screenshot of a post I am developing about, yep you guessed it, piggies.

These piggie images are 800px wide, about the average “source” image size. They will be displayed at 400px. If this blog was a two-column layout, the images might have been displayed at 600px. To put the screenshot in perspective I am using a 24 inch Cinema Display and all those icons along the right side are SOME of the applications I use. One dreads upgrades.

I have several analytical helpers to tell me who visits PM. Info includes, pages visited, referrers, search key words, country, computer software, size of screen, incoming links, outgoing links, with many many options I don’t use yet. You get the idea.

It comes as a surprise, from my traffic at least, the Internet Explorer browser is used less than 10% with Firefox in the 80% range. If you are developing ( coding ) sites, that is good news if you know what I mean. 1/2 of my visitors are unique. 60% from the USA, I am in Chicago. 15% from direct links, 45% from other sites, 40% from searches. Stumbleupon visitors are my biggest repeat referrers.

Oh, and if you have anything on piggies, please let PM know.

Well, that’s enough about me. Put a face to your name and let’s hear a little more about you. To do that here are easy to follow instructions to contact the same folks plus new friends.

Start copy here ~ To show us your face, have your monitor showing the desktop, hit the PRINT SCREEN key, then paste onto a program (like Paint in Windows or Photoshop) Copy this list of bloggers, and then add your own!

Here are Speedcat’s bloggers (he sent me this post) plus PM’s:
Ann’s A Nice Place in the Sun Auntie Dar Beggars Shot Glass Blogger Buster (”MUST SEE” BLOG HELP)Bokjae Catnip Corner Catsy Carpe Diem Creative Treasures Daily Widget Deep in the Forest DIVA!!Drowsey Monkey Easy Writer Endangered Truth Ev Nucci Fertile Fibro Viv Foster Me Up Fresh Jokes!Frog Bog Getting a Grip on Grace Gorgeous Traveller Intrepid Ideas Jay’s World Johann the Dog Julies Blog Just Love the People Laketrees Life is a Roller Coaster Meleah Mighty Morgan Mimi Lennox the Meme Queen Miss Moneypenny CPU DD M (best rating)Monday Morning Power Moon Rising My Blog Rules Netster No Direct On Olga the Traveling Bra Out of the Blue Outta the Coop Pet Monologues RennyBA Terella Revellian Roberts Road Rolando’s HushSpace Rooms of My Heart - Trinity Rusin Roundup Rusin Roundup Self Obliged Sherry Gates Silly Go Lucky Solo Flight Stacy’s My Thoughts Stupid Tom Sugar Queens Dream Terri Terri The Spirit Knows Best Things by Mike Travel Golf Trinity Waliz Diary Who’s the Fairest World Golf Blogs Worn out Woman Ann (New Post)Beth BlueRibbonBloggers Blog Chesca (New Post)Colin Dixie EmmyRose Eric (New Post)Georganna Graciel Jackie Janice (New Post)Jeane Michelle Jo (New Post)Jos Karl (New Post)Kathleen (New Post)Kim Lady Rose Linda (New Post)Linda R. Moore Lori Luisa Lyn (New Post)Mags (New Post)Maunie Mo Paula Robin Sanni Santa Surjit Susan, 10,000 birds, a blog around the clock”, amori, poesie, arte, chat by hanna, andy beard, animals as friends, ascender rises above, a side of cartoons, at your service, balloon juice, bark bark woof woof, blog d’ellison, catsynth, chicago history, comments from left field, designapplause, diane clancy, diva marketing, dragonheart’s domain, echidne of the snakes, euro puppy blog, fishalicious, himalman, into the inkpot, instaputz, joy ito’s web, kiwipulse, lady banana, lady omega, laketrees, life from a cat’s perspective, mercury rising, michelle allen, michelle wrighton, mind of mog, movie cat, my only photo, monologue blogger, musings at windyridge, nature shows and dreams, nocturnal blogger’s introspect, only in the apple, perfectly parker, petopia, poems4children, ravens roads, realworld connections-animals, rennyra’s terella, rosehaven cottage, saving lives one at a time, sisu, tacjammer, texas oasis, the dog log, the dreaming tree, the green blog, the greenbelt, the green fingered photographer, the laidback buddhist, the modulator, the poor mouth, the reality of what humans do, theriomorhp, the scratching post, the social custom manifesto, the velvet violin, the webrunner, watermark

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