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Archive for the ‘Pets and Animals’ Category

My boys turned 11 yesterday (Feb 15, 2010). I can’t believe that I’ve had them for so long…
Rowan and Lasher are brothers, and I rescued them from the SPCA way back in 1999. Growing up I was always allergic to cats and couldn’t be around them without sneezing/coughing/etc. But I began noticing that I wasn’t [...]

26 Jan, 2010

Sphinx are NOT ugly

Posted by: heath In: Pets and Animals

Bitter. That’s what I am right now after reading an article titled “Ugliest animals in the world” and seeing this picture:
Let’s make something very clear. Sphinx are NOT ugly. Sphinx are amazingly beautiful creatures, worthy of being heralded by the Pharaoh’s. To even see these magnificent entities lumped in the same category as the naked [...]

I really can’t tolerate intolerance.
A group of nasty, evil, hateful, hurtful children stoned this poor defenseless creature to death in Panama…for no other reason than because it was different.

A slimy, glob-like creature dubbed Gollum has terrified children after it slithered out of a lake and clambered over the rocks towards them.
The young teenagers were playing [...]

Three years ago, a pig got stuck in a well. Before you worry too much, he was indeed rescued and survives to this day as a healthy and happy pork roast – but in the moment it was tragic, scary, and the incident galvanized the entire world to the plight of the pig. This is [...]