May 19
This is Hiasl (pronounced HEE-zul), a 26-year old chimp in living in Vienna who was captured as a baby in Sierra Leone in 1982, smuggled in a crate to Austria, and used in experiments at a pharmaceutical research lab for…
May 18
As promised, here’s a photo of the delectable vegan meal Charles and Violet get at 4am and 4pm daily. That bowl is Charles’; Violet’s has a cup less. The veggie mash is on top, the grain and veggie mix is…
May 17
Apparently the people in Massachusetts don’t have access to the Internets and haven’t heard about what has occurred in the UK as a result of their Dangerous Dogs Act of 1991, or even right here in municipalities of Denver, where…
Remember how I wrote about the UK’s questioning of its Dangerous Dogs Act a couple of days ago? Well, there’s not so much questioning going on in yesterday’s update. To recap: a 5-year old was mauled by a pit bill-like…
May 15
I hesitated to brag until now, but it’s official: Violet Rays, the half-blind, diabetic greyhound with glaucoma and a detached retina, who raced for several years and was a champion (probably due to all the steroids and the cocaine, but…
May 14
Here’s a tip for people in the US who want legislation outlawing (or otherwise discriminating against) certain breeds of dogs, such as the pit bull. It doesn’t work. The UK’s 1991 Dangerous Dog Act banned four breeds, including the American…
May 13
People often ask me “How did you get this way?” I always answer: I was raised by a mother who convinced me I was a genius and that I could do (and succeed at) anything I wanted. She told me…
May 12
The following photos were received from an anonymous source (and sent to Terry Cumming, who forwarded them to me of the Sleddog Watchdog Coalition) and requested that they be posted on the Sleddog Watchdog web site. The first two photos…
I’m ambivalent about The Loved Dog: The Playful, Nonagressive Way to Teach Your Dog Good Behavior, by Tamar Geller. I am not a dog trainer or expert on dog psychology, therefore I cannot say whether she (or her apparent nemesis,…
In Nicholas Kristof’s “Save the Darfur Puppy,” he writes of recent studies that might explain why good people aren’t moved by genocide. “Time and again, we’ve seen that the human conscience just isn’t pricked by mass suffering, while an individual…
May 9
In God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, by the brilliant Christopher Hitchens, whose recent politics I find repulsive yet oddly logical, there is very little mention of animals. Hitchens conducts the requisite examination of the ridiculousness of the…
May 8
A press release by the US Sportsmen’s Alliance dated yesterday regarding the Endangered Species Act (there’s an Oversight Hearing tomorrow) captures the purpose of “scientific wildlife management” in a way only a press release writer could. For those who think…
May 7
I always found it odd that once fall rolled around each year, so did the anti-fur campaigns. You know, naked people all around the world claiming they’d rather strip down than wear fur. Or something like that. But what about…
May 6
I had a dream about blogging last night. Evidently my daily posting is affecting my subconscious. The dream was a nightmare of sorts, where my sister, Judy, was anchoring the news, exposing the liar that is Animal Person (she really…
May 5
I received an e-mail from PETA regarding a Newsweek article, Changing Tastes, written by Wolfgang Puck, about his conversion to happy meat. Evidently, I should be congratulating him for his dedication to humane-er farming practices, within the paradigm of raising…
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