Animals (12)

There really is no substitute for honeybees. Whether it's the gazillion tonnes of pesticides we pollute our food, land and water with every year, an Israeli virus, extreme lack of diversity through our insane enslavement to monoculture, or genetically modified plants, the honey bees are dying at an alarming rate. Read more...

I'm currently reading Animal Factories by Jim Mason and Peter Singer. Together they also wrote The Ethics of What We Eat and Peter Singer wrote Animal Liberation. Peter Singer is a philosopher who as written extensively on the subject of animal ethics, Jim Mason is an environmentalist, lecturer, journalist and attorney who specializes in human/animal concerns.
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Put down that Louisville Slugger. I’m talking about the one and only flying mammal, not an activity for the 7th inning stretch. In North America the most common bat is the aptly named Little Brown Bat. The Little Brown Bat is 3 – 4 ½ inches in length, and has a maximum wingspan of 8 inches. Read more...

Soots has taken over many of Arya's old dutie while she is out of commission, the thorough examination of my weekly plastic waste being one of them. As I write this, Arya is lying on the floor at my feet, wishing I'd take the elegant collar off her neck and let her pull out her sutures. Friday, little kitty, Friday they come out. Then, you can lick your wounds all you want. Read more...

Oh, da hoomiliashun!  Well, what can you do when little kitties just lick off the bitter lotion we put on their sutures to keep them from doing just that? Bitter! Yum Yum! Anyone need a plastic bottle of bitter lotion? My cat thinks it tastes like dessert. Read more...

ALTERNATIVES TO CLUMPING CLAY KITTY LITTERS by Marina Michaels What I Recommend

I am often asked what I recommend.

If you want a non-clay, clumping, scoopable litter, there are really only three choices that I know of: Read more...

Here's my weekly consumer letter. Okay, not actually weekly. I didn't write one last week. But I sent this one twice, both as an email (via http://www.gpcpet.com/Contact/default.aspx) and as an actual letter. Does that make up for last week? Read more...

It is good news that salmon fishing was closed.After 150 years of battering salmon habitat and overfishing, it's about time we gave that  incredible creature a break.  We have conducted a systematic and unrelenting assault on this spectacular and delicious fish.European-American cultural influences in California's north coast have caused the near total elimination of native fisheries. Read more...