Most Recent Stories & Articles for Animals & Pets
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WARNING: CUTENESS AHEAD!!!
- Posted On: 5/8/2006
*WARNING: The following content contains cute images that may cause tearing of the eyes, full-face smiles, and an overall sense of well-being and happines.
Pictures will be added regularly as the rabbits develop, so check back!
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Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show
- Posted On: 3/3/2006
I took my wife to the Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show as a surprise this last weekend. I knew that Wendy had worked with and even shown Arabians in her past, but never really knew much about it. It was great to see these majestic animals showing their best.
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Puppy Poopies and Piddles
- Posted On: 8/11/2005
Why do they keep pooping and piddling?!
We trained our dogs to do their business outside. We even trained them to tell us when they need to go outside, since they cannot open people doors. They're both adults now. So, what's the problem?! It's almost a guarantee that once every 2-3 days, I'll find a moist little suprise lying around the house or a large puddle of yellow. Anyone else have this problem? Any training ideas? -
Current is dead
- Posted On: 7/22/2005
Current, 1 of my bettas has died.
Watch him forever flourish with his majestic fins that flutter and fly 
... into the night 
... into the wake of life that only exists in our dreams 
. Your radiant colors will always remain as a vivid reminder in our minds eye of what beauty is and what it was. Thank you Current!So... he died 'cause, while we were on vacation
I turned the AC down and the house heated up causing algae to start growing in both betta's fish tanks. 
The algae continued to grow and, by the time I returned, he was too sick to make it. 
I bought algae killer and thoroughly cleaned both tanks. Casper is doing very well. I even bought him some live plants and a pump to keep the water circulating (even though bettas don't need them).I think I'll get another betta once my heart has stopped aching so sorely from missing him.
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Beta Fish vs. Betta Fish
- Posted On: 1/13/2005
People often misspell the word "Betta Fish" with only one "t". I get about 200 visitors a day from search engine referrals of people looking for the term "Beta Fish".
The Betta Splendens, or Chinese Fighting fish, are both beautiful and fascinating. Because they seem to be so popular, I have created a couple of videos of my two bettas, Casper and Current. If you want more information about your betta fish, including how to care for your fish, how to breed them, how to decipher betta behaviours, etc.
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In the Horse's rear-end
- Posted On: 1/3/2005
Today will mark the 7th day of administering penicillin via a rather large syringe to my horse's @$$. Left butt cheek one day, right the next and so on until the bottle is gone. Her horse, Finway, developed "Strangles", a highly contagious infection for horses.
Not having been around horses or any large animals in my life, hearing the news that Finway needed daily shots didn't affect me at all. Until I found out I'd be doing it!
So, giving a huge animal a shot in the rear-end can't be that bad, right? I was very confident until I had the needle in one hand and a butt cheek in the other. Phew! Confidence grew with each night until last night when I had to do it alone. Horses are particularly sensitive to a human's emotions. So, of course, my exuding confidence last night was no problem, right?! Hah! My hands were shaking so bad after everything was done.
I made it though... What an experience!
Photo courtesy of the EquineCenter in Australia.
