Animals
WARNING: If you are squeamish about eating dead things, other than hamburger, Please DO NOT Read This. If you are a member, or supporter, of PETA, Please DO NOT Read This.
A fellow traveler on The Journey Through Life passed through The Paragraph Factory one morning last week and mentioned...
The Other Half has returned from a journey to the Bluegrass State, and that was very, very good news. Especially for our kitties.
Don't get me wrong. Yours truly was glad, as in very glad, to see her return home. Taking care of home, sweet, home all by one's self is, well, hard work. Then again, I...
This week, you get two thousand words, more or less. Clean and simple. Well, only if you happen to believe that a picture is worth a thousand words.
As you may have heard, we've been having another one of our once every 500 years or so floods. I think this year's flood event would the second once...
The Union County Animal Control, located between Anna and Cobden, deals with animals in several ways, such as abuse cases, relocation and adoption.
UCAC officer Dirk Wright said that animal abuse is not a major problem in Union County, but it does occur, most being repeat offenders.
He said if...
Though it’s recently taken a very large blow in the loss of longtime facility manager Penny South, PAWS Place Adoption Center in Anna hasn’t give up on its mission to provide a safe place for animals and a chance to find a loving, permanent home.
PAWS, which stands for Pets Are Worth Saving, is a...
Up until a couple of weeks ago, I had never heard of fen communities. I had never heard of the Hine's emerald dragonfly.
Now, I know at least a little bit, with the emphasis on "little," about fen communities and the Hine's emerald dragonfly.
On Tuesday evening, February 21, your intrepid...
This week, please humor me as I ponder the start of baseball spring training, what appears to the imminent, and potentially premature, arrival of spring and the adventures of Bob the cat.
Bob the Cat has been with us since last summer. He, and his buddy, Cory, were welcomed into our home as rescue...
Cute: Squirrel.
Not So Cute: Opossum. AKA Just Plain Ol' Possum.
This week's little adventure began when your writer went for a daily walk one evening last week.
As I stepped off our front porch, I could hear a dog barking, somewhere out in the dark. For the sake of filling space, we'll call it a...
The Cache River Wetlands Center in Cypress plans to host a movie night on Thursday, Feb. 9, starting at 6 p.m.
The film to be shown is "Wings of Life," which is about peculiar pollinators and the plant and animal relationships that the world depends on for survival.
The showing is free to the...
Surveys of calling frogs and toads will be the focus of an upcoming meeting which is planned in the area.
Volunteers are needed to assist with the surveys. Those who may be interested in volunteering are invited to attend an orientation session which is set for 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4, at the...
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