Can't We All Just Get Along?!!?

Thanks to my friend Kelly who sent me the link to this video so I could post it on my blog. The video is of a homeless guy in Santa Barbara with his pets. They are seen on the street every week working the crowd for donations. The animals are clearly well fed and taken care of and they are all a pretty mellow bunch. The owner rigged a harness for the cat to sit on so that the cat wouldn't have to walk as much as the dog and the human and at some point the rat just began to tag along. It all worked out since no one wanted to eat anyone else for whatever reason. I think the Mayor of Santa Barbara filmed the clip for his Christmas card one year.



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Support Your Local Farmer and Not The Worst Way of Farming

Hello All. I came across this article in the NY Times about "The Worst Way of Farming". Apparently there was a study done about farming and it was found that confined animal feeding operations are treating too many animals inhumanely and creating environmental threats, unacceptable health risks for workers, and the rest of us too. I have to say that I have recently seen some video footage of workers in a chicken factory that supplies KFC with it's chicken and I was appalled at the way they were dealing with the chickens. In the video there was a line of people at a counter where they were pulling chickens from some place on the counter and then at the hardest velocity they could muster with their strongest arm they would throw each chicken into a wall that was about 4 feet away from them. Some chickens were killed instantly thank God and others were flopping around broken and damaged. Later after the pile of dead and dying chickens got big enough people from the line would run through the pile and jump with all their weight on the pile of chickens. Even if the chickens were all dead I would think that this would be bad for the meat as far as it goes when I'm trying to eat it later. Anyway, I am not one of those dumb ass PETA people who thinks that meat makes you impotent despite the fact that we have managed to overproduce worldwide after eating billions of pounds of it on a daily basis. I am a farm kid from Oklahoma. I used to have to go get my own eggs for breakfast from right under the chicken's ass. I used to have to catch the chicken we would later eat and I learned to kill it humanely and quickly not like a cruel cold hearted asshole. I was taught that the animals on this planet were given to us by God and we hadn't ought to abuse them just because we can. As I grew up I came to know that the average person who kills animals just for the fun of it on a consistent basis eventually escalates their terror to humans. This is why I advocate the small individual farmer instead of these mass production facilities. I am from a small town farming family and I think that small town farmers have gotten screwed over by the government and our society as we have lessened our need for the small town farmer and increased our need for the mass production facility.

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German Medical Student Saves Baby Tiger With Mouth To Snout Procedure At A Zoo

Wow!!! For those of us in the human world who are lovers of animals this is a touching story. Good samaritans like this woman bring us to tears and show us that there are people out there with hearts who are willing to re-start the hearts of all living creatures if they can. A great display of compassion. The baby tiger was choking on a piece of meat as the German medical student was walking past the enclosure with her toddler son. The keeper who was feeding the baby tiger was helpless and at a loss as to what to do when the tiger began to choke and then shake and fall over and die. The medical student offered her assistance as soon as she saw what was going on and removed the piece of meat assessed the tiger to find it was not breathing and then gave it mouth to mouth and heart massage for 3-5 minutes and the little devil came back to life. Wonderful!! The zoo gave the woman a special ceremony for saving the tiger and named the tiger JoHann after the woman's toddler son.

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A Rare Breed Of Dogs With Two Noses

Check it out folks!!! There is a rare breed of dogs in the Andean Mountains of Bolivia which has two noses. It is an Andean Tiger Hound. They are used for hunting among other things and to no surprise have very good sniffing abilities. Who would have guessed? I know my girlfriend is glad she has only one nose as she works in a natural health store where many people don't believe in the use of deodorant or any other cleaning products apparently. The poor Andean Tiger Hound would have a hell of a time with the traditional dog greeting in this country I'm sure. The dog is believed to have derived from a breed that came from Spain during the time of the Conquistadors. Any way, check out the story for yourself and listen to the English explorer in the sound clip. He's quite a funny old chap if I do say so myself.

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