Wounded owl (Friday 04th of July 2008 11:38:00 AM)
Something I never realized until earlier this week. When you find a wounded owl in your Dutch
backyard, you can't take it to the vet straight away. It's a protected animal. You have to take
it to the police first, so they can check whether ...
(more)Police dogs (Friday 25th of April 2008 12:12:02 PM)
The Dutch police have to cope without their dogs for the next few months, maybe years.
Apparently the use of police dogs in solving murders is an unreliable method. This isn't the
fault of the dogs themselves however. It's the cops themselves who are ...
(more)Gwen met Randy at a nightclub. ... (Friday 18th of April 2008 07:10:02 PM)
Gwen met Randy at a nightclub. They hit it off, so she invited him back to her place. When they
arrived at her house, they went right for the bedroom.Randy noticed hundreds of stuffed animals
scattered in everything the room. Giant stuffed animals sat ...
(more)US FDA Deems Cloned Animals Edible (Wednesday 16th of January 2008 04:15:08 PM)
Coldeagle sends us the news that the US Food and Drug legislation has declared that meat from
cloned animals is safe to eat. The agency decided that no labeling is necessary for meat or
milk from cloned cows, pigs, or goats or their offspring. ...
(more)Austrian researchers train dogs to use computers (Saturday 01st of December 2007 05:40:00 PM)
Filed under: Misc. GadgetsYeah, teaching a canine how to operate a mini* may sound pretty
complex, but forasmuch as that one such animal was absolutely trained to sniff out and snag
cellphones for its dubious owner, we guess it's not too difficult to ...
(more)Evolution at work? (Friday 23rd of November 2007 12:38:00 PM)
Scientific research has shown changes in fish that swim in European waters, and perhaps
worldwide. As we all now, man catches irresponsible quantities of fish, but nature has found
new ways of dealing with that. The industry aren't allowed to catch fish ...
(more)Eight legs and 1000 feelings (Thursday 18th of October 2007 04:12:00 AM)
Constantly when it comes to certain issues I am accused of overreacting. I think that in my own
little world, it's more like certain people are underreacting. I'm a Pagan, I love nature, I
whorship nature and above all else I respect it. Afterall it ...
(more)Hunting (Wednesday 17th of October 2007 01:18:00 PM)
Right now the hunt is a topical issue in the Netherlands, and especially the hunting method of
'driving' (the herding of animals in a particular direction, toward another hunter in the
group). There are way too many wild boars in the east, and nature ...
(more)The Injustice of it all (Tuesday 02nd of October 2007 09:06:00 AM)
I'll admit that I have a tendency to sometimes seem a bit obnoxious when it comes to my
opinions..but please remember when reading my little rants that they are just that. They aren't
meant to insult or offend anyone. So lets get started with tonights ...
(more)The chair recognizes Pooch (Saturday 29th of September 2007 08:17:00 AM)
Next Tuesday evening there will be a rare city meeting in the city of Eindhoven in the
Netherlands. A dog will be given the opportunity to express its concerns about the city's
dog-related policies. Its master, Theo Beenen, who is a city council member, ...
(more)It's a lickie little squirrel lollipop (Wednesday 12th of September 2007 11:27:00 PM)
Every now and then these tasty little deserts fall from the trees
Running with the cows (Tuesday 10th of July 2007 01:20:00 PM)
Good news for all you feminists out there: your Spanish counterparts are fighting for the right
to run with cows in Pamplona. I'm sure you know about this annual event where people are chased
thru the streets of Pamplona by bulls, who later that day ...
(more)Pets for sale (Wednesday 27th of June 2007 12:54:00 PM)
I'm wondering, do you know this problem in America? The summer vacation has kicked off this
past weekend, and all over Western Europe people get several weeks of paid vacation (3 in the
Netherlands), and they are using it to take the family for a ...
(more)Three days of the vulture (Wednesday 20th of June 2007 12:36:00 PM)
Another animal-related entry. We, Belgium and the Netherlands have a situation on our hands,
that has scientist baffled. Two days ago, there suddenly were 80+ sightings of vultures, where
all the sightings to date accumulated only numbered 50 in total. ...
(more)Radioactive fish? (Wednesday 13th of June 2007 11:53:00 AM)
A weird thing happened to me on Sunday.Then again, it may be normal, but that's what I'm trying
to find out, eh? I bought some herring at the store down my street, and at night I wanted to
eat it. Perfectly normal behavior for any ...
(more)They eat horses don't they? (Wednesday 23rd of May 2007 11:37:00 AM)
England in a state of shock. The famous TV chef Gordon Ramsay, of Hell's Kitchen fame,
organized a barbecue at a horse racing course to promote the consumption of horse meat. This is
simply not done for half of the English population, so proud are ...
(more)News from the Animal Kingdom (Monday 23rd of April 2007 12:15:00 PM)
This message struck me as funny. Apparently a cat in France walked 500 miles to its new (not
his old) home in a matter of months. Mimine disappeared a day before its family moved east 500
miles, so they decided to go ahead and move ...
(more)Baboons going ape (Monday 02nd of April 2007 01:29:00 PM)
A weird thing is going on in the Noorderdierenpark Zoo in Emmen in the Northeastern
Netherlands. The baboons are completely freaked out. It started a week ago or so. Anything that
happens, sounds they hear, their image reflected in the water surface, ...
(more)Polar bears (Wednesday 28th of March 2007 01:57:00 PM)
In light of SilverWind's entry about polar bears, I have some polar bear news of my own, which
appals me. There is this polar bear cub in the zoo of Berlin Germany, by the name of Knut. Knut
recently made it's first appearence before the ...
(more)Only seals and horses (Friday 05th of January 2007 02:01:00 PM)
A new installment in the category 'going ape'! I've decided to stick with it, as there is
always something going on in the animal kingdom. I'll use this to bail myself out, whenever I'm
in one of those inspirationless spells when I'm just staring at ...
(more)Squirrels (Monday 31st of July 2006 11:55:00 AM)
This is an entry inspired by something that happened last Friday: my cat, a tabby tomcat named
Molly (don't look at me, the name wasn't my idea), caught himself a bat. That was pretty
interesting. I knew there were bats in Enkhuizen, but actually seeing ...
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