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Category: Animals

Sunday Night Saccharin

I leave for Hamburg a week from today. To prepare, I’ve been watching this video on repeat, courtesy of my sister:

The cute is overwhelming.

A puppy package

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I’ve been a little absent of the tubes today because I just found out that we’ve been approved for a new puppy(breeders and rescues are particular) and I need to figure out how to get her here. Okay, a blue dane weighing in at 150 lbs is not much of a puppy, but she’s sweet as can be. Our dog Kiwi grew up in a home with 2 other dogs and has grown quite bored with us humans, so our search for her friend is finally over!

Greed: As American as Vat-Fried Apple Pie and Hamburger Brain

It’s clear to see that this sense of eating everything that strikes our whim, shitting where we sleep, tearing through each hull without even cleaning off the old ones, tossing our bones in our drinking supply, chewing with our eyes closed—this sleephuntgathering, this distorted tapeworm-thirst baked brain dyslogic that informs so much of our so-called “progress,” this EXTRA 40% FOR HALFPRICE 25 HOURS A DAY SHIPPED FREE TO YOU!, this doing it in half the time, this devouring as much as possible and at the same time trying to expend as little care/energy/concern/cost as possible, this attempt to cheat a balance for a bigger horded stash….it is what is eating away at our human existence and our peace of mind.

Mid-Week Fluff

I already posted this at my other blog, but it’s this week’s Video That Makes Lauren Happy.

Why? Because kitties do what kitties do, and Scooby just wants to bite his babies.

Are you there, God? MSNBC has some questions.

This is quite the article. Our hapless male friend Brian is totally confused about those crazy lady-bits, and has decided to speak with some evolutionary biologists to figure out what the heck is going on down there.

Men just don’t seem to have the same number of unanswered questions about our biology. Male primates — male mammals in general — all have penises and testicles and sperm. We use them whenever we can. Unless we are sick or injured, we can make babies. And if anybody wants to know if we’re interested, all they have to do is look to see if we’re at attention.

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The mysterious inner workings of a female duck

Belle Waring has the tale of a fascinating new discovery about the reasons that certain male ducks have such extravagant penises.

Let’s just say that it involves certain blind spots of male researchers.

Incidentally, is anyone else uncomfortable with the term “forced mating?” Sounds like ducks get raped on a fairly regular basis, even though theoretically the females choose their mates.

One Horse

This editorial made me tear up. Horse racing can be an incredibly cruel sport, and the horses are often used until they’re injured and then killed. There are some programs which offer these animals a second chance, but the horses who get rescued are often the lucky exceptions. I haven’t been following the Barbaro story, but I hope that at the very least, it’s woken some more Americans up to the many ways in which we abuse and mistreat animals for our own entertainment.