125 German Shepherd dogs in Texas are due to be euthanized after the shelter where they were living is being shut down. East Coast German Shepherd Rescue is trying to save as many of the 125 GSD as they can. Can you open up your home to one of these dogs for a little while? ECGSR is looking for foster homes for these pooches. Each home is a life saved.

Please contact ECGSR or me if you can help.

http://www.nsgsrescue.com/

As you can see here (scroll down a couple) http://www.nsgsrescue.com/happyendings.html this rescue is where we got Keely.

Patrick Swayze was my first celebrity crush. I would watch Dirty Dancing almost daily when I was 4 years old. Rest in peace.

The doggies owners were found! Yay!

Mark was driving home last night a little after 10 and saw a dog sitting by the side of the road with no human in sight. He turned around and went back (after 4 or 5 cars passed) and discovered the little dog running around in the middle of the road towing a lead behind him. He got him in the Vibe and called me. I called Animal Control and reported him found but said I would keep him here. He's currently on our guest bed where he buried himself under the covers.

He looks like a beagle. He was very recently groomed. Has a collar but no tags. Loves getting in the bed and snuggling. He was found on the Prospect Road. If anyone knows of someone missing a dog matching that description please contact me.

I am going to take him to the vet sometime today and get him checked for a chip. Other than that and calling around to the local vets and shelters not much else I can do but keep him safe, warm, watered and fed. Someone will come forward. He is definitely a loved pet.

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On the C.L.: The Picture You Can't Stop Talking About: Meet "the Woman on p. 194"

http://www.glamour.com/health-fitness/blogs/vitamin-g/2009/08/on-the-cl-the-picture-you-cant.html

It's up!

We used to travel to Boston via United and started avoiding them because they were always delayed/cancelled on the way back to Halifax.

The video is hilarious and the song is catchy.

So many views already and it's only been up one day.

I'm so upset about this...

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090611/pitbull_ban_090611/20090611?hub=Canada

Not only is there zero evidence to back up the Ontario Appeal Court's conclusion, BSL actually wastes tax payer's money. For more information on dog bite research click here.

Breed Bans are Economically Wasteful. Not only are dogs needlessly being killed because of them, but they are also wasteful financially. A new study commissioned by Best Friends shows the high economic cost of breed bans, without the corresponding public safety benefit. The study demonstrates that breed discriminatory legislation tends to exhaust limited resources in already under-funded animal control programs by flooding the system with potentially “unadoptable” dogs due to the ban. It is not that the dogs themselves are dangerous. The vast majority (roughly nine out of ten) are healthy, friendly, or treatable. It is that the legislation declares them to be “unadoptable” and slated for execution. Costs to regulate or ban the animals can run into the millions and provide no help to prevent dog bites. At a time when communities are declaring bankruptcy, this is yet one more reason why breed ban should be abandoned. Click here for more information.

http://www.nathanwinograd.com/?page_id=166

Don't judge a book by its cover!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z0h1NNk1Ik

She's amazing!

From House MD

Chase: No, society tells you you have to be thin to be attractive. And guess what, that’s what attractive means: that society likes looking at you.

Cameron: I think we should be telling our kids it’s fine as long as they’re healthy.

Chase: All right. You weigh 90 pounds because it makes you healthier?

Woman fined $5 for drowning kittens SPCA upsetThe provincial SPCA says
a $5 fine handed to a Windsor woman for drowning two newborn kittens in
a bucket of water is "a travesty of justice."The woman, in her 50s,
pleaded guilty to cruelty to animals after drowning the pair of
two-day-old stray kittens in Windsor last year.Sean Kelly, chairman of
the investigation committee for the SPCA, said a staff member told him
that the prosecutor seemed nonchalant about the case in Windsor
provincial court because the woman had been unable to get help from the
SPCA in taking the kittens’ stray mother, and the prosecutor had also
been trying to get the organization to deal with a stray on his
property. [...]"I was more concerned with the conviction than a large
fine," Mr. Fergusson said, adding that the woman is on welfare and
wouldn’t have been able to pay anyway.[...]I have an idea. Instead of
publicly stating that a kitten's life is worth exactly two dollars and
fifty cents, how about sentencing this woman to community service. I
mean, she sits on her ass all day and lives off my tax dollars anyway,
how about making her DO SOMETHING, you know, like WORK. F*CK.He said
the woman was unable to look after the kittens and had said that they
were not doing well before she drowned them in a bucket of
water.[...]Oh... okay... well if that's what she said. I mean she went
to veterinary school right? She knows what a two-day-old kitten is
supposed to look like right?F*CK!

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/NEWS/Resources/risingfoodprices_backgroundnote_apr08.pdf

The rising trend in international food prices continued, and even accelerated, in 2008. U.S. wheat export prices rose from $375/ton in January to $440/ton in March, and Thai rice export prices increased from $365/ton to $562/ton. This came on top of a 181 percent increase in global wheat prices over the 36 months leading up to February 2008, and a 83 percent increase in overall global food prices over the same period.

83 percent?! Holy hell. No wonder people can't afford to live.

When I think about our grocery cost, it has increased. Not 83% increased, but a noticeable increase. When we first bought our house (2 years ago) groceries came to about 150$ on average (we go about every 2 weeks), now they're closer to 200$ on average. So basically our grocery bill has gone up 100$/month in two years, meaning we're spending an extra 1200 a year on necessities without any change to our lifestyle. (And no, this doesn't count dog food - we don't buy dog food at the grocery store).

No wonder we can't seem to get ahead. Any raises we get aren't even keeping up with inflation.

On Wednesday a dog was discovered, dead and frozen. The dog was hung
from a tree with an electrical code. Where? Brookside... about 10
minutes from my house, part of my community. The cord was cut, part of
it still around the dog's neck, which means whoever did this watched
the dog die and then cut him down. The dog is a large-breed (about the
size of a Labrador Retriever), tan-colored unneutered male with black
on his snout and is possibly a Mastiff mix. The extension cord is white
with a large yellow round three-prong plug and the plug has "#6"
written on it in black marker. Please see the press release from the NS
SPCA for photos of the dog and extension cord, and for more
information:http://www.spcans.ca/news/Press_Releases/20090226.htmIf you
have any information that could help the police and the SPCA in this
case please come forward. Even if you're not a dog-lover, someone sick
enough to hang this dog and watch it die, is definitely sick enough to
do this to a person, a child. Someone like this doesn't deserve to live
in our wonderful
community.http://thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/1108722.html

So I may cry...

My hairdresser, who I love unconditionally, and who has been my hairdresser for around 7 years, is moving to LA.

What may be the most upsetting thing? We would always talk about my wedding and how much fun we were going to have doing my hair... *sigh

I wish him the best of luck tho... he will knock them dead. He is pure awesome.

I feel so lost right now. I wanted to get my hair done before I go to Mexico (March 22nd). I don't know what to do now.

Please read this blog entry. It is very interesting and something every
animal lover should know.http://talentedanimals.com/blog/?p=93

"The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human
beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt;
but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have
no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look
forward to when enduring the last extreme pain. Their happiness
consists entirely in present enjoyment." - Thomas Chalmers

Concept that pets and livestock have rights, as humans do, gaining
groundhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29180079/"There are people who would
risk their lives to save their dog or cat. But they still eat meat."

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2009/02/11/cold-horses.html

This story bugged me, not the story itself, but the commenters, so i posted this:

"People are on here saying the horses have fur coats and survive fine in the winter in the wild… yeah you’re right, in the WILD, where they didn’t learn to be reliant on humans to take care of them, where they aren’t restricted by a fence that keeps them out of the shelter of the woods, and where there are running streams that don’t freeze over.

Hello?? There is a huge difference. The icy conditions they can’t get away from that is causing them to fall down – you know what they do to a horse that breaks its leg right? As far as water supply, unless they have heated water containers somewhere that the reporter and SPCA officials didn’t see they wouldn’t have water. Water will freeze pretty damn quickly in those temperatures.

As far as the horses bringing joy to lots of children, I am sure they do, so then shouldn’t they be treating WELL, i.e. not like this? What? Because it makes humans happy it’s okay to abuse animals? You people aren’t making any sense at ALL. I don’t care how much it costs to take care of these animals, if you can’t afford to take care of them properly, give them to someone who CAN."

Someone actually posted this back:

"As far as water supply, unless they have heated water containers somewhere that the reporter and SPCA officials didn’t see they wouldn’t have water. Water will freeze pretty damn quickly in those temperatures."

I guess that is why all the rabbits, moose, caribou, squirrels, foxes, coyotes, and everything else dies off during the winter.. All the water freezes and everything dies... OKAY, now since i know for a fact that the animals i mentioned above are still living here in newfoundland, and have survived winters here before, i find it very hard to follow your logic.

Like did you even READ my comment you fucking loser. I said "where they aren’t restricted by a fence that keeps them out of the shelter of the woods, and where there are running streams that don’t freeze over". Fucking moron.

End rant. sorry.

Movie's star group slams Palin and wolf
controlhttp://www.adn.com/news/alaska/wildlife/story/678093.htmlI do
understand the "need" for population control, since hunters "need" the
income, so God forbid they keep the human hunting down. However, there
is a better, more effective, and more humane way to go about this. I
watched a program on the Discovery Channel, where a group of biologists
were doing a catch, spay/neuter, release program. They catch the alphas
of a pack, spay/neuter them, and then release them back into their
group. Only the alphas of a pack breed, and only once a year from what
I understand, so the breeding act would still take place, but no
puppies would be conceived. That would keep pack sizes down
considerably, which would keep hunting down considerably since they
only kill what they need. Now isn't the much better than shooting
wolves from a helicopter (how many of these wolves didn't receive a
lethal first shot and suffered?) and crawling into dens and killing
puppies?Another large problem that's happening here is of course
humans' fault. Hunters are killing the trophy animals of the herd,
which leaves the weaker ones to breed, which results in a weak herd. No
wonder the wolf population is up, they can easily overtake these herds.
Mother Nature dictates that the strong survive, well when you're
killing all the strong ones, the weak survive and breed to make more
weak.