Wednesday, November 25, 2009
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Dogs Can Catch Yawns Too
Scientists have discovered that, just like humans, pet dogs find yawns 'catching' too.
Until now, only humans and our close primate relatives were thought to find yawning contagious.
A team from Birkbeck College at the University of London wanted to know whether canines - known to be highly skilled at reading human social cues - could read the human yawn signal, reports the BBC.
The team tested 29 dogs by creating two conditions, each five minutes long, in which a person - a stranger to the dog - was sat in front of the animal and asked to call its name.
Under the first condition, the stranger yawned once the dogs had made eye contact with them.
"We gave the dogs everything: visual and auditory stimulus to induce them to yawn," explained Birkbeck's Dr Atsushi Senju.
The same procedure was followed in the second test, but this time the stranger opened and closed their mouth but did not yawn.
This was a precaution to ensure that dogs weren't just responding to an open mouth.
The team found that 21 out of 29 dogs yawned when the stranger in front of them had first. By contrast, no dogs yawned during the test where the person did not yawn.
The researchers believe that these results are the first evidence that dogs have the capacity to empathise with humans. -- Courtesy of Ananova.com
Saturday, November 14, 2009
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Puppy In NE Baghdad
Puppy sleeps under a US soldier’s hat & rifle in Baquba, Diyala Province – NE Baghdad
Bath Time
I warned you I was allergic to that shampoo, but did you believe me? Oh no, not you, think you know everything, don’t you? Well, now my face is melting, so let’s hear your clever idea for fixing that, Vidal Buffoon
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Meet Your Cruise Director
Fiesta Deck or Promenade Deck!? Fiesta Deck or Promenade Deck!? Fiesta Deck or Promenade Deck!? Fiesta Deck or Promenade Deck!? [Alternating feets touching ground] I don’t see your name on my clipboard! I don’t see your name on my clipboard! I don’t see your name on my clipboard
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Monday, November 02, 2009
We Need To Talk
Listen, we both know this hasn’t been working for a while. We’ve been drifting apart for some time, and well…there’s someone else. You can’t be surprised. I mean, what did you expect? He gives me everything you wouldn’t – namely, table scraps
Tommy The Throwaway Dog
This story was on our local news last night it upset us allRead Tommy's story CLICK HERE
Tommy was found 10-29-2009 by an employee of Waste Management Systems when he dumped an
over sized trash can into his truck and found that there was a nearly dead dog inside.
The Cahokia Police were called and responded to the scene to start the investigation. The first set of
photo's are from the pictures he took that day and are part of the evidence in this case.
The trash can was located in the 500 block of Mildred in Cahokia. There is a $500.00 reward for
information leading to an arrest in this case.
It is important to note that if not for the kind heart of this officer, this dog would have simply been
hauled off to St. Clair County Animal Control to be euthanized at the end of the day.
No one would ever know of the horrors faced by this poor creature, no one would care, and the only
thing this poor dog would have known for his whole life would be that people are cruel.
Nothing that Hope Rescues can do from this day forward can match what this officer already has done
for this dog. For his actions put in motion the rescue, the medical treatment, and the second chance
our "Tommy" now has.
Thank you Officer Derek Ruberstell.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your act of kindness.
Sunday, November 01, 2009
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Coyotes As Pets? Dont Try This At Home Kids
Coyotes are fearful animals, normally they will run when humans are around, they see us before we ever see them. You do have sick or desperate Coyotes that pose a real threat, but not the norm.
� Coyotes want easy to get prey, sheep, goats, calves, cats, small dogs. Big horses are not a concern or cows, just the calves.
� Foxpens are not liable for damages to livestock because can not be proven that coyote that caused the damage was the one escaped from foxpen.
� Foxpens are not required to tag their wild animals.
� Mini ponies are at risk from Coyotes, but it's not a high risk. Coyotes hunt in 1,2 or 3s not normally a pack, only in desperation do they hunt as a pack, it would take a pack to take a mini horse down.
� Unlike Wolves, Coyotes do not hunt in packs.
� The best livestock protection is the LGD (Livestock Guardian Dog) a male only, females will attract the coyotes.
� The Coyotes are here due to Migration, Expanding their own territory, the government did not bring them into the eastern seaboard.
� The State Wildlife Commission does not get involved for Coyote sightings or Coyote damage unless $50.00 or more worth of damage to livestock. In these cases, they will release a license allowing you (or someone you hire) to trap .
I find coyotes fascinating have spotted a couple a few times in our sub division....no we do not live in the wilderness but the burbs of a big city
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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