This week’s lesson from life comes from Chicago where we are celebrating my mother’s 85th birthday and my daughter’s 7th birthday. They share the same day. I took the kids and our dog Molly to the Montrose Beach Dog Park on the Northside. It is the ultimate dog park where you can swim with your dog on a beautiful beach. It was then that the kids decided to make a sand castle . . .
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This would have seemed a good case for prosecutorial discretion. Wallace Weatherholt, 63, was operating a tour boat when he allegedly dangled a fish in the water to feed the alligators and give his passengers a good picture. The alligator took the fish . . . and his right hand. It was a stupid and illegal act if true. However, I would put the act of having one’s hand bitten off by a nine-foot alligator as sufficient punishment without the need to add a second-degree misdemeanor.
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Some baby bears got stuck in a dumpster overnight while their mother waited nearby. Ruidoso, New Mexico couple Tom and Shirley Schenk had an idea. Read more here.
-Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger
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This cat appears to love a good vacuuming — though we recommend the shag carpeting setting. The ultimate example of multitasking for the busy pet owner.
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Why do most cats seem constantly shocked by human behavior? They are often “shocked, shocked” by everything from a suggestion that it get off the couch to the accusation that the feathers all over the floor indicate that it finally ate the family’s pet cockatoo.
Indiana University Southeast near Louisville, Kentucky is at the center of a free speech controversy over a school code that bars students from expressing opinions on campus except in designated free speech zones. The code flips the presumption of higher education: students must generally refrain from free speech and even apply for the right to express opinions. The code, first promulgated in 2004, is being challenged as an example of how universities are cracking down on free speech.
Marketing is everything on adoption day at the pound
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They always win. This picture however does raise a question that I have never been able to answer conclusively . . .
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There is an interesting decision out of Washington this month where U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan has ruled that Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus can proceed with a racketeering lawsuit against a coalition of animal rights groups. The lawsuit was brought by corporate parent Feld Entertainment Inc., under the Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organizations Act based on the alleged payment of a former Ringling Brothers trainer Tom Rider by the animal right groups. The trainer later became a plaintiff in an action against the Circus for animal cruelty. The case is Feld Entertainment Inc. v. American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 07-1532 EGS, D.D.C.
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This probably only works for joeys.
It is good that they have video . . . otherwise this would sound like just one more fish story about the one that got away.
Ok, things are already bad in Illinois with a rise in the murder rates and thugs allegedly jumping out of stretch limos to assault people. Now, a swim in the state could result in your losing more than the afternoon heat. Officials at the Illinois Department of Natural Resources confirm that they have caught pacu fish in Lake Lou Yaeger in Litchfield, Illinois. The pacu has an unsettling reputation in in Papua New Guinea for eating testicles — giving it the local name as the “ball cutter.”
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By Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger
Hollywood legend has it that screen actress Lana Turner was discovered having a Coke at Schwab’s Drugstore on Sunset Boulevard. However improbable the story, at least there was no chance that the star of Peyton Place and Imitation of Life would have been euthanized if she went unnoticed. Not so for the star of the new Focus Features movie, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, 5-year-old terrier mix, Aleister. Rescued from an LA dog pound in 2008, the wiry canine plays the role of “Sorry” opposite Steve Carell (The Office) and Keira Knightley (Pirates of the Caribbean) in a silly yarn about seeking a second chance at love.
-Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger
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