Today was a cat photo type of day.
On the left Kodak. On the upper right, our friends’ new kitten, Boo. And bottom right, Fuji.
Life looks pretty good for a cat.
Category: animals
Photos!
New camera!
Got a new camera yesterday. Testing it out on my favorite models (poor guys).
Veggie lovers make better lovers?
So, I’m driving down Sunset Blvd, and one of those obnoxious electric billboards catches my attention. (How could it not? Those things are BRIGHT!)
It is all these women in their skivvies caressing–wait for it–vegetables.
Right before I drove away, the screen said “Studies show that vegetarians have better sex” or something like that.
First of all, gotta love Sunset Blvd.
Secondly, who made this ad, and is it true?
I did some digging and turns out it’s probably a PETA ad, similar to the one that was banned from the Super Bowl for being too naughty.
I’m almost a vegetarian (thinking about taking the plunge now) and fan of PETA, so here’s the ad. Way to get creative, people.
Poor Mr. Opossum
A poor little opossum was shot in Van Nuys. What kind of jerk would do this?
Luckily, they saved the guy. Here’s the story:
WOODLAND HILLS – It took two surgeons 3 1/2 hours to plug a 9 mm bullet hole through his head.
It may take another operation – or a total $9,000 worth of surgery – and months of intensive care to save him.
The victim: a Virginia opossum gunned down Saturday in Van Nuys.
“He’s really a lucky guy,” said Brenda Varvarigos, founder of Valley Wildlife Care in Woodland Hills, who is nursing the wounded critter. “I have a soft spot for opossums because people hate them, misunderstand them.
“Most people don’t realize that (we) would save an opossum.”
It took a village to save this one.
It was just after dark Saturday when a woman called the Los Angeles Department of Animal Services to report an opossum down in front of her apartment complex.
An adult male had a bloody hole in its head.
When West Valley shelter Officer G. Hartel arrived, she found the marsupial wrapped in blankets, defended by neighborhood children.
“Kids were standing around it; they thought I was going to harm it,” Hartel said.
Hartel, who has a penchant for diverting injured wildlife from almost-certain euthanasia, knew just where to take the wheezing animal.
At 10:30 p.m., she carried him to Varvarigos, a mother-of-three whose backyard rescue center rehabilitated 920 injured birds and mammals picked up by animal control officers last year….
WHAT?!
In Ferris Texas, authorities are allowed to shoot stray dogs because the problem of people abandoning their dogs has gotten so bad. This is horrible!
And write to city officials here to stop this horrible policy!
Flour shower for Lohan
Lindsay Lohan was pelted with a bag of flour as she entered a nightclub in Paris with friend, Sam Rosen. She was wearing a fur stole.
PETA’s blog had this to say about the incident:
“Lindsay Lohan’s tan turned noticeably paler tonight after an anti-fur activist showered her with flour at a nightclub in Paris. Lindsay was on her way into the VIP room on the Champs-Elysées just after 1 a.m. early Saturday when she had an entire bag of flour dumped over her head by a French fur foe who shouted, “Lindsay Lohan—fur hag!” “
Lohan was named to PETA’s annual worst-dressed list earlier this year. Her entry read: “I Know Who Killed Me isn’t just the title of Lindsay Lohan’s latest bomb, it’s the cry of the animals snuffed out so that this ‘mean girl’ can pose in their pelts. Lindsay, there’s no road to recovery for the foxes who are anally electrocuted so that you can look skanky.”
PETA has been a harsh critic of Lohan for some timenow, asking her to get rid of her fur-wearing ways.
I’m a big fan of animal rights, and not of a fan of stupid celebrities who do nothing good with their power, so to me this seems pretty much ok. I’m trying really hard to see the other side, just for the sake of those that will argue against me, but I just can’t.
Animals can’t defend themselves against the cruelty of people. And this is not about human freedom to dress how we please. Because it’s about animal rights. We’re not talking about sandals or high heels. We’re talking about living creatures.
For someone with so much money (and so little purpose) it would not take much effort for her to ditch the fur. And maybe gain a LITTLE respect. But that doesn’t seem to be a priority for Lohan in any shape or form.
Fuji is a part of the Los Angeles Times
Fuji, our youngest, is part of the Los Angeles Times. Please vote for him.
To make up for my lack of posting
It’s been a while since I posted. I blame the sickness. All of Los Angeles caught a cold this past week as the temperature dropped a whole five degrees for Fall. Dramatic change, people. I too caught the bug, and was in bed for a bit.
And with the new job, I’ve had less time to post, but enough with the excuses. On to the cats flushing toilets!
I promise for a more intellectual post in the upcoming days.
California’s Proposition 2
In the heat of battle for the next president, there hasn’t been much attention on state proposition this year. Sure Prop 8 has gotten some attention (the banning of gay marriage one), but as I was looking through my voter education ballot yesterday, I stumbled on Prop 2, which I have heard nothing about.
I’m an animal lover, a non-beef eater, and a pet owner, so when I saw Prop 2 I had to write about it. If it passes, farmers won’t be allowed to confine pregnant pigs, calves raised for veal and egg-laying hens from moving.
First of all, I didn’t even KNOW that these animals COULD be confined from moving! They are already abused for their goods, and then they can’t even turn around? That’s crazy. Animals can’t speak for themselves–someone has to help them.
This is what a YES vote would mean:
“Beginning in 2015, state law would prohibit, with certain exceptions, the confinement on a farm of pregnant pigs, calves raised for veal, and egg-laying hens in a manner that does not allow them to turn around freely, lie down, stand up, and fully extend their limbs.”
Groups supporting this prop are all animal-friendly, including the Sierra CLub, Humane Society and ASPCA.
Vote YES on Prop 2.
Please spend time getting informed about all the props on this year’s ballot. Some can really change lives.
Rebecca M Ford 