Dogs have become more intelligent, and even learnt a sense of right and wrong, through spending time with humans, a study shows. Although still controversial, recent research is beginning to support the view that an owner is perfectly correct when they pat their pet and coo “who’s a clever boy then?”
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Goodness me, aren’t Sunderland being busy bees in the transfer market this summer? While the likes of Everton and Newcastle struggle to rub two pennies together, the Black Cats laugh in the face of the credit crunch by showing off a suitcase bulging with notes and thrusting it into the … […]
Friday links: Muslim women, talking dirty, baby weight, funny cats There’s a great post about Muslim women in comic books over on Racialicious.com today, (and via the excellent Bitch mag. There may be a hard-as-nails Muslim woman in X Men, but she’s still being rescued…
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Dear Petlvr Mailbag … Polybore’s cat is terrible at catching mice. It catches them in the garden then brings them into the house and lets them go, alive. I want the cat to catch and kill mice in the house and garden. Not bring in mice from outside and release them in […]
The fight between cats and dogs continue. This time for a change though we will ensure the dogs win. It’s a dog’s world after all. Get Cat-a-pult, and save your dog, the shame of loosing to naturally brighter, faster and nimble specie. The Cat-a-pult ensures that your pet will get a good work-out, experience […]
Cinematical Seven: Roles That Made Us Love Anna Faris by William Goss Aug 21st 2008 // 10:02PM Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Cinematical Seven Despite having starred in a series of spoofs that have together raked in over $400 million on the domestic front, it still doesn’t feel like Anna Faris is quite the […]
Swiped and cross post from Beth’s Blue Star Chronicles…..this is infuriating, to put it mildly. Mr. Beckel needs to apologize. Period. Oh..by the way Mr. Beckel…real men can eat catfish and are fully aware it’s not gourmet food, ok ? And we don’t use puppies in our hushpuppies, either. Got it ? […]
Filed under: Business People really love their used games. GameStop’s Q2 results show the company repeated its last quarter and had sales of $1.8 billion again, reports GameDaily. CEO R. Richard Fontaine says the company produced record revenues in each of the regions it operates in and continues to kill puppies make obscene […]
Links 21/08/2008: Award to Red Hat, New GNU/Linux Devcies Posted in News Roundup at 9:49 pm by Roy Schestowitz Red Hat Global Knowledge Named Red Hat Premier Training Partner of the Year for 2008 Q&A: Red Hat’s JBoss business hits overdrive It sounds like an exciting time to be […]
Our Away Form Will Improve, Keane 22 August 2008 - 11:18am via Sunderland - Official site By Nick Alexander Roy Keane reckons his new-look Sunderland side will not be such a soft touch away from home. The Black Cats lost 14 of their 19 away games […]
A reader writes in looking for a home for two kittens born from a rescue cat: I am emailing you to ask if you would be willing to post an ad on your blog for kitten adoption on my behalf? In April, my boyfriend and I picked up a beautiful stray tiger/tabby […]
That cheat only allows you to merge above the 8 sim limit in the neighbourhood view. To have babies or puppies/kittens you will need lotfullofsims. That’s how I do it in my game.
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Jr. High Retreat Whew! Had a crazy weekend! Thursday through Saturday I was on a jr. high retreat to Minneapolis (called MUUUCE) with a bunch of our jr. high kids. We had a great time! If you follow me on Twitter, you got a play-by-play of the weekend, complete with pictures, everything from […]
I love this Metafilter comment: HOLY FUCKING UNICORN SHIT I’M FUCKING SHITTING RAINBOWS AND SMURFS OVER HERE JESUS DON’T VISIT THAT SITE! IT’S A METAVIRUS. A BAD ONE. I… I CAN’T EXPLAIN IT. I JUST WATCHED THE SOUND OF MUSIC. IN FIFTEEN SECONDS!@ THEN I CUDDLED 4000 PUPPIES, PICKED AN ENTIRE […]
Confession time: I’m addicted to The Hills. I know, it sucks, I suck, lame lame lame. Whatever. I don’t do drugs or drink (excessively. ok, but not very often.) or kick puppies. This is my vice. Get off my back. So tonight is the season premier, and I know half hour shows […]
I love my kitties. I dream of a house full of happy, purring cats that play, eat, sleep — and reliably use either a cat box or the great outdoors. But for the third time, we have a cat that is breaking the rules, and I will not keep a cat that uses […]
“Creature” by Tallulah, acrylic As promised, here is Tallulah’s (see yesterday’s post) correction of my painting. Her vision was somewhat less encumbered than mine. I think she spent some time out in my garden where there are plentiful lizards and that may have effected her perceptions. I saw a lot […]
Buffalo Police batter their way into wrong house Quote: Armed with a battering ram and shotguns, Buffalo police looking for heroin broke down the door and stormed the lower apartment of a West Side family of eight. The problem is that the Wednesday evening […]
I’m thrilled to be touring I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone by Stephanie Kuehnert. Sid Vicious isn’t exactly a role model in the wholesome, small town Midwest. Neither is Louisa Carson-Black, who has earned the position of the proverbial black sheep of Carlisle, Wisconsin […]
Hi, my name is Max and I’m a Chocolate Lab/Springer Spaniel mix from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. My brother and I used to live in Savannah, Georgia, until our owner became terminally ill. We were given to a relative, but then sent to the pound. We were then taken in by a rescue organization and […]
Meet Molly. Our new addition. Molly is six weeks old. Her mother is a registered German Shepherd, her father a registered Black Labrador Retriever, Molly one of three girls in a litter of five. Now she’s part of our family. Here’s how Molly came to […]
While people claim there’s no way to make money in the music industry anymore, that’s clearly not the case. The obvious way to make big money is to become a music industry attorney. The billable hours at counsel for the RIAA are shooting up again this week as they shut down music mashup […]
Five-star Baltimore (Md.) Walbrook forward Roscoe Smith has a lot of work to do before he can start paring down a huge list of college scholarship offers, but he’s also blessed with plenty of time to do it Kentucky coach Rich Brooks absolutely loves the talent and depth of his four tailbacks this season. But […]
A week ago, our own Brad Curran posed the question as to whether people still seriously cared about the Wildstorm universe. Apparently, somebody does, because the comment thread grew to a size usually only seen by Urban Legends and controversial Joe Rice posts. I’m not sure “Do people care?” is the right question […]
[’Game Mag Weaseling’ is a weekly column by Kevin Gifford which documents the history of video game magazines, from their birth in the early ’80s to the current day.] Look! Raku is playing with free crap that came with a UK magazine! That must mean it’s time for another Mag Roundup, Brit-edition! […]
My proud momma of six adorable puppies almost died Saturday…. the vet says she has eclampsia and that we can only let the pups nurse once a day and only for a short period then or it will kill momma…. so we are helping her out by bottle feeding…. the puppies are slow to take […]
Kris Stone (aka AgentSully) sent me a preview edition of the “Secrets to a Healthy Life” eBook more than a month ago. I receive so much email that it got buried rather quickly and you know the old saying: Out of sight, out of mind. I simply forgot about it. I spotted something […]
Another day, another death of an iconic black man. We were all still grieving Bernie Mac, when we lost Isaac Hayes. And you know what they say about these things always happening in threes. If I were Sidney Poitier I’d feel a little nervous! […]
Reportedly prego porn star Jenna Jameson, stars in the new PETA campaign. Of course she’s nude, of course she shows a little boobage, and of course her tattoo is very visable. Yet, the tag line claims that “too much sex can be a bad thing.” Does anyone else see anything annoyingly ironic […]
This past week, I campaigned in California for Proposition 2—the November ballot initiative to combat the intensive confinement of certain animals on factory farms. In the middle of the trip was a public forum in San Luis Obispo before several members of the Senate and Assembly Agriculture Committees, led by Senator Abel Maldonado […]
AP - Parts of the Endangered Species Act may soon be extinct. The Bush administration wants federal agencies to decide for themselves whether highways, dams, mines and other construction projects might harm endangered animals and plants.
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EIF 2008: Flock! Hands-on In many ways, the downloadable console games market seem to be made for arcade-focused developers like Capcom. Gamers aren’t necessarily looking for a drawn-out, story-driven experience, but rather something that’s fun and instantly playable, while providing enough depth to keep gamers coming back. Flock! looks like a game designed […]
Okay I admit, I do not yet have my RAC monolites on hand, but I am anxious that they will arrive today. I thought it might be nice to move away from the GB thread and post some actual photos. It is not my intention to continue any GB comments, discussions etc. […]
No, I’m not talking about ripping out towel bars so you can display those darling little porcelain angels or puppies, this collection is very sophisticated and stylish. Nautilus is Lladro’s answer to plain porcelain fixtures, and how to further satisfy your collecting needs. do you realize that Lladro is one of the most collected […]
By Adele Fifty-eight-year-old Bernann McKinney made news recently for paying a South Korean firm $50,000 to clone 5 puppies from her late beloved pitbull Booger. As her photo cuddling the puppies was flashed worldwide, some thought she bore an eerie – if bloated – resemblance to Joyce McKinney, a former beauty queen […]
Some people seriously take… by Jem85 Today 04:02 PM 1,062 16,877 Dog Health and Nutrition (6 Viewing) Discuss topics related to the health of our dogs and advice on how to help treat common health problems and issues including dog nutrition. […]
Moving beyond the (US) Federal law and regulations, there are many other sources of guidance for the ethical and humane use of animals in laboratory research. One of these which gradually gained a status that is now similar to official law is the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. […]
by Chris O’Leary When I was growing up, sneakers were a once-a-year deal for me. At the end of August every year, Team O’Leary (I’m the oldest of four) would pack it into the minivan, head down to the mall and get our back to school shopping done. By the time I […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Very little goes unexamined in the kosher world. From meat and poultry to the coating on vegetables and the ingredients in mouthwash, rabbis who determine whether a product meets Jewish dietary laws scrutinize the most minute details about all things consumed. For religiously observant Jews, that concern has […]
ThinkProgress: Today, the AP reports on new draft rules being proposed by the Bush administration to gut the Endangered Species Act. This would be the biggest change to the groundbreaking legislation since 1988, and would not require the approval of Congress. Currently, federal agencies are required to consult with an independent […]