Journalist @baltimoresun writer artist runner #amwriting Chaplain PIO #partylikeajournalist

Journalist @baltimoresun writer artist runner #amwriting Chaplain PIO #partylikeajournalist
Journalist @baltimoresun writer artist runner #amwriting Md Troopers Assoc #20 & Westminster Md Fire Dept Chaplain PIO #partylikeajournalist
Showing posts with label Animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Animals. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 01, 2019

Christopher Ingraham – Washington Post: “I ordered a box of crickets…”


Christopher Ingraham – Washington Post: “I ordered a box of crickets…”

This story is too fun: “I ordered a box of crickets from the Internet and it went about as well as you’d expect,” by Christopher Ingraham December 29, 2018 in the Washington Post. Find it here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/12/29/i-ordered-box-crickets-internet-it-went-about-well-youd-expect/?utm_term=.a0a393b763f6 

“For Christmas this year, my family adopted a young bearded dragon lizard as a pet.

“Our dragon, whom we named Holly, eats a lot, and the thing she loves to eat most is crickets (typically about 10 a day, in addition to other things like mealworms and vegetables). From the get-go, I knew that keeping an ample supply of crickets on hand would require some planning. We live in a rural area of northwestern Minnesota. The closest pet shop is an hour away, in North Dakota. Restocking our cricket supply would require a time commitment of at least two hours out and back.

“By Christmas Day this year, Holly’s cricket supply was running low. I decided to order crickets online, which I had never done before, to save a trip to North Dakota. I bought the crickets from Fluker Farms, one of the more well-established online insect vendors (yes, these exist and there are a lot of them). I decided on a shipment of 250 crickets …” Read much more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/12/29/i-ordered-box-crickets-internet-it-went-about-well-youd-expect/?utm_term=.a0a393b763f6 

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Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Linus takes a well-deserved break


Linus takes a well-deserved break from all the Christmas festivities. Being a doggie in a large family is a great deal of work. 24Dec2018

Saturday, May 21, 2016

Vet tech Tanya Andrews assists Manchester EMS personnel to provide emergency oxygen to save the life of a family pet cat stricken by smoke inhalation late Friday night.


Vet tech Tanya Andrews assists Manchester EMS personnel to provide emergency oxygen to save the life of a family pet cat stricken by smoke inhalation late Friday night. Photo by Westminster Fire Dept. Chaplain Kevin Dayhoff Friday – Saturday, May 20-21, 2016

Several family pets were saved by quick action by the firefighters on the scene of a two – alarm fire late Friday night in Westminster. The cats and dogs were attended to by emergency medical personnel, including vet tech Tanya Andrews who assisted Manchester EMS personnel to provide emergency oxygen to save the life of a family pet cat stricken by smoke inhalation late Friday night

Over 80 firefighters from Carroll and Baltimore Co, and the Westminster Police Dept. responded with 20 pieces of equipment to a two–alarm fire in the 200 block of Gallatin Court, north of Westminster off Cranberry Rd.

The first call came into the county emergency communications center at 9:39. A second alarm was quickly sounded at 9:55.

Three families were displaced and two townhouses were destroyed in the blaze, but the fire did not spread farther thanks to the prompt and well-coordinated response by firefighters. Fire was declared under control at 1024 pm, but wrap-up and clean-up operations lasted until approximately 3 am, Sat. morning

Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Lemon the Duck Banned from Classroom

Lemon the Duck Banned from Classroom

Superintendent says therapy duck is no longer allowed in classroom after finding feathers in the ventilation system.


At least one popular member of Hathaway Elementary Schoolwill not return to the classroom this year.
Lemon the Duck, the well-known Pekin duck born with a neurological condition, will not be housed this year inside the second-grade classroom of Laura Backman.
The superintendent has asked Backman, who is the owner of Lemon and a second-grade teacher, to house the duck outside after discovering feathers in the school's ventilation system. Some of the feathers have traveled to other classrooms, said Superintendent of Schools Dr. Susan Lusi.
"It (the feathers) travels to the other rooms," Lusi said. "We would have no problem with Lemon being at the school, as long as she is kept outside."
According to Lusi, Lemon was housed several years ago in an outdoor pen at Mellville Elementary School due to another teacher's allergy to duck feathers.
At the time, Backman says, she had many opportunities to visit with Lemon and take children out at recess to visit. At Hathaway, that is simply not the case.
"I'm happy they are willing to have her outside, but that's not good enough," Backman said. "They don't understand the positives of having her in the classroom."
Lemon the Duck is not a classroom pet, but a pet-assisted therapy duck who has become an active part of the classroom curriculum, according to the second-grade teacher...  http://portsmouth.patch.com/articles/lemon-the-duck-banned-from-classroom

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

The cat and the deer

The cat and the deer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IBEi2h7YIU

Such wonderful photography.... Watch full screen, if you can.

I received this from Grammy in an e-mail. I did not make the video and I do not know who did – it is owned by someone else. I just know that the ole softy in me wanted to share it…

Oh, I have found that it is apparently from the movie “The Adventures of Milo and Otis.” Watch it and enjoy quickly before the copyright thugs make sure that you are NOT introduced to the great Louis Armstrong or his rendition of “What a Wonderful World” or the movie “The Adventures of Milo and Otis.”

Meanwhile more information about the movie “The Adventures of Milo and Otis” may be found at Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Milo-Otis-Masanori-Hata/dp/B00000JL8E.

More information about Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” may be found at http://www.amazon.com/What-Wonderful-World-Louis-Armstrong/dp/B000003N4G/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1280257907&sr=1-1-fkmr1

[20100727 Watch the cat and the deer]

Animals rabbit deer Louis Armstrong

YouTube informs me that this video, "... 20100727 cat_deer.avi, may have content that is owned or licensed by Sony Music Entertainment." If Sony does not pull it - go out and buy the Louis Armstrong CD

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Saturday, May 22, 2010

My Wednesday, May 19, 2010 column: Animal lovers’ food fight


The Tentacle: Animal lovers’ food fight

My Wednesday, May 19, 2010 column: Animal lovers’ food fight - http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3760


On Monday, May 17, 2010 the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) ran full-page ads in the New York Times and the Washington, DC edition of The Wall Street Journal.

Recent events and a recent article in the New York Times focused my attention once again to the Humane Society of the United States. Then, this past Monday, May 17, 2010 the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) ran full-page ads in the New York Times and the Washington, DC edition of The Wall Street Journal, that caught my eye. The ad highlighted: “SURPRISED to hear the Humane Society of the United States shares less than 1 percent of your donations with local pet shelters? The Humane Society of the United States is NOT your local animal shelter…” Find the ad here: http://tinyurl.com/2bkcg38.

I addressed the ad and the recent New York Times article, “Report on Lobbyist Commissioned by Humane Society,” by Joseph Plambeck, which may be found here: the report (http://tinyurl.com/29btzpa); in my Wednesday, May 19, 2010 column: Animal lovers’ food fight - http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3760

If you will recall, it was on May 14, 2008, that I penned a column for http://www.thetentacle.com/ about a series of unusual circumstances involving the Humane Society of the United States and the Westminster Livestock Auction.

My working title for my investigation was “Cows, Lies, and Videotape.” When it appeared on The Tentacle, it was titled, “Investigating a Downer.” It may be found here: http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=2597.

Read Animal lovers’ food fight – here: http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3760

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Sunday, July 05, 2009

Mashatu Game Reserve

Mashatu Game Reserve

Mashatu Game Reserve — Life images from another incredible African safari site, courtesy of National Geographic

View live realtime footage from Pete's Pond on Mashatu Game Reserve

Have you seen Mashatu's comprehensive video production? Click on the (hyperlink) below to learn more about this spectacular property, its wildlife and its camps.
Mashatu Video Bottom of Form

For more information go to: www.mashatu.com/

Mashatu Game Reserve, "Land Of The Giants"

Mashatu Game Reserve is located in the Northern Tuli Game Reserve of Botswana bordering South Africa. It is the embodiment of all that defines Africa. Space so open and vast, taking it all in is almost too much; an array of
wildlife from the gigantic to the miniscule; majestic skies open to the universe and unfettered by smog; a quiet so loud it thrums with life; and unexpected adventure beyond the game drive with horse-back safaris, cycling safaris and walks in the wild. Experience the lives of Africa's big cats, as well as on of the world's largest mammals - the elephant - through the mesmerizing Mashatu Research Programme.

Mashatu’s camps are an expression of the warm hospitality of Africa’s people. Relaxation is key, regardless of whether your choice is the luxury of
Mashatu Main Camp, or the rustic appeal of Mashatu Tent Camp.

Safari vehicles meander into the bush twice a day, bringing visitors into close contact with an Africa that is largely known only in wildlife documentaries and glossy books. But this Africa is real, and distinctly tangible through all six senses.

Mashatu Game Reserve is a place to connect you to the essence of what life is meant to be. Uncomplicated, bold, and beautiful.


20090704 sdosm Mashatu Game Reserve
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Thursday, April 16, 2009

The Fox Cardinal


The Fox Cardinal

April 15, 2009

Looked out into my backyard Wednesday afternoon and look at what I found.

Don’t believe me? All right, I found the image here:

Enjoy.

20090416 The Fox Cardinal
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/80606497/

Kevin Dayhoff Art: www.kevindayhoff.com (http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/)

Kevin Dayhoff www.kevindayhoff.net http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/

Monday, March 23, 2009

How to tell if your dog is a loser


How to tell if your dog is a loser

March 22, 2009

Hat Tip: Analog

I received this in an e-mail from Analog. Unfortunately I do not know who the photographer is.
20090322 How to tell if your dog is a loser
Kevin Dayhoff www.kevindayhoff.net http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/

Friday, October 05, 2007

20071002 Scientists Amazed at Fish Tag Journey

20071002 Scientists Amazed at Fish Tag Journey

Scientists Amazed at Fish Tag Journey

Oct 2, 2007

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - In 2005, a 2.9-inch steelhead left a Washington state hatchery in 2005 with a tiny implanted electronic tag. In April, Maori hunter Dale Whaitiri on Big Moggy Island off Southern New Zealand killed a young sooty shearwater chick, and found the tag.

It had traveled 7,700 miles, fascinating scientists an ocean apart who are trying to figure out how it got there.

The answer may reveal ecological connections stretching across the Pacific and illuminate the value Northwest salmon carry even thousands of miles away.

"It is amazing it made it all that way," said Jen Zamon, a research fisheries biologist with the NOAA Fisheries in Hammond, near Astoria. "It's even more sort of miraculous that someone noticed it."

Scientists believe the fish was eaten by an adult sooty shearwater, and have two theories about the tag:

- That a shearwater off Oregon ate the young steelhead as it headed to sea, and the electronic tag from the fish lodged in the bird's stomach. There it remained for more than a year, until the bird, in New Zealand, regurgitated its stomach contents to feed its chick.

That the steelhead was inadvertently caught in a fishing net, perhaps near Japan or Russia, cut up on a factory ship or another fishing boat, and its remains and the tag were tossed overboard, to be eaten one of the masses of shearwaters that follow fishing vessels.

Read the rest here: Scientists Amazed at Fish Tag Journey

Information from: The Oregonian, http://www.oregonlive.com

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

20030000 vizcacha Atacama Desert Chile

Atacama Desert, Chile, 2003

Photograph by Joel Sartore

National Geographic

September 10, 2007

A vizcacha, close relative of the chinchilla, rests on an outcropping in Chile's Atacama Desert. These sleepy-eyed herbivores are among few species who thrive in the higher, drier regions of the Atacama. They make their living off the sparse vegetation and grasses that manage to grow in this forbidding desert.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Driest Place on Earth," August 2003, National Geographic magazine)

http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/cgi-bin/pod/enlarge.cgi?day=10&month=09&year=07


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Thursday, August 09, 2007

20070809 Battle at Kruger

Battle at Kruger

August 9th, 2007

Apparently this video was on ABC’s “I-Caught” Tuesday evening, August 8th, 2007…

It is pretty amazing… You have to watch the entire video.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM

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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

20070327 Woman Says Dog Saved Her

Woman Says Dog Saved Her by Performing Heimlich Maneuver

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,261702,00.html

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Toby, a 2-year-old golden retriever, really is man's best friend — or in this case, woman's.

Debbie Parkhurst, a 45-year-old jewelry artist who lives in Calvert, Md., says her dog Toby saved her life last week after she began to choke on a piece of apple by giving her the Heimlich maneuver, the Cecil Whig reported.

Click here to read the Cecil Whig's full report.

Read the rest of the article here.

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Sunday, March 25, 2007

20070325 So where were the spiders?

March 25th, 2007

Calling all arachnid –ophiles…

In case ya missed it, Jeremy Bruno of the Voltage Gate left a new comment on my post "20070321 The secret life of baby spiders.”

Mr. Bruno calls our attention to a veritable arachnid-palooza of articles on spiders.

He wrote:

Aha! I have written about spiders on the old blog: here; here; here; here; here; here; and here.

The last one might not be about a spider, taxonomically speaking, but the Harvestman father is particularly devoted to its offspring. Neat little critter.

Happy reading…

Kevin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndZodpknFBc

Friday, March 23, 2007

20070321 The secret life of baby spiders

Photo caption: “Fired spiders and gum” from the web site, “Photography by Ewen Bell.” Neat site – check it out.

March 21, 2007

This post is for my wife. Read it quickly before it is prevailed upon me to amend it or take the post down.

Me: spiders gotta live somewhere. I just Zen them. As long as they don’t change the settings on my computer or eat my ice cream – I’m good. Whatever.

My wife: Spiders seem to make my normally unfazed, calm, and sedate wife go from zero to animated in a nanosecond. I know of nothing else that bothers my wife (except liberals… fortunately she doesn’t feel the need to squish them… .)

It is somewhat the source of amusement with me. Trust me, my amusement is not shared by my wife, and I have long since learned to adjust my approach. [Soccer Dad doesn’t wear paisley (My goodness that was an ugly tie.) - - I take spiders seriously – when they are the source of my wife’s undivided attention…]

Me to wife: Wife, I just saw on Nancy Grace that Anna Nicole Smith is still dead and the world is going to come to an end. Could ya please help me grab my computer before we go to the bomb shelter?

Wife: I don’t care - - There’s a spider in the house! Get it.

Over the years we have come to a sorta agreement. Found spiders in the house are not to be killed. They are to be invited to go outside… This seems to work as long as the spider is cooperative.

For the safety of spiders, I have posted a sign at the back door that our house is not safe for spiders. It seems to have worked.

Sooo, it was with some amusement that I saw that “Spiders Love to Snuggle.”

Perhaps Jeremy Bruno up at Voltage Gate (Besides, Mr. Bruno has not one article about spiders on his blog. What gives”) may have to interpret some of this for us, but according to Jeanna Bryner LiveScience Staff Writer LiveScience.com Wed Mar 21, 8:45 AM ET :

While not usually considered paragons of tender, familial love, some spiders do have a touchy-feely side. Scientists have discovered two arachnids that caress their young and snuggle together.

Social behavior is extremely rare in arachnids, a group of critters typically defined by their aggression, clever hunting methods and even predatory cannibalism.

"This was the best example I had ever seen of friendly behavior in an arachnid," said lead study author Linda Rayor, a Cornell University entomologist.

[…]

Video: Spider Baby Rub

Video: Spider Tickle

For (Phrynus) marginemaculatus, the stroking was mutual, with the three-week-olds also whip-caressing their moms and one another.

Video: Spider Siblings

[…]

Video: Spiders' Psychedelic Courtship Dance

Images: Creepy Spiders

Original Story: Creepy: Spiders Love to Snuggle

Since this is a family blog – we may wanna have Attila pick up the story here and here… . He goes places I can’t.

Read the rest of the article here: “Spiders Love to Snuggle.”

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Saturday, January 06, 2007

20070104 1870s Dead Horse inspires intrigue and curiosity

1870s Dead Horse inspires intrigue and curiosity

January 5, 2007

(AP Photo/Sheboygan County Historical Research Center) This photo provided by the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center shows a man sitting on a dead horse. The picture taken in Sheboygan sometime between 1876 and 1884 has sparked curiosity, speculation and jokes from people throughout the country, thanks to some newspaper publicity, the Internet and blogging. No one knows who the gentleman is, his occupation, or the exact circumstances surrounding it, said Beth Dipple, director of the Center. "It is a great picture and every time I see it I just laugh," she said. "But this time the novelty is everybody else is seeing it for the first time. The whole world is seeing it now."

The Examiner is carrying an Associated Press story about an historic photo, the subject of which is “a stovepipe-hatted man sitting on a dead horse in the middle of a dusty, deserted street.”

The photo was originally published as part of “a 2007 (newspaper) calendar with the scene. A response from readers prompted the newspaper to report about it. From there, it took off on the Internet and blogging.”

“After writing two stories about the picture, The Sheboygan Press has received more than 50 calls and e-mails about it…”

“No one knows who the gentleman is, exactly what year the picture was taken or the circumstances surrounding it, said Beth Dipple, director of the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center, which has had the picture in its collection for at least 20 years.”

“Dipple said about all that's known about the picture is it was taken (in Sheboygan, Wisconsin,) at South Eighth Street and Indiana Avenue between 1876 and 1884 - based on the bridge over the Sheboygan River in the background and the lack of railroad tracks that were installed in 1884.

“The city had laws on the books that required people to stay with their dead horses until they were picked up and disposed of, Dipple said.”

Of course, anyone who has read newspapers from the 1800s knows that folks had perhaps an even better sense of humor back then than folks do today.

Then again, in our contemporary age when everything is over-thought, over-analysed and overwrought, the explanation for the picture may be mundane or even documentary in purpose; who knows.

I love to tell the story about an art show I had in Baltimore in the mid-1980s, in which quite a number of my mixed media constructions incorporated a great deal of orange paint.

As I hung back relatively incognito during a portion of the show’s opening, a young lady had gathered a group of folks around her as she explained the deep psychological meaning of my use of orange paint.

It was complex – and it was intense. It was foreboding…

It was a load of crap. I used the orange paint because a friend of mine, who owned a hardware store, had several gallons of orange paint returned and he sold it to me a greatly reduced cost…

Whatever.

Sometimes “a stovepipe-hatted man sitting on a dead horse’ is just a man sitting on a dead horse.

But the picture is kinda neat - - after of course, an animal lover like me gets past the fate of the horse…

Oh, anyway, for more reading on this story go to:

1870s photo of man on dead horse sparks national humor or

1870s Dead Horse Photo Sparks Mystery

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