The compassionate and complicated chicken!

Each Monday I will spotlight a companion animal that, for a variety of reasons, is commonly misperceived.  Today’s animal is a species that I used to think was unintelligent and boring, until I worked closely with them for many years.   Meet the amazing, incredible, compassionate, and intelligent CHICKEN! Did you know these amazing facts …

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Baby It’s Cold Outside

Originally Posted Winter 2013 I grew up in the harsh winters of Kansas.  As a kid, winter was bliss.  I didn’t have to shovel snow, or scrape the icy windshield;  I got to play in it.   However, my dad believed that the dogs were fine out there in the dead of winter, unless there …

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We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals.

"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their …

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