wild animals
Animals the way nature intended it; explore the world of wild animals and the controversies surrounding domestication and hunting of feral beasts.
Crabby Gabby
This cute little lady lives outside on my deck. Crabby Gabby and I have an agreement. I do not spray harsh chemicals, knock down her web, or kill her and she does not come inside or get on my bike. She teaches me like the spider Charlotte from Charlotte’s Web to suspend my arachnophobia induced tendencies of violence. I let her sit in a beautiful spot spin her web and eat bugs. It is nice. She is a lot cuter and less menacing then say a wolf spider, brown recluse, or black widow.
By Holly Yandle5 years ago in Petlife
Why are Chickens Admired by So Many?
Perhaps, it is because chickens are a microcosm of our society. While some chickens are extroverts and friendly others are introverts and hostile. Some have even observed that there appears to be a social pecking order among flocks of roaming chickens.
By Anthony Chan5 years ago in Petlife
Adorable Animals
On the Land The Red Panda has a soft red fur coat, the cutest fluffy ears, and a bushy tail. This panda grows only to the size of a domestic cat. It makes its home in Nepal, Burma, and central China living in mountainous forests. Most of its time is spent up in trees.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Petlife
Whales - The Saviors of the Earth
Whales are mesmerizing creatures known for being the largest and most intelligent in the ocean. The contribution of whales might amaze you as much as their closest evolutionary relations with the hippopotamuses. They are nature's biggest carbon capture plants. And the amazing fact about them is, each whale is worth more than $2 million. Hence whole Whale Community values over $1 trillion according to IMF.
By Vatsal Patel5 years ago in Petlife
Love tricks in the animal world
Some people think that animals look cute and do not establish any complex social relationships, it seems that they will not play any tricks. The real situation is that in order to fight for the opposite sex, will make the side ways of many animals.
By JordonRobbinsmd5 years ago in Petlife
That was nuts
Meet my squirrel friend "Nutcase" I'm not joking; that's the name I gave him. This little comes every morning for nuts. I only give him a few because if I give him a lot, he leaves them, and other squirrels will go and fight over the scraps, and they are running around the backyard, causing havoc. They climb on the backyard furniture, the plants, not to mention the trash cans for cans and bottles for recycling—all the while making that chattery sound and the little craws on the pavement. You can put some background music to make it comical.
By stephanie borges5 years ago in Petlife
Surrounded by wolves
It was a typical early- winter evening in Northern Minnesota, the temperature was in the 20's with about two feet of snow on the ground as I pulled in the driveway to our house. We lived 22 miles out of town, just 7 miles from the Canadian border, and I was the first one to arrive home that evening. My parents ran a real estate business in town, and my brothers were still in town as well when I got home, so I prepared to do a little hunting in the woods behind the house with our dog as I often did. We had a Malamute Husky who was 1/4 Timberwolf named Chena, that we let run free all day while everyone was in town at school or work. She loved our little trips into the woods as much as I did, and would always be home within 15 minutes of whoever got home first each day, without fail. By the time I was dressed and ready to go I went outside, expecting her to be ready and waiting as she always was. I was surprised to find she wasn't there, so I called for her a couple times and went up on the porch and waited. After about 45 minutes of calling with no sign of her, and the sun now starting to set, I was getting pretty concerned. This wasn't like her at all, and I knew something had to be wrong, so I went inside and called my Mom to tell her what was going on. She said an officer with the Fish and Wildlife Service had informed them, as well as the other four families who live out there year round, that a large wolf pack had been seen in the area recently, and they had several reports of family dogs being killed while left chained up outside the home. Concern gave way to fear now, and as I was about to go out the door to start looking for her, it started. It was one wolf first, presumably the Alpha male, who began a long, unnerving howl, and he was then joined by the rest of the pack as I realized they had completely surrounded the house! The howls were so loud they sounded as if they were in the house already, and it was like I could feel them in my bones! It was both awesome and terrifying at the same time! I ran through the house making sure everything was shut and locked when I thought of the basement- it was a half sunk basement, which meant the windows were even with the ground outside, and if they were going to get in, that's where they would do it. I ran down there, placing a loaded rifle by each window as I checked them. After that, I went back upstairs and called my Mom, verging on panic. She could hear the wolves through the phone, so she told me she was going to call our neighbor down the road and to watch for him. I found out later he had been outside listening to the wolves howling, unaware they were surrounding our house at the time! The next 20 minutes waiting for him to come were the longest I believe I spent, and then finally headlights and he pulled in our driveway. As he pulled up, there was Chena right in front of him! Apparently, she had been hiding on the other side of the road a ways down from the house, and had run out in front of him as he was driving over, and stayed in front in his headlights right up to our front door! The wolves all left as he pulled up, but amazingly, neither one of us ever saw a single one of them; they just melted away like phantoms into the forest. I'll never forget how much intelligence that dog had, knowing to hide until she found a safe way to get back home!
By Lon Salerno5 years ago in Petlife
The Calming Cow
To some people this is just a cow in a field no different than any other cow in fields and on farms all over the countrysides. For me it is a beautiful sign of change and maturity combined with a sense of peace and calm in this wild ride of life. For years and for no reason at all, I was ridiculously afraid of cows. I had no reason to be. It was not as if some incident of my childhood could be tied to this abnormal fear. As a teenager my heart would start racing and palms sweating as anxiety from just seeing a cow would quickly take over. I was the subject of many jokes among family and friends regarding the odd fear of cows. At almost 40, my mom still loves to tell the story of me waking her up from a deep sleep to point out cows during a very long bus ride full of loud high school aged teenagers on their way to a show choir concert. Instead of talking and laughing with my friends on the bus, I was quietly trying not to let my anxiety and fear take over. It was irrational and I knew that but still I feared those big creatures grazing on the side of the road somewhere halfway between my home and the western part of Virginia.
By Aimee Read5 years ago in Petlife
