This fox has claws

Our mystery neonatal canid is a newborn gray fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus). Both normal red and cross phase red foxes and gray foxes are born this ashy gray color. The way to tell the neonates apart is to look at the nails. Gray foxes have long, curved nails, which they utilize in their well-known arboreal habits. [...]

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Abraham Lincoln’s cur

Abraham Lincoln ran using the image of himself as a frontiersman. And while he and his family lived in Springfield, Illinois, he kept a frontier dog named Fido. He was a mid-sized, yellow-colored dog that looked something like a small Labrador retriever. Many have conjectured about what his breed was, but mid-sized yellow dogs from [...]

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So what can we do about it?

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. –Albert Einstein With the discussion that has happened on this blog, Border Wars, and DesertWindHounds about inbreeding, dog health, and closed registries,. some have asked me what we should do about it. Yes. The problems with dogs in this regard are [...]

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Geoffroy’s cat

Source.

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Don’t succumb to the Rusty Shackleford school of wildlife management II

Continued from Part I I am sure that some will say that the coyote numbers are up this year. I have heard some trappers claiming they have taken more coyotes than usual, and this will be touted as evidence for the coyotes’ culpability in the low deer harvest. This can easily be countered with some [...]

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Don’t succumb to the Rusty Shackleford school of wildlife management

The first week of buck season ended with kill totals down. The DNR is blaming “hot” weather, something I don’t entirely agree with. A few years ago, it was freakishly hot during deer season, and they still managed to kill a lot of deer. There are three real factors for why the deer kill was off: [...]

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Identify the wild dog puppy

Check out the claws: The answer.

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The homely newborn is…

a newborn domestic rabbit. Newborn rabbits are born hairless, but they soon grow in hair within just a few days. Domestic rabbits are derived from European rabbits, but all wild-type rabbits have a little white dash on their heads when their fur grows in. The first hair to grow in on a wild type rabbit [...]

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America’s founding bird

Yesterday, Thanksgiving was celebrated in the United States. We base this holiday on the harvest celebration and smörgåsbord that the English Separatists (which we Americans have always called “Pilgrims”) put on after their first successful summer in the New World. The “Pilgrims” ate lots of different things in their 1621 Thanksgiving feast that they shared with the [...]

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Identify the ugly newborn

This one shouldn’t be too hard.   The answer.

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