Mi’kmaq retrievers

This painting is by an unknown artist, and it dates to around 1820. The exact location is also unknown, but it could be within the Mi’kmaq homelands in the Maritimes or in Newfoundland, where some of them migrated in the eighteenth century. They are shooting geese from canoes, and you can see one dog in a [...]

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Creationism deals with dog domestication

Source. So much wrong with this! How does a creationist deal with domestic dogs that are afraid of people and with wild animals that are not? (Like this grouse). That argument falls apart right there. You don’t need to abuse one of the canine cognition studies. This is just crap, crap, crap.      

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Red fox kills arctic fox at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska

These images come from a journal article that documents a red fox killing an arctic fox at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, where both foxes are relatively common– and happen to share space. However, one of the rules about wild dogs is that a larger wild dog species will kill a smaller wild dog species that shares [...]

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Coursing with cheetahs in India, 1939

Source. I have embedded this video before, but I have not provided a good analysis of it. These cheetahs were captured as adults and then socialized to people– something that is almost impossible to do with feral cats! And then they are trained to attack the adult male blackbuck, which is the exact opposite of [...]

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Fox and cat cull in Australia

They got only one cat. These animals do have feelings. However, they don’t belong on this continent. The native fauna is ill-prepared to deal with their depredations. And the only way to save many species of native Australian wildlife is to create areas that are free of foxes and cats. The only way to do [...]

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Another possible origin for the Nova Scotia duck-tolling retriever

In researching the origins of Nova Scotia duck-tolling retriever, I thought that the origins of this breed would be traced to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. And mostly, that is what I’ve found. It seems the exact strain that we now call “the toller” traces to that particular date. However, the technique of [...]

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British man loses legs to a white shark in South Africa

From the Sydney Morning Herald: A British man has been mauled by a shark while swimming in South Africa, authorities said. The 42-year-old man is fighting for his life after the attack by a great white at Fish Hoek beach in Cape Town. Reports said the man, who is believed to live in the city, [...]

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Wolf captured by camera trap in Belgium

Source. From Cryptozoology News: After some sheep were killed near the Belgian town of Gedinne in July, a TV camera crew set up an camera trap to see if, as suspected, a lynx had killed the sheep. Much to their, and everyone else’s, surprise, what they caught on camera was not a lynx, but appeared [...]

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Cats threaten another species

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Some profound lines from the end of Whale for the Killing

I came across lines from Farley Mowat’s Whale for the Killing (1972), which I think truly reflects the fundamental problem of our species. We think we’re not part of it all. We think we’re separate and above all the rest of the living things. And in creating this delusion, we have sequestered ourselves from the [...]

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