You should be keeping up with Mary's wise, prolific, and insightful posts. She continues to reflect on her experiences as an animal control officer here at Prairie Mary-- read and scroll down. The 'possum story is hilarious, but she knows darker things about human- animal relations too.
And at her writing blog, Merry Scribbler, she examines the works of Gerald Durrell as well as a good biography by Douglas Botting which I also recommend.
Patrick has a post on the tangled roots of AR and dog shows. "...the Dog Show crowd and the Animal Rights crowd spring from the same root-stock of sentiment, and in both cases the animals are the side-show, not the main event". A must- read for worried working dog people and breeders.
A "new" (to me) blog, which I highly recommend, is The Hairy Museum, a largely paleontological site run by a New Mexico museum guy. I don't know him (yet-- though I intend to contact him) ,but he and his site are also associated with the eccentric genius of fish and paleontology art, Ray Troll, whom I met a couple of times in Bozeman. We crazies have a way of finding one another. Hat tip Carel. Also see William Spears designs, which fetures among other wonderful things cloisonne' pins by Troll. I have one (among many) featuring a skull over a keyboard that says "Write hard, die free".
Posting may be sporadic here until guests are gone, but I will keep storing up tidbits.
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