Pets Hunters

Is your life literally going to the dogs...and cats...and bunnies...and lizards?

Do you have ducks in the bathtub and spiders in the chandelier?

Do you mix up your kids' names with your pets?

Are your kids actually goats?

Animal Planet is developing a new series about families where the pets outnumber the humans, where the daily business of raising a family includes dealing with the whole animal kingdom.

If your house is one where any animal would feel at home, they'd like to know more.

Please send a short introductory email about your family to MyHouseIsaZoo.too@gmail.com.

Include a link to your website if you can. Emails with attachments will not be opened.

Yup, now that the cats are involved, it's all over for Hillary.

From the Darlington Family online collection, at the University of Pittsburg Digital Library, which contains 155 photographs taken by Edith Dennison Darlington Ammon and her brother, O'Hara Darlington, from 1885 through 1888. Photographs contained within the five albums document family, friends, leisure activities, and the artistic approach to photography that both Edith and O'Hara shared.

Between 1907 and 1938, Jim Corbett killed a dozen large cats who were collectively blamed for more than 1,500 human deaths. While being hailed as India's most celebrated hunter of man-eaters, Corbett developed a vast respect for tigers and leopards. Years spent stalking intelligent and powerful predators through the forests convinced him that these were graceful creatures that deserved respect. Even these man-eaters held his respect, for he understood that they were merely adapting to their desperate circumstances. "The stress of circumstances is, in nine cases out of ten, wounds, and in the tenth case old age," Corbett once wrote, "Human beings are not the natural prey of tigers, and it is only when tigers have been incapacitated through wounds or old age that, in order to survive, they are compelled to take to a diet of human flesh." Indeed, Corbett admired the wild tiger as "a large-hearted gentleman with boundless courage", and he urged India's people to rally for the conservation of "the finest of her fauna."

Read the rest of this fascinating biography at Damn Interesting.

Can you afford one dollar per month?
Just $12 per year can help 12 shelters in desperate need of financial help.

Each month the Animals Help Campaign will feature a different animal shelter in dire need of financial assistance.

Send one dollar to that shelter during that month. Your one dollar combined with other dollars will help to raise thousands of dollars for one needy shelter.

And this month's shelter is:
Critter Camp Exotic Pet Sanctuary

Critter Camp cares for the forgotten pets that many shelters do not accept. The animals there were about to be euthanized or had been abused, neglected or abandoned. Critter Camp is a licensed, registered 501c3 non-profit charitable organization, 100% no-kill, operated by volunteers and supported by donations. They care for over 200 exotic and unusual homeless pets of 30 different species!

Critter Camp has hands-on educational fun tours for small groups to learn about and experience animals such as a hedgehog, fennec fox, sugar glider, bearded dragon, chinchilla, and much more.They offer pet owner education and tips on what to consider before you get a pet.

They are planning to build a "green" sanctuary building that will use passive and active solar and wind power and other ecologically sound practices in the near future. They are offering to name the facility after a large initial donor too.

All of the information about the sanctuary, tours, our background and plans are on our site www.crittercamp.biz .

Send Critter Camp $1.00

(more is OK, too)

In her new exhibition “Of Sheep and Wolves” Austrian artist Deborah Sengl continues her exploration of the topics of stealth and deception, mask and simulacrum. Sengl's art is on exhibition at the art gallery Deschler in Berlin, Germany, through May 24, 2008.