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Friday, 20 June 2008

Beaky-woo rides the T as 'America's Dog'

spreading peace and love all around Boston :0)

C'mon guys, follow me!

Man this train was crowded. I had no space and some chick kept saying I was licking her leg. I think it was just my wet nose.

C'mon train, where are you? I want to get home before the riots.

Celtics fans post-finals game

It's still not here. Sometimes the T sucks, but it does let me on for free. 'Cause I'm 'America's Dog.'

Posted: Jun 20, 2008 14:17

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Friday, 18 April 2008

Cleo, I love you so but you must stop howling or we'll be homeless

Today is the first day I left her alone in the new apt. to go to work. I ran her 3 miles before work and gave her what I thought was plenty of drugs. I explained to the concierge that we were new and my dog was scared to be alone in the apt. so here are my numbers for cell and at work to call if there's a complaint. I didn't even get my 2 T stop commute before I had a vm about Cleo's howling. So I crossed the street and went back into the inbound train station to go home. Rose, the concierge said a woman on the 5th floor (I'm on the 6th) thought the dog was hurt because of her howling and Rose went to check on her and thought anytime Cleo heard noise like the elevator she howled. So I went upstairs and didn't hear anything after standing there a bit so left. Ran home (1.65 miles) to check her at 1:30, took her outside and she just wanted to pull me in the direction of our old apt. :0( Brought her inside, hung out a bit and gave her some yummy treats and tried to leave, took the stairs this time but by the time I got to third floor I could hear her howling and it didn't stop when I got to first floor so went back up and hung out more. But I couldn't stay forever so gave more food and left on the elevator. Heard more howling but just ignored it. Haven't gotten a call since. Will try to leave her around 5 and get home to deal w/ her. We'll see how the long weekend goes. I'm on call so I hope I don't get called in and have to leave her too much. I plan to bring her to the trials and the marathon, but I need to do a 20 miler tomorrow so I guess I'll be crazy and run around Boston Common and the Public Garden a million times w/ my cell phone handy to respond to complaints.

Cleo please don't be so crazy scared! You are okay on your own. Trust me!

Posted: Apr 18, 2008 16:24

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Monday, 24 March 2008

Sorry Cleo, I just ordered your drugs

I've made the decision to start Cleo on clomipramine. I got the generic but there is a dog-specific formulation Clomicalm. It was about 60 cents more pure capsule though and she'll be taking 1-2 per day in the beginning and possibly double to triple that depending on how it works. I got 100 capsules for now. It takes awhile to kick in so I thought I'd start her now since there's plenty of anxiety to be had once rr and jenn start moving out and then she goes to Janet and Annie's while I'm on vacation and part of that will be in a kennel too so I think it might help her through all that, plus then when I get back from vacation hopefully she'll be coming to live w/ me in the new place. By then I should know how it's working and if I need to add something else to it or can take her off. I want her to be comfortable in my new place. Maybe this will help. I'm givin' it a try.

Posted: Mar 24, 2008 11:24

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Friday, 14 March 2008

Le pauvre chien a eu la rage

If you don't want to see a cute dog, don't click to see the pictures. There is no happy ending.

RABIES, CANINE - FRANCE (02): INVESTIGATION

A ProMED-mail post http://www.promedmail.org ProMED-mail is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases http://www.isid.org

[1] Date: Fri 14 Mar 2008 Source: Eurosurveillance edition 2008; 13(11) [edited] http://www.eurosurveillance.org/edition/v13n11/080313_1.asp

Identification of a rabid dog in France illegally introduced from Morocco

Introduction

On 26 Feb 2008, the National Reference Centre for Rabies at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France, confirmed the diagnosis of rabies in a domestic dog living in Grandpuits, Seine-et-Marne district, a suburb of Paris. The dog was a 9 month old mixed-breed female, named Cracotte (pictures available at http://www.invs.sante.fr/display/?doc=surveillance/rage/actu.htm.)

It developed its 1st symptoms on 15 Feb 2008, had bitten its owner and one neighbour and was euthanized on 19 Feb 2008. The viral strain was identified by the National Reference Centre for Rabies as a strain belonging to Lyssavirus genotype 1, Africa 1 lineage, originating from Morocco. According to its owner, Cracotte had never been outside France. France has been declared officially rabies-free since 2001 [see comment]. An investigation was undertaken to identify the source of infection and modes of transmission for Cracotte in order to identify potentially exposed individuals and animals and to carry out an assessment of the risk of rabies virus transmission in France.

Read the rest

Posted: Mar 14, 2008 16:31

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Wednesday, 05 March 2008

Happy 13th Birthday, Billy!

Who would have thought grumpy old man would still be around?

'Reah, realri, rust ra rause rubble, ruckin ritches!'

Here's me and Billy at Brighton apt.

Billy in the grass on the way to his new home. We got him in Ohio and this was on the way back home to Buffalo.

Billy at his favorite tree at home in Buffalo.

Billy was his food dish.

Billy with his Buddha.

Billy attacking me on the bed in Buffalo.

And Billy in the suitcase.

Good thing no sound effects!

Posted: Mar 05, 2008 03:25

Stop killing gorillas please

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Wednesday, 20 February 2008

Poor gorillas

Posted: Feb 20, 2008 12:13

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Wednesday, 09 January 2008

Here's a lesson, kids: Don't mess with the old man's raisins.

Or else

Posted: Jan 09, 2008 15:50

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Monday, 07 January 2008

Cleo started her exercise plan

and was not too excited about it.

She was sleeping on my bed Saturday afternoon when I made her get up to run.

I woke her but she didn't want to move.

I kept bugging her until she finally lifted her head.

I still had to nudge and nudge her to try and get her off the bed.

Finally, out the door!

She was a good sport and ran 3 miles w/ me. She basically ran behind me the whole time, No! I wasn't dragging her. She used to run w/ me all the time but since has gotten lazy and fat so she's just not that motivated to run fast but she still did okay at about 9:30 pace.

I gave her yesterday off but today she has to do something.

Posted: Jan 07, 2008 12:42

They won't get the boot back to research with the Chimp Haven is Home Act.

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Friday, 04 January 2008

Chimps can stay at Haven

Regardless, Poor Chimps!

and this, out of Paris, is just whack.

Posted: Jan 04, 2008 16:37

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Monday, 31 December 2007

That Trader Joe's 100% whole grain FIBER bread must be delicious

you can't just eat one piece!

I made this whole trek over to Trader Joe's in Brookline because my friend told me about the champagne over there. She did a taste test the other day and bought some so I thought I'd head over and buy some for the party tonight plus I never get to go over to that Trader Joe's. It was a mad house. I got a couple bottles of champagne, some bread, cereal and chocolate milk but that was all I could take of the store so I had to bolt. So anyway, took my sweet time getting home, made it to Downtown Crossing for a little more shopping and then home to feed the dogs. Fed Cleo and took Billy out while she was eating because it's easier that way. Came back home to find Cleo on my bed eating the whole loaf of bread I just bought. Now she's probably going to be shitting all night long.

Warning roomies, I'm leaving at 9 for the party, you better take her out on the hour for the shits she'll have from eating all that fiber.

Nice Cleo. You'd think I fucking starve you!

Posted: Dec 31, 2007 18:46

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Sunday, 23 December 2007

Check out these GIRAFFEs

Next to the dog, giraffes are my favorite animal. They're so awesome!!!

Check out this article for some latest genetic findings.

When I was in Paris I made a trip to the zoo with Jen mainly to see the pygmy hippo baby but I was amazed with their giraffes. Check them out!

giraffe1

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giraffe3

giraffe4

giraffe5

Posted: Dec 23, 2007 14:43

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Thursday, 20 December 2007

Once upon a time I met a Beaky!

Her name is Cleo. This is the first day I met her. Mr. Kreissler brought her all the way from his place in Oklahoma to my place in Kansas.

She used to howl A LOT more, like, ALL THE TIME!

She used to play with her doggie roommates. This one is Boston. His daddy liked the band Boston and named him after them. Just so happened I was transplanted to this strange place from the city of Boston.

She liked to relax on my head too while I was watching TV on the couch in the living room.

Now she's pretty lazy!

Posted: Dec 20, 2007 17:55

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Thursday, 25 October 2007

An update on the ape art exhibit

I contacted Al Setka today by email. He's the Director of Communications for the Great Ape Trust of Iowa. I wondered how those of us not in the vicinity of Zanzibar, the coffee shop in Iowa that is exhibiting the paintings, could get ahold of one of the paintings. I got a very quick reply with some great news!

Hello Heather,
Thanks for your email and your interest in Great Ape Trust of Iowa. As of this afternoon,
15 of the 16 paintings have been sold, which is beyond our most optimistic expectations.
We are about to open www.GreatApeStore.org, our on-line gift shop next week. At this
point, we anticipate paintings being offered on the site either through retail sales or an on-
line auction. That would most likely be in early 2008.
Thanks again for your interest.
Sincerely,
Al

I was thinking that selling them online would be a great idea! Now hopefully we'll be able to.

Posted: Oct 25, 2007 15:37

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Wednesday, 24 October 2007

Check out the gorilla baby!

Here's an article w/ pic but don't forget to check out the YouTube video as well.

Posted: Oct 24, 2007 15:21

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Tuesday, 23 October 2007

Check out the "Apes Helping Apes" art exhibit

You can find a link to a slide show of the art on display at Zanzibar in Des Moines, Iowa. The link is in the middle of the article on the left hand side. I want to buy one. They should have this art for sale online.

Posted: Oct 23, 2007 15:26

What a ridiculous article!

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Thursday, 30 August 2007

Leave the pit bulls alone!

"The Farmers Boys are absolutely huge, they are massive, they are the Manchester United of the dog fighting world"

Posted: Aug 30, 2007 14:50

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Wednesday, 22 August 2007

Related to the recent killing of those gorillas I posted about

Read this

And this too, some kinda positive news

Posted: Aug 22, 2007 15:21

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Friday, 17 August 2007

Stop killing the gorillas!

Sad news on this blog.

Posted: Aug 17, 2007 10:16