My mother is turning into a crazy cat lady… Except it’s with Great Danes.
The truth is she’s gotten involved with the local Great Dane rescue and has ended up adopting a couple and fostering a couple. That’s a whole lotta dog for one house. My dog, Mingus, doesn’t much care to visit Grandmama’s house anymore. 
The point of the post, though, is that she’s gotten more involved in a professional capacity. Just one of those involvements is fund raising:
So, I’ve been busy, busy, busy with the whole Dane Rescue thing, and we are planning a dog walk in Cherry Creek State Park sometime in September. We’re looking for corporate sponsors, t-shirt donors, pledge collectors, contributors to a silent auction, and of course walkers. If you have any contacts that might be able to help on any front, let me know.
So, let me know if any of you fine people can help in any way.
We sure do!
Here in the Colorado Front Range, the bubonic plague has long been known to fester amongst the prairie dog colonies that litter the landscape. Lately, though, it’s been encroaching on the suburban bliss of our “little boxes” by way of the squirrels that run our fences and the bunnies that ruin our lawns.
And now it’s in our monkeys.
Of course, how did the moneky catch the disease? BY EATING A DEAD SQUIRREL! Stupid monkey.
What baffles me is I have yet to see a single flea since moving to Colorado, but it seems they’re out there. Guess they grow ‘em invisible ’round these parts.
Oh, and check this part out:
Although the plague, an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, is the same disease that killed 25 million Europeans in the 1300s, it now can be treated with antibiotics if caught early enough. Still, it is fatal about half the time, according to health experts.
Well, which is it, young feller? Treatable with antibiotics or 50% fatal?
Senegalese chimps appear to manufacture and use spear-like implements.
In one case, Pruetz and Bertolani, from the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies in Cambridge, UK, witnessed a chimpanzee extract a bushbaby with a spear.
In most cases, the Fongoli chimpanzees carried out four or more steps to manufacture spears for hunting.
That’s just great.
When were humans first making spears? At least now we can write up a timeline for when to expect the Simianistas to take over completely.
How Not to Talk to Your Kids by Po Bronson (Interesting considering some gossip I’ve heard regarding how Bronson’s kid is handled day to day.) With nice extras in Po’s blog.
Then the students were given a choice of test for the second round. One choice was a test that would be more difficult than the first, but the researchers told the kids that they’d learn a lot from attempting the puzzles. The other choice, Dweck’s team explained, was an easy test, just like the first. Of those praised for their effort, 90 percent chose the harder set of puzzles. Of those praised for their intelligence, a majority chose the easy test. The “smart� kids took the cop-out.
As a so-called “smart” kid, I can recognize that. Luckily, my upbringing also offered example after example of work ethic and perseverance.
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Pharm Animals Crank Out Drugs — Ew… I’m generally fairly pragmatic about stuff like this, but yeesh this makes my skin crawl.
This might be scarier, though.
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This is awesome!
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, signed into law by George Bush the elder, led to creation of the ragingly popular Do Not Call List. But tucked away in the bill was another important provision that entitles consumers to take what’s called a “private right of action.” For each violation of the act, consumers can sue for a $500 penalty. Violations include calling after a consumer has told a company to stop, or failing to provide the consumer with a copy of the firm’s Do Not Call policy.
That’s almost enough to make me start answering those “Unknown Name / Unknown Number” calls I get every day.
Specifically, too much of it.
Sienna Miller got plenty:
But the over-zealous creature proceeded to stick its little monkey tongue into Sienna’s mouth.
The Alfie star adds, “I sort of made out with a monkey… It was a sweet monkey but, no, that’s too much.”
And to finish off the bizarre encounter, the monkey proceeded to urinate on Sienna’s back.
And down in St. Kitts it’s a major problem, I guess:
There is no point talking about increasing agricultural production in St. Kitts if we continue to ignore the serious monkey problem we have here – namely, the huge and ever increasing population of monkeys that wander the country side devastating vegetables and fruit crops wherever they go.
Personally, I’d go with the monkeys eating my fruit rather than sticking their tongues down my throat.
By way of kinyahbrutha: Court Reprimands New Delhi Over Monkeys
As forest cover around New Delhi has shrunk, the city has struggled with a growing simian population. Government buildings, temples and many residential neighborhoods are overrun by hundreds of Rhesus macaques. The animals will occasionally snatch food from unsuspecting passers-by and even bite them.
And by way of Dear Abby: Husband’s monkey business is sign marriage is in trouble
When Suzy wants to have sex and asks him to come to bed, her husband refuses and tells her, “I’d rather spend time with Jocko.”
Grocery snatching and home wrecking… Insidious little scamps, aren’t they?
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