pets

The Great Turtle Escape

May 11, 2005

shot Apr 16, 2005, 2:25 mins music: The Animals Now that the weather’s finally getting warmer, we figured the turtles could spend time outside, so we bought some low fencing (intended to demarcate flowerbeds or something) and planted it in the garden. The enclosure didn’t need to be very high – turtles don’t jump, after [...]

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Macho Animals …with Artificial Testicles

June 2, 2004

My friend Sara runs the Prevent a Litter Coalition, an American charity promoting spaying and neutering of pets, to prevent unwanted litters of puppies and kittens being born and (often) abandoned, abused, or euthanized because shelters cannot find good homes for them. From Sara I learned about Neuticles, fake testicles for neutered pets – so [...]

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Red-Eared Sliders in da House!

February 15, 2004

We don’t have a normal array of pets. We have a horse (if you can call a horse a pet; at any rate, he doesn’t live with us), and we have two turtles, Poirot and Marple. We don’t know their sexes, so they’re not M. Poirot and Miss Marple, just Poirot and Marple. We do [...]

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