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Declawing Your Cat Is Inhumane and Painful

TheSloneGal — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:45:22 +0000

Many people consider their cats part of the family. They’ve became integral parts of our lives offering love and companionship. Yet, De-clawing them has became as common as spaying or neutering.

If you’re considering De-clawing our cat, there’s some things you should know about the surgical process. It’s not simply a type of manicure as most people might think. It is a very serious, painful surgery and it will takes weeks for your cat to re-cooperate! In some countries De-clawing is considered an inhumane mutilation and it is actually illegal!

A cat’s claw isn’t a toenail, it is adhered to the bone, sort of an extension of the bone. De-clawing involves literally amputating the last bone in your cats paw! It is comparable to removing the last joint on all of a humans fingers! And, even worse it’s not just one amputation, it is literally ten amputations in one surgery!… Read the rest

Animal facts Trivia

TheSloneGal — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:04:21 +0000

In the Guinness Book of World Records the largest dog that was ever recorded was in 1989 who was named Aicama Zorba of La-Susa was an eight foot and three inches and weighing in at over 343 pound English Mastiff.

Zorbra was from London, England is no longer in the Guinness Book due her death but there has never been another one to take her place yet. Now that is a big dog I wounder if this is where they got the ideal for Clifford the Big red dog for children?

Well we have the largest dog so how about the smallest dog now.
This little thing only measures in at 6 inches that is from his tail to his nose. It is a chihuahua. Can you just think how small it would look against Zorbra?

Click on the picture and read how big this little girl is.

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Mike the Miracle headless chicken

TheSloneGal — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:43:59 +0000

Can a chicken live for a long period of time with out its head? Looks like they can. Usually this is not really the case… they can stagger around for no more then 60 to some times 90 seconds due to the nerves jerking.

A rooster in Fruita, Colorado on September 10th of 1945 named Mike lived for a total of 18 months and he was headless or nearly so. WOW I bet he ran into walls. Wonder how he ate? That is a very fascinating thing, and so many things goes through your head on how and why this might happen. Here is how it did happen.

Lloyd Olsen was sent out by his wife to get a nice pan fryer. Keeping in mind that his mother-n-law (who loved chicken necks) was coming for dinner, and he wanted to be on her good side, he tried to … Read the rest

Pictures and Information About White Bengal Tigers

TheSloneGal — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:02:02 +0000

These tigers are in danger and not many are alive today due to hunters there are only 200 white tigers alive in the entire world it has also been studies that only between 5000 to 7000 wild tigers are left in the world.

In India within the last 100 years only ten white tigers have been seen.

Tigers love to live alone, the mother tiger stays with her cubs till they are big enough to care for themselves.

Within the past 70 years three tiger subspecies has went into extinct. The Javan, Bali and the Caspian tigers are no long in the world today.

There are many organizations that are trying to get the population of these rare and magnificent animals back up in numbers to help them survive.

The White Bengal Tiger is built differently then most tigers. here is a picture showing how they are built.

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Training Your Dog to Obey

TheSloneGal — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:11:44 +0000

Learning to train your dog to obey may feel a little like a psychology class, but luckily it is relatively simple and fun. The key to getting your dog to obey your commands will be a technique known as “positive reinforcement”. This entails rewarding your dog for doing the things you command him to do. Rewarding your dog does not only mean giving him a treat, but should also include gentle and reassuring petting, and nice words and body language.

The first thing you should train your dog to do should be to come to you. Let’s go over what you should do to train your dog to come to you. Start off in a safe environment with a leash, like your backyard, and call out the command clearly to your dog. The command should be the same sound every time so the dog learns to recognize that command. If … Read the rest