pickledookers

[pickledookers]

This blog is on hiatus until I get internet access at my new apartment. Apologies all around.

[pickledookers]

The wild colony from our old oak swarmed one February afternoon (the result of a successful mating cycle) and I came down to the garden to find a football shaped -vibrating- object hanging from the little trunk of one of my Persian Mulberry bushes.  Bees!  A call to our friendly neighborhood beekeeper, the fabulous Kirk at Backwards Beekeepers, and he was there within the hour.  It could not have been a gentler, less intrusive process for the bees.  They just walked into their new home.

[pickledookers]

Wolf Hybrid VS. Ferret - Video

[pickledookers]

[pickledookers]

There’s officially a Vegan ferret food. 

I’m sickened!

Just look at the ingredients! Those ingredients all promote the development of Insulinoma! A ferret on this I’m positive won’t even pass the 4 year mark. 

In case the image is hard to see, here’s quotes :

“EVOLUTION is the Only Pet Grade Dog and Cat Food Company that does not use Terrorized, Sick Animal or Waste Part Ingredients.”

"Evolution’s Premium Ingredients are designed to help your pet live a Healthier, Longer Life. This is not a guarantee. We can not release our actual test data until we have published in a national journal."Our 100% complete Evolution Gourmet Pasta Veggie Burger Flavored Ferret Kibble is specially formulated using Whole Grain Oats and our Gourmet Fondue Veggie Cheese Burger flavored kibble also uses Whole Grain Oats.”

Ingredients : Whole Grain NON-GMO Oats,Corn Gluten Meal, Soybean Meal, Soybean Oil, Carrots, Dried Tomato Pomace, Dried Potato Product, Dried Molasses, Deflourinated Phosphate, Lecithin, Sea Kelp, Taurine, Garlic, Potassium Chloride, Calcium Carbonate, Salt, Nutritional Yeast, Arginine, DL-Methionine, Enzyme Bromelain from Pineapple Stem and Fruit, Enzyme Papain from Papaya, Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus, Fermentation Product, Dried Bifidobacterium Bifidum fermentation product, Lysine, Choline Chloride, Zinc Oxide, Ferrous Sulfate, Vitamin A Acetate, Vitamin D2 Supplement, Vitamin E Supplement, Niacin, Ascorbic Acid, Calcium Pantothenate, Manganous Oxide, Vitamin B-12 Supplement, Thiamin Mononitrate, Kelp Meal, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite complex, Folic acid, Riboflavin Supplement (Vitamin B-2), Inositol, Biotin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite, Zinc Methionine Complex, Copper Lysine Complex, Manganese, Methionine Complex, L-Carnitine, Arachidonic Acid, Rosemary Extract, Cobalt Glucoheptonate.

Many, well, mostly all, of those ingredients are PROVEN to cause Insulinoma in ferrets as they are obligate carnivores. Anything of corn, sugar, starch, fruit and veggie causes the pancreas to work over time and eventually form numerous tumors that keep the pancreas functioning wrong. 

[pickledookers]

Fawn Rescue - Video

[pickledookers]

[pickledookers]

[pickledookers]

a mother’s love - photography by Peter Hasselbom

[pickledookers]

Amazing Friendship between a goat and a burro - Video

[pickledookers]

Loving Dog Adopts Motherless Kittens

[pickledookers]

by JooJoo

[pickledookers]

dogs dealing with cats sleeping in their beds

[pickledookers]

[pickledookers]

[pickledookers]

[pickledookers]

it’s friday! hug stuff