The Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region reports they got 4200 abuse calls last year–that’s 11 ½ a day. Some are about horses that are a bit ribby and some are horror stories of blood and fear, whole herds starved or victims of cruelty. How do we even approach this overwhelming problem with our limited resources?
To begin with, it’s a huge, complicated issue. I’m just going to chew on one corner of it here. Can we agree that not all “abusers” are created equal?
This is Captain. Members of the Colorado Horse Rescue Network got him at the Calhan auction last weekend, and Ruby Ranch Horse Rescue took on his re-feeding program. First, humor me and go watch a short video (here) of him eating mush. I want to nominate him for the Academy Award for Sound Effects. It’s the first day of the rest of his life, and long or…
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Sled Dogma: Reality Bites believes that a tethering ban on a federal level is necessary to significantly improve conditions for the sled dogs associated with commercial mushing. Currently commercial sled dog operations are exempt from federal regulations under a “working dog” exclusion.
Please watch Dream an Iditarod Dream (with links to other videos). This video shows the living conditions of the Iditarod “participants” when they’re not “racing”.
See for yourself the conditions in which commercial sled dogs in Alaska are forced to live. These animals are located on a property deep in the woods with no residence on site — they are left alone to fend for themselves without any human supervision besides a daily distribution of…
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BELOW MY 4th or 5th response maybe 4th because I know one I received an error message in one!!! Go figure:
I like the old admin secure pages, I do not like the new stats page! I feel like we are being forced to use the new design! I DO NOT understand why WordPress cannot stop making changes! It’s VERY FRUSTRATING!!!!
Takes the fun out of blogging if I constantly have to figure out a way around the new changes!
I had several bed bound friends that have all but quit blogging because they cannot keep up or figure out how to respond to comments.
I’m techie so this of course it just a pain for me but for those who rely on WP to reach out to others it’s cruel to do to them! I realize “NEW AND INNOVATIVE” is the wave of the future, but the elderly/sick/not techie…
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Image of Nina: the last female Mexican Gray Wolf found in the wild. Courtesy of Emily Renn: Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project
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Report analyzes taxpayer bailout of U.S. public lands ranching [Part II of a series on ranchers]
by Vickery Eckhoff
Public lands livestock operators each cost taxpayers nearly a quarter of a million dollars in subsidies over the last decade. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, John Locher)
Five hundred million dollars[1]. That’s what 21,000[2] ranchers who graze their livestock on America’s iconic western rangelands are estimated to have cost US taxpayers in 2014 — and every year for the past decade. This averages out to an annual taxpayer subsidy of $23,809 per rancher — approximately a quarter of a million dollars each since 2005. So why does this small subset, representing just 2.7% of US livestock producers, protest the “welfare rancher” label?
The public lands grazing program is welfare.
That $23,809 — and it’s a lowball figure — is a form of…
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I couldn’t resist posting this cute little video of two month old wolf pup Shadow ❤
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Beating high blood pressure with coconut oil and exercise
– Either coconut oil supplementation or exercise training was shown to reduce blood pressure. However, only combined coconut oil and exercise training were able to bring the pressure back to normotensive values. The reduction in blood pressure caused by the combination of coconut oil supplementation and exercise training might be explained by the improvement of the reduced baroreflex sensitivity and by the reduction in oxidative stress in the serum, heart and aorta.
* Coconut oil supplementation and physical exercise improves baroreflex sensitivity and oxidative stress in hypertensive rats
Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, 10.1139/apnm-2014-0351
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Our homes are way more efficient than they used to be, but we’re using more energy per capita.
By: Lloyd Alter
Fri, Feb 13, 2015
Our houses are better (but bigger), and we keep burning more energy. (Graphic: U.S. Energy Information Administration)
It’s really quite remarkable, how much more energy-efficient everything is these days. Our houses are built to higher standards; our fridges use a fraction of the power they used to, our cars get better mileage — yet we are using more energy per capita than we ever have.I blame Stanley Jevons. His theory, also known as the rebound effect, was that if things become more efficient, we use more of them. Even as our houses get more efficient, they get bigger and…
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Here is President Obama’s 332-page plan to regulate the Internet. I wish the public could see what’s inside.
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AUTHORS
PROTECT YOUR WIP’s
BLOGGERS
PROTECT YOUR BLOGS
(For WordPress Users)
ADMIN
TOOLS
EXPORT
EXPORT (again)
FIRST TRY to
set it to ALL CONTENT then press
DOWNLOAD EXPORT FILE
CHECK to ENSURE the downloaded file has a size value LESS THAN 15 MB
IF the file reads ZERO – then delete it and do the following
GO BACK to Admin – Tools – Export – Export
Select POSTS
Select START and FINISH dates (say from January to December of the first year)
DOWNLOAD EXPORT FILE AGAIN
THEN
CHECK to ENSURE the downloaded file has a size value LESS THAN 15 MB
If it DOES.
Make a folder for the POSTS
labelled with the period the file covered…
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