– – You’re probably well aware that Bob Barker hosted The Price is Right game show for many years, and is a long time animal rights activist as well, having ended his shows with an admonition to “get your pets spayed or neutered.” The Robot Chicken show on Adult Swim did a cute bit with Barker going about following his retirement, and personally carrying out this mission, even using hedge clippers! <shudders>
But did you know that Barker was part Native American, and grew up on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota? Well, Barker recently made a personal appeal to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina to stop exhibiting bears in pit-like enclosures at three local zoos. Barker called the bears’ conditions inhumane and asked that they be turned over to a sanctuary in California…
—I appreciate you, my loyal, intelligent, and off-beat readers!–As of July 27th, we’ve had over 40,000 hits on this blog, reaching up to 769 hits on a single day!—Foxsylvania has been listed as a growing blog and on lists of “better blogs” (whatever they are), and it’s all because of you! 
— In an incident reported July 17th, a Colorado man used an 18″ chainsaw to successfully fight off a mountain lion that attacked him during a camping trip with his wife and two toddlers in northwest Wyoming! The adult male lion was described as being emaciated and showing other signs of starvation when he pounced on the man, an ex-Marine…Semper Fi, Dude! 
— MonsterQuest 
— Jeez, you can hardly turn around these days without another beloved 
–My people are moving on in…to Detroit, that is. That’s right, the Motor City! ‘Ya see, Detroit had a population of 1.8 million hyoomans in 1950, and it’s down to 900,000 now. With the big economic meltdown and GM goin’ belly-up, Detroit has an unemployment rate of 23%. Bad for hyoomans, good for us foxies; we’re movin’ in, ‘ya see. We figure we just might be able to do somethin’ wid da place…
–When I was a kid, I had a big collection of hard rubber dinosaurs which I regarded with love and veneration. 
–More convincing than other installments, the latest episode of MonsterQuest re-examined the classic Patterson film footage (vintage 1967) of a supposed Bigfoot as well as looked to the “Cripplefoot tracks” of 
— In his planned comeback concerts in London that now we’ll never see, Michael Jackson reportedly planned a nature theme which heavily involved live creatures; for his entrance, there was talk of Michael riding an African elephant while panthers were led on gold chains and parrots and other birds flew behind him. PETA and other animal rights groups understandably filed protests with officials, pointing out that “Animals don’t want to perform stupid tricks on a stage surrounded by screaming people, bright lights, and stage explosions.” Jackson subsequently announced that he would not be using any live animals in his concert series.
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