–Woo hoo! A pet shop in Malibu recently refused to sell a puppy to Paris Hilton, who wanted to use the dog in a photo shoot. They regarded Paris’ request as too impulsive in be in the dog’s best interests.–Two paws up to this pet shop for showing good judgement!
I loved an episode on South Park a while back that showed Paris’ dogs needing frequent replacement as they would commit suicide…
–A fair number of folks have animal tattoos; even former Secretary of State George Shultz was reputed to have a tattoo of a tiger on his, err…behind. Statistically, about 18% of males have a tattoo. For those of us who are furry, a tattoo of one’s inner species has deeper, more profound significance. It is not only permanent jewelry, but an exterior manifestation of one’s inner self.
I have furry tattoos, and regret none of them. If you aspire to a furry tattoo, remember that it is permanent, unless you undergo expensive and painful laser removal. As with something permanent, consider whether you will still consider yourself furry in a few years; I’m furry for life, and hopefully thereafter! Consider the location of your tattoo; upper arm tattoos, for example, can be hidden in most attire. By all means, have the tattoo done by someone who knows what they are doing, is a competent artist, and has safe and sterile practices. If you can’t afford to have a quality tattoo done now, save up and wait until you can!
That all being said, if you’re furry and you know it, then your hide can really show it!
— The G4 network can be a mixed bag, with some good stuff and some less than exemplary; taste is subjective, of course. But on a recent presentation called Wired Sex, a show was presented on fetishes available through the internet, and grouped furries rather broadly as one of them, in the same category as a rubber and latex fetish. It was the worst, most biased portrayal of furry culture that I have seen since the notorious CSI episode.
The furry community is quite diverse, and I resent any portrayal of furry culture that paints us all with the same brush. Stereotypes are at best misleading, and are often hurtful; they substitute for thought and objectivism. For some, being furry admittedly can be a fetish, but we certainly are not all the same.
The show did make the valid point that the internet has drawn many of us together who previously were isolated, and given us a sense of community. I hope that someday we simply will be accepted by the larger culture, just as we accept that culture and the many groups within it.
— MonsterQuest in a current new episode presented a story of a “vampire-beast” killing goats and dogs in the small North Carolina town of Bladenboro. In some cases, the dogs killed were pit bulls; no easy kill! Slain animals in some cases had their skulls crushed flat with blood pretty much extracted from the victim’s body. What’s additionally intriguing was that similar slayings occurred 50 years ago, drawing hunters from a wide area in search of the predator.
The episode came to the conclusion that the killings most likely resulted from a mountain lion relocated to the area, although this explanation didn’t seem to cover all of the incidentals of the cases reported…
— I found the season premier of Monster Quest rather disappointing. It was about monster hogs, giant pigs supposedly a growing problem in certain southern states like Texas. Investigative techniques were used like attaching a camera to a wild pig and releasing it in the hopes that it would lead to these giant pigs…that’s right, a hog cam! Despite amusing close-ups of pig bristles and bouncing countryside, no giant hogs were found.
And what about the people who investigate and capture wild hogs, the so-called hog wranglers? Would you like a job like that, or would you eventually get boared?
(This blogger not responsible for mental anguish caused by atrocious puns…)
Courage, the Cowardly Dog by John R. Dilworth has many enemies, some human, others animal, some otherworldly. My personal fave is The Cajun Fox (pictured), who wears sunglasses and desires to cook Courage’s owner, Muriel, into a stew or gumbo. He never succeeds, but looks very good in his efforts.
Hopefully we will continue to see more of this fox, along with other memorable furry enemies such as Le Quack the Duck, and of course the Cat. Evil is so much more interesting than good, don’t ‘ya think? 
— Now this is strange… it may someday be possible to generate meat artificially using cloning technology without hacking it from an animal. This would be done in the same fashion that cells and organs might be generated from stem cells; muscle tissue would be generated without it having come from a once-living, intact creature. Rewards have been offered by some animal-rights groups towards this end, with chicken flesh the most likely to be initially created. Ethical questions and divisive, organization-splitting differences of opinion abound as this new territory begins to be explored…
— A giant squid currently being thawed out and examined in New Zealand has the world’s largest eye with a lens the size of an orange; the eye itself in total is about the size of a dinner plate. The squid measured about 26 feet long when caught accidentally by fishermen off Antarctica last February; it weighs in excess of 1,000 pounds!
Giant squids are mollusks, cephalopods to be more specific that are related to the octopus. Specimens larger than this one are regarded to exist in the ocean depths!
–On April 25th, a 66-year-old retired veterinarian triathlete while training was killed in a shark attack off the California coast. It was the first shark attack there in four years, and the 96th since 1926. The man suffered massive bite wounds to his legs by the Great White, and attempts to save him failed. The shark swam away after inflicting the fatal bite…
— The 39-year-old trainer of a grizzly bear called Rocky was killed by the bear with a bite to the neck at a training site in California called Predators in Action. The 5-year-old bear was normally gentle, and had been trained to wrestle handlers on cue; he had appeared in several movies…the fate of the bear remains uncertain at present.
FOXSYLVANIA 
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