FOXSYLVANIA

–Baying at the moon…it’s something we canids have been doing since we first evolved.  Such a simple act, really, yet so very satisfying, probably because it’s so instinctual, so primal…

–Have you ever tried baying at the moon? — It’s really quite gratifying!  Don’t be ashamed that your howls won’t be good enough…this is just between yourself and the moon!   Just find yourself a nice, secluded spot, focus on the moon, and howl…draw it out a bit!– Pour your very soul into it!  Very soon you will lose your inhibitions, become rather good at it, and begin to gain an emotional lift from the experience.  When you  howl at the moon, you become more in touch with your inner canine self, and become one with the night and all life in it!  You are linking yourself with a history beyond the human!

I especially enjoy driving down a darkened country road on a moonlite night and howling at the moon as I go…there’s a real magic to it, and it’s quite therapeutic! — You’ve heard of primal scream therapy, haven’t you?  Why pay some shrink for what we canids have done instinctually for eons? 

Do you realize that the earth has the biggest moon in relationship to planetary size in our solar system?–It’s awesome, really–Enjoy it! 

A guy smuggled a monkey onto an air flight from Peru, where he bought the monkey from a street vendor.  He was hiding the little guy most of the time in his hat while on the plane!   The monkey eventually came out from his place of concealment, and the guy was turned in by fellow passengers.  The monkey is fine…the guy’s got some ‘splainin’ to do!

–Heh, they’ve come out with a dog chew toy that looks like pro athlete and accused dogfighter Michael Vick!–Sweet!–Every dog has his day, right?

A high profile athlete being accused of this crime will bring the secret shame of dogfighting to public awareness, and hopefully help to end it…

It’s part of the language; brave as a lion, strong as an ox, meek as a lamb, sly as a fox…and the list goes on!  Such similes indicate the depth and power of animal identification, and the association of certain attributes with particular species.  On either a superficial or an in-depth level, by considering your psychological characteristics, you may come to identify your inner furry self, and come to realize what species you inwardly are.  This is a process of inner self-discovery that can be a source of strength for you, for your animal essence and spirit are vital, something at the very core of your being…

It’s uncanny and a bit creepy….but a cat at a nursing home in Rhode Island can seem to be able to sense when death is near.  Oscar the cat has curled up on the beds of 25 residents who soon thereafter shuffled off this mortal coil…bought the farm, if you will…speculations are that Oscar’s superior sense of smell detects changes in the human scent as death approaches.   Or maybe it’s Dr. Kevorkian’s cat…the grim kitty, if you will!

So if you wind up in a nursing home in Rhode Island, you may want to shoo Oscar the cat off your bed…  😉

True Story:  Zoey, a chihuahua in Colorado, saved the life of a 1-year-old baby by getting between the baby and a rattlesnake that had entered the family’s house.  The little dog took the snake’s fangs, saving the baby from the strike…

…and although it was touch-and-go for a while, the chihuahua survived following treatment!

Michael Vick, the Falcons quarterback involved in dog fighting, may face suspension and the loss of his very profitable Nike contract.  Here is something at least that will be understood, and may have a functional impact on this kind of behavior among the rich and famous! 

Why did Vick do it when he already has it all?–Probably the pursuit of the “high” involved, as when people with plenty of money in their pocket shoplift.  We are a thrill-addicted society, one that grows increasingly jaded…