Hospice for pets

It is about time, California has been doing this for years.

Group helps make arrangements for patients animals.

Cornerstone Hospice is extending its care to patients companions.

Program keeps hospice patients and their pets together

http://www.standard.net/stories/2012/02/03/program-keeps-hospice-patients-and-their-pets-together

Pet Peace of Mind is a national program designed to help nonprofit hospices keep patients and their pets together by helping care for the pet. So far in Florida, only Treasure Coast Hospice and Cornerstone Hospice, which serves seven Central Florida counties, offer Pet Peace of Mind.

Gopher tortoises no longer buried alive, but will relocation save them?

Gopher tortoises

http://youtu.be/1zxjyDbPWxY

Gopher tortoises no longer buried alive, but will relocation save them?

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-04-16/news/os-gopher-tortoise-survival-20120416_1_move-tortoises-matt-aresco-relocation

Florida's approach to saving gopher tortoises from extinction a decade ago allowed developers to bury the docile reptiles alive in their burrows in return for what critics called "blood money" that was used to buy and protect tortoise habitat elsewhere.

Thousands of tortoises a year were sentenced to death at the height of Florida's building boom, with Orange County leading the way. Opposition from environmentalists and animal-rights advocates finally brought a halt to the state's "pay to pave" program in 2007 — just as the nationwide housing slump and Great Recession brought a halt to most new construction, anyway.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission allows developers to move tortoises that are blocking construction just a short distance to an undisturbed area of the same development tract. Most of the time, though, developers pay the owners of designated ranches, timberland and other largely natural landscapes to take in tortoises from construction sites.

To get paid for adopting these long-living land dwellers, those landowners must permanently designate their acreage as green space and ensure it remains healthy — not overgrown with brush, for example — as tortoise habitat.

a $1,000 payment to the owner of the relocation site.

"Jurassic Park bill"

Despite veto, Florida habitats still in jeopardy

By Bill Maxwell

http://ec2-50-19-166-97.compute-1.amazonaws.com/writers/bill-maxwell

As a long time follow of Mr. Maxwell I assume that someday you may get tired of my quoting him?

Oh Well, get over it because he is spot on once again!

I know that the bill was vetoed please read on to see why?

Florida's shortsightedness and greed have always guided our leaders. they have been responsible for paving over our grasslands, butchering our mangroves, backfilling our swamps, gouging our shorelines, damming our rivers and bulldozing our trees, other than that they are just your Norman politicians.

Now ever though our governor has vetoed this, as bill has put it, "Jurassic Park bill"

Gov. Rick Scott believes state law already allows the governor, Cabinet and the five water management districts to lease state lands for purposes deemed constitutional.

WHAT?

This is the man that is in office to help save this state?

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White House Pets Laddie Boy (An Airedale)

http://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/Pets/Laddie_Boy.htm

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-White-Houses-First-Celebrity-Canine.html

How fitting is this, the first recognized pet in the White House Family is an Airedale.

There were many presidential pets before him, Laddie Boy was the first to receive regular coverage from newspaper reporters.

Laddie Boy's got a huge amount of attention in the press. There have been famous dogs since, but never anything like this."

During their time in the White House, from 1921 to 1923, the Hardings included their dog in almost every aspect of their daily lives. When Harding golfed with friends, Laddie Boy tagged along. During cabinet meetings, the dog sat in (perched on his own chair). At fundraising events, the first lady frequently had Laddie Boy make appearances. The dog was such a prominent White House personality that the Washington Star and the New York Times seemed to run stories about the terrier almost daily in the months after Harding took office.Born on July 26, 1920, at the Caswell Kennels in Toledo, Ohio, Laddie Boy was 6 months old when he arrived at the White House on March 5, 1921, the day after Harding's inauguration.