This is my kind of cage

We need to have this kind of cage for every cages animal in the world?

 

Only stacked with human poachers.

Poachers are illegal hunters who do not follow laws, rules and regulations.

What poaching means is that even though an animal is protected and laws have been passed to make hunting and killing that animal illegal, the animal is still hunted and killed.

Spend a few weeks dragging the cage around areas where poachers like to hunt.

At lunch and dinner time stop the cage hand food into the cage through the bars and take an hour watching the animals come to see the cage while eating meals.

The African lion could become extinct in the next decade, want to gawk up close at one of Mother Nature’s glorious creatures before they’re gone forever?

Cagey Cats

The Lion Encounter Ride inside New Zealand’s Orana Wildlife Park

http://www.takepart.com/photos/wild-wonderful-world-animals

Read between the lines, you be the judge

If you cannot get in through the front door use the back door?

Not long ago I wrote about the conditions of chicken companies in China and it was said that some was sold to the USA through Canada?

 

http://www.snopes.com/photos/food/chinachicken.asp

Now it is plain to see that one very large company is using the chicken it our fast food?

Today we find out that Ham is now a target?

 

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/05/29/chinas-largest-meat-processor-to-buy-smithfield-ham

Remember the Rats sold as Lamb in China?

http://sachemspeaks.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/in-china-rat-meat-is-sold-as-lamb/

Yum buys its Chicken from China

China's meat processor now owns Smithfield Ham, an icon in southern cooking.

Yum! Brands, Inc. or Yum! is a United States-based Fortune 500 corporation. Yum! operates or licenses Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, and WingStreet restaurants worldwide. Prior to 2011, Yum! also owned Long John Silver's and A&W Restaurants.

Yum is the world's largest fast food restaurant company in terms of system units—more than 39,000 restaurants around the world in over 125 countries.

China's Largest Meat Processor to Buy Smithfield Ham

The southern culinary icon announced it will become part of Shuanghui International Holdings in largest takeover of a U.S. company by a Chinese buyer.

Your Garden is a Warzone

Your Garden is like your country.

As with any other war, when you know that the enemy is about to attack, if you want to keep your garden from the enemy you must go to war! As with any war it is won before any battle even starts.

When up in New England one could stick a seed in the ground plant marigolds around it and come back later to pick some food!

But remember Mother Nature planted millions of rocks and boulders all over New England! :-(

I now live in the center of bug, wild life, bird alley, central Florida and quickly learned that I had to go to war to have my garden! :-(

Never use chemicals, not needed and will kill you and everything that you love plus all of the good bugs needed to help you win your war!

I started my newer garden some time ago

http://sachemspeaks.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/spring-sprang-sprung/

 My new garden is starting to take off, refrigerator full of summer squash plants full of green tomatoes and the rest of the garden climbing up the string and poles. :-)

Remember gardening can be easy and fun if done right. You must start early and do a little each day? Never over do your garden fun or it will quickly become work!

With my new garden, I have water ready so that each evening just before the sun goes down, if no rain I can water.

My older garden, I could not water, so I saved up plastic gallon bottles from milk, tea, store bought water and so on, punched some extremely small holes about the size of a good sewing machine needle, at the bottom, not in the bottom at the bottom, placed it into the ground up to its neck and next to every plant and keep them full. I have my old 5 hp rotor tiller (yes, over kill) from up north so I started these gardens (in Florida sand) with a good tilling, after that just keep an eye on weeds and grass.

No tiller, no problem, just turn some grass over, shake the dirt loose and use the grass for mulch. Mulching is for another posting! A short cut is to buy the black plastic covering and cover the ground, cutting holes as you plant? :-)

Now is the time to look back at my earlier posting

Spring Sprang Sprung

http://sachemspeaks.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/spring-sprang-sprung/

You can buy rolls of screening most any store and fence off your garden, a must!

Use the buckets explained in the above posting to keep our attackers from underground at bay.

In China, rat meat is sold as lamb

This makes one wonder how much if any meat was sold outside of China?

Police arrested 63 suspects and seized 10 tons of meats and additives, but not before the operation had sold about $1.6 million worth of fake meat over the last four years.

Keep this in mind the next time you go to your market to buy some meat? :-)

Does your food store buy from all over the world? :-(

Thousands of dead pigs recently floating in a river near Shanghai sparked fears of merchants selling dead carcasses.

http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-china-food-scandal-20130503,0,7174544.story?track=rss

Authorities said that traders bought rat, fox, mink and other uninspected meats -- and after adding red coloring and other chemicals -- sold them as lamb rolls for markets in Shanghai and neighboring Jiangsu province.

The fake lamb scheme in eastern China was among 382 meat-related offenses uncovered during a three-month national campaign that began in late January, the ministry said. Police have arrested 904 suspects, closed 1,721 factories, and seized about 20,000 tons of fake, diseased or otherwise adulterated meat.

It seems that it is that time again?

First, I wish to thank Mr. Richard Foster of Umatilla for the beautiful letter to the Editor in the Voices section of today's paper the Daily Commercial, 04/28/2013 (Florida Black Bear still in dire strait) and a "Shame of you" to the greedy inconsiderate writer on the same page just worried about where the money for the hunting will go?

The hunters in Florida are once again getting antsy, guns are all spit shined and ready to go, ammo is piling up, the price of targets is climbing and not enough defenseless animals to shoot! Darn, it is against the law for them to shoot each other, or is it?

The FWC (the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission) for some reason known only to the Commissioners and the hunters, is once again trying to take the Black Bear off of our Endangered Species list?

Besides the facts that it is not that there are too many bears but too many humans in their hometowns, who is going to tell my neighbors our Black Bear Family, that gives this neighborhood such joy in the morning and late afternoon as they pass by on their way to breakfast and back again from diner, that their days are numbered once again?

You see, this family lost their dad, her husband, to a careless driver traveling too fast for the 40 MPH speed limit through our town!

Not only did they lose their daddy, now you want to take away their mommy or maybe take the total family away from our neighborhood, just so a hunter can enjoy shooting something?

By the way, what is going to happen to the three bear cubs if you now shoot their mother?

Never mind, I already know, been there seen that!

 

Florida Black Bears May Be Removed From Endangered List

http://animalconnectionblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/florida-black-bears-may-be-removed-from.html

Matthew Schwartz, executive director of South Florida Wildlands Association, disagrees with the FWC and questions its methodology deciding the bear is no longer endangered.

http://southfloridawild.org/

 

 

 

 

This folks has got to be a first!

Our government admits wrong about anything?

The Navy has admitted its training exercises are killing or harming more marine mammals than previously acknowledged

While reading throughout the internet it would seem that it is now too late for this court case, the whales over on the west coast may now be going by the wayside thanks to my navy!!!! :-(

However, there will be many more court cases, you can bet on it! :-)

The training exercises occur in waters off the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington...including within a designated National Marine Sanctuary, and threaten six endangered whale species, including blue, fin, humpback, sei, sperm, and, the last 84 southern resident orca whales.

And last year the Navy admitted its training exercises are harming more marine mammals than they previously acknowledged.

These endangered 84 orca whales are already perilously close to extinction, and the mid-frequency sonar, surface-to-air gunnery, missile exercises, and underwater explosions used in the training expose these rare whales to potentially fatal stress.

Military training is important to our national security—but it can and should be conducted in a manner that prevents harm to endangered wildlife. And there are other, less-sensitive habitat areas where this training can be conducted.

In the past, the Navy’s mid-frequency sonar has been implicated in mass standings' of marine mammals including a mass beaching of nearly 200 melon-headed whales in Hanalei Bay in Hawaii.

We cannot afford for this to happen again, especially in a designated marine sanctuary that is home to so many endangered and threatened species.

Groups like this one (Earthjustice) need our help in a battle to help save our endangered wild life, if you can, please think about a donation to them, thank you and Creator blessings ~ GOD BLESS!

http://earthjustice.org/

If Alligators were a Machine?

If alligators were a machine they would be one of the most sort after machines in the world, yet humans kill them indiscriminately without cause?

 

An alligator is a fast, strong, durable, beautiful hunter however, unlike humans, if not hunger at no risk to anyone.

If a machine you would not have to build it, maintain it, or have it serviced every 3,000 miles.

Like all bottom feeders, they help keep disease under control from decay because they will eat almost anything.

Stay out of their dining room!

Like Native Americans of Indian country, they were here before the Europeans, in point of fact, they were here long before the first people.

So, why the open season on them for no reason?

Like everything else on Mother Earth, because we can!

HAPPY EARTH DAY to my brothers and sisters the Alligators!

Gator hunt at Loxahatchee delayed

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-beach/fl-loxahatchee-hunt-delay-20130417,0,4539334.story

 

SHE'S BACK!!!!!!!

As you know by now we treasure every creation that Creator sends our way.

We have two sets of Black Bear Families, Birds, Lizards, Alligators, just about every endangered species in Florida and so on.

We love Breanna more than our own life however, today our Land Lord returned for the summer!

Harriett is our live in Gopher Tortoise some just call a turtle, NOT.

She was on this property before we move in year around.

She has been hibernating for so long that we were starting to doubt if she had run away or not.

Her home (Den) is right up at the front fence which is 15' from the road by law. We, Harriett and this family have been battling with every company in central Florida because it would seem that our fence is a perfect place to park those big trucks, right on Harriett's home!

Need Wi Fi? Dig up Harriett's home on the way up and down the street 3 times!

Need to scrape the side of the road? Scrape right over Harriett's home!

Need to part your truck to talk on your cell phone? Right on Harriett's home!

Who could blame her if she did leave?

The worse thing was at the beginning of our meeting each other, coming from Connecticut from a life time of turtles, the first thing I did was give her a bath!

Gopher Tortoise Hate Water! :-(

It took me over a year before she forgave me for that one.

Then came the phone company installing Wi Fi down the road, of course it had to go underground and on this side of the street!

After they dug her up out of her home we had to keep her in a large plastic container until the job was completed, she still has not forgiven us for that one.

Thank You Creator because she is back today eating in the front yard!

P.S.

We do not treat the land with chemicals or replace the grass because that is her food plus Breanna runs around the yard!

New Photos of our baby

 

Well, Breanna took her annual trip to Gainesville for her check up and give up some blood for testing at the Small Animal Hospital University of Florida yesterday.

As you can tell form the photos her hates the place!

:-)

 

When was the last time you saw a doctor get down on the floor and play with a patient?

All went well until time to come home, the storm beat us to the parking lot, once we made it past Ocala it was a much better ride south.

 :-)

A time to love life!

Thank you God (Creator) for a heart to see and eyes to enjoy.

One should learn to love the life of retirement when, while sitting at the table every morning sun up and evening sun down, half into the computer enjoying reading about your blogger friends and their writing and half looking out the window at nature in all of her beauty while waiting the start of a work day, Bird feeders and bird baths to re fill and a garden to get ready for planting, when cars, trucks and our visiting motorcycles slow or stop while nature passes by. This is called Bike-Week in Daytona Beach Florida, a time when bikers from around the world come to enjoy our sun and beaches. It would seem that my neighbors, the Black Bear Family, do not care about our day light saving time, they and their ancestors have been crossing this road using their built in clocks since long before there was a road. This morning a parade of bikes shut down the road to allow nature to do her thing, they all shut off their bikes, bikes that are already quiet, and just watched until the family were well out of sight and on their way looking for breakfast. That in itself is a beauty of nature when a group of, so called ruff men, a faults statement, get to stop and enjoy natures time. Retirement, somebody's got to do it so I do my part. :-)

http://daytonabeach.com/post.cfm/post/5774/72nd-annual-bike-week

Life is good!

Amelia Island is pet friendly

Mommy and I took Daddy on a trip to Amelia Island for a few days on his birthday.

Mommy won the trip on our radio station in central Florida 105.9 FM.

http://1059sunnyfm.cbslocal.com/

We stayed those two days at the Hampton Inn Amelia Island at Fernandina Beach: Traveler Reviews

http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g34218-d88473-r142473226-Hampton_Inn_Amelia_Island_at_Fernandina_Beach-Fernandina_Beach_Amelia_Island_Florid.html

The nice lady at the desk

 

Then one day to rest at the Days Inn & Suites Amelia Island At the Beach http://www.reservationcounter.com/hotels/show/140494/days-inn-and-suites-amelia-island-at-the-beach/?TID=srFQpxoZX|pcrid|16735078587&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=days%20inn%20fernandina%20beach&utm_campaign=Hotel%20Chain%20-%20D&mm_campaign=61e23501c3a7666376c173fa44c75e69&keyword=days%20inn%20fernandina%20beach&hotelid=140494

 

Pepper's Mexican Grill & Cantina

http://peppersmexican.com/

 

All three places are really pet friendly, many places say that they are pet friendly however, it is plain to see that many do not have pets or they are liars just trying to get your business. Even the beach and state parks allow pets and have cookies at the ready when we showed up.

Snow Birds have arrived

We have had our yearly visitors down from New England for a few days now and this is the first time that I was ready for them, well sort of :-(

As you know, I am getting my old computer on line and ready for vacation, my new computer works great however, it is real bashful, it does not like to go on line while away from home? The old girl, however, has no pride, she will go on line any place. :-) Both are Sony Vaio laptops?

I'm talking about the American Golden finch and the American Robin, the robins have been down for about a month and only requite a daily refill of the two birdbaths. The PIGS, I mean finch, on the other hand keep inviting their friends, neighbors, relatives and their cousins the sparrows, OH DARN!

 

 

 

                            
 

This year while building those new types of feeders I also made a few mini feeders just for the finch food thinking that I would fool them, the only ones being fooled are our normal native birds and none of them are use to taking a ticket and waiting in line to eat. I now have ten assorted feeders around the house and could use ten more. Breanna, Donna and I spend half the day enjoying the sights and the other half keeping the squirrels in check, RETIRED? WHAT is RETIRED? :-)

Breanna is not going to make it without a lot more oxygen, she just keeps running from room to room, window to window, sleeps well though at night.

Oh well bring on the vacation, the old girl is rearing to go to work. :-)

We may not make it until vacation time, birds are happy. :-(

MINI BIRDFEEDER

If you want to make a Birdfeeder like mine and think that you do not have the time, I just made a shorter version two days ago that is working just fine at our sunroom window, I only have one so far, until we empty another water jug.

 Less fighting with more feeders.

A hook on the painted (paint your own color just remember that red or yellow and hummingbirds think that it is their feeder) upside down bucket, then drill a hole in the cap to the clear water jug for a wire or string. Cut out the label on just one side big enough for the birds to eat comfortably remembering to leave room for the seeds not to fall out, my clear water bottle has a label on only one side which works great because the back side is clear for watching from the window into the feeder while birds eat.

Drill a hole in the middle of the bottom of the water jug for a wire or string to a smaller upside down bucket painted.

Hang it just like the other one opening facing out so that a squirrel cannot jump in from the window side.

If the squirrel tries to jump up from the ground the bottom bucket stops him, if he tries to step down from the roof the top bucket moves and he falls off.

Update on that new birdfeeder, from 01/19/2013.

I thought that I would make it easier for bigger birds to land on something while eat the seeds, the green landing platform outside of the opening to the seeds.

No tail jumped on that in no time and turned it into his/her own feeder so I remover it that same day. That was back on Sunday the 20th.

Saturday, January 19, 2013

New Bird Feeder

http://airedalepets.blogspot.com/2013/01/new-bird-feeder.html

New Bird Feeder

New Feeder is up and open for feeding frenzy

I just replaced the old junk test Bird Feeder with a newer one painted for looks.

The sun is over the roof so it is impossible to get a picture on the outside looking at it with the window behind it today.

This one is inside looking through the screen, sorry.

It is hanging over our kitchen window.

I was worried about our song birds finding it and if they would give it a try, our crazy birds (we call the Nuthatch, Sparrows, Finch and Chickadees crazy because they come get one seed fly to a tree eat it and fly back 15 to 20's at each feeding, screaming while in flight)?

Darn we have to watch this go on all day long. :-)

No problem, as soon as I arrived inside, took the picture and was transferring over to the computed, all of the song birds came calling.

I installed a new thicker pole 7/8's PVC, it is 4' long.

The hooks drops down 12" to the upside down painted bucket with a painted Greek Yogurt cup inside that is real unstable to stand on for my buddy the squirrel.

I painted them two days ago.

Another 15" down to my two new feeder holder for the pigs, I mean birds.

Two water jugs with only one side cut open high enough for seeds, wide enough for the birds to feel safe while eating and the squirrel cannot get in from the back.

We get to watch from the kitchen through the window and through the back side of the jugs, a win, win all around because the old bird feeders are far away hanging as a squirrel feeder.

Oh I almost forgot about the guaranteed to work squirrel proof bird feeder that Mother-in Law bought me last year, NOT.

It took NoTail 5 minute to find and feed off of it.

I cut it into pieces to make a landing for the Blue jays, Cardinals, Doves, and our one crow George.

The rest of the birds should be back after the cold weather.

Beauty is in the eyes of the Beholder

Well if this is correct I give you my beauty!
We love the tree and the Wood Peckers

Pileated Woodpecker
Came home from the V.A. doctor's appointment this morning, no,
the other appointment I had to give some blood and things.
This one was uneventful except for being old, remarks are not required, just a little cold.

This was on what is left to a tree  looking out the kitchen window. Hay it’s still alive.
We have two families of these big guy’s that’s why the tree looks like this.
As long as it is still capable of blooming it must stay and it is a never ending battle when one wishes to protect both bird and tree!
I did have my sights on a much better photo only poor Breanna just could not keep it together long enough for the camera, she, once again went spastic on me!

Get your pets inside!

If we could only learn to loved each other half as much as our pets love us, what a great world we would be living in?

If it's too cold for you it's too cold for your pets Bring them inside.

This is a photo found going around Facebook, it looks real bad for any pet or people for that matter.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Angels-Army-United/420890687973715

I was so upset when first seeing this I wanted to join a posse looking for and tying up the owner/owners in a walk in freezer until you would need an ice pick to free them!

Then I remember Luke, "may he rest in peace".

No, my pal Luke just got old one day.

Luke lived most of his life in L. A. California, until I stole him, his sister and his pet (Donna) to New England.

The first snow that year dumped 18" in my yard.

After a lot of pleading we got him to go do his thing out in the snow.

Once Luke found snow it would take some dog cookies and a lot of begging to get him back into the nice warm house.

Zoe on the other hand hates snow.

Breanna is in Florida and never see's snow?

She hates water!

Now if this storm ever made it down to central Florida, few if any pets would survive!

I think that a dog in Florida is just for hunting Deer or for yard security, because few if any get inside of anyplace no matter what the weather.

It can get extremely hot and sometimes good and cold in central Florida, day or night, pets are outside!

We, on the other hand are on the other side of the spectrum, if Breanna is not welcome neither is our money!

Shopping (except for food) and eating out while on the run, if you do not except Breanna, we do not except you!

Now if this storm ever made it down to central Florida, few if any pets would survive!

I think that a dog in Florida is just for hunting Deer or for yard security, because few if any get inside of anyplace no matter what the weather.

It can get extremely hot and sometimes good and cold in central Florida, day or night, pets are outside!

We, on the other hand are on the other side of the spectrum, if Breanna is not welcome neither is our money!

Shopping (except for food) and eating out while on the run, if you do not except Breanna, we do not except you!