Bearskin hats are still made out of genuine bearskin in 2019. Shame on the MoD.
Believe it or not, in 2019, British troops still wear genuine bearskin caps on ceremonial occasions and have failed to substitute bearskin with a synthetic material.
MikeB
Beavers can heal a lot of the ecosystems that humans have destroyed
Goldfarb says that the beaver in Britain does good and there should be more reintroductions into the wild.
Electrician saves his Jack Russell from choking to death on cheese
A guy uses the Heimlich manoeuvre to get cheese out of his dog’s throat which was causing the dog to choke to death.
Washingtonians will be turning dead bodies into compost
In Washington State, USA they are planning to turn dead bodies into, earthy, high quality, dry and fluffy compost. A third option from cremation and burial.
Campaigners criticise billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe for polluting Britain with plastic nurdles
Nurdles are small plastic pellets, the raw material for plastic products and they are polluting the marine environment very badly. They are a menace.
UK: warning from vets: cats need to wear sun cream
In the UK in hot weather cat guardians need to be alert to the dangers of their cat getting sunburned ear flaps. Sun cream is advised.
A vegan owning a cat is like meeting President Trump
Vegans and domestic cats can go together just as well as meat eating owners and their cats. What a person eats should be irrelevant to their relationship with their cat companion. And what the cat eats should be irrelevant to a vegan human. You have …
“He don’t bite” but dog scares the sh*t out of cowardy-custard delivery driver!
This is either amusing or irritating depending on the state of your mind. For me it shows a young woman who has little control over her dogs (there appears to be another inside her home barking). Also the delivery driver is a cowardy-custard. I mean …
New Lidl labelling scheme still hides how chickens are reared
In the UK a new supermarket scheme intended to tell shoppers the conditions under which chickens are reared does not achieve its goal. The scheme appears to pull the wool over the eyes of shoppers which is the exact opposite to the intention of the scheme.
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