Is the Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms implicated in animal cruelty because of her involvement in pigeon racing? The Queen has been sending birds to the South African Million Dollar Pigeon Race for about 20 years. The pigeons are kept …
CNN online has published an article which is incredibly depressing. It starts off with the sentence “Eleven billion metric tons”. This is the amount of plastic that we can expect to accumulate over the planet by 2025 according to new research. But there’s worse to …
Dr Desmond Morris makes a very good point. He says that in the history of the development of the domestication of the dog it has come to pass that pedigree dogs are looked after better than random bred dogs because they are more valuable. This …
In another breach of that ancient contract between humans and dogs, sometimes the faithful dog has been reduced to a human level of barbaric conduct; fighting dogs. Dogs were trained as the dogs of war. This was not one of the terms and conditions of …
People believe that dogs were domesticated between about 18,000 and 30,000 years ago. This is well before cats were domesticated at a maximum of about 14,500 years ago (until recently believed to be 9,500 years ago). At one time, on the planet there was one …
There is a rather sinister history, it seems to me, behind the name of the dog breed called Chow Chow. I’m told that the slang Chinese word for food is “chow”. And this is the name of the edible dog. And the Chinese edible dog …
Currently, under the Road Traffic Act 1988, a driver must give their details if they run over and injure a goat, pig, sheep, mule, ass, cattle, horse or dog but this does not apply to cats, surprisingly. It is clearly a current anomaly and one …
Samuel Pachuau, the Wildlife Warden of the Silent Valley National Park, Kerala, India, claimed that the culprits had placed firecrackers inside a pineapple and then given it to a pregnant elephant who chomped down on it causing the firecrackers to explode which severely damaged her …
In what I would consider to be an extraordinary declaration to the world in the strongest possible terms the city authorities in Beijing have announced plans to criminalise criticism of traditional Chinese medicine despite rising opposition to it by doctors and a background outrage at …
