The word ‘horse’ means any horse, wild or domestic, of either gender. The word ‘mare’ describes a female horse. I guess you know that and want to know the distinguishing difference in terms of anatomy between a horse and a mare. The point is, though, …
The origin of the word “jockey” goes back at least several centuries in Britain but as far as I can tell we don’t know the exact date of the origin. The word “jockey” is a derivation of the name Jack which was used as a …
NEWS AND COMMENT: I don’t think anybody has said it but when I read the story about a French hunter who shot a British guy living in France because the hunter thought that he was shooting a boar, I wonder whether he did it deliberately …
NEWS AND COMMENT: I’m told that more than 280,000 homeless people live on the streets in England and that 50,000 of them have a dog companions. You can imagine how bonded these couples are. Living this close together under harsh conditions must lead to an …
This is a very old saying based on superstition and it appears that the phrase “hag-ridden” applies to both people and horses. A hag-ridden person is one afflicted by nightmares or anxieties. A typical sentence might read, “He was hag-ridden by his early success”. It …
NEWS AND VIEWS: This is a domestic dispute with a difference because it’s taking place between two people who are homeless and who are clearly living on the streets of Los Angeles, USA. We are told that they have a dog and a cat and …
Big words indeed. And bold aspirations. There are plans to make the Tuscan city of Lucca more animal friendly, to integrate, through town planning and management, domestic animals into the residents’ lifestyle. This is going one step further than the usual: town administrators being concerned …
Keeping monkeys as pets causes suffering for the animals and it endangers their survival in the wild. The UK government is preparing to announce that anybody who buys, sells and breeds pet monkeys will face a significant fine. In the UK there are about 5,000 …
A research project – which is designed to open the eyes of humankind to the realisation that we can’t go on destroying the planet – came to the finding that if we weighed everything that humans had produced since 1900 it would weigh more than …
