Inline with many recent news media stories about pet dogs being the new currency for criminals because they’ve become so valuable due to pressures on the marketplace brought about by coronavirus lockdowns, police have seized 83 allegedly stolen dogs on a travellers’ site in Suffolk, …
NEWS AND COMMENT: This is an update on the viral news about the surge in dog thefts in the UK and I assume in other countries. The dramatic increase in dog thefts has been brought about by the Covid pandemic which has encouraged people to …
Garden birds don’t like gardens (backyard in America) to be too tidy. “[Birds] need a slightly messy space. They need leaf litter, a bit of rotting wood at the back of a hedge”, said Lucy Hall, the editor of BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine which has …
In the UK there has been a 150% increase in Google searches for “buy a puppy” since the first lockdown. This indicates an almost manic desire by some people to adopt a pet dog. This attitude has been brought about by coronavirus. The lockdowns have …
Since the beginning of 2019 dog thefts have increased by a factor of 2.5. In one database of stolen dogs the increase is by a factor of three. It is believed that organised crime is behind a lot of these thefts because of a surging …
The narrow-headed ant is England’s rarest. They are identifiable by a deep notch at the back of their heads. They live on the verge of the A38 trunk road near Chudleigh Knighton and on an adjoining small nature reserve run by the Devon Wildlife Trust. …
There’s been wailing and gnashing of teeth (and I would have joined them if I had known about it) at the felling of a magnificent plane tree adjacent to a road in Hackney, London. It was called the Happy Man tree. It had occupied the …
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) tells me that the population of UK wintering great white egrets is 35. This means the number of individuals present from October to March. Today it is reported in the news media that Bird Guides a …
There is an argument that firefighters in the UK should not be involved in rescuing animals. I suspect that not many people subscribe to the argument but there are those that do. The classic incident is a domestic cat stuck in a tree rescued by …
