I know some readers share my interest in how dogs were fed in the past. In fact, some of us became friends years back on the old Pet Connection blog, talking about dog diets. Anyway, here are several passages on the subject from a few vintage books, and a dog photo from each for good … Continue reading Vintage Dog Books: Feeding
Author: YesBiscuit
Skeptic. Believer. eiderdown@yesbiscuit.com
Rescue: To Save from Danger
As a follow-on to The Fable of Dogtown, I wanted to write more on rescue - specifically, which shelter animals rescues are pulling and why in some cases, it's not helpful to those animals or the ones left at the shelter. When you hear the word rescue in reference to animal shelters, what comes to … Continue reading Rescue: To Save from Danger
Content Warning: Memphis Shelter Pets for Adoption
The Memphis Animal Services website provides photos for most of the listed adoptables but scant descriptions, usually just a couple words such as "heartworm positive" if anything at all. So there's no way of knowing if the pets in the photos are connected with cruelty cases or what their history may be. And since the … Continue reading Content Warning: Memphis Shelter Pets for Adoption
The Fable of Dogtown
Dogtown, USA is trying to cope with citizens needing help with their collectible dog items - books, figurines, art, etc. Some people are collecting beyond their capacity to safely store the items so the city needs to step in and seize their collection. Others are simply irresponsible collectors, leaving items on the street, at businesses, … Continue reading The Fable of Dogtown
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Animals in Art: Halloween
Witch by Jaroslav Panuska, 1898-1900 Illustration by Eric Millen from the book Victorian Macabre: Ghastly Short Stories Bat goblet by Henri Husson, 1909 The Witch by Lionel Lindsay, 1924 Woodblock by Bernard Zuber from the book La Vie Execrable de Guillemette Babin, Sorciere by Maurice Garçon, 1926 The Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse, 1886 … Continue reading Animals in Art: Halloween
The Handy Dog Booklet Series
In the mid-1940s, Captain Will Judy published a Handy Dog Booklet Series which included a dozen different titles. Each was illustrated and I've chosen some images to share from several of the booklets. Laws about Dogs, 1943: I'm dying to know the details of this case. Feeding the Dog, 1945: A filthy lie, I am … Continue reading The Handy Dog Booklet Series
The Coelacanth in Literature Following Rediscovery
Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer with the first coelacanth specimen (Image via Wikimedia Commons) Thought to have been extinct for 65 million years, the coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) was scientifically rediscovered in December 1938 when a specimen was brought by a fisherman to South African museum curator Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer. Ms. Latimer worked to preserve and identify the animal, which … Continue reading The Coelacanth in Literature Following Rediscovery
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Animals in Art: Birds
From the book Atlas de Zoologie: ou collection de 100 planches by Paul Gervais, 1844 Dancing in the Air III by Annie Ovenden, 2015 Mother Carey and her Chickens by John Gerrard Keulemans, 1877 Woodcut from the book List of the Vertebrated Animals Now or Lately Living in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of … Continue reading Animals in Art: Birds
