All the Creatures

Where would you like to go if money were not an object? Would you go on a horseback riding vacation? Perhaps riding in Ireland or on a wagon train in the western USA. What about scuba diving and visiting the Great Barrier Reef? Of course anywhere I would pick would have to involve animals. Of course Disney World in Florida would be a nice distraction but there are many other ideas for vacations such as Discovery Cove, a wildlife park and aquarium also located in Florida.

If you love animals and wildlife try to incorporate them into your vacations. A vacation that involved learning something new about animals or ecology would be the type of vacation that you would remember for a lifetime.

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Today is just a wee bit strange. Just for fun you can check out the video of the walrus playing the sax at the blog “Off the Wall - again”

Walrus playing the sax

Now on a different note, the video below is a local news item to me. You can watch all about the animals that were taken and the children too. Here are a few things you won’t see on the video:

The man charged with animal neglect is the father of all of the kids, he has a wife and a girlfriend living with him and are the mothers of the kids. That I heard from a source close to the family.  He also shot deer without a permit to get food for the dogs. He is facing charges for hunting without a permit. The property that he let the horse loose on is not open range land but other people’s property. He has been known to cut the fences and let his animals loose on other people’s property so he doesn’t have to feed them. The horses are all covered in lice and ticks. The kids rode the horses in a local parade several months ago. I personally witnessed that the horses were thin, covered in dirt, had not been brushed. The kids were using baling twine to hold the bridles together. All the other horse groups were shocked that they were allowed in the parade, but they paid their entry fee and that was what counted in the eyes of the parade organizers. This is a small community here and gossip travels fast.

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Politics should never be involved when it comes to animals but it almost always ends up that way. Take for example the current bond measure on the Oregon ballot, the bond measure is an attempt to raise $117 million dollars for the slight (5 acre) expansion of the Oregon Zoo located in Portland, Oregon. I have no problem with upgrading a zoo for the sake of the animals but in light of what has happened over the past year I think that the Oregon Zoo had better clean up their act before begging for money from the public.

First off they have just had one of their elephants give birth to a calf. This is a 22 month gestation period. The zoo complains that they do not have enough room for their elephant herd. If they knew they did not have enough room for their existing herd then why did they allow the breeding of one of the cows? They knew about the situation (lack of space) 22 months prior to the elephant giving birth. The story does not end there though. Local animal welfare groups are picketing the zoo because of cruelty allegations. The female elephant that just gave birth is the subject of the protest. It appears that the elephant was treated last year for over 100 wounds to her from her trainers elephant “hook”. Now why does an animal in captivity need to have wounds from a metal prong? Maybe before the zoo goes begging for money they had better prove to the public they have the best interests of the animals in the forefront. Right now it doesn’t look like they do.

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