I’ve never had the experience of being sprayed by a skunk. But I’ve been around others who have and trust me, it’s not an odor you forget. Skunk spray is made of sulfurous, oily chemicals in the anal glands of the skunk. Skunks can accurately spray up to 15 feet away but usually use this […]
There is an old song that entreats “Don’t Fence Me In.” But in the case of our dogs, we’ve rewritten it to read “do fence me in.” Even dogs that have been trained well and seemingly never disobey boundary limits may at some point decide to run off. You don’t want to take the chance […]
Mockingbirds can be found in the United States, Cuba, Mexico, the Antilles, the Galapagos and the Bahamas. They are the state bird of Texas, Tennessee, Mississippi and Florida. They were popular as caged pets in the 18th and 19th centuries (see Thomas Jeffrson) and are experiencing a revival now. Mockingbirds weigh about 50 grams and […]
