Archive for June, 2007

Create Some Potent Catnip Extract

If you want to give kitty a special treat, see talbotron22’s excellent step-by-step tutorial, DIY Kitty Crack: ultra-potent catnip extract.
Instructables is a project tutorial site where you can show and learn how to make all sorts of wonderful things.
I wonder what would happen if I rubbed some of this on Laika…would Buddy and Scout feel [...]

links for 2007-06-13

DNA may help create designer dogs | Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Includes background and photo o f”Bully Whippets”, a freakish hyper-muscled pure bred Whippet.
(tags: dogs genetics breeds)

A new life for puppy-mill dogs
Would love to see these places just shut down completely.
(tags: dogs ethics)

NPR : Digging Up a Dog’s Family History
Interview with John Woestendiek, who [...]

Rhino-Cam and Horned Puffins

No, it’s not used to observe Rhinos…it’s used to observe Rhinoceros Auklet nesting tunnels!
Learn more at Los Farallones, the weblog kept by Point Reyes Bird Observatory researchers happily marooned on the Farallon Islands west of San Francisco.
Speaking of sea birds and the Bay Area, there have been an unusual number of sightings of Horned Puffins [...]

A Pod of Whale Tidbits

Update: there have also been unusual whale sightings in Bodega Harbor and Tomales Bay in Northern California.
With Humpback Whales Delta and Dawn making news headlines by hanging out in the Sacramento River, it’s easy to become curious about why they headed up that way in the first place, and what actually turned them around. [...]