CARDIGAN WELSH CORGIS

Very, very early this morning, according to Kansas City time, there was this thing called a Royal Wedding.  And what happens at a Royal Wedding is that a Prince marries a beautiful woman, and she becomes a Princess, and they live happily ever after.  And someday they might even end up being the King and Queen. A lot of people got up in the middle of the night to watch the Royal Wedding, but we didn't.  We just kept on sleeping.  If...

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SOME VERY NICE QUOTES

These quotes were said by some very smart people, so that means they are very good and very true things to say.  The quotes are not exactly about dogs, but they are about animals, and since dogs are animals, the quotes could apply to dogs.  So anyway, I hope you like them.All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

 ~Samuel ButlerAnimals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking,...

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BONOBOS

Mom just read a book that has bonobos in it, so she said maybe I should write about them in my blog.  The name of the book is Ape House, and it was written by Sara Gruen.  This same writer also wrote Water for Elephants, which is now a movie that is playing right here in town, and Mom wants to go see it soon.Anyway, the apes in Ape House are bonobos, which are sometimes also called pygmy chimpanzees or dwarf chimpanzees.  There are...

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THE TOP TEN PREDATORS

I found this list on the Animal Planet site, and it's a very scary list because any of these predators might think a cute little basenji like myself would make a good meal!  So I'm going to do my best to avoid these animals, and I suggest that all my blog readers do the same.10.  TARANTULAThese big, creepy-looking, hairy spiders like to hide and wait until some small animal comes by, and then they pounce.  They use their long legs...

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THE EASTER BUNNY

Spoiler alert!  Spoiler alert!  If you are a young child and you are reading this, you need to stop right now and go find something else to read.  I mean it!  Stop reading right now or you will be sorry!Okay, you have been warned.  Now I will tell you this sad truth:  the Easter Bunny isn't real.  He is what you call a mythical creature.  And the way we know this is because (1) rabbits cannot lay eggs, and...

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WHITE LIONS

Yesterday I learned that there is such a thing as a white lion.  I had heard of white elephants and white tigers before, but I never heard of a white lion.  The way I found out about these lions was that Mom saw a little article in the newspaper yesterday morning, and she showed it to me.  The article said that 4 white lion cubs were born Monday at the zoo in Belgrade, Serbia.  The mother of the cubs is also a white lion, and...

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MY OBEDIENCE CLASS, by Nicky

Mom enrolled me in an obedience class, even though I am a perfectly well-behaved dog, at least most of the time.  Mom has some idea about making me into a therapy dog, so that's why she signed me up for the class.  Also the class is all greyhounds, and that makes it a very special class.Anyway, last night, Mom and I went to the third class session.  Mom was embarrassed to go to class because we had not done our homework, not even once...

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MOM DOES HER CIVIC DUTY

Jackson County CourthouseMom had to do something yesterday that is called "jury duty."  And what this meant was she had to go downtown to the Jackson County Courthouse and sit there all day to find out if they wanted her to be on a jury.  You will probably remember from your high school civics class, or else from watching a show like Boston Legal on TV, that a jury is a group of 12 people who listen to a trial and then decide who they think...

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SNOWSHOE HARES

I think it's time I told you about another kind of bunny, since it is the Year of the Rabbit, as you might remember.  So today I will talk about the snowshoe hare.  These animals like to live up north, where there's lots of snow in the winter.  And what's really neat about them is that they can change colors with the seasons.  So in the winter, they are white, like snow.  And in the summer, they are brown, like the ground...

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