True Animal Stories You May Not Have Heard

It’s a good time to go for a hike in the mountains: word is, the bears are on the move… Because of the drought, they can’t find the berries they like to fatten up on and have to range farther afield. I imagine it’s not just the berries, either. In lush years, there’d be more [...]

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Sometimes you don’t have to leave your living room to get close to nature, it just rubs right up against your window. Cows have come through here before. Long ago the dead landlord had this house wired for dish TV, and one stumbled over the coaxial cable in the middle of the night and shut [...]

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Callie the Wonder Cat is smarter than your cat, so just get used to it. This is the smartest cat I’ve ever seen, although maybe being preceded by Hobbes the Wonder Cat tilts the scales a bit. In Hobbes’ case, “wonder cat” was satirical, but he had a beautiful soul. Come to think of it, [...]

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We have bluebirds here all year. The western and mountain varieties, of course. That was one of the strangest things to bear witness to after moving here from Maryland. Back on the good ole Eastern Shore, bluebirds were the proverbial harbingers of spring. It was always a joy to see them build their nests in [...]

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My room on the third floor of the Homestead Suites hotel in Austin was home to more than just me, I discovered two nights before I left, namely a tiny gecko (two inches long) in the overhead fluorescent light fixture. At first I thought a previous guest had placed a rubber lizard there for a [...]

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The first one just ran across the road about 20 miles outside of Austin as I was heading back to Taos. That was pretty funny, though, like encountering a chimney sweep sweeping a chimney. What else was the bird supposed to do? He (?) ran all the way across the road without stopping or flying, [...]

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The bears are awake, according to the paper, but no, I haven’t seen any. The last bear on these premises was the one who decided to try to climb the plum tree out front a few years ago and broke it down to the ground. I didn’t see that one, either, but nothing else could [...]

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This may show up on FotoFeed eventually, but I thought everyone deserved a look at Callie the New Mexico Wonder Cat right now! UPDATE: Must remember not to leave comments on political blogs when I’m angry at my mother, so to speak. Or the old man. Yes, I know. I only visit three or four [...]

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“Callie-Wallie, Callie-Wallie
Callie-Wallie, Callie-O
Callie-Wallie, Callie-Wallie
Callie-Wallie, here we go!”

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