True Animal Stories You May Not Have Heard

If the post has to do with animals, this is where it lands. On the first page alone, you’ll find links to stories about bears, cows, cats, geckos, bluebirds, roadrunners, and jackrabbits. On the next page, I’ve got bees, chipmunks, ravens, magpies, a hypothetical bobcat, and a bunch more cats. Moving on, you’ll find elk, hummingbirds, sheep, goats, assorted bugs, and cows (again). I could go on, but you get the idea.

Some of these posts have photos, too. Enjoy! – JHF

Feeding the Jackrabbit

by John Hamilton Farr on October 14, 2009 · 5 comments

in Animals

Animals are spirits, too, you know. Just look at that face! I took that photo over a month ago. The jackrabbit is looking for fallen apricots, or will, once he decides to stop looking at me. But since we discovered he was coming around, we’ve started disposing of old fruit in the same place. Rotten [...]

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Natural Born Killer

by John Hamilton Farr on August 5, 2009 · 5 comments

in Animals, Best o' the Blog

“AAAAGHH!” she screamed. “Are you okay?” I shouted from the bathroom. (I was not in a position to render assistance.) “Yes… but THERE’S A MOUSE IN MY PURSE!” she yelled back from the living room. Just at that moment there was a loud rumble of thunder: the afternoon storms were making their appearance. “I’ve got [...]

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Chipmunk Christ

by John Hamilton Farr on June 29, 2009 · 2 comments

in Animals

“John, come quick! The cat’s got a long wiggly thing!” I guess you can tell that my wife doesn’t like to get too close. As it turned out, Callie had caught another chipmunk. By the looks of it, it was dead — no longer struggling — and boy, did she want to come into the [...]

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Bee Short! Testing the Zi6 [2nd & 3rd Versions]

by John Hamilton Farr on May 31, 2009 · 18 comments

in Animals

New toy alert (Koday Zi6)! Trying to see how different formats look in YouTube. This one is also in HD w/ different titles: Yes, this is HD, so it takes a while to download. You can then replay it without interruptions. About 25 seconds to initially download all of this 13-second video on my iMac [...]

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Cat Story

by John Hamilton Farr on January 21, 2009 · 4 comments

in Animals

Callie the Wonder Cat is big, longhaired, and may be a mutant. I let her outside sometime this morning and forgot all about her. Around noon, I heard the doorknob rattle and assumed it was my wife returning home for lunch. When she didn’t come in, I figured she had her hands full with bags [...]

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Cat Art

by John Hamilton Farr on December 31, 2008 · 0 comments

in Animals, FotoFeed

Callie the Wonder Cat, artistically overexposed on top of my dresser… Exhausted from chasing bobcat poop We should all look so good in our sleep! And as far as that goes, be sure to check out tomorrow’s FotoFeed for an even better related version of this.

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Poop & Soot [Updated]

by John Hamilton Farr on December 31, 2008 · 1 comment

in Animals

Something — I think it’s a bobcat — is pooping on the roof. Burning piñon causes great gouts of icky black soot to be slathered on the snow up there. Meanwhile, Callie the Wonder Cat loves to climb the big elm tree up to the roof and investigate the bobcat scat, whereupon she ends up [...]

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Cute but Deadly

by John Hamilton Farr on December 28, 2008 · 0 comments

in Animals

That’s poor old Hobbes below. He ain’t right. We think he has a systemic ailment, maybe lymphoma, although without a biopsy, no one can be sure. If that were it, chemotherapy and/or steroids, if I have that right, might make him more comfy and give him a few more months. That’s not going to happen, [...]

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Latest Horse Fly Column

by John Hamilton Farr on December 15, 2008 · 4 comments

in Animals, Writing

If you aren’t reading Horse Fly every month, then you have more in common with the rest of the world than you may realize. Nonetheless, it’s a one-of-a-kind, and the publisher has the impeccably good sense to not only give me space for a monthly column, but to pay me for it as well. Here’s [...]

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Ravens and Magpies

by John Hamilton Farr on September 27, 2008 · 0 comments

in Animals, Consciousness, Earth, Garden of Eden, Nature, New Mexico, Plants, Taos

It is an astonishingly beautiful day today in northern New Mexico,especially right here in Llano Quemado, on the south side of Taos. Fall has arrived: the cottonwoods are starting to turn yellow, and the chamisa is blooming. There’s a stiff wind out of the east, creating strong updrafts along the edge of the mesa, where [...]

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