Category Archives: Environmental Issues

Ranting about Special Needs Pets

Yesterday my daughter called quite upset. One of her customers showed up with a small, curly puppy that he couldn’t keep. The story was he “found” it on the street. “Oh, mom, he’s soooooooo cute and so sweet. I think he must be an Old English sheepdog mix, but I can’t know for sure. He’s very curly and [...]

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A Rant About Feral Cats

About two weeks ago I went to a business meeting at a local hotel and today I have to rant about what I found.  As I approached the entrance, I noticed many cats lurking around the perimeter of the building. After the meeting, I asked the hotel clerk about them. She told me they are [...]

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Today’s Rant: Climate Change

Ok, here it is almost the middle of March and I need to rant a bit because  it’s freezing in here. You can’t tell me climate change isn’t happening. I live in the Pacific Northwest, where typically, it’s mellow all year long. Sure it rains, but this year that moisture is coming down in the [...]

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Today’s Rant: If Birds Can’t Fly, and Chimpanzees Can’t Climb Trees

                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
Today it is so easy to rant about this subject because I think it’s absolutely tragic how humans feel so free to manipulate nature! Today there is the extremely sad case of the chimpanzee who attacked some poor woman and tried to detach her face. Birds aren’t meant to NOT fly, and chimpanzees are not [...]

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Ranting About Our Unsafe Water Supply

It’s getting harder and harder to find things you can trust! Now I hear the nation’s water supply is threatened too!? Peanuts and peanut butter, lettuce, tomatoes, pet food, toothpaste……….the list is getting ridiculously long. Oh yeah, wasn’t spinach in there somewhere too?
 I wanna go back to the farm! Well water and tomatoes on the vines I planted [...]

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