Last Saturday was the annual Montgomery County Farm Tour, an event that Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary participates in as part of their fund raising. The crowds were much smaller than usual and we all blame the weather which was around 98F with a heat index of 104F. It was hot, but we made $5,000 for [...]
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Sorry for being a bit late with this news, and thanks to Karen Dawn for the story. BTW, I attended the Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary event she mentions, and Capt. Watson is very inspirational. “Sea Shepherd’s Captain Paul Watson, who much of the public knows as Whale Wars Captain Paul Watson, will be on Larry [...]
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Just this week I returned from a five-day visit to New Orleans. It’d been five years since my last visit and I was eager to see how the area was getting along. I traveled with a friend who’d never been to the Deep South so there were a few mandatory things we had to see [...]
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Today I reported for duty at the sanctuary looking forward to fewer flying bugs and some good times with my fellow volunteers, plus Terry and Dave. Every day at the sanctuary is a learning experience and today was no different, if a little bit special. First, I didn’t work in the sheep and goat yard [...]
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There might be one or two people who still regularly check this blog and they might have noticed the lack of content in the past seven or eight months. Or not. I really don’t know. What I do know is that I can’t muster the energy or interest to post here like I once did. [...]
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UPDATE: IFAW’s video of the rally and lobbying Today, to celebrate Earth Day, I attended IFAW’s Rally for the Whales. It’s especially important on this 40th anniversary of Earth Day to draw attention to whale hunting because the Obama Administration plans to announce the lifting of the ban on commercial whaling. Today. Earth Day. During [...]
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Nice to see Karen back to posting! Many of you have been asking what has happened to DawnWatch. After 10 years of regular coverage DawnWatch alerts were indeed sparse during the second half of last year, when I was losing Buster Dawn and focused on little else. Then the excitement around The Cove, culminating in [...]
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Today I had my fifth appointment with an opthamologist to figure out why my vision is screwy. It’s not major but it’s definitely inconvenient and I figured I just needed some new glasses. I’ve had this problem most of my life and it’s been controlled but since right before Mina died it’s gotten worse. There [...]
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Yes, I should’ve posted about this a long time ago, but I’m still mostly posting to Mina’s blog, for now. But how can you resist cute piglets? Izzy and Morty arrived at Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary on the day they were born, September 19, 2009. They’re the runts of a litter born to a mama [...]
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Today was my first day back at Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary since January 24, when we helped rescue Patches, a pig, from a muddy mess. When I got there my friend, Deb, informed me that Norman had died recently. (You can read her post about Norman on her blog Invisible Voices.) Norman is the first [...]
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