Cutting out Dissection
     I still remember that fall day in junior high when I walked into our science lab to start our dissection rotation. We dissected earthworms, grasshoppers, clams and oh yes, eventually the infamous frog. To this day, I still can’t eat a clam. I mean who knew that you ate all the inside organs when you ate a clam??? I surely never even imagined it. But that was just the beginning of my education.      The poor frog was the worst. We wore our smocks, goggles and gloves and brandished our gleaming new scalpels and cut into the frog. We spent about a week on that poor pitiful frog. We learned about the muscles, tissues, and organs etc. There was more out of

HAPPY Act for Pets
     The first time I heard that statement I thought some Congressman had lost his mind. What the heck was he talking about? Well when I researched the subject, I discovered it was the catch name for a bill introduced into Congress by Representative Thaddeus McCotter. I was astonished to learn that McCotter is actually a Republican from Michigan, who introduced the bill on July 31, 2009. The bill is identified as H.R. 3501 and officially known as the ‘Humanity and Pets Partnered Through the Years (HAPPY) Act. The text of the bill can be found at http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.3501. The ASPC

Animals: Casualties of OUR Military
            To those of you new to my blog, so far it’s been pretty mild, from an animal activist point of view. Well except for a couple of entries where I ranted about Michael Vick and his return to the NFL, because I just had to. But other than that my blog has mainly centered about my three children of the four-legged variety. I’ve coined the term ‘quadra-peds’. Anyhow my intention for this blog is to delve into some very serious animal issues that most people are not aware of. If that offends you then I’m sorry. But don’t despair I promise I’ll insert some humorous ‘tails’ of my cats to break up the seriousness of the blog.      �

Riley Matthew
August 23, 2009 by animalauthor01   This is Riley Matthew . I’ve been meaning to do a post about him for a while but I got distracted by football. Now you’ve met Riley before in the posting called ‘a child in need’. Riley developed an eye problem when he was six months old and eventually had to have eye surgery. A lot of closed minded people thought we were insane to drive to a specialist in Connecticut (about 4-5 hrs from our house) and pay a

Falcon turns into an Eagle
August 14, 2009 by animalauthor01   Sorry guys I know that I still haven’t finished my blog about my son Riley but this Michael Vick thing just keeps coming back.   I’m sure that if you’ve been watching the news you’ve heard that the Philadelphia Eagles SIGNED Michael Vick. (Gasp – ‘the horror’)   My first comment is ‘What the hell were they thinking?” No team can be in that dire straits to need Michael Vick on their bench!!! Hello you already have McNabb who is an excellent QB.     Yeah sure Vick might have been awesome back in 2006 when he last played. Since then he’s lost his A-game. Prison will do that to you.