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Canines

Tragedy Befalling Our Nations Wild Horses

by Gailstrail on January 7, 2010

Perhaps I have too tender a heart; my eyes burn and my heart aches so much that I have to take a few minutes to let the overwhelming tragedy befalling our nations wild horses reseed before I can continue. “This week’s “gather” of some 2,500 wild horses from Nevada’s Calico Mountains marked the Bureau of [...]

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Lets take a long look into centuries of food industry practices. Practices which began innocently enough, but, in many instances have developed into a dark and dangerous business; endangering the planet and it’s inhabitants! The food industry continually strives to cut costs and expenses in order to increase profit; they hypnotizie the population with their [...]

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Jackey: Dog of India

by Aishwarya on January 13, 2009

In Pune India, about 160 kilometers southeast of the state capital, Mumbai, Suman, a widowed wife and a mother of three children, supports herself and her family by working as house help and also works in a bricklin (a place that bakes bricks). About 25 years back her brother got her a little brown puppy [...]

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911: Canine Leads Man to Safety

by Gailstrail on September 11, 2008

Dorado was lying under his blind master’s desk on the 71st floor of the World Trade Center’s north tower when the plane hit. Glass and flying debre was everywhere. Chaos surrounded them. Omar Eduardo Rivera knew he was doomed. There is know way he could manuver through the chaos. The kindest thing he thought was [...]

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Journeys With My Canine

by Gailstrail on June 11, 2008

DEFINING WILDNESS AND HOWLING IN THE WILDERNESS One evening, I went on a tiny journey with my canine Pieper: We ‘howled’ together and I watched as Pieper transformed. Her eyes got this untamed wildness in them. How exciting to see and hear the wildness in her. I felt pretty wild myself and wonder about this [...]

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Animals, Wilderness and Being Present

by Gailstrail on February 17, 2008

Wilderness As much as I love the woods, I probably wouldn’t go there nearly as much if I had not had such incredible angel beasts in my life. The love and responsibility for these canines kept and keeps me on the trails and in the present! In Touch With Nature Having frequent contact to the [...]

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