‘ANIMALS’ Archives
COMMUNICATING WITH ANIMALS
COMMUNICATING WITH ANIMALS By MARGRIT COATES ‘If only they could talk’ or ‘if only they could tell us what is wrong’ are statements that I hear regularly during the course of my work as an animal healer and communicator. On these occasions, the animals present may proffer a yawn or give me a knowing look, whereas some are so bored by [...]
MISTREATMENT OF ANIMALS
HOW OUR TREATMENT OF ANIMALS AFFECTS US. By AYSHA AKHTAR. In the US, there was a recent report of the arrest of a man who tortured and killed his wife's kitten because he was upset the kitten had scratched him. The man was described as hitting the kitten repeatedly with his fists, slamming her into a wall, [...]
LIFE AND DEATH ON THE MASAI MARA
LIFE AND DEATH ON THE MASAI MARA. By CHANTAL COOKE. Dozens of bodies float down the river, forming huge islands of death as they get caught on the rocks and other debris. Crocodiles, fat from gorging on the rotting flesh, sit back and watch as Marabou Storks and Vultures peck away at the meat. There’s [...]
WORKING HORSES
INTERVIEW: SHONA DUFF If you want to take a horse from a flighty foal to a dependable adult what’s the process? Modern cowboy Shona Duff is based at Anchor D ranch just outside Calgary in Canada and she starts to build a relationship with her horses very early on so that by the time they reach 3 years old there’s a level of mutual respect. [...]
STAG BEETLES NEED HELP
WOODEN SKYSCRAPERS FOR GARDEN BEETLES. By THE PEOPLE'S TRUST FOR ENDANGERED SPECIES. The People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) is urging gardeners, as well as managers of urban green spaces and country parks, to build nature’s equivalent of skyscrapers in order to provide homes for one of Britain’s largest, charismatic and most [...]
PETS
INTERVIEW: SHAUN WENSLEY If you are considering buying a pet – what are the main things you need to consider before making any decision about what animal to welcome in to your home? Shaun Wenlsey is from the pet charity, the PDSA.
ARE VETS MAKING DOGS ILL?
INTERVIEW: CATHERINE O'DRISCOLL Veterinary vaccines and medicines and commercial pet foods are making our dogs ill. That’s according to Catherine O’Driscoll from Canine Health Concern.
VEGANS & MANURE
INTERVIEW: GRAHAM COLE The Vegan Organic movement is gradually growing in the UK. The idea is that farmers don’t use any animal products at all in the farming process. So although its easy to see why someone who cares about animals may be concerned about using bone meal or blood, its less obvious why they’d want to avoid manure - after all [...]
CURE A SPIDER PHOBIA
INTERVIEW: VICKY ROSS If the thought of spiders makes your skin crawl and the idea of going anywhere near one sends you running, then you might be in need of a phobia cure. NLP Master Practitioner Vicky Ross has cured 100s of people of their fear of arachnids.
WHAT MADE WHALES TAKE TO THE WATER?
INTERVIEW: JOSIANE CABANA Our modern whales date back over 25million years – and their earliest ancestors were land based. That’s according to whale expert Josiane Cabana at the Group for Education and Research on Marine Mammals based at Tadoussac in Canada.
