These are Cardian Welsh Corgie puppies, isntintively doing what they've been bred for; herding. In this case, they're herding a cat, not cattle, but you'll notice that the cat is enjoying herself, and when she's tired of playing, retires.

What if Lassie were a cat? Could she really get Timmy out of the well? I think we all know the answer to these questions.

Like most people who saw The Hangover (against my original dismissal of the film as yet another stupid foray into idiocy rather than the absolute comic masterpiece it turned out to be), I found the tiger locked away in the hotel hilarious. How did it get there? What shenanigans could those four guys have possibly gotten into? Its very presence in the hotel alone was enough to cause hysterics.

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In researching Chinese name stamps recently, I ended up veering off into a tangent.  It seems that a lot of people carve their own name stamps in China, where you can buy cheap little kits at stationery stores.  I even found some places online to buy stamp blanks, small columns of soapstone which you can carve yourself for about $10.  Of course, you don't have to use stone to carve your own stamp, and you're not limited to Chinese characters!


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As I watched my Inventor Sim crank away at his workbench, I started wondering which items had the best ROI.  ROI stands for "Return On Investment," and it's a useful way to compare several different items to see which is most profitable.  


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June is Adopt a Shelter Cat Month, and for good reason. There are many different benefits to be had when adopting a shelter cat; here are ten of them.

10. When you adopt a cat from a shelter, you are usually getting it from a much more humane place than if you do from a pet store. Pet stores often receive their animals from shady sources, where animals may be abused or over-bred. While people may reason that these animals may need to be adopted more than any others, continuing to purchase animals from these sources just continues the cycle of abuse and allows them to continue staying in business.

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Wild tigers have dwindled down from 100,000 to less than 3,200 in less than 100 years. This is an incredible loss of species due to conflict with humans, loss of habitat, and of course, illegal poaching. In order to save this species from extinction—which is exactly where it is heading—the U.S. Senate has proposed introducing a new stamp to help fund integral conservation programs for the jungle cat.

This has to be one of the coolest ideas ever put to work for big cat conservation—and it’s definitely much cooler than those awful Elvis Presley stamps we had to bear years ago. With just a few extra cents every time we buy stamps, we could help protect tigers by funding efforts to stop poaching, educating the public about the tigers and how to protect them, and creating protected areas to give these animals—as well as other species—safe grounds to live on.

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If you are a fan of "Shrek" and his entourage and/or have a thing for cats in boots, you will definitely appreciate this Antonio Banderas wannabe cat that I saw today thru the Slog...../