Category: animals

  • a kindle of kittens

    a kindle of kittens

    It is cold these days. Sometimes down to Professor Celcius´ blue twenties, minus four for Mr. Farenheit. I stay snugly warm inside. The rescue shelters are all full of cold animals, some with ears frozen off, tails frozen stiff. One horrific story today of a grown Tom frozen to the ground. Being homeless is not a game.…

  • anthropomorphism – you are like me

    anthropomorphism – you are like me

    Anthropomorphism is any attribution of human characteristics (or characteristics assumed to belong only to humans) to animals, non-living things, phenomena, material states, objects or abstract concepts (Wikipedia). It is human to see human responses around us, and we have the ability for abstraction. So we apply human patterns to animals and objects. “An evil wind blows..”

  • a shelter life

    a shelter life

    Life at the SPCA shelter. That people lie are not surprising. What is surprising, is that they are so bad at it. Someone mailed the shelter, asking them to take a kitty back or have it put down, as it was catching mice.

  • the mysterious case of the dead dog

    the mysterious case of the dead dog

    An insane man have placed poison around Oslo, hidden in little piles of sawdust, to murder dogs. I woke up yesterday, to a flood of warnings on facebook, telling me about this deeply disturbed individual, and that several dogs had already died. Even in my grumpy pre-coffee morning haze, something smelled a little off.

  • wildlife, geeklife

    wildlife, geeklife

    Work work – no time to sightseeing or go arty photographing. Little snippets, though.

  • squirrels & nuts

    squirrels & nuts

    Squirrels are the best pea-brains I know of. Oportunistic, curious, adaptable; and wonderfully forgetful. It always makes me smile when passing a tree, rock or building, with a little tree growing out of it. Forgotten nuts moves nature around. .

  • Threatened by extinction – the nordic ark

    I took a trip to the zoo. And was reminded of how annoying humans are.