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Animal news: how can there be too many pigs?
From Harper’s Weekly Review: “I’m fielding calls day in, day out from farmers all over the country who are in a perilous position, where they have just got far, far too many pigs on their farm,” said the chairman of … Continue reading
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Tagged Blandings, Blandings Castle, Brexit, English Channel, Harper's, Julian Norton, La Manche, Lord of the Rings, mangalitsa pig, pig culling, The Empress of Blandings, The Yorkshire Vet, UK National Pig Association, Valais blacknose sheep, wargs
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Animal news: Tref. Walking the Haifa streets
What a story! Wild boars — piggies, that is — are strolling the streets in Haifa, Israel. To put it simply (which, as a worse than secular Jew, I must since I know nothing of the complexities), pigs are not … Continue reading
Posted in Animal news, The Facts of Life, The god problem
Tagged boars, Haifa Israel, The Yorkshire Vet
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Animal news: if you could clone one animal, which would it be?
My choice for the last animal: a ferret. Yet… The cloned ferret has a name. Elizabeth Ann. But what you really want to know is, why do I have a dim impression of ferrets? Because I’ve been watching “The Yorkshire … Continue reading
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Tagged animal castration, cloning animals, Ellen Kaye, endangered animals, ferrets, The Yorkshire Vet
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