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102 Chins Rescued from a Hoarder

October 31st, 2008

Last month, 102 chinchillas were rescued from a hoarder in CA. I read the story from here & it is so heartbreaking! Looking at the pictures made me mad .. at the hoarder. It’s so upsetting to know that there are people who would ‘adopt’ animals with the pretext of giving them ‘good homes,’ but they end up in the wrong situation. That is why I’m super apprehensive when it comes to other people taking care of my pets or giving me pets away for adoption .. you just never know how others are going to treat your pets!

Not many people know this, but animal hoarding is a physical manifestation of some underlying psychological problem. What might be the worse hoarding case was Barbara Erickson with 552 dogs found in her possession to be neglected. She had been charged before for hoarding 293 dogs, but the charges were dropped. People like Barbara Erickson are also responsible for selling these dogs to local petstores! Unbelievable isn’t it? That’s why I don’t like going to chain petstores & prefer to visit breeders at their homes (or adopt), to actually see the living conditions of the animals before they go home with me.

Too bad those chinnies are all the way in CA. If I were closer, I’d love to be a foster parent.

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New Photos

October 17th, 2008

I just uploaded some pictures from my Nokia phone. Check them out!

Next thing to do: try to figure out who to convert a 3GP video to a compatible format I can upload on Youtube .. I still haven’t figured that out yet.

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Kat Won!

October 7th, 2008

I entered Kat for Hamster Hideout’s Hamster of the Month contest, and she won!!

Here’s an interview of her (I didn’t know she can type!). Thanks everyone for voting

Check out the winning picture:

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Drumroll please ..

October 6th, 2008

An exciting news is coming this way!

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Cops Kick in Door Over Bird’s Cries

September 9th, 2008

How funny is this: a cockatoo can imitate the sound of woman crying for help to the point that a police had to be called in.

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Killing A Roomie’s Cat

August 6th, 2008

I found this article, & it’s about a woman who was sentenced for killing her roommate’s cat. I don’t know what’s wrong with her, but the poor cat had been ..

kicked, stomped, put into an oven, submerged underwater in a bathtub and placed in a clothes drier ..

The woman had also killed 4 other cats, a bird, & a hamster. She told the Judge that

she felt remorse for killing the animals.

EErrrggghhh!!! Foooolliiishness! Why would she do something like that??

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Dog Island

August 5th, 2008

I found this website through another blog, thinking that this Dog Island place sounds way too perfect to be true. I read the pages, trying to scrutinize every bit, looking for clues as to whether this place really exist or not & I really thought it was a joke when I read this (taken from the “Directions” page of the site):

Because of recent threats from anti-freedom activists, we’ve had to make our land office a maze to get to. However, if you would like to come visit us, come to Tallahassee, and look up all the dog grooming professionals in town.

Arrange their names alphabetically, and then you’ll see that their names relate in a way with the street names of downtown Tallahassee. When you realize this pattern, start at “A” and go through “W” each time marking your way with a piece of red tape on the door.

We will be watching and will approach you and your dog if you appear correct.

Hahahahahaa!!! And then I found this and this that just made sense of all that mumbo jumbo.

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Hiatus

July 30th, 2008

I try my best to post at a regular basis. But since now it’s cramming time (exaaammm!!!), I decided that I’d take a break & focus on my studies. I find myself posting as a way of procrastinating (errgghh!!!!), when I really should be reading my materials instead.

But feel free to leave messages & comments, especially with the new chatbox thingy on the left

It’s been a long day … it’s exactly 3 a.m. now & I’m going to snooozeeeee.

But before I do that, here’s a recent picture (taken tonight .. another of my procrastinating scheme) of one of the Robo girlies in their new strawberry house:

Don’t forget to check out the newly updated album of the girlies.

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Do a GoodSearch

July 29th, 2008

I’ve been using this web searching service called GoodSearch. It’s like any other search engines (it’s powered by Yahoo!), but every time you search, you can donate money to a charity of your choice! I always told myself “o, I’ll donate to x charity once I have enough money” but that day never comes 0_o So, this is so simple & yet you know you’re doing something good for a cause that you want to help. Too bad it only works for participating non-profits in the US. I hope someday that they’ll expand to other countries. Ooo .. you can also shop online from participating online stores & GoodSearch will donate a percentage of the purchase price to a charity of your choice