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Grouse in PA, Grouse in Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

Not about the City of Brotherly Love, not about the Steelers or Penguins, but about forests with deer, birds, and elbow room. Watch and listen for the birds as they rustle through the leaf litter. At 8, everything was far away, distant, and foreign, even Pennsylvania. Fred talked to us now and then about the wild and wooded state.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Tika and her longtime mate, Kobuk, had raised eight litters of puppies together and were enjoying their retirement years in the home of my friend, Anne. He never chased the rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, or deer who regularly visited. As we all know, dogs are “man’s best friend.” They can also be best friends to one another.

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