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The Dog Who Healed a Family

4 The Love Of Animals

I recently got a chance to read a charming new book called The Dog Who Healed a Family: And Other True Animal Stories That Warm the Heart & Touch the Soul. Of course reading about the “puppy express&# (based on the Pony Express), was a great testimonial to just how many kind hearted people there are in the world.

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GUYANA–Simply Delicious Birding!

10,000 Birds

And Giant Otters are still common in the rivers around Karanambu Ranch, home of the late “otter lady”, Diane McTurck, who used to rehabilitate orphaned otters and whose family still runs the lodge. No matter how many times I see this bird, I still find myself saying, “Smoking Ponies…that’s a stonker of a bird!”.

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Five Famous First Pets

4 The Love Of Animals

Macaroni the pony. Kennedy’s family owned many pets, including a horse, which was a present to 5 year-old Caroline Kennedy. Bush’s adorable brown and white spaniel is credited as the only White House dog to write a book: Millie’s Book: As Dedicated to Barbara Bush. First Pet, 1963): John F.

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Clare M’s 2015 Year List

10,000 Birds

Firstly I would like to just do a little update on the Pied Oystercatcher family that were a large part of my life for the last few weeks of 2014. Pied Oystercatcher family together for the last time in 2014. I hope they are as successful this year as they were last year.

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