..For Anything Save the World..

 At this point in my life however my mother is the world and the world saw fit to redirect my most recent activities, so I missed a Correll post.. a sadly important one.   I missed many posts this past week so today I've played catch… Read full post »

Via email this afternoon came..

So many here at OS have lost loved ones recently, some expected, some not.

Some have blogged their experience, many of us have shared in their sadness.   Some have mentioned their loss in passing on the blogs of others.   Some have let their 'faithfu… Read full post »

Life as usual.   Here at OS the joyous news of a twin birth.   On FB this morning the tragic news of the death of a hound fancier's daughter in the wee hours of this 'eve of a celebrated holiday.

'Tis the Season..

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 Even in the dark there is light..

“There comes a time.."

"..in your life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama and the people who create it and surround yourself with people who make you laugh so hard that you… Read full post »

Sex - and death - the elephants in the human race room.

Violence is alright, we can deal with that, all we have to do is tell our kids it's wrong.   But Gods forbid we should have to explain sex and death to them before 'til later'.. let's put that business… Read full post »

This post is inspired by two recently read OS posts, one by Scanner, the other by Safe Bet's Amy.   Opposite sides of the 'fence', and both are right.

Sexual harassment is a tricky subject - not exactly black and white nor is the 'remedy' cut and dried.   Place and time and the… Read full post »

{{These thoughts are a follow up to a comment I made on Jack Heart's blog post here}}

We all of us lean heavily on what we can research about any given subject.   Written tomes, messages in stone, word of mouth stories passed down through tribal generations.   But we forget… Read full post »

It's October, and while this always has and will mean All Hallows to me, it is also Breast Cancer Awareness Month.   I don't 'think pink' but I do think of an extraordinary woman I 'met' here at Open Salon who began to blog when she entered her 4th and as… Read full post »

For the month of All Hallows and those who haven't yet discovered the online fun...

http://www.frightbytes.com/

http://www.frightbytes.com/hauntedinn/instructions.html

Most of them are active now - these two are my yearly favorites but there are many more, and many of those are… Read full post »

A year and a week past his last OS post and his legacy is on the minds of some here.

For those who didn't know him and might like to have, his OS legacy resides here :

http://open.salon.com/blog/placebostudman

Time is strange.   Wasn't it just yesterday that we heard his… Read full post »

This is the last of the Dog Blog posts dear Readers, at least for the moment ;).

This is not directly animal related, but it is related to our rights and how easy it is to lose them, either in part or completely.

Decades ago a man decides to build a… Read full post »

It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn't then you might have to… Read full post »

Been thinking about something lately.

Dog folk, how we act, what we say. No matter what sort of dog folk you are, pet, show, performance, assistance. The things we talk about and what we say. I mentioned that already didn't I, what we say. What can I say, it's on my mind.

A… Read full post »

Ranting here, spawned by an acquaintance who got caught up in the 'politically correct machinery' a few years ago and suffered the consequences :(.

It's supposed to be about the animals, right?

Wrong.

It's apparently more about being politically correct. It's apparently more about avoiding being… Read full post »

I'm going to take a break from fighting the bigger war to address a smaller one - because the smaller one is adding fuel to the war itself.

For some time now we've had the 'pet owning public' and the 'show folk'. Somewhere along the line things got twisted up a bit,… Read full post »

The problem is - **numbers**.

For the show breeders of large breeds which can have large litters, one or two litters a year can sound fine. For the toy breeders, which may be lucky to have two or three pups in a litter, one or two litters a year may not get… Read full post »

It's difficult to carry on a conversation and not tar all with the same brush when using a term, isn't it?

'Rescue' does leave a bad taste in the mouth of many breeders, because many rescue *individuals* are still yet unaware-uneducated-whatever about the BSL that is sweeping the US (and many other… Read full post »