A lovely day today, and everyone lined up politely to eat their scoop of minerals/vitamins. Storm didn’t even bother to flip over the rubber feed skips as I set them out – he thinks it’s funny! That’s how good everyone was today. And I remembered that the other day, in a gale and lashing rain, […]
Fivla or Silver | My Shetland
I drove down the track at Leradale this morning to see two grey (white) ponies standing next to each other and I asked myself the question “which is Fivla and which is Silver?” They looked identical and for a second I could not tell. (this is Silver) And I gave the bucket (I think) to […]
Tiddles out, Silver in | My Shetland
So that’s Tiddles back with his friends now. He loaded beautifully (last time, he put the brakes on in the middle of the road and a neighbour had to help shove him into the van!) I popped Tiddles into the field after I had put out the bowls for the old ladies, Fivla and Vitamin. […]
How PETA started the animal rights movement in Silver Spring
Social revolutions erupt in the most unlikely of places, but perhaps none more unlikely than this. On the morning of Sept. 11, 1981, Montgomery County police raided a nondescript warehouse on Brookville Road in Silver Spring, confiscating 17 rhesus macaque monkeys after receiving a tip from Takoma Park resident and animal welfare activist Alex Pacheco. […]