Griffith Park & Silver Lake Blog.
Posted in Creatures, People who don't know any better on Aug 6th, 2011
I learned about the LA County Animal Shelters through Facebook 2 years ago, but the first push to write this was either a chicken or her egg. Or her good friend, the duck. * They were found together, wandering near the road (of course – the chicken wanted to cross it), and picked up by [...]
Posted in Creatures on Mar 24th, 2011
A lot of people worry about what I worry about, it turns out: Why do people kill a horse with a broken leg? This is my most popular post on this blog by far, and it was researched and written from the heart. Just today I found the greatest video of a miniature horse who [...]
Posted in Creatures, People who don't know any better on Jul 1st, 2010
Zocalo recently posted a chat in the weekly updates and announcements they send out, called What is the Cruelest Food You’ve Ever Eaten? I haven’t been to Zocalo in a couple of years, but they do have some good events and free food, (which isn’t cruel at all). Their lectures are free, and they tackle [...]
Posted in Creatures on Mar 16th, 2010
Found on CNN: Prosecutors charged Typhoon Restaurant Inc., the parent company of Santa Monica’s The Hump, and chef Kiyoshiro Yamamoto, 45, with the illegal sale of a marine mammal product for an unauthorized purpose. Although it is considered a delicacy in Japan and some other countries, meat from whales — an endangered species — is [...]
Posted in Creatures on Mar 15th, 2010
Got an interesting comment today to a post I made on mountain lions 2 years ago: A good friend (we’re both ultra runners) spotted a mtn lion at the hub (5-way) junction up above the east side of the park in ‘09. I’m emailing him to get more information. I run at least 60 miles [...]
Posted in Creatures, People who don't know any better on Dec 17th, 2009
Mike McBride kills a boar. Well, he didn’t do the actual knifing, or shooting, of course, but he likes to take all the credit at California Fish and Game, the biggest killing operation in California. In fact, he likes to claim all the animals Fish and Game kills each year. National Guard, take note of [...]
