I’ve discovered a new place to save all of my favorite pet and animal sites. The site is called Clipix and as the name would indicate, it is a “visual” way of saving places that you want to revisit in an organized way.
I joined clipix about a week ago, and have set up files on my favorite topics. To get started, you open an account which just takes a few minutes, then go to your “clipboard”. On the clipboard you will find boxes with titles of some popular categories. You can change the titles to anything you like. You can also add more boxes to the clipboard as you discover sites that interest you on different subjects. And if things get really busy on your clipboard, you can set up “multiboards” and put similar clipboards within them to further organize things.
Since I am new, I’ve set up some basic boards on some of my favorite things, including animals, books I’d like to read, health and nutrition, recipes, gift ideas…and I’m sure I’ll be adding many more.
When you go to your main page, you can click on the title of any one of your clipboards, which will open up a page so that you can see all files in that folder. As I said, I’ve just started, but here is a picture of the folder I started on animals and pets:
Here is how to save your information to a clipboard. When you join, you “drag” a little “clip” button up into your toolbar if you are using Firefox, or you save it to your toolbar as instructed if you are using Internet Explorer. Then when you are on a page that you like and want to save, you simply click on the clip button in the toolbar, a window will open, you choose a picture that will remind you of the site, label it if you like, and save it into a file that you choose from a drop-down menu. So simple!
I am “happynutritionist” on clipix, when you join, look for me, or tell us in a comment who you are so we can all find you…tell us how you are using Clipix.
My owners have been away on vacation for a week to Bar Harbor, Maine, and just got back. Only a couple of the hotels they stayed in would have allowed pets, but I really don’t like traveling in the car very much any more.
The owner that helps me type this blog is going to show you some pictures from her trip on each of her blogs.
We are posting a picture below, and then a link to the next blog and picture….first, this is one of my owners out on a windy day feeding Sea Gulls at Schoodic Point in Maine. I was a little jealous when I saw this one, because I thought I was the only one they gave treats to.
Okay, now that I have your attention, yes, I did chase a bear this summer, and I’m alive to tell you about it. The only problem is that we can’t really PROVE it because my owners were in such a panic there was no way they were going to grab a camera to take pictures.
Here’s how it happened. One morning, bright and early, we went outside for my usual time of wandering around the yard, chasing a squirrel or cat, and taking care of other business dogs take care of first thing in the morning. My owner’s son heard a sound just around at the side of the house…and so did I. He ran to go look…and so did I. Up in the tree near where we usually have the bird feeder hanging (bears LOVE bird seed) there was a medium sized bear, and I ran for it, barking, which scared it down from the tree and then it ran up to the road and across…I ran right behind, very close, with my owner screaming and running after me yelling - “ASPEN, STOP! STOP!”. I did stop at the end of the yard, and was feeling pretty proud of my accomplishment! But since, I keep hearing the owners tell my story and say “all that bear had to do was turn around and take one swipe and Aspen would have been a goner”. And now, they are overly cautious when they take me out, which I don’t like, but they say it will keep me alive.
There have been a LOT of bears on our property this year. Here’s one picture of a bear about the same size as the one that I chased, going in the same direction, so you get an idea of what happened…this one is moving slowly, though, it’s hot, and her cubs were following along behind here, they are in other pictures at Daily Photos by Claudia (she tries to do them daily, but is a little behind:-)
Please read copyright information at Daily Photos by Claudia, this isn’t the best picture because we enlarged it, but it’s okay to use as long as it’s not changed and credit is given to my owner.
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We have a lot of wild animals around here, just today my owners and I were out on the deck watching a pair of beavers as they seem to be starting to build a den off our property in the lake. It’s interesting to watch, the very first time in 26 years of living here that my owners have seen beavers in our lake.
Then there are the raccoons. They are having their babies now, and are very noisy at night when the babies are being raised. There are also bears around here now, so my owners have to be careful about letting me out at night.
The raccoons like to knock over our garbage cans, so do the bears, and sometimes it’s tempting to want to trap the raccoons, but I think you’d be surprised to hear what animals are giving us the most trouble right now….they are Ferrel cats. There are at least 6 of them hanging around. Our animal control in Town makes us catch them and then they will take them, so we need to use a Havahart Easy Set Large Animal Trap to capture them, if they will go into the trap. The only other animals that are sometimes a problem, especially when we start to hear them chewing on the wood of our house like they are trying to get in, are the squirrels, this is when a Havahart Easy Set Small Animal Trap is a handy thing to have around.
We hope we won’t have to use any traps, but if we need to find information and help in knowing what to do, we can visit Animal Trapping Tips and read their helpful ideas.
We love animals, and don’t want them to be harmed, even if they are a pain sometimes…and I sure do love barking at them, and chasing squirrels whenever I get the chance.
I am not the only pet my owners have had…they’ve had gerbils, ferrets, a cat, box turtles, and other animals while their children were growing up. One of those “other animals” was pet hamsters. So this week, when my owner took part in a challenge on Squidoo about pets, she didn’t pick me to talk about, but teddy bear hamsters.
She even said that she’d like to get another one…now that is something she’s going to have to think about a bit, because it comes natural to us Yorkies to want to catch mice, and hamsters are in the rodent family.
