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Posts tagged “CATS”
  • Cats and windmills
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 04 09 at 12:12:54 pm | 8 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x6rd

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    Image by Carl Buell.

    The next person I see arguing that we shouldn’t worry about giant windmills because domestic cats kill far more birds, I’m going to take out to the middle of the Mojave so I can run them over with my Jeep.

    This will be a

    … (continues)

  • Heh
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 03 05 at 8:19:47 pm | 0 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x8Rc

    photo of the cat laughing… (continues)

  • Trouble manifests
    By Chris Clarke on 2010 06 28 at 3:44:16 pm | 11 comments

    N: I’m hungry. You may have meant to feed me and then forgotten you were going to feed me, so I’ll just remind you. Isn’t that thoughtful of me?

    C: [sound of keyboard tapping]

    N: You probably meant to get up to feed me when I reminded you fifteen

    … (continues)

  • Otter Pop
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 11 30 at 4:35:33 pm | 11 comments

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    We got a call last night from The Raven’s daughter to tell us her kitty Otter Pop was very sick. Shortly afterward she called us again.

    He was strange and though he and Nosy didn’t really get along, he was a good boy. He tried sometimes to hide

    … (continues)

  • Spat
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 11 07 at 12:21:39 pm | 7 comments

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    By “bbence,” via Arizona Game and Fish. They have … (continues)

  • Settling in
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 10 18 at 9:00:00 pm | 7 comments

    Though my ex- did get Thistle through the worst of his head tilt it’s still disconcerting. To himself most of all. He’s disoriented, his sense of balance is affected, and it’s clear whatever is causing the head tilt involves some discomfort.

    The

    … (continues)

  • leaves of cat grass
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 08 03 at 3:28:59 pm | 3 comments

    OK, so there’s a LOLCat poetry forum at the new Read Write Poem.

    That’s all the explanation I have for this.

    image

    Original image courtesy Tillwe … (continues)

  • Occupied Afghanistan
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 07 15 at 3:56:12 pm | 0 comments

    War rug snooze… (continues)

  • J’accuse!
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 07 06 at 2:04:59 pm | 7 comments

    pic… (continues)

  • RIP Macho B
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 03 03 at 2:31:02 pm | 5 comments

    Macho B shortly after being released

    Sad news involving Macho B, the jaguar recently collared and re-released in southern Arizona. Unfortunately, the big cat had to be euthanized today after veterinarians determined that he was in severe and unrecoverable kidney failure, a common

    … (continues)

  • A moment for Oolie
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 02 06 at 11:32:15 am | 1 comment

    Our pal Sherwood has lost a good friend.

    Based on what Sherwood’s shared of Oolie’s spirit over the years, I suspect this is how he’d want to be remembered.

    … (continues)

  • Nosy Parker
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 01 26 at 9:26:32 pm | 17 comments

    I have an anniversary coming up next week, as many of you know, and it’s been on my mind as one might expect. Still tough, you know?

    This year, though, I have a little bit of emotional support, and so the prospect of remembrance doesn’t seem

    … (continues)

  • By A Nail
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 01 05 at 6:25:51 pm | 9 comments

    Canis latrans, running, by Carl Dennis Buell
    A running coyote, painting by Carl Dennis Buell

    The ancestor of all dogs climbed trees like a cat.

    Or so the experts hypothesize. The raccoon-sized, foxy omnivore Prohesperocyon is as likely a candidate for the ancestor of all dogs, wolves and

    … (continues)

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    I'm a natural history and environmental writer, an editor and photographer. I've lived in upstate New York, the SF Bay Area, Washington, DC, the Mojave Desert, and Los Angeles. My writing has appeared in publications ranging from Camas and Orion to Bay Nature, California Wild, the Boston Globe, and about thirty daily papers nationwide when I was a syndicated garden writer for the Knight-Ridder chain. No, I never got to meet the talking car.

    I've traveled extensively in the Mojave, Great Basin and Sonoran deserts, as well as in the steppes and slickrock country of the Colorado Plateau.

    About Coyote Crossing

    This blog has existed in one form or another since 2003. At first it was called Creek Running North, after Pinole Creek, near where I lived back then. I moved in 2008 and renamed the site Coyote Crossing, but about a thousand people* still link here under the old name.

    My publicist tells me I should mention that my writing here has frequently been called the best on the Internet.

    * May not actually equal 1000

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