Halter

There are multiple contributing authors of Decoding Your Dog. Their qualifications are stellar and although most practice or have practiced Veterinary Medicine in the United States, two are Canadian, Gary Landsberg of Thornhill, Ontario and Mary P. Klinck of Montreal, Quebec. All of the authors have extensive training in behaviour and have all earned the designation DACVB (Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists) in addition to their DVM (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine). Some…

Another famous ancient Greek weight lifters were Bybon and Eumastas, who lived in the early 6th century B.C. (Crowther, 1977). A sandstone block weighing 315 pounds (143.5 Kg), with a carved out handgrip, was found at Olympia (Figure 6). The stone bore the engraving of the inscription, “Bybon son of Phola, has lifted me over his head with one hand.” another stone, that was even larger (1056 pounds, 480 Kg), found on the island of Santorini, had the inscription, “Eumastas, the son of…

The notion of not being oneself and being aware of it is something that is difficult to accept, even more so when trying to change such circumstances, which in some cases are controlled by something other than the individual. In Moby Dick Ahab is presented to have such a dilemma. He is someone who is driven by another force, a force that he is not fully aware of. In this way Ahab is more than Ahab, he is a concept, and idea, a controlled machine. He becomes the leader of a ship, who he himself…

Moving barns wasn’t exactly ideal for me, especially considering that the one we were moving from was only 12 minutes from my house and the new one was 30 minutes. I didn’t really want to move because there was beautiful scenery , with a pond to walk around that was surrounded by grass for Izzy to eat. Even though the barn was always quiet we had issues when people were there. We only had few people there who were nice to us and the rest were mean and ugly with what they said and what they did…

Each had his own following, and there were some violent debates. At the Meetings Snowball often won over the majority by his brilliant speeches, but Napoleon was better at canvassing support for himself in between times. He was especially successful with the sheep. Of late the sheep had taken to bleating ‘Four legs good, two legs bad’ both in and out of season, and they often interrupted the Meeting with this. It was noticed that they were especially liable to break into ‘Four legs good,…