Queen Elizabeth II turns 90 on Saturday, June 11, and that’s reason enough to celebrate, but one company has gone a step beyond the cake to celebrate Elizabeth’s love of corgis. Spoonflo...
https://blogs.mercurynews.com/pets/2016/06/10/happy-birthday-queen-corgies/
You can buy a lot of things on Craig’s List, but not wildlife, or so a Ukiah woman learned when she tried to sell a young fawn for $300. The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports that the woma...
https://blogs.mercurynews.com/pets/2016/06/01/ukiah-woman-tries-sell-fawn-craigs-list/
Our Garden produces around 14,000 pounds of vegetables and fruit each year, but this is the first time it has produced baby birds. Last year, the California Bluebird Recovery Program install...
https://blogs.mercurynews.com/pets/2016/05/02/meet-family-oak-titmouse-birds/
Last year the California Bluebird Recovery Program installed six nesting boxes at Our Garden in Walnut Creek, with the hopes of helping out the bluebirds that have had a rough time of it in ...
https://blogs.mercurynews.com/pets/2016/03/31/bluebirds-nesting-garden/
EagleCam, a camera trained on the nest of two American bald eagles, Liberty and Justice, has attracted a legion of followers across the globe as viewers awaited the hatching of two eaglets....
https://blogs.mercurynews.com/pets/2016/03/28/eagle-cam-winning-hearts/
Recently I published a letter in my column from Linus Eukel, executive director of the John Muir Land Trust, about the group’s efforts to purchase and preserve an important section of la...
https://blogs.mercurynews.com/pets/2016/03/27/saving-carr-ranch/
Mourning doves have a well-earned reputation for being really lousy nest builders. Some actually manage to assemble a nest, although most other birds would find it greatly lacking. Other mou...
https://blogs.mercurynews.com/pets/2016/03/22/helping-hand-mourning-doves/
Good news for those who love nature and wildlife, and like to be out among them. The East Bay Regional Park District board of directors have approved $2 million in contracts to extend the Sa...
https://blogs.mercurynews.com/pets/2016/03/21/mclaughlin-eastshore-state-park-improvements/
In honor of National Puppy Day on March 23, I have a guest columnist to help puppy owners understand what their pups are thinking. Christina Russell is president of Camp Bow Wow, a grow...
https://blogs.mercurynews.com/pets/2016/03/15/learning-puppy-speak/
Ever wonder where all those cute cat photos on the Internet come from? A digital cloud provider says cat owners are giving us a steady supply, taking an average of four or five photos of the...
https://blogs.mercurynews.com/pets/2016/03/14/feline-lovers-take-pictures-cute-cats/