Offer critters shelter and they will come When we bought our three-hectare ranch (approximately seven-and-a-half acres) about 13 years ago, the land had been ravaged by nature and man, the victim of decades of erosion and overgrazing. We decided to let two-thirds of the land lie fallow, a gesture that in current eco-speak in Britain …
Category: pets

Who decides when is Fifo’s time to go?
Are the usual pieties of putting an animal "out of its misery" sometimes self-serving? Stew and I seem to be on a sad streak lately in the pet department. Our Alpha dog Lucy died about eighteen months ago, quietly and I should add mercifully, because she spared us the decision of having to put her …