Skeptophilia

If you live in Japan, own a dog, and have more money than sense, I've got good news for you: you can pay ¥ 31,000 (about US $297) to hav...

Recently we've dealt with such deep topics as quantum mechanics, the origins of the universe, archaeology, and evolutionary biology, not...

In recent posts we have dealt with the Earth being invaded by giant alien bugs, the possibility that Bigfoot and other cryptids are actually...

I've always been an animal lover.  I grew up with dogs, and have had one or more dogs or cats all of my adult life.  Add to that a near-...

People who know me are well aware that I consider our two dogs, Guinness and Cleo, to be family members, not just pets. They're kind of ...

For many years we owned two cats, Puck and Geronimo. Imagine two soft, gentle, affectionate, fluffy kitties.  Puck and Geronimo were the exa...

See this innocent-looking face? This is Cleo.  She's a Shiba Inu, a Japanese breed (the name means "underbrush dog" because th...

We have two dogs, our big thirty-kilogram galumphing galoot, Guinness: And his comical sidekick, little eight-kilogram Cleo: They are best b...

Content warning : this post is about the mistreatment and neglect of animals.  There's nothing graphic or gratuitous, but if you're ...

When we lost our beloved old hound Lena in November, I really had no intention of getting another dog, at least not any time soon.  I went t...