Food articles posted in Mar 2007

Any alternative to Whiskas and Friskies?

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Pheasants

Above, my favorite pheasant of all — the Lady Amherst’s pheasant looks like it is wearing a veil cascading from its head down to its chest. According to Wikipedia, it is named after Sarah Countess Amherst, wife of William Pitt Amherst, Governor General of Bengal, who was sent the first specimen of the bird to [...]

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Pale pink flamingos at the zoo

Wikipedia says that a flamingo with pale coloring usually means it is not healthy. At the same time, it does not seem to be uncommon for flamingos in captivity to appear pale not necessarily because they are unhealthy but because due of insufficient amounts of carotene in their diet.
I’m not an expert in flamingos but [...]

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‘Fresh milk and a kapok tree’

That’s the title of my debut article with Code Red Magazine, a family-oriented quarterly publication of the Salesians of Don Bosco.

I’ve been itching to make the announcement but I decided to wait until the article was actually on print. Didn’t want to be presumptuous.

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Professions, careers and vocations

I just came from Pinoy Moms Network and there was an entry by Analyse entitled What do you want to be when you grow up? I’ve traveled down that road before when I tried to analyze what seems to be a very simple question from different perspectives. There are no simple answers to that simple [...]

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A kitten named Whitey

Until Whitey came along, I felt no affection for my daughters’ cats and kittens.

I was going through my hard drive when I saw the photo of Whitey above wearing a dolphin pendant that only my daughter Sam could have placed around his neck. Whitey is one of the two kittens from Bebe’s second litter. My [...]

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A peacock preens

The peacock photos from yesterday’s trip to Avilon Zoo.
It must be mating season — the peacock is preening and spreading its plumage in full splendor.

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Cats, pets and a zoo

Last summer, my daughters started a cat and kitten blog — a repository, actually, of the countless photos they have taken of our pet cats and kittens. When the schoolyear began, the project had to take a backseat. Then, I revived it after I acquired my own pet cat. Well, sometimes, things have a way [...]

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Big cats: tigers, lion and leopard

Above, the tiger (or is that the tigress?) with two cubs. I think the cubs are just adorable.

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A good model for controlling pet overpopulation

Stray cats and dogs are everywhere in the Philippines. They get bumped by speeding cars and it is a common sight to see mangled decomposing corpses of cats on the road. There just aren’t enough — or effective — government programs to address stray animal problems.
I understand that it is a public safety and public [...]

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