A lot of interesting shows coming on television this Fall. One that has already been on for a few episodes is American Hoggers. This is a pretty wild show and one that is easy to get addicted to. If you love to see dogs chasing wild boars and gang tackling them; while residents from Texas follow closely behind to capture these wild beasts. The state of Texas does have a serious problem with these boars or wild pigs.

Our domesticated pigs can turn wild in as little as 2 to 3 months. If a tame pig escapes the hog pen, it will become wild in a short amount of time. This means its hair will grow longer and the tusks will begin to grow out. These wild pig tusks can get up to 5 inches long. No one is safe around a wild boar, which can run up to speeds of 30 miles per hour. A man has an average speed of around 20 to 25 miles per hour. So as you can see, out running these wild pigs is not an option. This is where the gun-toting folks of American Hoggers come in and try to remove these wild pigs, in areas they are causing problems. The overall population of wild boars in Texas, is in that is out of control. Each week on TV, we watch a Texas family try to round up these wild pigs. Most commonly, they turn the dogs loose on them and its the dogs that locate these wild beasts in Texas. They gang tackle the pig with about 3 to 5 hunting dogs; while the family races in to hog-tie the critter. After the pig has its feet securely tied, they throw it on the truck and take it to a food bank i the Texas area, so they can slaughter the pig and eat it. This is one way to solve the starvation problems in America. What do you think about these wild pigs on television? Have you ever watched this show on A & E TV called American Hoggers?

I was searching for various gold related websites; when I came across a place called Goldfied Ghost Town. Seeing the words “gold” and “ghost” struck a double interest in me. I do love a lot of the old ghost towns and some of the ghost tours I have been on, in various U.S. cities. I noticed this old ghost town also had a gold mine with it and it was open to the public for tours. You could even do a little gold panning at this old western ghost town, according to the information on the Arizona Lodging Experts website. They also had a wealth of knowledge of other great places to stay at in Arizona, if I do plan to take a trip there with my gold sniffing dog (Buddy), who likes to travel with me. I noticed there are tons of az pet friendly rentals to choose from. Even if I don’t choose to visit this old western ghost town, I know there are other open areas for gold prospectors and dog lovers to have some outdoor fun.

I don’t mind the guided tours at the places designated for visitors and tourists. I do like to venture out on my own and try to dig up some ground, where no one has been before. I figure my best chance for finding big nuggets out west, is to find these hidden destinations, where no tourists ever visit. If you currently live in Arizona, I would love some feedback on different areas of the state; which you feel could be holding a big golden nugget. I would be happy to split my findings, for anyone that did point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance and I guess for now,  I will continue to dream about heading out west to find my golden treasures.

There was this one time we tried to take the dogs to The Marble Slab. I’m not sure what we were thinking, but we were convinced that dogs should be allowed to go anywhere that humans can, so we decided to put it to the test.

It actually got off to a really crazy start when Jill said she thought dogs could do everything humans can do, not just go where they can go. So she tried to get Badger and Pinky to feed themselves, set the home security alarm (information), and put on their dog sweaters. Of course in the end she had to do those things herself.

But once we got down to the Marble Slab, we were told we couldn’t bring the dogs in. It was really sad. We ! were so hoping to have a full day of dogs doing human things. But maybe we should have researched to find a restaurant that would actually let them inside. Or at least tried wearing dark glasses and carrying canes!

So in the end we tied the dogs up outside and ordered some cones. I had a really yummy butter cream crunch and Jill had her all time favorite pistachio–yuck.

After we got outside, we found that Badger had managed to find a scoop of ice cream on the ground that had fallen off some kid’s cone. So at least one of the dogs got some ice cream!

While the taste of Pepsi Cola may be very good. We can’t drink it all the time. Even for a Princess, like the cute Ariana. No matter how much we want to drink good things like Pepsi, it is still important we get all of those good fruits and vegetables each day. The fruit and vegetables may not be as good to taste as the Pepsi Cola for our mouths; our bodies would much prefer the healthy foods, like a fresh piece of fruit or all the good nutritional value in a healthy serving of vegetables.

Do you like to drink Pepsi as much as me? Yes, this is very good to drink. The bad news is that Pepsi is not healthy for our growing bodies. I know this is hard to believe, since Pepsi taste so good. I did not believe this at first either, so I did a little experiment, to see if Pepsi was healthy or not healthy. It didn’t take me long to see which is better, between Pepsi Cola and foods like fruits and vegetables.

I decided to get 4 people for my health experiment. I gave 3 people the Pepsi to drink. They all 3 had big smiles and were very happy I gave them Pepsi to drink. You could see how much they enjoy this drink and they all 3 would drink it really fast, because the Pepsi drink was so good.

The 4th person I did not let them have any Pepsi. They were not happy they didn’t get any Pepsi Cola to drink. Instead, I gave them fresh fruits and fresh vegetables to eat. The 4th person took all the vegetables and fruits I gave them and eat them all gone. There was nothing left of the fruits and vegetables and the 4th person said the fruits and vegetables was actually not bad tasting. They said fruits and vegetables was better to taste than they had thought. After I got done with these 4 people, I took a picture of them. See if you can find which person in the photo ate fresh fruits and vegetables and which 3 people had Pepsi Cola to drink.

Did you pick out the person who ate fresh fruits and vegetables? The first person had Pepsi, the 2nd person had Pepsi, the 3rd person had Pepsi, and the 4th person had fruits and vegetables to eat. See how they are much stronger and healthier than the 3 people who drank Pepsi Cola? This is why we should eat fruits and vegetables more and only drink Pepsi a little bit atta time. If you got this question correct and picked the 4th person, then atta girl or atta boy!

Please remember how easy it is to get fruits and vegetables to eat each day. I have an animal friend, who is a gopher and getting fresh fruits and fresh vegetables is not easy for him. Here is his attempts to get the vegetables and fruits he wants to eat. Enjoy watching my cartoon friend the Gopher!

Did you like that video?

I guess the end of the video means too much meat from a cow is not good either. So remember fruits and vegetables is good and how lucky we can get them so easy and not have a hard time like my friend the cartoon Gopher. Even a lovely Princess needs to eat her fruits and vegetables, so she can grow up strong to be a Queen one day

While growing up, I use to love watching cartoons. I would sit close by the television every Saturday morning, to watch my favorite cartoons. Kids today don’t really know about Saturday morning cartoons. This is because there is about a dozen cartoon channels on television today and they show animated shows all day long. So a kid in the 21st century can turn on the tube and watch a cartoon anytime of the day or any day of the week. Back when I was a kid, we only had the cartoons on Saturday mornings to watch. It made cartoons more special, since you did have only one day a week to watch them.

Now many of the cartoons from the past and the ones they make today are about animals. Most of us know the legendary animal cartoons like Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker, Tom & Jerry, and Daffy Duck. I could actually name a lot more animal cartoons from the past, because it seems like most of them are. Now I’m not sure if Sponge Bob Square Pants or the Smurfs would be an animal cartoon, but they are certainly “animal-like” cartoons.

It would be tough for me to name my favorite animal cartoon of all time. I have so many favorite cartoons I use to enjoy watching, this is a tough topic for me. Do you have a favorite animal cartoon? I know the mouse has always been popular in cartoons. Just off the top of my head, I can name several mouse cartoons, like Mickey Mouse, Mighty Mouse, Speedy Gonzalez, and of course Jerry, the mouse that was always running from Tom the cat. Perhaps the mouse could give the dogs and cats a run for their money, in the most used animal in cartoons. I would assume the dog is number 1, followed by the cat. The mouse cartoons could very well rank 3rd on the list, as the most common animal character. I was just curious to see if others could clearly name 1 or 2 of their favorite animal cartoons of all time, or if it’s just a tough question to answer.

Who ever thought to flush the dead goldfish down the toilet was pretty smart. I never did do that when I was younger. I think my goldfish would usually live 1 week or less and I would throw them in the garbage or outside for the dogs to eat. I see a lot of parents would take the goldfish to the bathroom and tell the kids they are flushing the poor thing back out to sea.

Now as time went on, those flushes in the bathroom got more elaborate. Parents, kids, or both would have funerals in the bathroom. A tiny casket for the gold fish was prepared. The fish would lie in this small casket; while a few nice words or memories would get spoken about the dead family pet. After that, everyone would say their good byes and it was a flop in the toilet bowl, for the last splash. Then the final part of the ceremony has to be performed by the little ones in the house, when it comes to pulling down the lever and watching the fish swirl around in the bowl, before going down the hole, which leads to the sea.

Record for keeping a goldfish alive?

Do you have any stories of long life or heard of any? I really don’t think I ever made it past one week with the gold fish I use to own. I believe I would feed my fish too much food and this would dilute the water in the fish bowl and eventually cause too much pollution in the H2O for the poor little fish to survive in. I’m sure you got your fish past one week before. Did you ever keep your pet fish alive for 2 weeks? 1 month? 3 months or longer? I don’t believe I ever heard of any stories going past 3 months or a calendar season, for keeping a goldfish pet alive. I know it’s always tough on the kids to see the goldfish floating in the bowl one morning. If your child does take a goldfish death too bad, don’t forget to try the bathroom funeral for goldfish. This can help to ease the tension and stress the death has caused to the child. Maybe you have a sardine box or could construct the casket out of the cardboard inside a roll of toilet paper.

Your best defense aganinst these pests are sevin dust or sevin in liquid form. You can pick this up at any garden section at a department store or hardware store. Your not likely to see these worms during the day. They come up from the ground during the night to eat. If you have one of these army worms, then chances are you have thousands and thousands and will have to eventually wipe them out for the season.

My choice would be the white tiger. I love tigers in general, but really love the more rare tigers that have the white coat with black markings. One with great, big blue eyes would be a nice touch. I like the Alaskan Malamutes or Siberian Huskies that have the pretty blue eyes and I would want those eyes on my white tiger.

I would not want to get one that was fully grown. I would prefer a white tiger cub, so I could raise it and get it use to me well. I believe raising any wild animal from a baby to an adult will treat their owners good for the most part. The wild animals that normally attack their trainers or owners are the ones that got mistreated at some point in their lives.

Do you think you would like to own a white tiger too? If I won the lottery or came into some big unforeseen wealth, I would like to have a nice sports car with a white tiger cub I would let ride with me. I believe these are beautiful animals and would look good in a nice, brand new sports car. At home my white tiger would be free to run around in my huge mansion. I would probably turn 75% of my basement into a play area for my white tiger. So he or she would have plenty of space to roam and play around in. Yes, I believe if I could have any animal in the world, I would choose to own a white tiger.

What if you were given the choice to own any animal in the world? Do you think you would want to pick a tiger or even one of the more rare white tigers? Or do you prefer a much more tame animal and one that would be easier to keep up with? Please let me know which animal would rank highest on your list of animals you would like to own. It doesn’t have to be an exotic or hard-to-find animal. Maybe you like the blue eyes of a Siberian Husky or Timber wolf and would want to own a dog-like animal with blue eyes? Just reply back with your choice for the animal you would like to own the most.

As I started learning and hearing more about global warming or climate change, I began to put two and two together. I was thinking global warming had something to do with the lightning bugs vanishing. Also, my hometown in North Georgia was growing by the minute, so I figured that had something to do with it too. We had much more light pollution in my area and figured the lightning bugs liked dark places, so they could show off their shinny hide ends. It was a sad sight to see only a few lightning bugs or fireflies in my yard. No more hundreds and hundreds of yellow glowing lights in the yard. Only a small flicker here and there.

Well the global warming has only got worse and my city has grown like never before. It would seem the lightning bugs would vanish for good and not much hope to see even a couple each evening. Well something happened and I’m not sure what, but the lightning bugs have returned! It’s been well over 10 years, since I have seen this many lightning bugs glowing through out the yard. I mean it’s an incredible sight to see! I have no explanation or theory to why they left or why they decided to come back. It’s a mystery to me. I have kept pretty close track of this over the years and somewhere the little guys got an explosion of growth, because you could not walk in my yard without running into one now. I can’t wait for the sun to go down today, so I can gaze at them once again in the huge numbers they once again have in my neighborhood.

I guess the farmer’s system for growing crops is controlled by the supply and demand thing we have heard about many times from the business world. If corn pays the most, all farmers start growing corn, and pretty soon the supply is much greater than the demand. This farming practice would cause the price of corn to drop and the other foods would begin to pass corn, since no one was growing them and now the demand is real high. Growing crops on the farm is a big guessing game for these farmers. In most cases, they have been doing this their whole life and probably their dads, grandpas, and other generations were doing it before they were.

If there is an animal that’s more idea for raising during economical down turns, the supply and demand would kick in there too. Nobody can afford steaks and hamburgers, so we all eat chicken because it’s cheap. Now the consumers are to blame and not the farmers. They have ate up all the cheap chicken and what little chicken is left to be sold, has a higher price than read meat now. During this time, the beef industry kept bringing their product to the warehouses and storage areas and they have no more room to store their ground beef or T bone steaks. Instead of taking a total loss, they price it real cheap and now we can all eat a 12 oz NY Strip for a cheaper price than the 2 piece chicken dinner; the fast food restaurants are serving up.

Be sure to keep the farmer in mind for those that think America is broke, living on hard times, and the collapse of our society is just around the corner. We have a built-in system that will keep us from totally failing. Times may get hard and we may lose our way of living as we know it now. But due to the fact of supply and demand and the desire for people to do whatever it takes to become rich, we will always have a ear of corn and a chicken or a cow to eat. Farmers have spent generations watching these supplies and demands jump and now that it’s worked its way into our daily lives, we start forecasting the collapse of our country. You can run out if you want and yell to the top of your lungs “the sky is falling, the sky is falling“, but while you’re doing that, I will be finding a really good bargain somewhere.