Laid-back animals

　　It’s jot just humans who form strong social bonds, many animals do the same and some even bond for life. When animals need each other, they are so cute!
Bald eagles

　　Bald eagles are known for remaining faithful and mating for life. Moreover, bald eagle couples are also known for their aerial acrobatic stunts together, which include locking their talons together and spiraling downward, only to release at the last minute.

Lovely cat and dog

　　
　　I am right here, waiting for you! Photo by Cat Connection.
Cat Connection is a non-profit 501(c) cat and dog rescue organization that has been providing animal rescue services to the Southern California area for over ten years. Cat Connection's adoptable animals are available for viewing and adoptions seven days a week at the Beverly Oaks Animal Hospital, a 24-hour clinic and emergency facility.
Jetta is a 6-month-old handsome, long-haired Tabby. He is sweet, incredibly affectionate and extremely playful. Jetta is neutered and up-to-date on his shots. He is ready to go to a forever home today.

　　Lucy is a lover! Photo by Cat Connection.Though most of Cat Connection's rescues are feline, they do rescue rabbits and dogs, like Lucy. Lucy is an adorable 6 year old Lhasa Apso. She is very sweet and loves cats, dogs and people. She is house-trained and looking for a new family to give her the loving home she deserves.
Lucy was dumped in front of the animal hospital, abandoned at the front door in a box. This is not an unusual story for animal welfare organizations, pet hospitals, and pet stores. Maybe the pet was unwanted or even worse, loved, but their human companion could no longer afford to care for them. Luckily Lucy was left in a place where she was saved. Not all abandoned pets are so lucky.
If you or someone you know has come to the difficult decision to relinquish a pet, please be aware, animal abandonment is a crime in California. Anyone who abandons an animal is subject to a $500 fine and/or up to six months in jail (California Penal Code Sec. 597S). Instead of committing a crime, try to re-home your pet, search the internet for rescue groups or breed specific rescues, or relinquish your pet at the local animal shelter, SPCA, or humane society.
For those with the mindset that a relinquished pet won't survive in a shelter, consider this: potential adopters go to animal shelters LOOKING for pets to adopt. There are HUNDREDS of animal rescue groups all over Southern California pulling pets from animal shelters to re-home.
Please give unwanted pets a fighting chance at a forever home rather than abandoning them to fend for themselves.

Lovely animal rings are loved by girls

　　Lovely animal rings are loved by women. They are covered with a colorfully eye-catching gems and diamonds. This series of jewelry adds more charmingly naive or dreamlike animals on the basis of cats, wolves and some other animals which are used before, such as rats, polar bears, giraffes, parrots, koalas, hippocampus, frogs, hippos and clown fish and so on.

　　Lovely animals seem always easy to touch the softest place of women’ inner heart, and their lovely or charmmingly naive appearance can easily win women’s love. Top jewelry designers combine the animal models with the jewelry craft perfectly. When lovely animals are covered with a colorfully eye-catching gems and diamonds, how can people resist them?
The platinum frog My Rings is decorated with emeralds, black and white diamonds, which is holding a crown with cutting diamond and gold diamonds. This is an elegant work with a fairy tale character, which looks like a frog with a diamond crown ready to jump. The designer and the jeweler create a pair of shiny eyes for the frog though superb technology.

　　De Grisogono monkey shaped ring is rose gold and gold ring with 317 black diamonds weighing 10.19 carats, and seven white diamond weighing 0.18 carats.
De Grisogono Winnie shaped ring is gold ring with 305 brown diamonds weighing 9.97 carats and 2 pink sapphires weighing 0.39 carat.
Chopard 150 anniversary series: polar bear diamond ring
Pig shaped ring is rose gold and black plated gold ring with 2 white diamonds weighing 0.22 carats and 367 pink sapphires weighing 10.95 carats.
Switzerland’s famous jewelry brand Chopard celebrates its 150 birthday, especially showcasing the jewelry series “Animal World” featuring 150 pieces of animal themed jewelry. This series of jewelry adds more charmingly naive or dreamlike animals on the basis of cats, wolves and some other animals which are used before, such as rats, polar bears, giraffes, parrots, koalas, hippocampus, frogs, hippos and clown fish and so on.

Ten years of change

　　
　　

　　What a mile marker to reach in life! Ten whole days old. Yes, our kittens are growing up, and a couple of them are blinking a little bit, so they’re probably going to open their eyes soon. What adventures they will have! In the meantime, we try to prevent any early “adventures”, by keeping the little girls from causing them accidental harm. Oh, and before you call me out on my bad addition, the previous write-up’s pictures were taken when the kittens were four days old. So, I really do know how to count to ten.
As of today, the older girls and the grownups have all held the kittens, numerous times, but the little girls, only once. I don’t know how many times I’ve had the two of them repeat back to me what the rules are concerning the kittens. One that I’ve been drilling them on, especially, is that they aren’t allowed in their parents’ room without a grownup or a big sister. So, sure enough, last night, when their dad was in there, doing something else, one of the girls went in, and made a beeline for the cupboard.

Now, I had told them, also, that they could ONLY touch or hold the kittens if there was a grownup there, but somehow, this was misinterpreted, and Mrs. B found Emmie (5) “showing” Sadie (3) how to hold the kittens. Another talk followed. Being a year or two older than your sister does not a grownup make.
Today, the older girls were asked to let the kittens have a breather, as they’d been picking them up quite a bit, as well as their visiting friends, and taking them up on the bed. In the process of explaining something to their mom about it, I heard my name, and promptly went to hear what I’d been accused of. Apparently, I told them the kittens needed to be cuddled. Yesterday, while I was holding a kitten, I held her close against me, so she would feel warm and protected, not like she was hanging in open air. I explained to the kids that all babies like to be held close, and that’s probably why mine had stopped squeaking. Because they were all used to being “squashed”, before they were born, and they were still comfortable with that.
After explaining what I’d said, again, I pointed out that the kittens got plenty of cuddle and snuggle time with their pile of siblings, as well as with their mom. If they aren’t snuggling up against their mother, when they’re eating, I sure don’t know what they’re doing. Maybe Dusty doesn’t feel very snuggly, while having five babies feeding, but they definitely all feel safe and protected, when she’s there.

The lives of elephants

　　

Caption: Elephant family group banding close together in defensive formation, Tuli Block, Botswana. © Scotch Macaskill.
Camera: Picture taken with a Canon EOS film camera and Canon EOS 80-200mm F2.8 lens.
Location: The Tuli Block is situated in the eastern corner of Botswana, bordering Zimbabwe to the north and South Africa to the south.
Although not as well-known as Botswana's Moremi Game Reserve and Chobe National Park, the remote Tuli area comprises a diverse wilderness of savannah, riverine forests, marshland, open plains and rocky outrops.
There is abundant wildlife and the area is known for its large herds of elephtants, while more than 350 species of birds have been recorded in the Tuli region.
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They also want to have a home

　　
　　Recent years, the problem of stray animals has been emphasized among animal lovers groups and local citizens. Is this problem really as serious as those people think?
There are many people arguing about the cause of stray animals. Also, stray animals are always the best topic for some newspaper and magazines. However, few of them can pinpoint out the real causes of problem. They usually leave the responsibility to the wrong persons or wrong organizations, and only know boasting the fearful figures. It is useless to solving the problem.
Stray animals are almost dogs and cats. Are they all abandoned? Absolutely not!
Strictly to say, people here are greatly influenced by the culture of Chinese. In the past, adopting a cat or a dog is not a hobby, most cats and dogs are said to be working slaves. They need to beg for food from human beings. So, few cats or dogs can live completely close to man. They live in a mode of semi-stray, which means they can roam freely outside and eat at the dedicated sites. There is a large number group of semi-stray animals. So, we must admit that there are innate stray cats and dogs and understand most of the cats and dogs roaming on the streets are living in this mode or fundamental stray. What we need to notice from the above paragraph is that the deeply rooted culture of Chinese is always induction of stray animal problem. Some old styled people do not think dogs and cats should be a companion pets which can live very close to human beings. They may also think dogs and cats should not be kept inside the house. Therefore it caused the huge amount of stray animals every time when people moved homes.