I used to think that the hottest place on earth was Columbia, South Carolina, but I was mistaken. That title goes to the Lut Desert in Iran where the highest temperature ever recorded was 159 degrees Fahrenheit. I can’t even imagine. Notwithstanding the fact that nothing actually lives in the Lut Desert (It’s an abiotic […]
Yesterday, I drove 250 miles round-trip to visit a Maine Coon cattery in Georgia. My impression was that cattery cats are sold primarily on the basis of conformity to breed standards and secondarily on the basis of ribbons won by the parents. Personality seems a tertiary consideration, which might be just as well since three […]
Onychectomy (on-uh-KEK-tuh-mee) is the procedure’s medical name, but opponents of declawing call it amputation. They’re right as rain. However it’s done, whether by scalpel or laser or the discomfitingly named “guillotine” tool, declawing is, put simply, the complete removal of phalange #3, analogous to removal of the fingernail and last bone of a human finger. […]
