A Cottage Kitchen Can Look Unexpectedly Dramatic Treated To Rich, Contrasting Colours. Here, Green And

A quick and dirty on why retractable leashes are the devil:

1- Your dog is 15 feet away... do you know what it just ate? Did you see the squirrel it killed before it did? How, exactly, do you plan to keep the dog out of the road?

2- If the dog gets a good running start it can pull the leash out of your hand. And if you suddenly hit the stop toggle you can harm your dog.

3- Those leashes are very sharp at speed. They can lacerate both you or your pet.

4- Congratulations, your dog just created a Gordian Knot around you, that tree, and an errant child.

5- That dog down the street is reactive to other dogs based on proximity. Your dog is now 25 feet closer to that dog.

6- Your dog just took a dump 20 feet out in a field of tall grass. Have fun playing hunt the poop.

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White Spotting in European Red Foxes

Here’s another weird color mutation I’ve been finding examples of recently. The top fox was killed in the UK, while the bottom two were killed in the Netherlands as part of an unrelated research project.

Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find out any more information about it, other then this spotting appears to be common in foxes in the South Limburg region of the Netherlands, (suggesting it’s genetic and not a random mutation.)

Clearly it’s a less dramatic form of leucisum, but if anyone has anymore info/pictures of this mutation then please let me know! I’m really fascinated by the variation in color of both wild and captive-bred foxes.

Photos by magman, (top), and J.L.Mulder, (bottom)

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The cruelty of racist white men.