Yummy Wakame Weblog

You can help ban canned lion hunting in South Africa.
Excerpt from Kalahari Raptor Centre:
South Africa is a hunter’s paradise. But for the animals, South Africa is Hell on Earth.

• The hunting of large predators by bow and arrow. Arrows kill by causing bleeding, and so most animals shot with arrows will take a long time to die. Some websites reveal that tame lions are routinely hunted with dogs – and then killed by bow and arrow while cornered by the dog pack.



• The power to certify that the target animal has been “rehabilitated to wild status” is given not to skilled rehabilitators, as one would expect, but to notoriously incompetent and hunting-orientated provincial nature conservation officials who have no knowledge of, or training in, the science of wildlife rehabilitation. Presumably any animal that does not jump up onto the official’s lap and lick his face will automatically be certified ‘wild’.



• The extension of captive breeding and hunting not only to lions but also to other large predators, including endangered species such as wild dogs.



• Wildlife sanctuaries will continue to be prohibited. This means that cruelty to animals is permitted, but kindness is not. This is not conservation. It is grotesque. There are no regulations whatsoever on the minimum size of cages or any other aspect of the welfare of captive animals. For example, everyone knows of the terrible practice of captive breeders in taking the cubs away from the mother to bring her back into oestrus quicker so that she breeds faster. This is both cruel and unnatural and one witnesses lionesses, mouths bleeding from biting at the sharp wire fencing, trying to get to their crying cubs in a pitiful and pathetic attempt to obey their natural protective instincts.

‘Human-cow’ created
“A controversial cloning scientist is to announce he has created ‘human-cow’ embryos that lived for about a fortnight and theoretically could have been implanted into a woman’s womb.”

The very definition of what Chapelers call A Shiny Story!

There’s a funny little synchronicity-thing going on betwixt Chapelers where I would be thinking of a certain topic or watching/reading something interesting and out of the blue a Chapeler will post something related, either on their own site or right at Chapel.
In this case I happened to be watching Antique Roadshow on PBS and wishing we had something antique that’s valued far above what we bought it for, then this story comes to light.

Cait, I’m very glad this happened to your friend, but it was supposed to happen to me!!!

I found this cute little DIY exercise program featuring Milko, something MooGirl would have appreciated.
We miss her and hope all is well in her life.

Angle Grinder Man – wheelclamp superhero
A man in a superhero costume is roaming the streets of London freeing wheel-clamped cars with an angle grinder. (photos)
He even has his own website.

::Differences::
Game goes fullscreen.
I had trouble with it as the images are too dark for me to see all the subtle differences.

Write your own Ancient History with the Historic Tale Construction Kit.
This is very clever.

I Rub My Duckie
“As long as your rubber duckie is in the tub anyway, it might as well do something besides just float. This soothing vibrating body massager is completely waterproof and features a strong, but quiet, motor that runs on two AA batteries.” USA Today

Note for faithful yummy readers:
Sorry for the sporadic posts lately. Some big changes happening in my life at the mo, so dont have much free time to find entertaining online stuff for you. This is only temporary, so please keep checking back. Thanks.
(Bsti, Kat, Al, if you have the time Id love you to go mad here and post what you like.)

GIANT PANDA CAM at San Diego Zoo.
Aw, Bai Yun has given birth to a little baby panda. She sleeps with it in her paws. It looks like a hedgehog.