distant pathos

A titan has fallen. Midori, 13, died in the paddock with her chickens today. We had the pleasure of having Midori for 6 years, she arrived April 2020. In those 6 years, I touched her twice. Once when we picked her up, and again when I tranquilized her (drugged her food) and moved her to our new farm. She was a chicken dog, not a human dog. She didn't want kennels, blankets, bowls, pats and human company. She wanted chickens to guard, paddocks to patrol and foxes to kill. Over the years she protected her flocks valiantly. She took our flock from high predation, mainly raptors and the odd fox, down to zero. She would catch foxes, rip their throats out, and lay them on our driveway to show us her trophy. When we collected eggs she would sit 20 metres away on high ground, observing us. She never wanted a pat. She never wandered. We tried to get her to train pups - she wouldn't. I'm going to bury her on a high point under a tree. Vale Midori

No idea what's going on with this "cost of lunch" discourse. I paid $5 for all this just a couple months ago at a bar in rural Upstate NY. Two mini-burgers + pickle for $1 2 pickled eggs for $1 Labatt Blue $2 Tip $1 I get this meal fairly often. Y'all suck at being poor lol

Before a raw animal based diet: After 1 year of consuming raw meat, raw organs, raw milk:

EXPOSED! Thousands of Chinese vessels are swarming just at the border of Peru's 200 NM EEZ. Stopping right at the demarcation line to turn off their AIS & sneak in. China’s massive fishing fleets are emptying oceans from Peru to the high seas & this can’t be ignored!

Gylfie the barn owl has laid three eggs, and it seems her partner Dryer couldn't be prouder. [📹 Robert E. Fuller]

SAN FRANCISCO 7th & Market st

Crazy that the usual suspects on here were *seething* about that kid selling some rugs. Some people were just born to lose, they will end up as that kid's servants at best.

Name something every gym goer should have at home?