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something tells me she's lying

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Finding an apartment may be easier for California pet owners under new legislation

By TERRY CHEA and JANIE HAR Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]   SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California pet owners struggling to find a rental that accepts their furry, four-legged family members could have an easier time leasing new housing under proposed state legislation that would ban blanket no-pets policies and prohibit landlords from charging additional…

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Over 200 Dogs Surprised This Lifelong Dog Lover For His 100th Birthday

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Robert Moore, a retired dean of San Jose State University, had a simple wish for his 100th birthday: to pet as many dogs as possible. His daughter, Alison Moore, knew how much her father loved dogs and decided to organize a dog parade for him on June 17. She posted about the event on social media and invited local dog owners to join in with their furry friends. She expected…

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new boy coru on the block :)

+ the original drawings (i was 10)

[sciencenewsforstudents]

Although it’s tricky for people to see, mouse feelings are written all over their furry little faces.

A research team in Germany trained a computer program to study the faces of mice for signs of emotion. It was able to reliably spot expressions of joy, fear, pain and other basic emotions. Those signs offer a sort of “field guide” for scientists who study emotion. And understanding the emotion in animals better could help guide human studies too, the researchers say. They described their new findings in the April 3 Science.

Nadine Gogolla studies the brain at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology. It’s in Martinsried, Germany. She and her colleagues treated mice in ways to trigger distinct emotions. To evoke pleasure, they gave the mice sugar water. A shock to their tails triggered pain. Bitter quinine (KWY-nyne) water led to disgust. An injection of the chemical lithium chloride made them uneasy and queasy. And being put somewhere they had been shocked in the past sparked fear. For each setup, high-speed video cameras focused on the animal’s faces. These captured subtle movements in the animals’ ears, noses, whiskers and more.

An observer would likely see that a mouse’s face changes, Gogolla says. But translating those subtle changes into emotions? That’s really hard, she says. That true “especially for an untrained human being.”

But a computer had no trouble, the researchers found. They used an approach called “machine learning.” It directs a computer program to scout for patterns in images. The program analyzed thousands of video frames of mouse faces. It spotted subtle movements that accompanied good or bad events.

For instance, take the face of a (presumably happy) mouse drinking sweet water. The ears move forward and fold toward the body. At the same time, the nose moves down toward the mouth. The face looks differently when the mouse tastes bitter quinine. Its ears move straight back. It nose curls slightly backward, too.

Using machine learning to reveal mouse expressions is “an extraordinarily exciting direction,” says Kay Tye. She is a neuroscientist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif. She was not part of the new study. The findings “lay the foundation for what I expect will be a game-changer for neuroscience research on emotional states,” Tye says.

The activity of nerve cells in a mouse’s brain also changed with distinct emotions, other analyses showed. These cells reside in a region known as the insular cortex. This deeply buried spot plays a role in human emotions, too.

By prodding cells there to fire signals, the researchers could prompt the mice to display certain facial expressions. These connections may lead to insights on the neural basis of emotions. They also could help scientists explore what goes wrong in disorders such as anxiety, the researchers suggest.  

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Purchasing a ragdoll cat can be a great decision if you love to cuddle with a cute little pet. However, a little knowledge about this breed can help you prepare financially for its future. Here are some things to consider: Ragdolls love being around people and will follow you like a furry shadow looking for love and affection. They will even greet you at the door when you come home. Ragdolls are perfect for families with children due to their gentle, affectionate and laid-back nature. They love to play and will retract their claws, which allows for safer interactions and helps reduce play-related accidents. Because they are easygoing, Ragdolls don't do well outdoors, which makes them particularly good indoor cats. Ragdoll cats are not only so calm and affectionate, but they are also very intelligent. With a little patience, they can be taught basic skills like "catching" and "turning." Despite their easygoing nature, Ragdolls still have needs to satisfy. They don't like being alone for long periods of time, and if they're not stimulated, they get bored. These cats are also hungry for routine and will not appreciate changes in meal times or major upheavals in the home environment. Life expectancy of a ragdoll cat The life expectancy of a Ragdoll is approximately 15 years, and it depends on many factors. The breed is well-known for its laid-back demeanor and striking coloring. While the breed's lifespan is largely determined by its genes, proper care and preventative medicine can prolong its life. Read on to learn more about the typical health problems of this breed. Here is a breakdown of some of the most common ailments that Ragdoll cats can develop. The life expectancy of a Ragdoll is generally higher than other breeds. The breed is well-suited for families with children and can live to be 15 years or more. However, Ragdolls are also known to develop hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a common feline heart disease. DNA testing is required to identify a cat with this condition, but breeders can breed cats that are free of this disease. A Ragdoll cat's coat is soft and silky and ranges from semi-long to long. This fur is so soft and plush that the cat looks bigger than it is. This breed's ears are medium size and set on the sides of the head. Their large paws and silky coats make them a perfect pet for households with children. Their life expectancy depends on how well the cat is cared for. There are several diseases that affect the heart of cats. Kidney disease affects a lot of Ragdolls. Cats can develop blockages, infections, tumours, and toxins in their urine. Other illnesses, such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, are rare but treatable. A doctor can help your cat live a normal and healthy life despite these problems. They can also be diagnosed with genetic tests. A Ragdoll cat's lifespan varies, depending on the type of treatment it receives. They are generally non-aggressive and do not have aggressive tendencies. The breed was developed in the 1960s in Riverside, Calif., and may be a cross between a Burmese, Birman, and Persian cats. The breed is the sixth most popular breed in the United States. Health issues Although these cats are known for their sweet nature, they can have health problems of their own. One of the most common health issues of Ragdoll cats is gastroenteritis. The digestive tract of a ragdoll cat is long and winding. If left untreated, a ragdoll can experience severe discomfort and may even stop urinating. This can lead to frequent accidents around the house. affects Ragdoll cats heart failure Heart disease in Ragdolls is another common cause of early death. This breed is prone to heart failure, which can lead to sudden cardiac death. It is also prone to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and other cardiac problems. The breed has a genetic mutation that increases its risk for these health issues. It is recommended that owners seek medical attention as soon as symptoms of heart failure arise.

Although this feline breed is mainly known for its playful personality, it has some health problems that are common in all cats. Another major health problem that affects Ragdolls is heart failure. Although heart failure can be a chronic condition, treatment is usually effective for several years. A weakened heart can lead to strokes, heart failure, and other cardiovascular problems. However, most Ragdoll cats develop heart failure at an early age and may live for years on medication. These cats have a tendency to hide their symptoms and are often asymptomatic. Another health issue is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which affects 30% of Ragdoll cats. This disease results in thickening of the heart walls, which makes it hard to pump blood efficiently. In some cases, blood clots can also cause organs to block, which is dangerous for the animal. As the heart wall thickens, the heart muscle will not be able to pump enough blood, causing heart failure. Another common health problem is obesity. The Ragdoll has a high risk of developing polycystic kidney disease. The breed may also develop bladder stones. The breed of Ragdoll cats was developed in Riverside, California during the 1960s. The breed is prone to inbreeding, which results in a high risk for hereditary health problems. Some cats are affected by the hypertrophic cardiomyopathy gene, so it's important to check with a veterinarian to find out if your cat has this condition. Grooming needs Grooming your cat is a very important part of pet ownership. Ragdoll cats have medium to long-haired coats, and they tend to shed more than other types of cats. As a result, you'll need to pay special attention to their coat and skin care. Regular brushing and bathing can help keep their coats and skin healthy, and will also prevent mats and excessive shedding. Brushing Ragdoll cats regularly will keep their coats free of loose hair and prevent mats. This also allows you to easily identify any parasites that may be present on your cat. Once you have identified these parasites, you can treat them right then and there. Keeping your cat's coat clean is important for the health of both you and your pet, and regular brushing will make your life much easier. Regular brushing and bathing will also help your cat look and feel better. It will also help you strengthen your bond with him. Regular grooming also allows you to check your cat for lumps and abnormalities. Other grooming tasks include claw trimming and ear cleaning with a moist cloth. Grooming your cat regularly will also make your life easier and more enjoyable! So, what are the grooming needs for Ragdoll cats? Your Ragdoll cat will require weekly brushing and trimming. This is important for their long coats. They may also need nail trimming once or twice a month. They also need regular visits to the veterinarian. This is necessary for them to stay healthy and prevent illnesses. The following is a basic grooming schedule for your Ragdoll cat. You can start by brushing your cat two times a week. Investing in a good slicker brush or pin brush will help keep their coats clean. These brushes are great for grooming the undercoat and helping with de-shedding. They can help minimize fur from your Ragdoll cat. Grooming your cat regularly will keep your house clean and keep your ragdoll happy. If you have the money, consider adopting a ragdoll cat. Cost of owning a ragdoll When you buy a Ragdoll cat, you'll be faced with several expenses. The first year of owning a Ragdoll cat includes five to six veterinarian visits, vaccinations, deworming, and a full set of vaccinations. These services can cost you anywhere from $250 to $600, but if you plan to give your Ragdoll a healthy life, you can expect to spend about $1,500 a year on these costs. the cost of owning a Ragdoll cats First, you'll need to invest in a quality litter box and cat litter, which can run anywhere from $20 to $50. You can reuse a cat crate and a cat bed that you purchased from a previous owner to keep your cat warm and comfortable.

You'll also need to buy cat food and water dishes, which are essential for your Ragdoll cat's healthy life. Second, you'll need to decide what level of quality you're willing to pay for a Ragdoll kitten. There are two levels of ragdoll: show quality and pet grade. The former is the most expensive and offers the highest quality of appearance. Unlike pet grade, show quality ragdolls are usually spayed/neutered before being sold as pets. Third, you'll need to take care of your Ragdoll kitten's food and vet bills. It's important to find a reputable breeder or rescue home before buying a kitten. Make sure they're reputable and follow proper protocol for handling their kittens. Also, know the standard of ragdoll cats, and don't be afraid to ask questions. If you don't get the right mix, it may be worth it to try a different breed. Finally, if you're unsure about the cost of owning a Ragdoll, remember that it's a long-term commitment. Despite being one of the cheapest cats in the world, it requires a significant financial investment. You should consider the benefits and drawbacks of owning a Ragdoll cat before making the commitment. While ragdolls may not be the most expensive cats in the world, they're definitely worth it for the love and company they bring to our lives.

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YOU WILL REGRET YOUR LIFE CHOICES

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Pet Owners Seek Specialty Veterinary Care More Than Ever

BALTIMORE ” With more Americans willing to find advanced medical care for their pets, the idea of a obtaining a “second” view or directly seeking a veterinary specialist is gaining in popularity. Seventy-three percent of veterinarians stated their customers seek more references to veterinary specialists today than they did just five years back, according to a survey by the Companion Animal and Family Health Council.

Treatments and therapies after employed only in human medicine are now readily available to pets via veterinary experts.  Owners of animals requiring specialized attention for internal medication conditions like heart disease, cancer, neurological issues along with other organ disorders are seeking the most advanced care and treatments available.

Many of the specialty veterinarians that offer the latest cutting-edge medical improvements are members of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM).  ACVIM members perform specialized health procedures which range from implanting pacemakers to administering chemotherapy and removing urinary stones without surgery.

ACVIM’s 1,537 associates are Board-certified veterinary specialists (“Diplomates”) and also have three-to-six additional years of veterinary medical care.  They specialize in small and large animal internal medicine, cardiology, neurology and oncology.

Diplomates employ the most advanced diagnostic tools available, including magnetic resonance imaging and Doppler ultrasound.  Often, pet owners wanting the most cutting-edge care for their furry friend ’s internal medicine condition seek specialists who have knowledge and expertise in treating certain ailments or issues.  Pets not reacting to or improving from a current treatment and people needing around-the-clock care are good candidates for specialty care.

Owners wanting to find a specialist can ask their primary veterinarian for a referral or even seek out the care right.  “Unlike people who often require a referral from their general physician before they could see a specialist, animal owners can contact veterinary experts at any moment,” said Barry Kipperman DVM, Diplomate ACVIM, at Dublin, Calif. “Referrals are more apt to occur if you've got a trusting relationship with your veterinarian and you are eager to recommend that you want to have the best care possible for your pet. ”

ACVIM advises monster owners to ask the following questions of the vet Before seeking out a veterinary specialist:

Would a second view be of benefit/value? Would the animal’s possibilities of success/improvement be greater when we saw a specialist?Have you noticed this issue frequently and also have you had powerful outcomes?How much experience have you had with this particular procedure/treatment? Is the creature receiving the many advanced/aggressive remedy possible?Pet proprietors who want to discover a specialist in their place can search a nationwide database of ACVIM Diplomates at www.acvim.org; click “searchable database, then ” fill in specialty and species, and enter the country where the pet owner resides.

ACVIM is the national certifying organization for health care experts in large and small animal internal medicine, cardiology, neurology and oncology.  Launched in 1973, ACVIM’s purpose is to advance the knowledge of animal health and diseases, and also to foster the continuing development of specialty veterinary care.

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Are coyotes moving into your neighborhood?

Late one afternoon, Raphael Kaplan and his family were out walking near their home in Los Angeles, Calif., the second largest U.S. city. He looked through a fence surrounding a golf course and saw two coyotes.

They were “hanging out,” he says, “just lying down and waiting for us to pass.” This wasn’t an unusual experience for Raphael, who is 10 years old. The fourth grader says he sees coyotes all the time, often at that golf course. He’s also seen them walking down his street.

Coyotes look like medium-sized dogs or small wolves with short gray and brown fur. But they are a separate species, Canis latrans. They will eat just about anything and can learn to survive in nearly any environment.

Before 1700, coyotes only lived in the midwestern and southwestern United States and Mexico. But then people wiped out nearly all of North America’s wolves because the predators sometimes kill farm animals. This opened up space for coyotes.

People tried to get rid of coyotes, too. Some considered them to be pests. During the middle of the 20th century, the U.S. government poisoned around 6.5 million coyotes. Killing them is still legal in most U.S. states. Hunters and trappers kill hundreds of thousands every year. Despite all this, coyotes have survived and spread. They have moved into every U.S. state except Hawaii. Some roam only in wild areas. Many, however, make their homes in cities and suburbs. If you live in North America, chances are good that you have coyote neighbors.

Coyotes could be living in your backyard. These pups were born in a den in a backyard in suburban Chicago.Ashley Wurth/Cook County Coyote Project

Encounters with coyotes happen regularly across the United States as well as in Canada, Mexico and parts of Central America. In Chicago, Ill., for instance, coyotes once denned on the top floor of a parking garage across from Soldier Field, the home stadium of the Chicago Bears football team. In 2015, New York City police officers in trucks, cars and helicopters chased a coyote through Riverside Park in Manhattan. They aimed to move the animal out of the city. After three hours, they gave up the chase. The coyote had simply hidden itself too well.

Occasionally, coyotes may bite or attack people or their pets. However, coyotes mostly avoid people. Raphael is glad he’s gotten to see them so many times.

He’s also helped study them. From 2015 through 2019, the National Park Service’s L.A. Urban Coyote Project recruited kids and others without science training. These citizen scientists collected coyote poop and then sorted through it. The goal was to learn what city coyotes eat. Other studies in Los Angeles, New York City and Chicago have looked at where city coyotes go and how they behave. Such studies are teaching us how city coyotes thrive amongst people.

Scat party

Raphael poked through a pile of coyote poop. “There were teeth, claws and whiskers,” he reports. “It was parts of rabbits.”

He was at a scat party organized by the National Park Service. (Scat is the technical name for wild animal poop). At tables spread out around a room, citizen scientists of all ages and all backgrounds inspected piles of scat. Justin Brown is a biologist at the National Park Service in Calabasas, Calif. He answered questions and helped identify everything. The group had found lots of rabbit remains. They also found lizard parts, rat teeth, beetles, fruit seeds, cat hair and much more.

Raphael Kaplan dissects coyote droppings at a scat party organized by the L.A. Urban Coyote Project. He presented information at his school’s science fair about coyotes and his experience with citizen science. Charlie Kaplan

Before the scat party, other volunteers had walked along planned routes, searching for coyote droppings. Some looked in a suburban neighborhood near the city. Others looked in downtown Los Angeles. Brown planned to compare the diets of coyotes from these two locations. When the volunteers found scat, they picked it up with gloves. Then they put it into paper bags, which they labeled with the date and location. Later, they’d drop these off with Brown and his team.

What did Brown’s team do with this smelly poop?

The first step was to roast the stuff in the oven for 24 hours at 60° Celsius (140° Fahrenheit). This killed any parasites or harmful microbes. “From there, we’d pour it out of the bags and look at each one,” says Brown. Sometimes, the volunteers collected dog poop by mistake. Coyote scat contains lots of hair from animals the coyote ate. The hair twists together at the end of each dropping. Brown and his team looked for this and several other telltale signs. They tossed out scat samples that probably weren’t from coyotes.

Next, they wrapped each sample in a stocking. They threw the stockings into a washing machine for a couple of cycles. This got rid of almost everything except hair, bones and other food leftovers. Finally, the stockings went into the dryer. By the time the stuff got to Raphael and the other scat party volunteers, it was clean and safe to handle. “It just smelled like dirt a little bit,” says Raphael.

During a series of such parties, volunteers and scientists worked together to identify the food sources in each sample. They had a lot to get through. “We ended up with about 3,000 scats,” says Brown. He noted that his team never would have been able to gather and process so much without community help.

Most coyote scat contains hair and bones from rabbits, voles and other small prey. But the scat of city coyotes also may contain remnants of garbage, fruits from people’s yards, pet food or the hair of pet cats. National Park Service

Some interesting trends emerged from these comparisons of scat from city versus suburban coyotes. Suburban ones mostly ate rabbits. About 50 percent of those scat samples had rabbit remains. City coyotes also ate wild food. But their scat samples were more likely to contain garbage, pet food and fruit from trees people like to grow in their yards. Sometimes there were even the remains of pet cats. Some scats contained fast food wrappers. In fact, human-food sources accounted for as much as 60 to 75 percent of what urban coyotes ate.

Life in the big city

Do city coyotes have it made? Not exactly. Stanley Gehrt is a biologist at Ohio State University in Columbus. He has run the Urban Coyote Research Project in Chicago since 2000. Coyotes respond positively to some aspects of city life and negatively to others, he’s found. The more city-like an environment is, the harder it becomes for coyotes to succeed there.

One good part of city life is protection from hunting and trapping. These activities aren’t usually allowed within cities and suburbs. And cities offer an excellent supply of food, Brown’s research shows. That often includes wild prey.

“Downtown Chicago has an overabundance of rabbits,” says Gehrt. Before coyotes moved in, human trappers had to work to keep rabbit populations under control. Now, coyotes do that job.

Voles and squirrels are other coyote favorites. Squirrels have learned to visit people’s bird feeders, so some coyotes “crouch and hide near bird feeders,” waiting to pounce on a tasty squirrel, says Gehrt. Others munch on the berries and other fruits that people grow in their yards. Human food and garbage also is plentiful in a city.

Some coyotes get used to these easy food sources and lose their fear of people. If an animal begins approaching or bothering people, police or other local officials may kill it. To make sure coyote neighbors stay a safe distance away, people should secure their garbage, pick up fallen fruit and keep pet food inside.

Coyotes usually try to avoid people, but the more people there are, the harder that gets. Coyotes may end up with a very small home territory. It might be limited to a single park. They may cut across roads and highways to get to the different parts of their territory. Car accidents are the leading cause of death for urban coyotes.

Coyotes live in downtown Chicago and in many other U.S. cities. They spend most of their time in natural areas such as parks, but will also cross roads or roam through backyards, parking lots and alleys.Jeff Nelson/Cook County Coyote Project

But the more often coyotes cross roads, the better they get at it, notes Gehrt. He’s observed coyotes wait patiently at the edge of a highway. When they see a gap in traffic, they then run across as quickly as possible. He’s also watched coyotes using traffic lights. “They will wait until the traffic stops, then take their time, often using the crosswalk, to cross the road,” he says. “They know the traffic is going to stop.”

Urban coyotes also tend to spend more time hunting and traveling after dark. Fewer people are out and about then, so it’s easier and safer for them to get around.

Family matters

Coyotes have lived in the Los Angeles and Chicago areas since the early 1900s. So these animals have had more than a century to get used to city life. Coyotes moved into New York City only recently. The first sightings in this city of more than 8 million people took place in 1990.

“Most people don’t realize they’re here,” says Carol Henger. She’s a PhD student in biology at Fordham University who has studied New York City’s coyotes as part of the Gotham Coyote Project. To learn about the animals’ recent expansion into a new city, she studies their genes. Genes are made of DNA. They carry instructions on how the body should grow and behave.

Dog trainer Ferdie Yau of New York City trained his dog Scout to sniff out coyote scat. After a successful hunt, Yau rewarded her with bits of bacon or a game of tug with a furry sheep wool toy.

Henger got those DNA samples from scat. Once again, citizen scientists stepped in to help. Ferdie Yau from the Bronx, N.Y., was one of them. He had studied wildlife biology in graduate school but decided to become a dog trainer. He realized he could use his skills to help the Gotham Coyote Project.

“I practiced with my own dog and was able to train her to find coyote scat,” he says. “She became really good at it.” His dog, Scout, was seven at the time. She retired from scat hunting last year at the age of 11. She’d sniffed out more than 100 scats, Yau guesses.

Henger and her team extracted DNA from all of the scat found by volunteers like Yau and Scout. They then tested to check whether each sample came from a coyote. If the DNA of several samples matched exactly, the researchers knew they came from the same individual. If several samples were very similar, those coyotes had to be part of the same family. “I was able to figure out that we had about five to six family groups in the city, all related to each other,” says Henger.

Alexandra DeCandia studied the genetics of New York City’s coyotes. To do that, she had to get DNA out of scat samples. That involves mixing the sample with chemicals that separate DNA from other cell parts. Edward Schrom

Most likely, all of these coyotes descended from the first few who ventured into the city. “They don’t seem to be getting in and out of the city to go find partners,” says Alexandra DeCandia. She’s a PhD student in genetics at Princeton University, in New Jersey, who also worked on the study.

This lack of movement in and out of the city isn’t good news for the coyotes. A healthy population of animals has high genetic diversity. That means that any two animals are likely to carry very different sets of genetic instructions. If something bad happens, such as a disease or a lack of food, there’s a higher likelihood that some of the animals will carry genes that will protect them or help them adapt.

New York’s coyotes “still have decent levels of genetic diversity,” says DeCandia. But if the population stays small and doesn’t get in and out of the city, genetic diversity will fall. This could eventually leave it at risk of diseases or other problems.

What prevents city coyotes from mixing with their rural neighbors? Highways act as barriers. But the coyotes also may not want to leave. Like the fable of the city mouse and the country mouse, a city coyote may feel very uncomfortable in the country, and vice versa, guesses Javier Monzon. He is a biologist at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif. “An animal born in the city, raised in the city and adapted to eating things in the city may not want to go [into the mountains],” he says.

In a genetic survey of the coyotes of Los Angeles and surrounding natural areas, he and his team found four distinct populations. One population lived in the mountains. These country coyotes were all more related to each other than to any of the city coyotes — even though some of the country coyotes lived on opposite sides of Los Angeles. Monzon and his colleagues shared their findings May 4 in the Journal of Urban Ecology.

This pup is hanging out on a front doorstep in Los Angeles. “I’ve seen whole litters of pups under people’s decks,” says Justin Brown, a biologist with the National Park Service. “I’ve seen them in downtown L.A. next to big buildings.” National Park Service

Cities may not be the best home for coyotes. People get nervous when the dog-sized predators hunt and forage in their backyards. And coyotes may have trouble finding mates or avoiding cars. But despite these difficulties, city coyotes persist. We know from history that trying to get rid of them won’t work. Instead, today’s coyote experts focus on finding ways to help people and coyotes thrive safely, side by side.

Leave coyotes alone — they can be dangerous

Coyotes are wild animals. If you see one, don’t approach it or try to feed it. But don’t run away, either. “Yell at it. Wave your arms,” says Stanley Gehrt. “The coyote should run away.” If it doesn’t, you should report the animal to your local wildlife control agency.

On January 8, 2020, a coyote attacked a six-year-old boy in Lincoln Park in Chicago, Ill.  The boy’s caretaker was able to scare the animal away and the boy survived. Such attacks on humans are very rare. This was the first in the city for decades. But young children especially should be very careful around these animals.

Pets that roam outdoors also could be in danger. Coyotes may hunt and eat cats or small dogs. Justin Brown’s study of coyote diet found that 20 percent of the scat samples from city-dwelling animals had cat hair in them. This was higher than Brown had expected. Still, pets are not a main food source.

Gehrt has been studying urban coyotes for 20 years. He says, “They’re not living off people’s pets at all.” In his studies of coyote diets, he’s rarely found remains of pets or signs of human food, pet food or garbage. Most coyotes — even ones that live in cities — prefer wild prey, he says.

It’s very unlikely that a coyote will attack you or your pet, but you should still be very careful around these wild animals.

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What You Know About Classical Painting Classes And What You Don't Know About Classical Painting Classes - Classical Painting Classes

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Mandy Boursicot Atelier – Classical Art Classes Vancouver - classical painting classes | classical painting classes The accuracy is that Baldessari not alone admired teaching but fabricated it the axial affair of his art. As a architect of conceptual art and assistant at the California Institute of the Arts (or CalArts), amid added places, he seemed at already amorous of art history but active to the banana applesauce of accepting his acceptance strive to bout the amplitude of the past. His beheld appearance derives from a bend of activity that we never alike knew had a appearance — i.e., the classroom. Abounding of his compositions affection photographs or argument adopted from disparate sources, and accept the lucid, direct attending of educational materials, abnormally beam cards and posters inscribed with advantageous advice in sans-serif, jumbo-size type.Baldessari’s best-known assignment — a lithograph, from 1971, blue-blooded “I Will Not Make Any Added Boring Art” — takes its afflatus from the doubtful antecedent of grade-school punishments. The appellation sentence, jotted in neatly askance cursive, is again 17 times, bushing the folio from top to bottom. It is absolutely amusing: a sly advance on conceptual art, calumniating the movement’s didactic, text-heavy creations alike as it doubles as a absolute archetype of one.Note to alum students: Can addition amuse amount out whether this allotment afflicted the arena in “The Shining,” in which a writer’s much-awaited arrangement is appear to abide of annihilation but one book (“All assignment and no comedy makes Jack a addled boy”) again ad infinitum?

Classical Painting Workshop - Painting Classes Los Angeles | CourseHorse - Kline Academy of Fine Art - classical painting classes | classical painting classes Evocations of bookish abortion recur in Baldessari’s work, conceivably boilerplate added humorously than in the five-foot-tall painting blue-blooded “Wrong” (1966-68). It juxtaposes a down-covered black-and-white photograph of Baldessari continuing in advanced of a angular approach with a explanation that says, in its cogent entirety, “WRONG.” The artisan conceived the piece, he explained, afterwards account in a how-to photography book that you should never affectation a accountable in advanced of a tree, because the timberline will attending like it is growing anon from your subject’s head. “Wrong” can feel like a accolade to the endless adolescent artists and freethinkers who accept had their breakable egos ashamed by addition who shouted “wrong” aback they were right.Baldessari’s assignment descends anon from that of Marcel Duchamp, the French-born Dadaist who fabricated art feel like a annex of philosophy. Duchamp, of course, advantaged art that offered affirmation of account rather than craft, of able cerebration rather than abstruse facility. In 1963, aback Baldessari was still active in burghal National City, Calif., teaching art at a bounded academy and spending his Sundays aqueous out paintings in the big-brush appearance of the Abstract Expressionists, he had a adventitious to see an important Duchamp attendant at the Pasadena Art Museum. It was a revelation. By the end of the decade, he had put bottomward his brushes. He was axis out text-laden paintings whose beheading he outsourced to able assurance painters.Unlike Duchamp, whose assignment can be difficult and arcane, Baldessari is a conceptualist with a accepted touch. Or rather a accepted non-touch. His assignment is accessible, discreet and occasionally glib, and it has accepted acid to some of his added apparently absorbed contemporaries. In 1969, in the article “Art Afterwards Philosophy,” Joseph Kosuth, a adolescent addict of text-based art, derided Baldessari’s artworks as so abounding conceptual “cartoons” that are “not absolutely accordant to this discussion.”

The New School of Classical Painting Daylesford - classical painting classes | classical painting classes But again Baldessari was never an artist’s artisan so abundant as a alum student’s artist. His artlessness and advanced blasphemy fabricated him awfully accepted as a teacher, and his acceptability soared aback he accustomed at CalArts, a no-grades-no-requirements school, area he beneath to advise painting and instead called his course, rather provocatively, “Post-Studio Art.” The association was that the atelier was a affair of the accomplished and students, instead of ambitious to Promethean artistic heights, could be added abreast as recyclers of begin photographs and added appointed material.Among his abounding memorable acceptance who larboard California and agitated his access to New York are David Salle, James Welling, Barbara Bloom and Edward Henderson. Asked about his teacher’s style, Mr. Henderson recalled, in a adherent tone, “Whatever he said meant 20 things.” Abounding of his acceptance kept up with him afterwards they larboard school, and he affably answered their buzz calls and mail. Mr. Henderson pulled out an old postcard from Baldessari, about 1983. On the advanced side, it shows an unironically beautiful arena at the Cincinnati Zoo: four white tiger cubs at play.On the cast side, in the amplitude aloof for messages, Baldessari wrote a distinct sentence: “O.K., O.K., What were my aftermost words to you?”

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Cafés Owned and Run by Women of Color

We spotlight several cafés in the United States that are run by female minorities.

BY KATRINA YENTCH BARISTA MAGAZINE ONLINE

Cover photo by the Intentionalist

In 2020, we are more excited than ever when we find a new business run by a diverse group of folks, whether they’re serving something from their own background or offering an innovative spin on something we all know and love. This week and next, we’ll be highlighting some of the many cafés throughout the United States that are run by women of color, as well as learning what they’re doing to contribute to the community they serve and beyond.

Crumbs & Whiskers was the first cat café to open in Washington, D.C., and has since expanded to Los Angeles. Photo courtesy of Crumbs & Whiskers.

Crumbs & Whiskers – Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles

Founder and CEO Kanchan Singh was only 24 years old when she left her corporate finance job to pursue a passion project inspired by her travels through Thailand. She thus combined animal welfare, coffee, and business conscientiousness to start Crumbs & Whiskers in 2015—one of the first cat cafés to pop up in America. “I love connecting humans with animals!” Kanchan says. “It’s an amazing connection that we’re starting to lose in our crazy and busy lives.”

With the help of crowd-funding through Kickstarter, this stylish and chic cat café first opened in Washington, D.C., as the first of its kind there. Kanchan and her team now run a kitten café out of Los Angeles too, serving cortados and doses of feline affection to urbanites, along with plenty of neon photo sign opportunities. Similar to other animal cafés that now operate in the United States, Crumbs & Whiskers partners with local animal-focused nonprofits to function as a living space for foster cats until they are adopted. The company has since become an empire, hosting events like stand-up comedy and ugly sweater parties, along with kitten yoga sessions, too. We wish you the best of luck in resisting the temptation to bring a furry friend back home.

Resistencia Coffee’s Coté Soerens has made her café a space that’s run by the people. Photo by Kelly O. for City Arts Magazine.

Resistencia Coffee – Seattle

Chilean immigrant and Puentes founder Coté Soerens opened Resistencia Coffee in the developing Latinx neighborhood of South Park, Seattle, with the intention of “gente-fication,” or people-fication. “Have an awareness of what your impact is in the community. Work hard and be intentional about the community space when it’s yours, too,” Coté says. To do this, she offers a pay-it-forward gift card, a “Barista Brigade” job and business training program for youth, and a gated-off play area for children. The menu is filled with Latin-inspired ingredients and drinks like the cinnamon sugar “Xingona latte,” plus tasty empanadas. 

Since its official brick-and-mortar opening in 2018, Resistencia has become a café that serves a diverse range of people, too. “When I started talking about it, it was easy for people to think, ‘How cute, but are you actually gonna do it?’” Coté says. “I think it’s remarkable that in this day and age in Seattle, we were able to get a space that is occupied by people who represent the community.” Coté is serious about supporting this community too. The café regularly hosts open-mic nights and sells art and merchandise from local makers, plus founded the urban fresh-food collective in South Park. Coté is proud of the space she has “midwifed,” a place that has shaped its own identity with the help of the people around it.

Sip & Sonder describes itself as “the black lifestyle housed in a coffee shop.” Photo by Jason Lewis for Los Angeles Standard Newspaper.

Sip & Sonder – Inglewood, Calif.

Cofounders Shanita Nicholas and Amanda-Jane Thomas met while practicing law together in New York City before merging their aspirations to open Sip & Sonder in Inglewood, a predominantly Black neighborhood in the greater Los Angeles area. Shanita had a desire to provide a space for the start-up community, and Amanda-Jane wanted to open a café that welcomed the Black community, resulting in a space that the team calls “the black lifestyle housed in a coffee shop.”

However, the coffeehouse doesn’t just serve drinks; it also functions as a production studio that supports entrepreneurs like these women themselves. Sip & Sonder has a regular rotating set of events that support the Black community, such as Black movie nights, “Public Reading Room” discussion nights, and plenty of music. Their coffee also comes from the black-owned roasting company Red Bay Coffee, and much of the merchandise is provided by local entrepreneurs.

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Vows: The Writer Anne Lamott Gets to the Happily-Ever-After Part

The writer Anne Lamott recently sat in the living room of her Fairfax, Calif., house, wearing her signature dreadlocks, a loose cotton shirt and baggy jeans (skinny jeans are definitely not her style). At 65, she was about to get married for the first time.

When asked why she stayed single so long, she replied that she was shy and introverted and hated leaving the house, particularly for parties.

“If I go to a party, I become a Roz Chast character with my arms hanging at my sides and I feel like I’m developing a tic,” said Ms. Lamott, who has published 18 memoirs and novels, many about being a recovering alcoholic, single mother, incessant worrier and late-in-life churchgoer.

Yet in recent years, she found herself admitting to friends and fans (otherwise known as “Annieholics”) that a good marriage was the one thing she wanted but had not achieved. So she joined OurTime, a matchmaking site for people over 50, and forced herself to go on dates and make small talk. “Then, I saw this really handsome, soulful guy on OurTime and he was like me,” she said. “He was hard-core left wing, an intellectual, spiritual seeker.”

His name was Neal Allen, and she contacted him in August 2016. He promptly wrote back: “You rejected me already!”

He reminded her that they had exchanged messages on the site a few months earlier, but she had stopped communicating with him after learning he was allergic to cats (she sleeps with hers, which could also explain why she hadn’t found a partner sooner). Mr. Allen, 63, had left his job as a vice president for marketing at the McKesson Corporation in San Francisco to become a writer. He lived alone in a house in the woods in Lagunitas, Calif., and he had a wide range of interests that included Plato, bluegrass music, the New Testament and Vipassana meditation. He sounded much cooler than she remembered. “I said, ‘Take me back! Take me back!’” she said.

On Aug. 30, 2016, they met for coffee at the Two Bird Cafe in San Geronimo, halfway between their homes. “My first impression was that he was so handsome and I loved his nose,” she said.” We were just jamming. Life, God, books, movies. Life, God, books, movies.”

Mr. Allen, who was divorced twice and has four children, loved her “casual prettiness, “trippy dreads,” “kissable lips” and willingness to tell him everything, absolutely everything, about herself. “That kind of openness, it was like being sucked into a spider web,” he said.

The coffee date was followed, she said, by a “period of not only being in love but being sickeningly in love, it being like a mental illness.”

They spent every day together. They had long, heart-to-heart talks on her secondhand couch about things like how to approach death more mindfully or mistakes they’d made in the past as parents and as lovers. They took daily walks, either on the many trails that cover Mount Tamalpais, or up and down the aisles of Good Earth, a health food emporium in Fairfax, where they invariably bought too much chocolate. He said the only downside of falling in love with Ms. Lamott was that he gained 17 pounds in the first six months.

In some ways, they are opposites. She is afraid of almost everything, whereas he’s afraid of almost nothing. “It never occurs to me that anything will go wrong,” he said. Whenever she got overly anxious about a deadline, or climate change, or whether that shaking sensation was an earthquake, Mr. Allen made a cheese omelet for her. “Neal cooks, he cleans and yet he’s still a man’s man,” said Annette Lopez-Lamott, Ms. Lamott’s sister-in-law. “He respects women and that was very important to Annie who’s very power to the people, women’s rights.”

Crucially, Mr. Neal said, they got each other’s jokes “95 to 98 percent” of the time. “I have never, ever spent time with somebody as funny, as brilliantly funny,” he said. “Living with Annie is like being in a comedy sketch.”

Seven months after their first date, they bought a dilapidated house on a narrow, hidden lane in Fairfax. Now renovated, the house is airy and uncluttered inside, like a sentence with all the extra words removed. Ms. Lamott has her first new couch (all the others have been hand-me-downs) where she and Mr. Allen spend their evenings watching the news on television, dissecting the news, eating dinner and bingeing on dark Scandinavian movies, which they both love. “The level of brown bear-like comfort we find in each other is just amazing,” she said.

There’s also a renovated barn behind the house where her son, Sam Lamott, 29, and grandson, Jax Lamott, 9, live part time. When asked if everyone gets along, Ms. Lamott said, “It’s kind of like a wedding where there are all these disparate elements and you just hope there’s enough love and compromise that everything will work out fine, and most of the time it does.”

On Aug. 30, 2018, exactly two years after their first date, Mr. Allen pressed the pause button while they watching the United States Open and proposed.

They were married April 13 at Deer Park Villa, an events space near their house, in a redwood grove with Christmas lights swooping between the trees. The 150 guests were asked to “dress happily” and the Grateful Dead song, “Ripple,” played through speakers as the wedding party, ranging in ages from 9 to 80-plus, entered the grove in no particular order and at no particular pace. There was the sense that anybody could have joined them if they wanted to.

The tall bridegroom towered over everyone, looking somewhat like a basketball player in a black suit, while the bride wore a calf-length white dress she bought on eBay, Mary Jane shoes and a furry white cardigan.

The ceremony reflected the couple’s idiosyncratic patchwork of spiritual and political interests. The officiant, the Rev. William Rankin, an Episcopal minister and a founder of the Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance, read a passage from the benediction at Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration, pushing for racial equality, global peace and turning tractors into tanks. Jack Kornfield, a Buddhist meditation teacher, presented the couple with his version of a “ring,” a Tibetan singing bowl and a wooden mallet. He suggested they tap the bowl and listen to its ring whenever they had a “How did I get into this feeling?” mood as husband and wife.

The Rev. Tom Weston, a Jesuit priest, also stood with the couple. He didn’t speak much, but he did exude a kind of fatherly benevolence, as he does in some of the bride’s memoirs.

Sam Lamott, the man of honor, read an E.E. Cummings poem; and Marina Allen, a daughter of the groom, sang “Let Me,” a sweet, quirky love song she wrote for the couple.

The bride and bridegroom each took out a piece of paper, and their reading glasses, and recited the vows they had written. Hers were neither writerly nor weighty. She just made a few simple observations like, “Your love has given me permission to be softer, wilder and more real.” His were also spare, mere brush strokes of promises and intentions. “I’d very much like to continue our exploration of love indefinitely,” he said politely, as if he were asking her to dance. The couple have a light touch with everything, especially each other. Out in public, friends said, she’ll just barely hold on to his belt loop, or his sleeve.

They left the grove to the Van Morrison song, “Into the Mystic.” Meg Lundstrom, a longtime friend of the bridegroom, said afterward, “I’ve been telling my friends that the smartest person I know is marrying the kindest person I know but I don’t know which is which.”

Everyone gathered inside the “villa,” a rustic house next to the grove, for dinner at long tables that were decorated with pink paper runners and colorful leis. It looked like a child’s birthday party.

Laura Neely catered the dinner, along with her staff of mostly middle-age women who called themselves “the old gangster catering crew.” Ms. Neely said she particularly admired Ms. Lamott for not leaping into marriage, until now. “Getting married now is the best thing ever because that’s for sure going to be your toe-tag husband,” she said.

Now that Ms. Lamott has found her lifelong partner, does she have any advice for those who might still be looking? “If you’re paying attention and making your own life as beautiful and rich and fun as it can be, you might just attract someone who’s doing the same thing,” she said. “You can give up on tracking someone down with your butterfly net.”

A natural cheerleader, especially for underdogs, she also posted this on her Facebook page: “Never give up, no matter how things look or how long they take. Don’t quit before the miracle.”