Talking to the Dead (pets, for profit)

(The Daily Show) Ever wonder what pets were thinking? Michael Kosta tries a pet psychic

Dead University? (Allison DuBois) Pet Psychic: Where do they go?

(The Pet Psychic) The Pet Psychic talks to police horses in Los Angeles

Why do cats do that? Science explains

SciShow, Oct. 30, 2019; CC Liu, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

A mechanical "cathouse" for madams to profit? Maybe human science has gone too far now.

Why do cats do that? Baffling cat questions explained!

Companies use artificial intelligence to cater to animal lovers at CES tech show (msn.com)

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Smoking catnip is rad, Man.

(SciShow) Curious why cats have certain behaviors? Why do they knead blankets? Why do they love cardboard boxes? Join Olivia Gorden for a fun new episode all about those lovable kittens and their strange cat-ttitudes.

• Why do cats like catnip?
• Where do domestic cats come from?
• Why we have cats as pets: The history...
• Why do cat eyes glow in the dark?
• Why can't my cat roar?
• Why can't my cat see a treat in front of her face?
• Why is your cat so disgusted with you?
• Why do cats knead?
• Why do cats love boxes?

Mice problem? The "Buddhist Solution"

Editor-in-Chief Waylon Lewis (ElephantJournal.com); Shambhala Buddhist Community; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

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Why would you want to kill us? We're cute!

Mice are cute and smart and feeling and have families, but they poop and pee, shred and get into foods in our houses. So they have to go, but how?

Let’s avoid torturing, poisoning, killing, or freaking ’em out. No torture, no death, and NO cost.

Look, I’ve got mice all over my kitchen countertops and in my cabinets and even in my toaster. I'm doing this tonight:

Mice walk into tube, fall into can.

“This ingeniously simple mouse trap really works. Thank you!”

UPDATE: I’ve now caught four mice this week, three the first two days, and haven’t seen any traces of new mice activity around my kitchen or elsewhere.

They’re really cute and sentient [feeling] and freaked out. I kinda like ’em. I don’t get this whole attitude of “exterminate/poison my own house.” It’s expensive, it’s aggressive, it’s stupid, and it’s bad for ME, too. This is way easier.

This query was sent to the Shambhala Buddhist community:

• If you have experience removing mice from your building in a sane and compassionate way, please send your thoughts. ~ Thank you, Noah

Many replies, many compassionate solutions

I just caught three mice the humane way for catch and release. (See below for photos).

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Need a monkey? Use a monkey trap.

Hi, Noah. If you can find where these little beings are entering your dwelling, you can block the entry with a spray foam product: "Great Stuff: Insulating Foam Sealant." You’ll need to reinforce the foam with some steel wool, however — otherwise they can chew their way back in. ~ Cheers, Mike

Dear Noah, et al., here at the Halifax Shambhala Centre, and also in my flat [apartment], we use the high-pitched frequency sound producers that plug into electrical outlets in all rooms. They are sold at hardware stores [about $20]. It takes about a month for them to move elsewhere, but the mice seem to hate it so much they do leave – and new ones just pass through very briefly. ~ Cheers, David

Mice are smart, kind, but reproduce too much

I’ve used cheap, simple Have a Heart-style traps I found on ebay.com by searching ‘mouse trap’… I put a little peanut butter inside, then let the mice go [catch here and release elsewhere] a few blocks away in a park. I haven’t had mice now for six months, and I used to have a ton of them, eating stuff on counters and pooping everywhere.

[Fear] And their poop is supposed to be awful. Some sort of disease is related to it. Would love to hear from others on what they’ve done, so I can share with our readers who want to be compassionate when it comes to this common problem. ~Yours, Way

Everyone, until we plugged in our high frequency sound repeller thing, we used the Have-a-Heart traps successfully. However, here in the Haight Ashbury [neighborhood of San Francisco] the mice prefer organic crumbly feta over organic crunchy peanut butter. (Your mice may vary). ~ Sean

I have used the “[ultra-high frequency] sound” [no sound to you] device also, but find a product called Shake Away which you can get online. This is an organic repellent of bobcat and fox urine. No odor to you. You place it in the holes they come in. Under conditions of snow and rain it is best sprinkled around the perimeter of the building. It works well and is not harmful to anyone.

• Don't kill, repel animal pests the easy way

I use the number online to order direct, which saves money for me but may be a moot point for you as you will have it shipped to Canada. Perhaps, in Canada there is a product made there. Humane collection of the urine is assured.

Make sure all food products or any other attractive mice materials are not available, i.e., good housekeeping practices. The shake away is not harmful to us or pets, and I have read the sound [device] does not harm pets or animals. I have one in my chicken coop with no effect on the birds. ~ Cheers, Merle

Concluding advice: I find marching around with a flute gets them to follow me and then I can lead them out the door. ~ Yours, Chris Easy. It's a free, humane method, and they don’t die of fright.

Cats are great, but not if you like mice/rats. (You know folks have rodents as pets. They’re smart, sweet, and can do as many tricks as dogs)… Cats also have issues with destroying birds if they’re outside, and they may not be fully happy living inside only, but that’s another question others will know more about.

Don't worry. You're about to be released into wild

Anyways, this is what I do: …paper towel roll or brown bag, peanut butter or something on one end, half off the counter over a (tall) trash can. They fall, get the peanut butter and something to hide in, you put the lid on, walk/bike/take them to nature/a park or put ’em outside as you would with humane traps, yay!

I have to do this somewhat regularly, but it keeps them out of the house for weeks on end and prevents them from making a mouse hotel in the basement or whatever. (They can’t settle in). They’re cute, so don’t kill ’em! ~ Metta

Bonus: From an expert: Creative Ways to Drive Out Mice. More ideas and photos: Ban Glue Traps: Here’s an Easy Alternative. via Imgur, Reddit: This f'ing ingeniously simple mouse trap really works. Thank you, Reddit! More

Compiled by Waylon Lewis, founder of Elephant Journal and how of Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis. He is a first-generation American Buddhist "Dharma Brat." Voted #1 in U.S.... BIO

• Mice Problem? The ‘Buddhist Solution.’ | elephant journal

October 1st: World Vegetarian Day 2023

Utsa Ganguly, ABP Live, 10/1/23 via msn.com (abplive.com), augmented by Wisdom Quarterly

World Vegetarian Day 2023: Interesting recipes to try on this occasion

Every year, on October 1st, World Vegetarian Day is celebrated, an occasion dedicated to raising awareness about the advantages of not killing animals and degrading the environment, raising our animal friends for slaughter, rape (artificial insemination), kidnapping (forced separation of young from their mothers), torture, cutting, and consumption.

Free Veggie Starter Kit (peta.com)

Vegetarianism has a significant role in reducing our environmental impact. on land, water, and food supplies (given that it takes a mountain of plants to make mole hills of flesh).

Vegetarianism has experienced a surge in popularity in America in recent years, supported by research confirming the environmental and health benefits of plant-based diets. If one were to do just one thing to save the planet, it would be to go vegan.

It helps my yoga and meditation practice.

[(If that's too much, going vegetarian one day a week would be a very good start). It used to be that all Catholics, as many as 3 billion people in the world, were enjoined to not eat meat on Fridays...during Lent...if observing it. The religion grew by asking less and less of adherents. Now all one has to do is at least splash the forehead with holy water every Easter Sunday, and that should be enough to get into heaven. Or sin on the weekend, but for God's sakes confess before sinning again the next weekend. That's what Sundays are for.]

Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal: Vegans vs. Farmers: hardcore debate (video)

Tibetans in frozen altitudes of the Himalayas, thought of as obligate carnivores, go vegetarian

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At least Buddhist Lisa S. cares about animals

Numerous studies have provided evidence that adopting a vegan (no animals byproducts) or vegetarian (no flesh but dairy and other non-killed items) diet can lower the risk of heart disease and specific forms of cancer, as well as reduce the likelihood of obesity and the onset of Type 2 diabetes.

Thai vegetarians get carried away: self-mutilation

In this regard, Chef Binod Kumar from Four Points by Sheraton (Navi Mumbai, Vashi) said:

"Vegetarian Day is not just about savoring delicious leafy greens and healthy dishes; it is a global call to awareness and action.

L7: Chinese veggie symbol in Thailand Chinese

"As a chef, I celebrate the multiple benefits of being vegetarian and stand in solidarity with vegetarians worldwide. Choosing plant-based meals not only nurtures our well-being but also nurtures our planet. It is a simple yet powerful choice that reduces greenhouse gases and fosters a healthier world for generations to come." More

Bye-bye, Bob Barker, greatest vegetarian (RIP)

Spirits on the Afterlife (Suze Giesemann)

Ask Channel Suzanne and Spirit Sanaya:

The First Episode: Recovering from Tragedy, Trusting Guides, Atheists in Spirit

(Suzanne Giesemann, Aug. 7, 2022) Should we trust spirit guides? How can we recover from tragedy? Prior life relationships? Is euthanizing (karmically misguided "mercy killing") pets okay? How can we know our life's purpose? A stunning evidential mediumship reading!

• 0:00 The very first episode of Ask Suzanne & Sanaya
• 1:50 How can we know our life's purpose?
• 12:30 Reincarnation ~ Will we meet people from prior lives?
• 15:00 How would that be decided?
• 16:30 Why do we so resist sitting in meditation?
• 18:50 How can I handle physical symptoms when connecting with spirit?
• 23:10 Dreams versus Dream Visits: How to tell the difference
• 26:50 How does Suzanne access higher wisdom?
• 27:22 Mediumship ~ connecting with a child ~ and stunning evidence!
• 30:10 Sanaya's Messages: How is Suzanne guided to images?
• 32:38 How can we trust the signs from spirit?
• 36:04 How can we live in awareness of spirit, while still in human form?
• 37:14 Should we trust our guides? Or our intuition?
• 40:08 Do atheists change their minds?
• 43:30 Why is depression on the rise?
• 46:25 Is there a higher meaning in tragic death?
• 47:00 How to find the meaning in tragedy
• 48:50 Why we may not connect in meditation
• 50:37 How to clear blockages

These questions and answers are included in this first episode of the very popular series of podcasts, "Ask Suzanne & Sanaya." Though you may not call in, as with the live Q&As, there is much wisdom and comfort here. This audio episode of Messages of Hope was recorded in 2018. Hope you enjoy this new format.

ABOUT: Suzanne Giesemann is a retired U.S. Navy Commander who now serves humanity as a messenger of hope. She is an author and teacher of The Awakened Way — a mindful approach to living in awareness that we are not only human, but part of one interconnected web of higher consciousness. Find out more about Suzanne and her mission at: suzannegiesemann.com. Find many more answers to Big Questions on Suzanne's website: suzannegiesemann.com/faq. Get your free e-guide from Suzanne, “Where Do I Begin? – Your Path to Hope and Healing Now” at bit.ly/sgiesemann. Join The Monthly Connection, a two-hour community gathering directly with Suzanne online: suzannegiesemann.com/conn...

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Vegan Street Fair, L.A., March 26 (FREE)

VeganStreetFair.com; Dhr. Seven, Kelly, Wisdom Quarterly

Not satisfied with FREE admission? Get a VIP pass for only $40 extra (eventbrite.com)

Not yet a vegan? Try a FREE starter kit to set off in the right direction (peta.org)

 

(WQ) It was an amazing sight. All of Chandler alongside the NoHo Metro Station was tent after tent of vegan outlets. It extended four city blocks, crossing the street to the beer garden and DJ booth, where the food trucks parked. See, the fair curved up at Lankershim where it took up another block. Some line were about 200 hipsters long. Others were much shorter. There was all kinds of food -- but people want one thing: carnival, circus, temporary amusement park food: fried anything, tacos, burgers, pizza, donuts, potatoes. One big seller was the tornado potato, a skewered russet straight from the toxic fryer. Others were cookies, cupcakes, candy bars, and various drinks, chocolate protein shakes, and lots of common condiments. It's good at the base but, as the teeshirts tell us, "Anything you can I can eat vegan." Recommended. And another one is coming to the Valley soon.

• PHOTOS: Vegan Street Fair  
• 11223 Chandler Blvd.
• North Hollywood, CA 91601  between Weddington St. and Bakman Ave. 
• Get Directions
• Phone (347) 508-3343
• veganstreetfair.com
• Coming soon: Eat Drink Vegan, Pasadena, Memorial Day, May 27, 2017 (75+ Restaurants) Spring just started but it's never too soon to dream of summer and the big vegan party by the Rose Bowl
• Vegan Food Art Show, March 25, 6-10 PM, Greens Center, ELA

Vegan Food Art Show, FREE ENTRY, March 25, 6:00-10:00 PM. Join the monthly Underground Vegan Supper Club by Iris Green at this great space near DTLA (GreensCenter.com)

The Church of Seitan (VEGAN Sundays)

Editors, Wisdom Quarterly; Church of Satan.com (meetup.com)

Vegan taco truck (savory green jackfruit), vegan cupcakes, DJ music, free bingo, prizes!

Calm down. Those in the know are aware that "seitan" is just a misleading Japanese name for "wheat meat."

What is it? It's toxic plant gluten as a lump of that feels, looks, cooks, and taste like whatever seasoning is added, which sauteed soy sauce can make taste like meat.

Satan is another altogether different lump Christians used to worry about. He's sort of real, or beings who call themselves by that name, but most people don't worry about it anymore because religion has burned us and lied to us so much.

Tori Amos loves satin (sheets).

And satin is something Tori Amos like to indulge in for sensuality.

Like, who's the genius who first called soy curd "toe fu"? Not a great marketing move, but we can't expect everything to make sense in modern English.
 

Two clever gluten-free vegan hipsters, Melanie Maus and Ai the Vegan Cannibal, in Los Angeles thought it would be funny to name third Sundays at the Verdugo Bar in Glassell Park "The Church of Seitan."

Starting April 2nd the Verdugo Bar also features free Friendship Buddies Comedy Show night. Next service is on April 16, 2017. More

• VIDEO: Testimony from ex-satanist! What Satan does NOT want you to know!

Clean up your body, save our planet, and be kind to animals (Vegan Starter Kit: peta.org)

Prince, Chemtrails, Earth Day, Broke LA (video)

Wisdom Quarterly; Prince; PasadenaWeekly.com; BrokeLAfest.com; UCLA; Uprising; VegFest 

Prince talks about chemtrails with interviewer Tavis Smiley in 2011 about Dick Gregory's comments on the poisoning of malt liquor with lead and manganese and the skies [with nano-aluminum, blood cells, and barium]. A town in Australia has a murder rate 200 times its population because of manganese poisoning. But these substances are being used on purpose on our black, Native, and white populations. There were 8 presidents before George Washington?

In 2008 music execs asked Homer to murder Prince for not obeying them (The Simpsons).

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April 22 is "Earth Day," celebrated around the world to remember the planet, Bhumi or Gaia or Tierra, our Mother Earth, Nature Goddess with its complex ecosystem earthlings (humans) are ruining to the detriment of all earthlings.

Today is a great day to go vegan, the single most significant an individual can do to improve health and the planet, to reduce water waste and world starvation. No movement is necessary because it's a personal choice, an action (karma) motivated by compassion for animals and other humans and oneself and wisdom.

(Dr. Russell Blaylock) What are chemtrails (aerosol spraying) doing to our brains? Neurosurgeon Dr. Blaylock, MD explains. Some nutrients can counteract harm (Min. 40). More

They (the ones who do things, i.e., the powers that be) have been spraying chemtrails (aerosol toxins that modify the weather to either increase or prevent rainfall because the drought is not an entirely natural phenomenon this time around). Whenever rain is forecast because of a weather front in the distance, the planes go up and crisscross the sky. Are they after rain in a drought, or are they causing the drought in the south by shunting moisture north with particulate matter that causes flooding elsewhere?

What makes Prince so famous? Purple Rain. Super Bowl XLI halftime show

Sometimes they start at the beaches and get blown inland. Today they were being sprayed over the San Gabriel mountains from the Inland Empire to the Pasadena foothills. It was clear blue skies with an occasional tuft of chemtrail haze.

But that haze finally grew until it was overcast with clouds high over the mountains. Interestingly, Prince knew something about that. Celebrities have more access than ordinary worldlings not working for the military-industrial complex, government, spy agencies, or select civilian corporations.

Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne, et al. play "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"

AUDIO (24 mins): Prince at American Music Awards, LA (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Avoid windstorms and 100,000 people on the desert freeway at Brokechella.

The scene at Brokechella (Broke LA Fest) where Los Angeles hipsters roam freely.

(VEG FEST LA) FREE, May 1, 2016, 10:00 AM - 6:30 PM. Celebrate the Earth!
   

Earth Day allows us to get off the sidelines and into the fight against climate chaos

Kathleen Rogers (pasadenaweekly.com, 4/22/16)

On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans hit the streets to protest the environmental effects of more than 100 years of uncontrolled fossil-fueled industrial development in the US. It was the first Earth Day.

What was intended to be a college campus teach-in soon spread to every community and city across the United States. It was and remains the single largest secular event in history.

The sheer size of the protest -- along with increasing visual evidence of dire health threats associated with air and toxic pollution -- soon forced Congress to pass some of the world’s toughest environmental laws, most of which include community right-to-know provisions and allow citizens to sue their government if it fails to enforce the law.

Solar plane coasts over Pacific Ocean over the mainland of western US (AP PHOTOS)

Solar plane readies to land in California by Earth Day after 3-day flight A solar-powered airplane on a journey around the world was preparing to land in California on Saturday night to complete a risky, three-day flight across the Pacific Ocean. The Solar Impulse 2 was flying in a holding pattern off the San Francisco coast on 70 percent of stored energy while waiting for winds to decrease for landing at Moffett Airfield in Mountain View.

• Earth Day 2016 Home page - CalRecycle - CA.gov Saturday, April 23...Volunteer for a beach/harbor clean up
• Los Angeles Earth Day Events (Eventbrite) Looking for the best Earth Day events Los Angeles has to offer? Find your next...Earth Day @ Hyde Park Blvd Community Cleanup. Free.
• Earth Day 2016 - Los Angeles Green Grounds Morning Community Garden Clean Up. 9:00 am-noon: LA Good Earth Community Garden. LA Green Grounds...
• Empower LA – Earth Day Community Clean Up Celebrate Earth Day by helping to clean up community on April 23...We will meet at the West LA... 
• Best Ways to Celebrate Earth Day in Los Angeles (CBS) 
• Best Ways to Celebrate Earth Day in Orange County (CBS)
  

Citizens’ rights have been enshrined in every major environmental law from that point on. These laws spawned others around the world -- many more stringent than those in the US -- and most recognize the role of citizens in the enforcement of environmental laws.

Nearly 50 years later, Earth Day remains a day of reckoning, and now more than one billion people take action each year in almost every country on Earth. Some protest, many clean up their communities and plant trees, and millions more have their first exposure to environmentalism through educational programs at schools and universities.

Governments large and small make commitments and meet with their constituents, while corporations make pledges to be more sustainable and responsible for the pollution they create.

It is fitting, then, that United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon chose Earth Day (April 22) for world leaders to sign the historic Paris climate agreement at UN headquarters in New York. At least 150 world leaders are expected to sign, making it the largest single signing of an international agreement in world history -- another Earth Day first.

And it’s happening not a moment too soon. On every front, global warming is becoming more immediate, more threatening and more irreversible, while scientific consensus and data on the health effects of climate change -- particularly on the poor -- mount. More

• Living foods: free Vegan Starter Kit (peta.org)

When life gives you raspberries, make pie

Bela Larson, Seven, Dev, Imogen, CC Liu, Maya, Wisdom Quarterly TEST KITCHEN

Raw vegan blackberry pie, California style (nicoglagalloway.com)

 

Tart, sweet red berries work best.

We cannot always control our situation. But we can control how we respond to it.

Challenging situations can be opportunities in disguise -- if we choose to see them that way. Otherwise, we can thoughtlessly assume, accept without question, and run like Chicken Little at the falling sky.

When life offers us berries -- we can make raw berry pie. But how?

Allow to cool in fridge for four hours+

Filling: Put raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, or strawberries in a blender with a can of rich coconut cream (from the Asian market, preferably a product from Thailand). Add agar-agar as per instructions. A tiny amount of dry soy lecithin will also help.

Crust: Soak and drain raw walnuts, pecans, almonds, or cashews. Place in food processor. Add lemon juice, cinnamon, sea salt, dates or agave nectar, and vanilla extract. Take out and press into glass pie pan. Pour in filling. Place in refrigerator until it sets up. Garnish with raw berries. Use toothpick to test before slicing.