Mamathi Chari

Author-Adventures of Zoe&Scruffy, Kuttigal Kural,Kural For Kids, The ExtraOrdinaries| Kural Mudhal®️ | Gettikutti™️ | Mediaperson |Warrior for Earth & Animals🌱

[Mamathi Chari @CMamathi]

...and because she believed in the incredible beauty of it all, she let her heart bleed freely gladly...and as it flowed she sat chin to knees holding herself close...and without a word without a sigh watched the stars wink in & out of her world her sky

#MadVerse
#amwriting

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The box turtle in the road this month is likely a pregnant female on her way to lay eggs. Slow your roll on country roads, especially after rain.

Eastern box turtles nest from late May through early July. Females leave the forest to find dry, open ground for their nests, traveling up to a mile from their home range in the process. They look for fields, woodland clearings, gardens, lawns, mulch piles, and roadsides.

Most road-killed box turtles every year are nesting females.

If you see one on the road and it's safe to stop: move her in the direction she was already heading. She has a destination she's been traveling toward, sometimes for over an hour.

Don't take her home or relocate her elsewhere. Box turtles have a tiny home range they know intimately, and a relocated turtle will spend the rest of its life trying to walk back, usually dying before it gets there.

If you see her digging in a soft patch of soil at the edge of a road, leave her alone. She'll finish in 30 minutes to an hour and return to the woods on her own.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

We need an animals abuser register in Britain

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

News: Louisiana just became the latest state to ban intentional balloon releases, starting August 1, following the passage of House Bill 851 (Act 196). It treats a release as littering with a $500 fine for a first offense.

A balloon let go for a memorial or a graduation travels for miles, loses its lift, and falls into a marsh, a field, or the ocean. A deflated latex balloon looks almost exactly like a jellyfish or a squid to a sea turtle or a seabird, and they eat it, and it blocks the gut.

The ribbon is arguably worse. It tangles around legs, wings, and necks, and it doesn't rot. Birds even try to build it into their nests. The shiny Mylar kind has a second trick, conducting electricity, and it knocks out power for thousands of people when it drifts into a line.

The wish to send something upward for someone you've lost is one of the most human things there is. It's just that what goes up comes down somewhere, and the results are devastating for wildlife.

[Lewis Bollard @Lewis_Bollard]

Denmark's new government just announced major pig welfare reforms.

They're banning the practices of restraining sows in farrowing crates, breeding them beyond their natural limits, and cutting off piglets' tails.

They're also requiring pigs get more space and rooting material. And they're stepping up farm inspections and penalties for cruelty.

All while the US Congress is trying to wipe out the few state laws that protect pigs via the Save Our Bacon Act buried in the farm bill.

Denmark just showed what's possible for pigs when voters demand it — and politicians listen.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Most butterfly gardens are built to feed butterflies. The good ones are designed to make more butterflies.

A yard full of nectar flowers is a snack bar for the adults, and that's a fine thing to offer. But flowers alone make a rest stop, not a home. A few other pieces turn it into the real thing.

The big one is host plants. Caterpillars don't drink nectar, and most won't eat just any leaf. Monarch caterpillars need milkweed; black swallowtails want dill, parsley, or fennel. Without the specific plant a species lays its eggs on, your garden raises no butterflies of its own.

Then the small stuff. A flat rock or two in full sun gives them somewhere to bask, since a butterfly can't fly until the sun has warmed its wings. A shallow dish of wet sand lets them "puddle," pulling up the salts and minerals nectar doesn't provide. A wind-sheltered corner, with a few stems and leaves left standing through winter, gives them places to rest and overwinter.

And no spray, not even the organic kind, since most of it kills caterpillars just as readily as the pests.

This is how your butterfly garden stops being a place they pass through and starts being a place they come from.

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

True!

[Carly @CarlyWSF]

#SaveSnuggles

[Loana Tiffany Thiess Buchanan @LoanaBuchanan_]

#SaveSnuggles
#FreeSnugglesNow
#DogsAreFamily
#SaveLucy
@SaveLucyTheDog
🆘💔💔💔🐾🐕‍🦺🏡🐾🐕‍🦺💔💔💔🆘

[Mamathi Chari @CMamathi]

@NiallHarbison Would the vet maybe want to reset that/those bones? Just a thought, as she has the rest of life ahead and if there's an option for this, it would be wonderful. You, on ground, and her vets would know better, of course. Sending so much love to all of you at Happy Doggo

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

When you can’t afford a PlayStation

[Brendan M. Jones 🇺🇸 @brendanmjones]

It felt good to be off social media yesterday. Things are in the works, that's all I can say for now. Negotiations are ongoing with the DA. My attorney choked me up yesterday when he sent me an email that was just one line: "Let's get Lucy home."

Amen. Amen, amen, amen.

I spent the day with the kids at the park while @Herb_Minstrel gave voice lessons at home, going over with pen and paper what I had feverishly typed up thus far about Lucy, the makings of what I hope will be a story with some appeal beyond just myself and my little family.

Things just jump out at me on paper in a way they don't on a screen.

I'm writing this as a way to protect her, in my own way, from anything like this ever happening again. She's kind of famous right now, but it's the 15-minutes-of-fame sort of notoriety.

I want to lock that in. I want to make Lucy untouchable. I fell into a trap once that has made her vulnerable. I'm doing everything I can right now to make her invincible for the rest of her life.

If I fail to convey Lucy's story in a way that has broad appeal, then at least I hope to have a personal story to add to our family lore, where it will be valued by the people who know and matter most, the same way I treasure all of the songs my wife wrote me to get me through the terror and tedium overseas.

This will probably be another quiet day from me as I scribble lines on paper, cross them out, work them and rework them over and over - and do it all in those quiet moments when the kids aren't fighting with each other or getting into trouble or making messes and getting loud.

Thank you all for your support of me and Lucy for these past several weeks. It means the world.

#SaveLucy

[Dog Mom @SBDogMom]

SAVE LUCY UPDATE from @brendanmjones

A reminder that Lucy is still not reunited with her family.

Keep praying & sending positive vibes for a family reunion as soon as possible.

I’m hoping Lucy can feel everyone praying over her - that she can feel the love from all of us animal lovers.

Continue to pray that a heartbreaking story will soon turn into a heartwarming reunion.

FREE LUCY ❤️

[Briscoe X @briscoe_x]

😂😂

[Kevin W. @Brink_Thinker]

Dude couldn’t figure out why the gas station attendant wasn’t coming to pump his gas… until he saw him carefully pulling a splinter out of a stray dog’s paw. ❤️

[Mamathi Chari @CMamathi]

@TheSqrrlGrl @woofknight Very far from. Or maybe not.

[Mamathi Chari @CMamathi]

@woofknight Yes. 🤗

[PatriotPups @Patriot_Pups]

We must, absolutely MUST, get this 11 year old sweetheart back home to her VETERAN dad.
🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🐾 America 🇺🇸 🐾

[Leisha @LoneStarChica]

🚨Today is Call Pima Animal Care Center for #SaveSnuggles.

For nearly 8 months, Snuggles has sat in a shelter away from his military veteran family, his mom, his dad, and the two little boys who love him.

If you've been following this case and wondering how to help, this is it.

Please take two minutes to make one phone call or send one email.

Every call matters.
Every email matters.
Every voice matters.
Let's show them the world is watching.
#SaveSnuggles
@KVOA @kgun9 @KOLDNews @TucsonStar

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Across Britain, neighbors are cutting small holes in the bottoms of their fences on purpose, and you should too.

The holes are for hedgehogs. A hedgehog can cover a mile or more in a single night hunting for food and mates, and a solid fence turns every backyard into a dead end. So conservation groups made it a movement: a gap about five inches square, cut at ground level, linking yard to yard into what they call a hedgehog highway.

The US doesn't have wild hedgehogs, but we have all the animals that hit the same wall. Toads, salamanders, box turtles, chipmunks, young rabbits: each one small enough to be stopped cold by a privacy fence, and each one needing more ground than a single lot to live a normal life. To a box turtle, a solid fence can be the edge of the reachable world.

The fix is the one the Brits landed on. A palm-sized gap at the bottom, down where the small things travel. Your fence still does its job, the neighborhood stops being a series of wildlife prisons, and your yard stitches itself back into the larger map.

[Puppies 🐶 @Puppieslover]

Hilarious compilations of dogs not eating vegetables 🥗