The Chaircat's Blog

News and opinions from the born free, critters and their human friends as overheard by Duma Duke

Battle at Kruger

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

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Bongo Boomers

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Since the last Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy’s update from June. We have had another baby Bongo. This one was born at the Animal Orphanage where they had moved the mother to give her a safe place for birthing. She experienced previous difficulty, but this one went fine. Peter Fundi and Bunge were on ‘standby’  but [...]

Wildlife Artist Denis Murphy

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Our friend Denis Murphy the famous wildlife Artist just visited our Green Page: www.animalorphanagekenya.org/members Here’s what he had to say: I had a look at the green page with the story of the two Brandys. She is too adorable for words. And the picture of the “injured” policeman is priceless. As to the previous two [...]

Cats just know things…

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Did you hear about Oskar the cat that spends time with patients on their deathbed in the nursing home? It’s been on all the news lately. No one can figure out how Oskar knows who’s about to depart and who will be around for a while in the geriatric nursing home where he “works.” As [...]

Rain

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

My dear Friends, In Kenya, rain is usually concentrated in two brief periods during the year. Oddly, this first half of the year it has been almost one long stretch of rain, denying the usual drought its disastrous effects.   Never have we seen so much green for so long. Fewer animal orphans resulted. The [...]