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	<title>The Firefly Forest &#187; Pets and Domesticated Animals</title>
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	<description>Discovering and enjoying nature - The Firefly Forest is a combination nature journal and plant and animal species identification guide</description>
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		<title>Doggy Pool Time</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/04/21/doggy-pool-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April is a time of transition here in Tucson. The characteristically hot weather of the desert makes its first annual appearance in April, with some days reaching above 90&#160;°F (32.2 °C). Other days are still mildly spring-like, but the overall warming trend is inevitable, and the increasing daytime temperatures will reach 100 °F (37.8 °C) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dogs and Mushrooms</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/04/18/dogs-and-mushrooms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2006 03:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some wild-growing mushrooms are poisonous, and not only humans, but dogs too have died from eating the wrong mushrooms. I had read once that it&#039;s best not to feed your dogs mushrooms, lest they get a taste for them. However, this is not a foolproof way to prevent them from eating wild mushrooms.
I don&#039;t like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dogs and the Mountain Lion</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/03/29/the-dogs-and-the-mountain-lion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, in early April, two dogs and one of their owners (all are friends of mine) encountered a Mountain Lion in their own driveway here in Tucson. One of the dogs, a black dog named Dakota, was attacked by the Mountain Lion (Puma Concolor).

Dakota is a very large dog, but he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Unorthodox Dog</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2006/01/24/an-unorthodox-dog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sammy, my Labrador Retriever, stubbornly insists upon doing regular, everyday things in his own, rather unorthodox way. In this photo of Sammy, he is not stretching, snarling, or smiling, instead he is sound asleep and completely motionless with one leg held stiffly in the air.

Here is another view of the sleeping Sammy from the other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let Sleeping Dogs Lie</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/12/30/let-sleeping-dogs-lie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do not resume old conflicts is the meaning of this common idiom, and it is very good advice both for both its idiomatic and literal interpretations, as it can sometimes be dangerous to awaken old conflicts or sleeping dogs.
Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) were domesticated from wolves (Canis lupus), and although they have been bred over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Golden Retrievers</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/12/14/golden-retrievers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love dogs, and I have yet to meet a breed of dog that I don&#039;t like, but I think that one of the very friendliest and nicest of dog breeds are Golden Retrievers.

Even though they were originally bred to retrieve fallen ducks from the water for hunters, not all of them like the water, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eye Shine</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/10/31/eye-shine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the spirit of Halloween, here are some animals with glowing, demonic eyes. The eyes of nocturnal animals brightly reflect various colors of light in flash photography due to the presence of a special layer behind the retina, the tapetum lucidum, that reflects light back into the retina to improve their vision in low light [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walking Dogs at Sunset</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/10/08/walking-dogs-at-sunset/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2005 15:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I usually walk my dogs at sunset here in the desert because not only is it cooler, but the horribly bright and glaring late afternoon sun has slipped below the horizon.

The sunset light is soft and muted, and yet there is still enough light for me to see any hazards like snakes in the road. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cow and a Monster Mud Puddle</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/08/25/monster-mud-puddle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dirt roads crisscross the scenic northern foothills of the Santa Rita Mountains, and some of these dirt roads are not in the best condition after our recent, heavy, monsoon rains. On one dirt road, I came across this mud puddle which was so monstrously large that it was actually being used as a watering hole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Grass and Horses</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/08/24/green-grass-and-horses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The monsoon rains have caused the grass to turn green in many areas around Tucson, especially in the low-lying mesquite bosques (dense riparian woodlands of Velvet Mesquite trees) along the Tanque Verde Wash. The mesquite bosque can be seen in the distance behind this horse happily grazing in a green pasture.

As soon as the horses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Dead Things</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/07/30/finding-dead-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2005 15:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As dog owners discover, dogs absolutely excel at finding everything that you really don&#039;t want to see, especially dead things of all types. What&#039;s even worse is then having to pull the disgusting dead thing out of your foolish dog&#039;s mouth. I don&#039;t know why, but well-fed dogs will attempt to eat things that even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thunderstorms and Green-eye</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/07/08/thunderstorms-and-green-eye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2005 17:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, we finally had some lightning, thunder, and a little blessed rain here in Tucson. The heat has been miserable, not only in its intensity, but also in its monotony, day after cloudless day of 100 &#176;F (37.8 &#176;C) plus temperatures. Even tough, desert plants like Engelmann&#039;s Prickly Pears (Opuntia engelmannii) and Arizona Pencil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wildflower Hunting with Bounder</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/07/03/wildflower-hunting-with-bounder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2005 23:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My dog Bounder, a Doberman mix, often accompanies me on my wildflower photographic expeditions because he is VERY enthusiastic about going for a ride in the car and is an expert at making me feel guilty for not taking him along.

Bounder screams, jumps, capers about like a mad clown, punches me in the stomach, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Range Cattle</title>
		<link>http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/2005/06/18/range-cattle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2005 18:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Beth Kinsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Range cattle can be found in many areas around Tucson. I once saw a herd of them galloping down the very busy South Houghton Road after they had breached the barbed wire fence along the roadway. Luckily, no one was hurt, and the cattle made it back safely into the desert.

Sure signs of range cattle [...]]]></description>
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