Sadie & Sydney

Dear Sadie, Sydney and Tammy,

My name is Sammy and I just discovered your blog on Tammy's website
while I sit in my human's lap while he [tries to] work on the
computer. I've recently lost my sister of 18 years to acute kidney
failure and have been very sad and lonely. But I still love to tune
with my human to the Tammy Bruce show everyday and it certainly
cheers both of us up!

Thank you very much and we look forward to reading more on your site!

Sammy & Andy

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I am a long time reader and recent and now avid listener. Recently, my new little partner has become a listening fan as well. I recall an offer to send in such pictures. He is one year old as of February 28, 2006 and most definitely what one would call a "Benevolent Narcissist." His name is Dutchy, and just where his name came from might even be a good trivia contest for your listeners.... On an late 90's TV crime show called "Silk Stalkings" a mafia-like character was called Donny "Dogs" Debarto because he always went around carrying a little "Min-Pin" with a jeweled collar named "Dutchy". That is the namesake of this Dutchy. Hope Sadie and Sydney like him!

Regards
Evan

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Classy shades: Fa-Tass, a five-year-old Labrador-Weimaraner crossbreed rides in a car with owner Glen Upton (not in photo), in Sydney. (AFP/David Hancock)

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A four-week-old Siberian tiger at the zoo in Berlin, 2004. Two wild baby tigers, orphaned and famished, scrambled out of a Siberian forest in eastern Russia and into the hands of startled loggers, the Russian ministry of natural resources said(AFP/DDP/File/Marcus Brandt)

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Hi Tammy,

Got some pictures of Rudy the roadrunner for you. And one of Pixie (the other is called Dixie) who is an antelope squirrel.

We live in Southern Arizona where there is currently a drought. The birds and other animals are constantly seeking water. We have a small waterfall in the back yard where they all come and drink water (about 2-300 birds/day, 20+ species. We throw out some bread for the birds knowing that if there was no water to feed the desert plants, they might not survive.

Rudy started coming to eat on a regular basis aoubt 3 months ago, and was curious as to what we humans do. He would jump up on the chair that sits about 6 inches from our family room and watch us and the TV for about 20 minutes at a time. We started feeding him small chicken bits and occasionally some Polish sausage...now he comes every day at 7AM (sunrise), and somewhere between 2-5PM.

We can go into the back yard and do things and he is content to watch us trim bushes, trees, and while I sit and read one of your books, he'll drink from the waterfall, walk on the back wall, etc. We live across from a State park so we have visitors (no bears, mountain lions or snakes so far) and we love watching nature (we're not tree-huggers, but we are pro life). Something that is unusual is a family of Antelope Squirrels that have called our back yard home too. No one here seems to know what we are talking about when we mention the squirrels. They first started coming around about a year and a half ago, they had about 8 babies and were crawling around the back wall. We had to feed them...they love Triscuits and bread.

The only two that survived last year's higher than normal temps (highest was 111 degrees that probably killed them off) was Pixie and Dixie. They crawl around the corners of the yard where my wife Sandy hides the food from the birds so the two of them can eat and they come about once a day, spend 2 hours eating and burying food all over the yard, drink water and take off. They are very skiddish, but they know it is safe to hide in the small caves of the waterfalls away from the neighborhood cats that I have to chase off occasionally (I love cats, we had one for 17 years, but they would kill off the only entertainment we find exciting). The other neighbors have cats and dogs so Rudy, Pixie and Dixie don't go into their yards. Pixie and Dixie stand about 4 inches tall and nose to tail are about 7 inches, they are very fast, and are extremely cute to watch them prance around bouncing their tails on their backs. I threw in a visitor pic that we have concern about, a young sharp-shined hawk, he had been to the waterfall at least twice in the past month--natural enemy of squirrels, birds, and probably Rudy. Good comparison picture for Pixie's size.

Sandy and I moved here from Vista, CA where there is no wildlife and had no idea there was so much of it in the desert. Arizona is a magical place to live. You can actually see millions of stars at night and the sunsets are spectacular, the air is crystal clear and the monsoons are exciting (lightning storms and heavy rain). I have taken hundreds of pics of the mountains nearby, sunsets, etc.

I'm starting book two of your trilogy, the 'thought police' was great, you have had some interesting and inspiring experiences and you are truly a genius. Keep up the good works...we need you to open our eyes to the socialists agenda.


Thanks,

Scott and Sandy

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Hal

Cops catch wily coyote

Hal the Coyote's Excellent Central Park Adventure ended abruptly Wednesday morning when he was felled by a police tranquilizer dart.

"It's unusual to have a coyote in Central Park," said Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe. "You'd have to be a very adventurous coyote to make it to midtown."

Still, the 35-pound coyote's brief sojourn to the big city has to go down as one of those "only in New York" tales, one replete with the obvious question: How the heck did he get here? [...]

Sydney Says: Wow, what a role model. He's my hero!

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Here is a picture of our Male Siamese, Yo-Yo, who we received from Siamese Rescue on September 9th, 2001. For the next 2 weeks he comforted my wife and me as we watched the whole sordid mess unfold in New York and the Pentagon. Yo-Yo is an agressively friendly cat, and he is another "person" in the house who thinks you are the Cat's Meow! I have also included a picture of Coco, my wife's female Blue Point, who passed away from liver disease this past January at 12:01am January 16th, 2006 (MLK Day). She was the gentlest kitty in the whole wide world, was very elegant and refined, and she and Yo-Yo used to sit in our laps and watch TV with us...I think she especially liked it when you came on Fox News Channel.
-Norman and Alice
Yo-Yo and the late Coco
MD

Sadie and Sydney say: What beautiful felines! They sure look comfy. And we salute Yo-Yo for being your hero in the aftermath of 9-11. And Coco will always be in our hearts.

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Endangered rhino species holding on in Malaysia's Sabah state

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - A tiny population of the world's most endangered species of rhino has been found in Malaysia's eastern Sabah state on Borneo island, giving hope the animals can be saved, the WWF conservation group said.

At least 13 Sumatran rhinos of the Bornean subspecies were located in a survey in May 2005 of an area in Sabah's interior by teams of WWF and state wildlife and forestry officials and academics.

Sadie Says: This rhino would make a great scratching post!

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Cat Comforts Grieving Orangutan at Zoo

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. - Tondalayo, a 45-year-old Sumatran orangutan, and T.J., a stray tabby cat, became an inseparable duo after a zoo employee introduced them late last year.

Stephanie Willard, Education Director at Zoo World in Panama City Beach, said Tondalayo was depressed since losing her mate two years ago

Her age prevented her from moving to another zoo or taking another mate. The ducks and turtles swimming in a moat around her island were not enough, Willard told the Panama City News Herald for Thursday's editions.

When the sweet-natured orange cat wandered into Willard's life, the solution became clear.

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Although they have brains about the size of a grain of rice, hummingbirds have superb memories when it comes to food, according to research on Monday. No bird-brains these tiny creatures that weigh 20 grams (0.7 ounces) or less and feed on nectar and insects.

The research, reported in the journal Current Biology, suggests they not only remember their food sources but can plan with a certain amount of precision. "To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration that animals in the wild can remember both the locations of food sources and when they visited them," said Susan Healy, of the University of Edinburgh.

Sydney and Sadie Say: Even though we are intrigued by our flying friends, and even on occasion want to eat them, we have a special respect for hummingbirds, because they also seem impossible to catch.

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Gliders Tracking Whale Calls, Ocean Waves

HONOLULU - Ocean scientists can now plunge into the middle of the sea without leaving their offices. Six-foot, 100-pound underwater gliders are swimming the oceans of the world and dutifully sending data home on everything from whale calls to the massive waves produced by hurricanes.

Sydney Says: I wonder if the whales talk about the same things as me and Sadie?

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Russian clown brings acrobatic cats to New York

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Russian clown Yuri Kuklachev has a troupe of cats who do handstands, crawl along high wires and balance on balls, and he says the secret to training them is realizing that you can't force cats to do anything.

"The Moscow Cats Theater" came to New York in September and did so well at a small theater in the Tribeca neighborhood that it recently moved uptown to a bigger venue near Times Square, where it is close to Broadway giants such as "The Lion King," although not the musical "Cats," which closed in 2000.

Sadie Says: Well, that's impressive, but does she sing?

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Pentagon mulling 'stealth sharks' to patrol the seas

PARIS (AFP) - The Pentagon is reportedly funding research into neural implants with the ultimate hope of turning sharks into "stealth spies" capable of gliding undetected through the ocean.

According to the British weekly New Scientist, the research builds on experimental work to control animals by implanting tiny electrodes in their brain, which are then stimulated to induce a behavioral response.

"The Pentagon hopes to exploit sharks' natural ability to glide quietly through the water, sense delicate electrical gradients and follow chemical trails," says the report, carried in next Saturday's New Scientist.

"By remotely guiding the sharks' movements they hope to transform the animals into stealth spies, perhaps capable of following vessels without being spotted."

Sadie Says: Mmmm, sushi!

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More Country Bears Find a Taste for Suburban Life

Humans aren't the only species undergoing rapid population growth in California; bears are proliferating too, especially near towns and urban centers tucked tightly against hills and mountain ranges.

When the weather warms, the big, hairy interlopers have been known to swipe pies from windowsills in Lake Tahoe, dumpster dive in Mammoth and Jacuzzi dip in Monrovia. Black bears have even shown up recently in such unexpected places as Riverside, Salinas, Santa Cruz and San Diego.

Sydney Says: Wow, if this is living in the wild, where do I sign up?

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