Canine Zone
Saving Sabrina
On the 1st of May I received a call from a lady asking if I’d be able to take in a Pit Bull puppy. She said that it had been rescued from a township where it had been found buried alive by a community member who’d had her for two weeks. This lady drove past the house and saw this little skeleton puppy on the 30th of April – she was trying to hold her weak little body upright against the fence.
3 min |
August/September 2020
Canine Zone
Pneumonia in dogs
Pneumonia is the inflammation of the lung tissue and airways, and this condition has many different causes.
3 min |
August/September 2020
Canine Zone
Dobermann (-ology)
Often called the Ferraris of the dog world, Dobermanns are athletic, muscular, and energetic
3 min |
August/September 2020
Canine Zone
How To Make Your Dog Insta-Famous
How to take your dog to social media stardom – and have fun together while doing it!
2 min |
August/September 2020
Canine Zone
Falling In Love With Otis
Growing up, Schalk and I both had family dogs. We loved them dearly, but they weren’t our responsibility, and our parents did most of the looking after. We both grew up and moved out of our parents’ houses, but neither of us has had our own pets until now, after making the decision to adopt little Otis from Dogtown.
3 min |
August/September 2020
Canine Zone
I Communicate With Animals…
Journeying into the animal kingdom and exploring the realms of animal communication – how is it that I’ve come to achieve what has been deemed by so many as impossible? Simple. My first steps were an enquiring mind and an openness that all animals, despite their size, gender or species, are emotional, thinking, intuitive and soul-bearing beings who are in a constant state of allowing and offering unconditional love to all.
3 min |
August/September 2020
Canine Zone
Dreams Can Come True
Happy rehoming stories always gladden the heart. Sometimes, though, there are some that really stand out, for different reasons – with one common thread. That thread is the fact that, despite every effort, these wonderful dogs have been overlooked time and time again, perhaps because of age, others due to minor medical issues, and yet more because they need special attention and training.
4 min |
August/September 2020
Canine Zone
The Link Between Cruelty to Animals and Violence Towards Humans
“One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.” – Anthropologist Margaret Mead
5 min |
August/September 2020
Canine Zone
What's The Big Deal With Socialisation?
By Celia McCulla ADIPCBM (UK), Canine Behaviour Specialist (Accredited Canine Behaviourist and Trainer – SABCAP), Pet Sense College/Happy Pack Dog Training and Behaviour Management
3 min |
August/September 2020
Stockfarm
Ewe Nutrition For Optimal Lamb Production
Sheep producers are often heard complaining about ewes that produce thick and sticky, slow-flowing colostrum, with a subsequent negative effect on lambs. Several studies indicate that this problem can be directly attributed to poor nutrition during late gestation.
5 min |
August 2020
Stockfarm
The Animal Diseases Act: What Farmers Should Know
Part 15: Control of Johne’s disease
5 min |
August 2020
HQ magazine
What's At The Core Of Your Love Of Riding?
And is it what it used to be?
5 min |
August/September 2020
HQ magazine
Arena Polo
The new sport in town
3 min |
August/September 2020
HQ magazine
Callaho Warmblood Sport Horses
The inaugural Online Auction
8 min |
August/September 2020
HQ magazine
Why Bother?
Understanding the benefits of core strength
5 min |
August/September 2020
HQ magazine
General Training
Building the core
5 min |
August/September 2020
Farmer's Weekly
The Importance Of Maintaining Reproductive Health In A Herd
Fourth-generation farmer Gerhard Grobler says he has been able to achieve better results from his beef cattle herd after introducing crossbreeding. But, he adds, South Africa’s beef producers need to start managing animal health more proactively. Pieter Dempsey reports.
5 min |
July 31, 2020
Big Issue
Helping Our Furry Friends
Who would have thought a virus with the strange name of COVID-19 would cause such chaos, not only in the entire world, but in a little town like Hermanus.
4 min |
Issue 287
go! - South Africa
Birds
Illustrations or photos?
3 min |
August 2020
Farmer's Weekly
Rapid Spread Of Invasive Species
According to researchers at the Centre for Invasion Biology at Stellenbosch University (SU), a total of 1422 alien species are currently naturalised or invasive in South Africa. Much more action is needed to counter the increasing threats posed by invasive alien species in the country, warns Wiida Fourie-Basson, science writer in the SU Faculty of Sciences.
3 min |
July 24, 2020
Farmer's Weekly
Dental Sinusitis And Apical Tooth Disease
A rotten cheek tooth root can cause sinusitis and extensive facial swelling, warns Dr Mac.
2 min |
July 17, 2020
African Birdlife
no entry
Southern Ground-Hornbills thwarted by a terrapin shell
3 min |
July - August 2020
African Birdlife
cavity combat
For four months we closely monitored the nest site of a pair of Southern Yellow-billed Hornbills near Brits in the North West Province.
1 min |
July - August 2020
African Birdlife
HOT flushes
How Southern Ground-Hornbills keep their cool
4 min |
July - August 2020
African Birdlife
all good things...
The Peninsula’s Peregrines
9 min |
July - August 2020
African Birdlife
Space Invaders
Accipiter tussle on the Cape Peninsula
3 min |
July - August 2020
African Birdlife
Rate Of Return
Fynbos is a fire climax community, which means that it requires fire to persist. The dominance of fynbos in the south-western tip of Africa is intimately linked to the occurrence of fires.
4 min |
July - August 2020
African Birdlife
Wild Ride: Atlasing in the Mara region
It’s 05h30 and my heart is racing, my ears alert. I’ve just tried to escape a charging elephant bull on foot. While I hunker down in the bushes, listening for cracking branches or a low rumble emanating from the dense shrubs around me, I hear a Rufous-naped Lark, Tropical Boubou and a distant Schalow’s Turaco. A cacophony of 60 low-flying Grey Crowned Cranes distracts me momentarily from my potentially precarious situation. If it’s the last photograph I take, it might be worth it. When the cranes have passed I hear the roar of lions, but they are a way off. The stomach rumbling of the elephant sounds a safe distance away, so I return through the undergrowth to my companions, who are hidden at a water- hole observation point. Having witnessed the chase, it won’t be Green Sandpiper and the domestic squabbles of Egyptian Geese that they remember from this day.
5 min |
July - August 2020
African Birdlife
Discover Birding
So you want to be a birder?
7 min |
July - August 2020
African Birdlife
Lessons In Lockdown Covid-19 – A Boon For Birds?
As Covid-19 lockdowns swept the world, there were numerous reports of how wildlife adapted to the new normal. Some of the more outrageous stories turned out to be as fake as a Trump White House briefing, but it was clear that with far fewer people and cars out and about, normally shy wildlife was quick to take advantage of the situation. Peter Ryan canvassed birders to try to piece together how birds responded to the unprecedented reduction in human activity.
8 min |