That one doesn't have many shots of dogs, so here is another veeeery good dog (and kitty) video: More information: RSPCA website ASPCA: Adoptable Dogs In Your Local Shelter Link does not mean product endorsement, but this is a good article: How To Know If You Are Ready To Adopt A Dog Featured image: Brian Johnson and Dane Kantner via Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Volcano News today includes weekly reports from AVO and CVO, HVO anticipates precursory lava degassing at any time now, summit and far-field inflation recorded at Piton de la Fournaise, and a 2,100…

Here is the accompanying note to that video on YouTube: Our mission is to take in unwanted, abandoned, stray and mistreated animals and find them loving, permanent homes. We always make sure that all the animals in our shelter are given all the love and care they need before they are rehomed. We support the RSPCA Inspectors with their case and abandoned animals.

Spain Confirms National Centre of Volcanology Will Be Located in the Canary Islands The Spanish Government confirmed on Tuesday that the National Centre of Volcanology will be situated in the Canary I...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — For millions of years, volcanoes have been the most powerful force in nature. And for many in the West, the impact of volcanoes is forever tied to the May 18, 1980, eruption of Was...

Just a quick note to say that I've redone the menu after a stalker strike on it -- deniable, as usual -- this week. It's very basic, but I think I've got the most popular categories in there. Please let me know if you miss something, and I'll add it. Sorry for the disruption, and as always, thank you for your interest! Now back to those restless-volcano updates. 😉 Featured image: Coconino Nation, CC BY-SA 2.0

December 2, 2025: No new updates yet, just a start toward organizing the posts better. By next week, things should be up to date (fortunately, none of these are making major trouble at the moment, but that could change at any time). This is by no means comprehensive: for that, the Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Program website is an excellent and authoritative source.

First things first: Does Rainier really tower over the city like that? Yes and no. Photographers sometimes do bring it closer with a telephoto lens. It's a spectacular shot. But in real life, Mount Rainier is very impressive, too. Check out this view of the horizon, taken from the revolving restaurant atop the Space Needle 30-40 miles northwest of the glacier-crowned volcano.

These are four African fire mountains that volcanologists closely watch right now.

Yes, that's one of them in a famous painting by Jean Louis Gerome Ferris. The Pilgrims had two that we know of. They must have left their mastiff indoors when company came. And the company probably left their dogs at home. A serious note Now, Family Canidae actually evolved in North America and then spread widely across the world even before they hooked up with us.

Whether it's true or not, some people say that Maine Coons are descended from those early 1600s cats. But those pilgrim cats were newbies. This had happened some 130 years earlier: No. Wait...this: I don't know the sources used for that video but did come across mention, while doing the cat eBooks, that a conquistador (late 1400s-1500s AD) had given a house cat to a friend -- in what is now Mexico, I think but would have to look it up again).

4th September 2025: COMET Event Response Report 1.9 – Fentale  Volcano, Ethiopia Purpose/Caveats: This event response report was produced to assist situational awareness and rapid response efforts. It...

It comes around twice a year, in July and in December. More information: National Mutt Day What's a mutt? Wikipedia page Featured image: Ali Peterson/Shutterstock

I never heard this word until the Internet became a thing. More information: Wikipedia on moggies A UK perspective The Spruce: Perhaps the best of all breeds Featured image: Maliflower73/Shutterstock

This one is short and serious, so I didn't go with the usual fun feature image. I don't go into it because it has nothing to do with my writing and also because I can't prove anything yet; but I have a serious stalking problem, and the stalkers are very powerful and wealthy, and very good at deniability. I think they have something to do with the birth family that probably lost custody of me at age three, when I was Barbara Jean Deming in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, to my natural father, who changed my last name to his: Beier.

On Monday, Elon Musk's social media AI chatbot posted in French that the gas chambers in Nazi death camps were designed for 'disinfection' against typhus, rather than for mass executions.

We made it through both sabertooths and popular AKC dog breeds! Now what? Well, the volcano Semeru came up with an answer today, but more generally, here are my plans. First, continue winding down from paleocats (for now); I miss them already. Return to the Friday Feline and Dog Day Saturday Afternoon guest video posts, starting this Friday some time. These might not always be videos, since AI seems to have increased the already large drek content on YouTube.

Bat dog! On review of the news, it appears that this breed gets stolen a lot, which is sad. However, here is a heart-warming and amazing story of one dog saving another: three hours until the owner got home! Meanwhile, at the show... 🐺🐺🐺 (Yes, despite appearances, it is a domesticated wolf.) And...WHEE! More information: American Kennel Club breed…

You might find this very short short story triggering: it takes us into the mind of a dying cat. But the sabertooths are all extinct and it seemed the best way to summarize the series. I have taken some liberties with geography and individual details such as gender and cause of death, but this is about the real 11,000-year-old sabercat whose restored skeleton you see above.

This is the first sabertooth that we have an actual picture of. In fact, it's the first time in history that paleontologists have had something other than bones and teeth to use in studying an extinct animal that left no living relatives! (Lopatin et al.) That is the mummy of a partially preserved Homotherium cub, discovered in Siberian permafrost in 2020.