Pets: Pet Health Online

I did the CatAge site for one of my kitties. Since I didn't know her birthday, I had to guess at that. I said she was about 11 years old and the website said she was 48.5 in people years and that she was 13.7 years younger than average for her breed. It also gives information on things to do for her to help keep her healthy.

I didn't like PetFit all that much. It seemed to be aimed more at dogs than cats. I did like the PetMD site. It's nice to know there is information out there to help you with your pets.

Blog Action Day - Climate Change

Climate change is something that affects everyone. The melting of the polar ice, both north and south is increasing and affecting animals and water levels. This is something that could endanger polar bears and other species as they lose their environment. The glaciers are melting around the world and changing local environments.

In the US many plants that were native in one area are moving north as everything warms up. States are losing their state flowers, trees, etc. as the climate has changed enough to make it inhospitable for native plants and animals.

The Northwest Passage has completely thawed out in the last few years and there is no telling how this will affect animals, environment, etc. Plus if ships start traveling through the area there will be accidents, pollution and other issues.

Continuing pollution, greenhouse gases keep increasing temperatures, changing ozone levels, changing air quality effecting everyone on the planet. Many years ago airplane pilots could see for miles when flying, now there is a blanket of pollution around the whole planet and clear days have become rare.

This is our only world and we need to take care of it. We cannot be so arrogant to assume that everything will take care of itself and pass things on to the next generation. At some point we may reach a point where there is no reversal of what we have done.

Pets: Finding a Pet

I did the Pet Picker Quiz twice, with slightly different answers. Got two totally different answers. The first was a ferret, the second a bird. As I'm a confirmed cat person, that was strange. While a ferret might be fun, I would never choose a bird.
Looking on Petfinder there are so many animals needing homes, that is so sad. My kitties have been left as strays in my neighborhood and I have just adopted them. Also, my vet usually has kitties for adoption. Now, I'm not in the market.

Genealogy: Genealogy 2.0

OK, I put my Celebrity Collage under my blog entries. It is just sooo wrong. I had to try three different pictures to find a group that wasn't too weird. One I had with glasses I was matched with almost all men. Really wrong. Any way it's there.

I have downloaded the free part of MyHeritage on my laptop and have been making some entries from my father's side of the family. It has been interesting and challenging to try to trace relatives. I'm not sure it will continue much past the great-great grandparents I have found in the census info. It has been interesting asking my father about some of it. I have heard about some family stories that I wasn't aware of before.

About Footnote, I'm not sure I get the point of the Member Discoveries. That said, I stumbled upon an entry by my aunt about her husband that included biographical information. Some of it I had found some time ago on a military site. Just browsing, some of the original documents look interesting. I saw some of the Apollo program pictures that were great. But this just doesn't seem like a site I would spend a lot of time on. Maybe if I were more of a history buff it would interest me more.