Small Mammals on the Big Stage
Ground squirrels, muskrat, pika and bats may not steal the spotlight like “charismatic megafauna,” but they are nonetheless important and intriguing animals.
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Animals
Animal Communication
When I tell people I do animal communication, they often tell me that they know what their animals want. When my dog stares at the door…
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Waking Up From Winter
I like to imagine that hibernating animals wake up from their long winter sleep much like we humans wake up from our own nightly slumber.
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More Than Just Waste
Let’s be honest, for most of us, poop is normally seen as something to be quickly flushed down the toilet. We call it “waste…”
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Dog Culture: Pumpkin and Osito
My dog Pumpkin, whom my wife and I adopted from Grizzly Valley Farms several years ago, pictured with her pup Osito (Little Bear in Spanish).
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Dog Culture: Milo
Milo, always young at heart, loved walking the Whitehorse trails at any temperature. She always led the way…
Rat-a-tat-tat … I Smell A Rat
What does a rat even smell like? Well, I have no idea … even though I’ve seen a rat or two in my lifetime…
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The Gift Of Community
The Boys and Girls Club Yukon has announced that they are renewing the Gift of Community program for the eighth year this Holiday Season.
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Living With Wildlife: Steve Wilson
How can anyone call this guy a tree rat or a pest? Squirrels need to eat too!
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Keeping Yukon wild at the Yukon Wildlife Preserve
Yukon Wildlife Preserve offers wildlife viewing, school programs, family passes, run/ski/walk events, Yukoner Day and holiday activities.
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Living With Wildlife: Doug Spencer
Hello Everybody, We invite you to share your photos of Yukon wildlife. Email your high-resolution images with a description of what’s going on and what
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Living With Wildlife: Matt Cook
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Living With Wildlife: Peter Zenkl
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Living With Wildlife: Matt Cook
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The life and times of a bear (and being ‘bear aware’)
Other than facing a mad wolverine, I would say that the black bear is the most mistrusted creature in all of North America.
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Watch out you wascally wabbits!
I would say there are as many ways to cook rabbits as there are all other game recipes combined.
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Didee & Didoo: Animal Tracks
I like to see animals on all fours
And I see their tracks outdoors
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Living with wildlife: Herbert Arnold
Chipmunk encounter along the the Alaska Highway
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Living With Wildlife: Steve Wilson
Here is a red squirrel in our backyard on Duncan Drive in the Golden Horn Subdivision enjoying some 50 per cent off bread from the Independent Store.
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Living With Wildlife: Steve Wilson
Here are two photos of a female fox who likes to visit us and clean up under our bird feeders in our backyard on Duncan Drive in the Golden Horn Subdivision.
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Animals need the Humane Society; the Humane Society needs people
Everybody knows that the Humane Society of Yukon takes care of our beloved animals in distress at the society-run Mae Bachur Animal Shelter. But who takes care of the people who take care of the animals?
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Art is in the eyes of the beholder
Some 30 years ago, as a way of managing his writer’s block, Murray decided to go out to the garage, turn his scroll saw on and put the scroll blade to work to carve away.
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Knowing the beaver
Picture this: an animal that lived in our waterways, here in Canada that was close to 8 feet long, big chisel teeth and could swim
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It’s no picnic
If teddy’s looking a bit peaked this season, you’re in luck. Whitehorse General Hospital is offering health care for bears this week.
Hunting in the Yukon – Part 1
An excerpt of Manfred Hoefs’ recently released book Yukon’s Hunting History. Yukon’s history, time scale & events are unique.
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Living With Wildlife: Wyatt Biggart
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Watching for things that go snap in the night
The first week of September, the mice fled the fields and snuck indoors, as mice are wont to do. It happened in the quiet hours
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Didee & Didoo: Didoo’s Trunk
Didoo’s Trunk That’s where she kept her knife. That’s where she kept her awl. That’s where she kept her file. That’s where she kept her
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Blessing of the Animals
At 10:30 a.m. on August 6, some members of the congregation at Whitehorse United Church had whiskers, a tail and four legs! This is because
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Wilderness Living with a Canine View
… A wind was blowing from the mountains, and the surface of the snow was swirling along like snakes, the way it often did on
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Too Curious George
He was a foundling on the streets of Edmonton – a golden cocker spaniel whose hair was so matted with burrs that much of it
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The (Mis)Adventures of A Puppy
In life there can be many instances one regrets. Such as accidentally sending a text to the wrong person, or throwing out an ill received
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The Life of Rabbits and Hares
Growing up in the 1930 and early 40s was tough times. First, there was the Great Depression, followed closely by the Second World War. For
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Farewell to the Big Top and its Big Thrills
The child’s heart that beats in my aging breast is breaking. They’re shutting down the circus. After 146 years (exactly twice my life span so
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Welcome 30 Below!
I was just getting started on working with Hollywood, my horse, out in Mendenhall (our home) when my grandparents were talking about the weather one
DIDEE & DIDOO: I’M STILL INTACT
I STILL HAVE MY WINGS. I STILL HAVE MY TAIL. I STILL HAVE MY CLAWS. I STILL HAVE MY FINS. I STILL HAVE MY HORNS.
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A Gang of Elk, An Obstinacy of Bison
Buffalo are associated with four collective nouns. A herd, a “gang”, a troop and, our favourite, an obstinacy of buffalo.
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Didee & Didoo: I’m Still Intact
I STILL HAVE MY WINGS. I STILL HAVE MY TAIL. I STILL HAVE MY CLAWS. I STILL HAVE MY FINS. I STILL HAVE MY HORNS.
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Collective Nouns For Animal Groups- Near and Far
A Late Middle Ages hunting fraternity began a game of inventing animal group names. Some were collected in The Book of Saint Albans
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Exotic Animals to Visit the Yukon
A wide variety of exotic animals from Cuvier dwarf caimans, pythons, tortoises, tarantulas, a black lemur and opossums are being brought to Whitehorse for the
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Petting Cheetahs in Namibia
The cheetah appeared suddently, and instantly I was overcome with fear. I saw it walking slowly on the porch of the farm house. I froze
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Didee & Didoo: OLD CROW ZOO
YOU’LL SEE LOTS OF CARIBOU. YOU’LL SEE LOTS OF MOOSE. YOU’LL SEE LOTS OF MARTEN. YOU’LL SEE LOTS OF SQUIRRELS. YOU’LL SEE LOTS OF WOLVES.
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Summer: A Kid’s Perspective
Finally summer is here! This is the most funnest season of the year, but my horse, Hollywood, probably loves it more than I do. This
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Yukon’s Best Friend: DOG CULTURE, Shirley Dawson
DOG CULTURE: Submitted by Shirley Dawson Remington Our dog’s name is Remington and we believe he is a Chesapeake Bay Retriever mix- we got him through
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Didee & Didoo: WHAT ANIMALS THINK OF US
THEY WALK ON TWO FEET. THEY DON’T HAVE TAILS. THEY DON’T BARK. THEY DON’T PANT. THEY DON’T HAVE FUR. THEY DON’T HAVE HORNS. THEY DON’T
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Telling Stories
Sandra Grace Storey’s Words Like Birds exhibit digs deep into all that we struggle to express. It finds a great tenderness there. Storey has created
An Open Letter to My Dog
Dear Parka, We invited you into our family last summer because we felt a void that only man’s best friend could fill. Down south last
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Winter: A Season for Change
“The more things change the more they stay the same” and “The only constant in life is change” are both very cliche and very true.
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Sharing His Knowledge of Wolves
For 20 years, Robert (Bob) Hayes was the Yukon’s wolf biologist. During those years, he studied hundreds of radio-collared wolves and conducted several long-term wolf-prey
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Fish
It will not surprise many that this little planet called Earth is covered by seventy percent water. What may surprise many is that the water
Didee & Didoo: MY GYM
WHEN I MENTION MY GYM IT DOESN’T HAVE A BASKETBALL RIM. MY GYM IS THE GREAT OUTDOORS I SHARE IT WITH ANIMALS ON ALL FOURS.
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Yukon See It Here: Gerry Steers
Hello Everybody, We invite you to share your photos of Yukon life. Email your high-resolution images with a description of what’s going on to [email protected].
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Didee & Didoo: WHEN I GO HUNTING
I HAVE NEVER SEEN A HORSE. I HAVE NEVER SEEN A VULTURE. I HAVE NEVER SEEN A ZEBRA. I HAVE NEVER SEEN AN ELEPHANT. I
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20 years of going to the dogs …
Humane Society Dawson is celebrating a milestone birthday this year. The “small shelter with a big heart” turns 20 years old, and shows no signs
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Dancing for Doggies
On Oct 31st Whitehorse residents will have a chance to work up a sweat to some sweet electronica tunes at the second annual Masq dance
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Squawking with a Swan
One day in 2011, Todd Pilgrim was returning from a hike when he saw something grey and silverish by the road. As he went closer,
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Didee & Didoo: SMARTEST ANIMAL
DOGS KNOW WHEN YOU’RE HURT AN’ THEY KNOW HOW TO COMFORT. DOGGIES ARE SO SMART AN’ THEY’LL HEAL YOUR HEART. THEY CAN READ YOUR MIND
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How working dogs keep cool
Frank Turner knows how to care for dogs on the bitterly cold trail of the Yukon Quest, having run it 24 times. Indeed, he had
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Flummoxed Felines and Forrest Gump
My favourite line from Forrest Gump comes near the end. Gump’s beloved Jenny has died and he stands over her grave: “Mama always said that
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More than just music
Meet Jordi Mikeli-Jones — a renaissance woman. She is the owner of the popular Triple J’s Music, Tattoos and Piercing. She is president of Kona’s
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A Friend For Schwartz
Schwartz has been our only dog for the past few years. For the most part he seems to be okay, although he does enjoy playing
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Homage to a Yukon Birder
Yukon birds, and its birding community, have lost a true friend. When he died last month, at 75, Helmut Grünberg had spent over 40 years
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Yukon Wildlife Preserve
The Yukon Wildlife Preserve has been helping injured, orphaned, and sick animals for over ten years. Located 25 minutes from downtown Whitehorse on the Hot
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Fava Beans
One of the biggest animal raising expenses in the Yukon is feed. So I am always on the look out for crops we can grow
The Sunstroke Music Festival is a Sign of Summer
Solstice is nearly upon us, which means the annual Sunstroke Music Festival is almost upon us, too. For those who are new to the festival,
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A Quiet Yukon Christmas
Twas the week before Christmas and all through the farm. Not a chicken was stirring, they’re all in the barn. All summer they roam, but
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Yukon Harvest Time
I can’t believe it’s almost over. This summer was one of the best on record as far as gardening goes. We always had lots of
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Are You ready for Winter? Winterizing Yukon Style
Are you ready for winter? It’s a common phrase heard every fall all over the place. What does it take to be ready? Vehicles and
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When Horse and Rider Become One
“Being able to bond and connect with a gigantic graceful creature is incredibly fulfilling,” says Meghan Larivee, a local equestrian enthusiast. “Being able to work
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So, just what is a vet?
This is the first column in a monthly series in which Jim Kenyon will answer readers’ questions about animals and animal care. As in any
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