Well I do have to admit that 2009 was a total disappointment.

The whole year sucked ass like ya wouldn't believe. The year of Change? Fuckin hell nothing changed sides there bein a black dude in the white house, and maybe actual good music at MFF.

Some things remained the same and some things went from bad to worse for most people.

With the new year also being the Year of the Tiger, I do believe this will be a year where all tigers will prevail. Even if you arn't a tiger but we're born under the year of it, don't quit and keep fighting to achieve everything to better your life.

I'm doin that right now so I hope you will be doin it too.

Till then FUCK YOU 2009

And welcome 2010.

Well gang the fire tiger is actually happy for once. I'm having a decent time here wit my folks and nothing bad has happened *glass shatters* >.> <.<

hehe but mostly I'm at my parents house back in Oak Lawn, IL. A tad bored out of my mind but hey thats normal wit parents.

Wonder what things I could do if someone lived close by and wanted to visit. I just luuuuuv's late night snugglins =^-^=

But none the less I'm enjoying myself bein also wit my two girls who love me the most and thats my Gold lab Misty and my Pitbull Baby. I brought my suit with me so I can get a nice picture of me with them on xmas day so I have something wonderful to go home with. You have no idea how much they've missed me. They both lay with me while I watch TV and lay their heads on my lap and don't care if I use them as a pillow :P

But yeah anywho wanna wish ya'll a merry Xmas and have a happy holiday. Hope ya get what ya want this year :)

Well I have some damn good news.

I just filed today for unemployment and I got word that I could of gotten it for my garage door job. But from what I know I was given the option to go for that or for BP and get those asses good.

For the garage door I was offered 20 weeks getting paid every week of 175 dollars.

but for BP I was given 17 weeks for 230 dollars.

I chose those fuckers at BP. They may have won the battle of fireing me but they arn't winning the war.

So I need to wait a few weeks till they start sending me money and I'm good for now and just need to fill out apps twice a week and I get free money *smiles evilish*

This I think has just sparked my smile back. I'm a happy tiggy once again.

Also I think I'm gonna head down to my folks house early so I can join my folks for last minute xmas shopping. So to everyone I say this.

Thank you for helping me and frost so far. I wanna thank Damion Tiger for sending me a nice care package of sparkling juice, triple flavor jam, candy, and pasta with vodka sauce from his store he works at. Hun thank you ever so much for this. You have no idea how much this means to all of us.

A few pets sending me gifts. Friends sending us xmas cards.

You all mean so much to us and I can't wait till Kalkaph and Darius come out here for new years. This will be a good way to end the year with a bang.

I'm putting this journal here from my LJ cause I don't give a shit if someone wants to be a fucking troll and hate on me. I'm making this known cause I know others won't be able to read it about my life much after this. BTW if you say one thing wrong, you are blocked!!

I should be happy that the holiday's are almost here. Somehow I feel like everything once again for the 2nd time in a row I have lost my job before christmas, is just gonna be an every year deal for me. I mean I had to sacrifice everything last year. Didn't go see my family, had no money for presents, no gas for our vehicle, hell this year we have no vehicle any more.

I mean honestly I don't cause these problems to happen. I can't just for one FUCKING year just be happy?

I have my friends and thats what matters. We always have them nearby for us if need be but also cause our door is always open for them to come visit and hang out.

Frost has been busy making a fun little monopoly board that we are trying to make interactive for the fur fandom. We calls it Furopoly. Its coming along really great. We've finished the board and now we are in the card stages for like the community chest, Which we have dubbed Con Ops, cause well ya never know what they will do to ya :P and Chance stays the same. We also need to make 8 token pieces but was thinking of maybe certain fursuits or fursuit pieces. If ya wanna see it you'll have to go to Frost's LJ section and friend him to see it.

http://frostcat.livejournal.com/190509.html

Also as he has said, we much respect the furcons used on the board as well as the art of the respective owners. I'm sure they will also love this. Once its done we will show them first to see what they think. So as frost said also, "Don't fucking start something and bitch and claim we are art thieves. We are nothing like that. Don't be jelous that we can come up with something fun for everyone and you can't.

Anyway some good things about friends does help us. Like having  kenovawolf visit us on the weekends when he's not working is very nice. He came over and we played Left 4 Dead 2 and I think I got him hooked on it. I also introduced him to a naughty foxy pet of mine and I think I started something that will end with gooey results :P heh Even seeing  morinw goofy face round here is always a treat.

It does make me happy now and then to see friends. Hell I went out of my way a week ago to take Falcon's kids out sledding at the park down the block. I even tried out the snowboards I had but the straps on them broke. Thats what I get for getting them from the garbage. But the good thing is the straps can be fixed and have new ones on them. Just need to figure out where to get them. Socks if yer ever in the area do come visit and see what ya can do to help me learn to ride one of these things.

The weather has been an off and on experience like crazy with decent temperatures rising and lowering. I mean a steady 30 degree weather is good but not freezing.

I am glad that frost is filling out apps along with me so we don't really lose our place. It is funny though that with all the places that say help wanted, they certainly don't show it when they arn't busy.

I don't really know how we're gonna be able to deal with rent till we have a good job. I don't know what Cooper is even doing any more in finding a job. He is getting unemployment from his six flags job but its not enough. We don't exactally have the luxuries he has, but we let him do as he wants.

Next week I'm gonna be visited by  dmk and  kalkaph for new years. We're staying home cause with how everything has been, I wouldn't of been able to host fur years eve this year. I hope they have a good time out here at least.

Me and Frost have a few solutions that might work, but we're not holding our breath. We try and tough it out best we can and keep trying to find something. We look for better jobs further north (granted I would be sacrificing everything like my meet and also my friends). We start making our own porn vids and see who would pay to watch them (granted friends we wouldn't charge anything). Or we ask for money from friends.

Now that last one isn't gonna happen cause I will NOT accept money again like last year. Call me stubborn if you wish but I'm trying to learn from my mistakes and I just can't do that again and ask for money from my friends and not be able to repay them. I mean part of me cries to know I have such wonderful people looking out for us, but the other half cries to know he can't do the same for them when it ever happens. I mean if ya wanna send it thats fine but I just don't know what I can do in return.

I'm happy to have frost, my friends, my pet ratty Cassie and my family lookin out for me and helping me best they can. I just hope the rest of this month ends on a good note rather than a bad one.

Take care all and wish me luck.

Hey guys I just wanted to let ya'll know a few things in advance bout me for a while so I'm gonna make a small list.

1. I won't be putting any other journal's on here any more about whats going on in my life. Apparently I don't really please some people with my "EMONESS" To be honest no one forces you to read my shit. Cause if you just read my stuff and say something rude to me, I will put you on the block list like all the others. I just ain't much in the mood for that any more.

2. I will only be putting up journals about the Furry News Weekly (yes it will soon be back and better than ever), holidays, cons I'm going to, or if I'm in desperate need of help.

3. If you wanna know whats going on in my life then you will have to go to my LJ page to read about it. Thing is all my posts are friends only. I don't need someone adding more fun and interesting shit about me on my E.D. page. Oh and those who do update it for me, Thank you cause its nice to know there are assholes like you out there to just enjoy the Lul's on behalf of someones miserable expense.

other than that I have crap to deal with so I'm gonna try to relax. Take care everyone and see ya when I do.

Hey everyone tiggy just wishin ya'll a happy thanksgiving. Hope you gets lots of yum this year.

Now who wants to get stuffed by me........I mean stuffed WITH me I mean.....well you knows what I mean



..............I hope.

Hey everyone big tiggy here. I wanna say that I had a wonderful time at MFF this year. Aside from all the drama and stress I had been through prior to the con, I have to say this has made me one happy tiger.

I'll be making a big pro's and con's post later tomorrow so be on the lookout for that.

But I wanna say that I was glad tiger taxi worked out, however I do wish to apologize to 2 people's I wasn't able to get and hope they will forgive this tiggy :( Palmer and Domino I really do apologize and I will make up for it with something nice for the both of you.

I was also really happy to see my sweety coon  magnusdiridian made it. Thank you Duncan pup for helping him out and also for the wonderful times with all yer awesome balloon's =^-^= BTW hit me up if you can read this and I'll send you the pics of the fun balloon shots I got in the fursuit room

To everyone I met after such a long ass time all I wanna say is this. Thank you for being there for me in my time of stress and other crap. You are the ones who made my time at this MFF all the more memorable. You all are my friends and I am so thankful to have you apart of my life.

Take care everyone and I shall post the link to the pics and vids I took later tomorrow.

I decided to make a new journal due to having more drama as usual. I offer the choice of this tiggy comin to pick you up from the Lake Cook Metra stop or O'hare airport and take you to the MFF hotel and back when you need to be. The cost will be $15 and thats to and from the hotel.

BTW Now I never said in the last journal that I would be driving. One person from the last journal, that I made for tiger taxi, thought I had broken trust and went and told people not to accept my generous offer.

Lemme sum it up for ya. I never said I would be driving. I thankfully have 2 people willin to help me cause I know for a fact it will be one busy con this time around and I thank the both of them for helping me. We are assisting friends who don't wanna go and pay a bunch of money for a Limo or Illinois Taxi or even wait for hours for the Shuttle to show up at the airport or train station. I know the directions and mapping the area better than you think. Ya know I could be something like a navigator.

But jumping to conclusions that I had broken trust and thinking I would drive without a license is totally fucked up. I know what would happen to me if I drove and got pulled over. Now if you told me about that Wisconsin now has a insurance law going into effect in January (now cops will ask for insurance and DL if you have a WI vehicle instead of just only a license) then maybe that would of been understandable and we would use a different method. We drove to the places we said we drove to.

Also lyeing to us and saying one of our friends was eaves dropping on us and telling you where we have been going, just to get us mad at him is totally Shady and assholish of you.

Trust? in yer terms trust means, doing everything that you want for yer life to be better.

In my terms its something that you gain. Trust means not lieing to yer friends, which you did ALOT. You gained my trust back when you helped us when we needed help. Then you claim all these assumptions. Then lyeing about everything I believed of you. But I just don't know if you have been lyeing to us all this time just so you can feel better knowing you got people like us, wrapped around yer little finger.

If anyone wishes to see what I am talking about, go to my LJ. Those who can't see it will have to be added if you want to see it that is.

Tiger Taxi will not be shut down so easily. It will happen and no one is gonna stop me from helping my friends.

Alright everyone. Ya know I'm sorry for being a fucked up racial dick now. Thanks go to one person for calling me an ungreatful pissant. You know who you are.

You should go ahead and post me up as being the most racial tiger ever to exist is this fandom. I'm a terrible tiger and should be looked down upon as a dispicable feline and should lose all my friends. Be like all the other people who dislike me.

I've seen the light now and understand my actions of calling them sand niggers wasn't the right thing to do.

I SHOULD be greatful that I at least have a job right?........................

Me and frost WE'RE fine with our job, till we got a new manager and he hired his cousin and brother and his wife and everything went to shit.

You all don't know what we go through. Try spending a day in our shoes to UNDERSTAND what it is we do and what bullshit we have to endure.

There is a reason for everything. If you write something down as hateful as I did, then I had a DAMN GOOD REASON. But I know that the words you all wrote had reason too. If I wanted though some 2 cents from people who don't know what we go through I'd listen to more of 2's the ranting gryphon's rants and agree with what he's talking about.

When you are as upset as I was you write down some fucked up shit. Understand that I'm not a hateful person. I don't do something unless I have a fucking reason. If I do it half-assed then sorry that I have upset you in some kind of sence.

Also if you haven't been keeping up from my other journal's either on LJ or here about whats been going through my life, then maybe you should do a little history check to understand WHY I don't have a license. But if you don't wanna hear about my whiney ass attitude and shit then why the fuck are you still watching me? Why are you reading my shit when it has some fucked up title's? Course I know that if yer NOT watching me you just wanna put in yer 2 cents and make me realize that my actions are so terrible that I should just go catch a bus by standing in front of one.

No cause I ain't gonna give you the satisfaction. That would mean that everything that has upset me through my life will win and thats not something I'm gonna let them or YOU enjoy.

We have a fucking plan now with former employee's and the former manager that loved our work. We have a full idea of what we are gonna do and we will make sure they get whats coming to them. They have pissed off not only me and frost but at least over 10 other workers and also some customers.

Always remember people this one fun little dealy before you write how terrible someone is or how ungreatful they are.

When yer upset you say some fucked up shit, but after a time of calming you use yer brain and think of something, while your friends give you support.

The support from all the messages I got from FRIENDS, I thank you for that.

The unsupportive help I got from others who also said nice words to me back....Do me a favor and just remove me from yer watch list now so you never have to hear about this again.

I have to say ever since me and kitty got our xbox 360, we have been playing like crazy. Frost has been playing games like Soul Calibur 4, and I have been playing Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, and Halo 3. I mostly have been going for the achievements. Kinda fun getting them too. Also for anyone who plays L4D I have the crash Course Level downloaded on mine so if ya'll ever wanna play that let me know.

Team Fortress 2 has been a real blast. I have tons of different achievements. Also picking which character I wanna be is a challange. I like the Demoman cause his sticky bombs are fun to place around an enterance way when the oppenent doesn't see them :P The Sniper is good cause of long range and sneeky shots you can do. however I hate it when the other team has one and picks me off like crazy. Thats why when I have the Scout I am the shit with him. Having to double jump onto the bridge in 2Fort and running across to the other side double jumping and wailing with my bat in the other players head. Also I'm super fast with him when I run into their base and grab the intelligence. The other team does about the same thing sadly. Thats where I come in with the Engineer. Having to install his Sentry's are the best, especially in areas where the other team wouldn't be able to spot.

Now I know yer all thinking, "Well Blaze why not use the Pyro, cause you are the Firey Tiger."

I do like the pyro cause of his flamethrower and when there is a spy in the base I ROAST him. Ever time I play there is always a spy runnin bout and kills me from behind. So for measures I pick him ever so often when I get killed by a spy.

Halo 3 is fun cause I get to use my favorite BIG guns in the game and take out anyone who tries to come near me. Hehe I'm such a trigger happy tiger sometime :P I don't really think I'll get ODST yet cause I'm still having fun with regular Halo 3.

Left 4 Dead is good cause I get to be whom ever I want and just go to town killing survivors or killing Zombies. I like the new Crash Course level cause it gives new achievements and more fun zombie killing and a way to stun a tank.

So yeah if yer ever in the mood to play with this tiggy.............on the 360 you pervs Just give me a friend request. and my fur name is the gamertag. Just let me know who ya is before ya friend me so I don't have any problems. I'm a forgetful tiggy sometimes so some names will escape me.

Till then see ya on the battlefield of FPS

Hey guys just letting ya'll know I added alot of folks but I know there are alot more out there somewhere. Lemme know yer handles and I'll add you. Mine is Blazger.......well even ya'll should of known that.

Also the only game I can play right now is Left 4 Dead, cause I need to head out over the weekend and get some more like Halo 3 and whatever else catches my eye. Was even thinking of the Orange Box and play some team fortress on there. I'd luv to play it on the computer but our computers won't work with it cause they suck.

So come join in a game of L4D sometime and lets have some fun for once. Getting tired of being kicked out by punk ass players just cause their team is losing. I kept saving their asses and next level starts they have the nerve to kick me. Fucking pussies.

Catch ya on the xbox guys.

The fire tiger is here to announce that me and frost now own a 360 and are now apart of xbox live. So to ya'll out there that would like to be apart of my friends list on xbox and play against or with the fire tiger or ice kitty feel free to add us up.

Of course we use our fur names so please add away and see ya in the gaming world ;)

Oh yeah P.S. I don't have a mic and headset yet so don't expect me to say much yet. I'll have one by next weekend ;)

I think I speak for everyone when I say, AWWWWW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUjJ.....mp;feature=sub

This Leafeon is so adorablely cute that I know anyone would luv to catch it. And I bet everyone will love the new pokemon at the end that will be in the works for her.

Well I just woke up today and thought maybe today would be a nice day to enjoy some delicious ice cream. I was at work today and got myself some Ben and Jerry's ice cream. They got some interesting flavors and names for their stuff. So for me I got "Strawberry Cheesecake." For frost he got one named "Everything but the..." which consists of chocolate chip cookie dough, vanilla and chocolate ice cream and brownie chunks. He is in like pure heaven now with it :P And I think it would also be awesome to make this a nummalicious day to enjoy YOUR favorite ice cream.

So today I say show a picture of hand made ice cream treats with all the toppings you like to put on yer ice cream, ice cream places you go to and what they have to offer, and of course the all favorite flavor you like the most.

So to everyone Happy Ice Cream Day!!

Yeah I have seen that Billy May's products was helped out by the Heavy weapons guy. He chose the best product ever cause he uses it all the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHgE.....layer_embedded

But the Scout decided to sell 2 products by the dude of the ShamWOW and the Slap Chop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmO1.....layer_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7QI.....layer_embedded

Who do you think has the better selling method?

Well if any of ya'll had read my LJ I was a tad bit sick for a day. I had a serious cold and i just couldn't go to work the other night and such. But now the tiggy is back up to speed wit a little bit of a runny nose but I have been feeling better with my music. Yeah the music that I have been collecting and putting together into a nice set that I would play at any con. The good news is me and frost have a fun little plan for if we can't play at the dances then we will just bring our music none the less and play it where ever we want for all to enjoy. If ya wanna listen to what kind of music I got then go here.

http://furry4life.ning.com/profile/Blazger

Believe me I luv playing this kind of music and I know others would agree this is the kind of songs worth listening to. Tailshakin type music with some heavy metal, some alternative, also some of my personal favorite ICP and also some SLOW SONGS, and also a little something for the ravers out there that wanna hear music that doesn't repeat the same beat for a half hour. Let me know what ya'll think. Enjoy

Hey everyone whats shakin. Wanted to let peoples know that a real sweetheart of a fur is in need of sum help and asks if anyone could give a few donations. Like me back then, she is in bad times and in need of some money to help pay for insurance for doctor's bills.

Head over to her journal here: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/905115/

See if you can lend this sweety a hand and give even a few bucks. As a reward for anyone sending anything over 5 bucks, she will give you a nice DVD's neopets plushies, and video games. I'm sending here money so be a sport and donate today.

Alas I am sorry everyone for not having last weeks news up for ya'll to read. So to make it up, I'm working on getting a live video done up or at least a video made for youtube so ya'll can see this tiger and maybe a co-anchor and other peoples to help me out. So without further ado, the news of the week.

In Fish News - Marblehead, Ohio A woman in Ohio is telling a fish story about one that got away -- from a bird, and damaged her car. Authorities in northwest Ohio say the fish -- a Lake Erie freshwater Drum, known as a sheepshead -- smashed a car windshield Tuesday when an eagle dropped its catch from a height of about 40 feet. Leighann Niles says the impact felt like a brick hitting her Toyota's windshield. The woman from the cleveland suburb of South Euclid was vacationing along the lake in Marblehead. Niles says she had thought herself lucky to escape damage in another animal encounter shortly before the fishy one. She says a truck hit a small bird, which struck her back passenger door and startled her 5 year old daughter.

In Hooves News - Miami, Florida Since January, at least 17 horses have been butchered, their carcasses left on roadsides or in stalls or rural pastures, Police in Miami-Dade County say. Police haven't named suspects, but animal rights advocates believe the meat is being sold on the black market to people from other countries where horse meat is a delicacy.

In Mouse News - Orlando, Florida This story caught my eye as I heard it from others before reading about it in the paper last week on thursday. A 60 year old man was convicted of groping a woman in a Minnie Mouse costume at Walt Disney World. John William Moyer of Cressona, Pa, was convicted Tuesday of misdemeanor battery and sentenced to write the victim an apology. He also must serve 180 days' probation and do 50 hours of community service. Moyer told a judge he is innocent. His son said his father would never inappropriately touch a woman.

In Raccoon News - North side of Chicago As his workers scrabbled to get away from the masked intruder at Safran Metals Inc. on Tuesday morrning, Vice President Allan Baron felt an emotional tug. "Here's this little guy as cute as can be," he thought after catching sight of the invader. He gave water and a ham sandwich to the little guest -- a raccoon that apparently stowed away on a scrap metal shipment from Detroit. Baron first heard rumblings in the shipment, thenspotted the four-footed visitor standing upright in the midst of aluminum tanks wrapped in cellophane. Baron figured the critter made the entire trip in that position. "There was no room for him to lay down." The shipment was on a trailer that was packed up Monday morning in Detroit and arrived Tuesday at the Chicago scrapyard on Elston near North Avenue. Baron said he called the Humane Society to come get the animal. "They told me they were going to euthanize him, and I said, 'Forget about it.'" Left with food and water, the year old, 16 pound mammal raccoon was to spend Tuesday night in the enclosed scrapyard. "If I can cage him, we'll bring him to one of the suburbs and let him loose," Baron said.

In Feline News - Jensen Beach, Florida Florida investigators say a man accused of downloading child pornography is blaming his cat. Keith Griffin of Jensen Beach, is charged with 10 counts of possession of child porn after detectives found more than 1,000 images on his home computer. According to a sherriff's report Friday, Griffin told investigators his cat jumped on the jeyboard while he was downloading music. He said he had left the room and found "strange things" on his computer when he returned. Griffin is being held on $250,000 bond in the Martin County jail.

Arlington Heights, IL When his ex-girlfriend's kitten urinated on his rug, Kevin Colabuono allegedly hurled 4-month old Riley so violently to the floor that she died. Now the 25 year old Arlington Heights man faces up to 3 years in prison if he is convicted of killing the small white, gray, and brown kitten. Colabuono was charged Sunday with felony animal cruelty after his former girlfriend returned to the apartment they had shared until their recent breakup and was unable to find her kitten. Colabuono told her the pet had died, but didn't provide any details, prompting her to call police, authorities said. During auestioning by investigators, Colabuono allegedly admitted throwing the kitten to the floor after it urinated on a rug in the apartment, police said. "He got mad, picked it up and threw it hard on the ground," said Officer Doug Hajek, an Arlington Heights police spokesman. Colabuono led police to a trash dumpster at the apartment complex, where officers found the kitten's body wrapped in a plastic bag, Hajek said. Another cat living in the apartment wasn't harmed but was removed by police after Colabuono's arrest. During a court appearance Monday, bond for Colabuono was set at $10,000.

In Canine News - Atlanta, Georgia A former college profession and his wife apparently were attacked and killed by nearly a dozen dogs along a rural northeast Georgia road where their bodies were found mutilated, authorities said MOnday. Preliminary autopsy results from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation showed Sherry Schweder, 65, likely died of injuries suffered in a dog attack, Oglethorpe County Sherriff Mike Smith said. Autopsy results for her husband, Lothar Karl Schweder, 77, were not yet available but Smith said its likely he was also attached by dogs because the scene was so grisly. Smith wais officials were going to round up at least 11 dogs seen in the area where the couple's bodies were found Saturday morning by five passers-by. It wasn't immediatly clear whether the mixedbreed dogs, which are to be captured by animal control officers from neighboring Madison County, were feral or someone's pets. There had been no recent complaints about vicious dogs in the area, Smith said.



Well guys thats all for now but I'll have some comics for ya in the next day. Untill then take care. This is Blazger signing off.

Well once again the fire tiger brings you news in the animal world today. A week long saving of news I have read of different animals in the news and what is happening in yer neck of the woods. And so on wit the news :)

First up a few updates:

In last weeks news a Conure had escaped the philly zoo during the zoo's festival of flight bird show. A few days later is was found and returned to its perch. After the reports we're sent out many calls came in to report where it had been sighted.

For the report on the movie G-force, although activists we're getting pissy about the fact the movie would send bad signals to kids to mistreat and mishandle guinea pigs, it would appear the boxoffice wasn't too upset as it toppled every movie and wound up in first place over Harry Potter.

Now for the news at hand

For the Scalies: Hartford, Conn - Police say a driver blamed a car crash on two pet baby snakes that he said escaped from his pants pockets as he was driving. Hartford police Sgt. Christene Mertes says Angel Rolon claimed he lost control on monday when the snakes slithered near the gas and brake pedals and he and a passenger tried to catch them. The SUV veered into some parked cars and overturned. Mertes says animal control officers never found the snakes and police have been unable to confirm his story.

Chicago, IL (Field Museum) - Some 260 million years ago, long before dino's roamed the earth, long-fingered creatures took to the trees to feed on leaves and live high above predators that prowled the land said a museum's paleontologist. Elongated fingers, an opposable "thumb" and a usuable tail of Suminia getmanovi reveal that this small plant-eating animal is the earliest known tree climbing vertebrate, says Jorg Frobisch. Suminia was relatively small (only about 20 inches from the nose to the tail tip.) Skulls and more than a dozen complete skeletons discovered in central Russia's Kirov region make up Frobisch's evidence. Finding that Vertebrates took to trees so early in earth's evolution was unexpected but, says Frobisch, "It makes sense." "There was food available, and they avoided predators on the ground," he said.


In bear news: Asheville, NC - Former game show host and long time animal rights activist, Bob Barker has made a personal appeal to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina to stop exhibiting bears in the pit-like enclosures at three local zoos. The Asheville Citizen Times reported that Barker met Tuesday with Principal Chief Michell Hicks and five members of the Tribal Council. He called the bears' conditions inhumane and asked that they be turned over to a sanctuary in California. "To think that with as advanced as our cililzation is now that there is any place in the US where bears are kept in pits is just unbelievable," said Barker, who is part American Indian and grew up on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. The bears are displayed in walled enclosures set into the ground at three local attractions that bill themselves as zoos and theme parks.

San Diego, California - Bai Yun, the adult female panda at the San Diego Zoo, is pregnant --- again. Ultrasound tests have shown that Bai Yun is carrying one, maybe two, fetuses, zoo officials announced Wednesday. The 17 year old panda has given birth to four cubs since coming to the zoo as part of a scientific exchange with China.


In Mice news: China - News that chinese researchers have succed in growing healthy living mice from mouse skin cells takes scientists a significant step closer to human cloning, experts say, and thus figures to reignite an ethics debate. The new feat --- in which animals were grown from cells that had been reverted to Embryos --- is different from cloning. Cloning, in which the nucleus is removed from a cell and implanted in a fertilized egg, has never been achieved in humans. Nor has the new technique --- using induced pluripotent stem, or iPS, cells --- been tested in them. Because that process works in mice, however it should work in humans. "We now have the technology to create iPS cells from skin or hair collicles," said Dr. Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology Inc. who was not involved in the studies. "What's Very troubleing is that if you have a piece of skin from anybody --- Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson --- you could create a child." The researchers involved in the new studies said it should not be tried on homans. "It would not be ethical to attempt to use iPS cells in human reproduction," said Fanyi Zeng of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Her study, she added, was "in no way meant as a first step in that direction."


We have to take a break for now but when we come back, more news on Coon's, Wolves, and Whales. So stay tuned to this tiggy's station and I'll be back after work to report the last remaining news. And now these messages:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7OPCy0d3tE

Yup yup tis true everyone. Today I turn 27 years old and I'm still one sexy tiger. I can't wait for my birthday weekend to start off right. I got some fun suprises to show off come sunday. I'm so glad to have such wonderful friends all these years I have been apart of the fandom. You all are the best ever. =^-^= Till then luv ya all and pounce ya when I see ya

Yeah I'm bored but, I think its high time that some animals get introduced into the news online for the fandom to read about. Famous animals, pets, furry movies soon to come out or is out, and of course other things animal related that I have found in the papers that no one possibly reads about in the IL and WI areas.. So I present to you the FNW. I will do a bunch of different articles I have come across about any furry friend every week for ya'll to enjoy. From Avians, to scalies, to fish, and to of course Furs.

Here's whats happened last week:

To the Avians: In Washington - The toucan's colorful bill gives new meaning to the phrase cool dude. Indeed, that gigantic schnoz turns out to be a radiator the rain forst dweller uses to lose body heat. The bill of the toco toucan makes up about one-third of its body length, and ornitihologists have long wondered about the purpose for the appendage. Researchers led by Glenn J. Tattersall of Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada found that the beaks contain lots of blood vessels. So they photographed the birds, which don't sweat, with heat sensing cameras. They found that "the toucan's bill is capable of acting as a thermal radiator of body heat," Tattershall explained. "By altering blood flow to the bill's surface, toucans can conserve body heat when it's cold, or cope with heat stress, by increasing blood flow," he explained. The toco toucan lives in central and eastern South America.

In Philadelphia - Attention bird watchers: A flamboyant featherd friend has apparently flown the coop at the Philly zoo. Zoo officials say the juvenile sun conure parrot disappearedThursday during the Festival of Fligh Bird show. Spokesman Bill Larson says the zoo is very worried about the bird. Larson says the birds are trained to fly from one perch to another for the show but can get distracted or frightened and lose their way. The AWOL avian is mostly yellow with a green tail. Anyone who catches a glimpse of the bird is asked to alert the zoo.


To the Scalies: Brookfield, IL - The Brookfield zoo, now has a dinosaur exibit entitled Dinosaur's Alive where you can actually see dino's in their habitat. Well not real dino's exactally. Some you can mess around with wit remote controls at the areas they are in. Also there is small dig sites where kids can go and uncover dino fossil's, and when they exit souviner's are given from dino eggs. The exibit is to introduce dino's from the jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Their are 16 dino's about the exibit. Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Pteranodons and of course The T-Rex. There is also one other dino that joins the family. Its the widest dino ever discovered in Asia in 2007. The Ruyang Yellow River Dino as its name, sprays water into the zoo's fountain. It measure's 60 feet long 14 feet wide and 30 feet high. Its a plant eater (so Herbivore) and lived in the Cretaceous, 145 million to 65 million years ago. Admission into THIS exibit is $5 for adults, $3 for kids3-11 and seniors, and 2 and under get in for free. The zoo's admission is $12 for adults, 3-11 kids $8, kids 2 and under free and parking is $8. The zoo is located at first avenue and 31st in brookfield.

To any little critters (mice, hamsters, rabbits, coon's and whatnot) Los Angeles - I'm sure everyone knows of the awesome movie that has come out named G-Force starring guinea pigs and others critters saving the world from evil doers. Well guess what folks since the movie stars awesome little fluff balls doing cool things, animal activists are now bitching up a storm saying that this is not good for kids cause after seeing the movie they will wanna head to the ept store right away and buy them, cause their just so adorable, and will mishandle them, drop them, or kill them. I will agree that the little guys are not the best pets to have for kids, unless yer like 13 years old or something. Parents should make responsible choices for a good pet for kids. If you don't know how to handle it, it will either bite you or run away from you if you put it down. To parents I suggest you think wisely before choosing a tiny critter for a pet for yer kids.

Rabbit news: Waukesha, WI - A family that brought their prized rabbits (one mom, one dad, 1 sister, and 2 baby brothers) to the Waukesha County Fair, are in tears as one of the baby bunnies was stolen over night by an unidentified criminal. The rabbit's we're considered the S'mores as the sister was named Cracker and the two brothers we're named Marshmellow and Chocolate. The female being a 7 week old Holland Lop was the one stolen from its family. The human family, is very upset as to why anyone would do such a thing. This was the mother and father rabbites. first litter they've ever had. The family never wanted to seperate them, so they we're brought them to the fair getting alot of attention and we're told to have the cages ziptied to prevent anything. The cage was found to have the top of the cage door bent open to gain access. The female baby bunny was valued at 60 dollars, but to the family who owned them considered her value to be priceless.


Now for the furs: Scientists think they've found a "missing link" in the evolution of the AIDS virus: another virus that's killing chimps in the wild at a disturbingly high rate. The non Human Primate version of HIV is called Simian Immunodeficiency virus. Most apes and monkeys with SIV show no symptoms. So "if we could figure out why momkeys don't get sick, perhaps we could apply that to people," said Beatrice Hahn, a University of Alabama professor, lead researcher for the stufy reported in the issue of the journal Nature. Scientists from Lincoln Park Zoo, located in chicago illinois, assisted in the study which looked at the chimps in their natural habitat. And a University of Illinois Pathologist, examined tissue from the dead animals.

Panda News: Beijing - For the first time, a giant pansa cub has been born in China after being concieved using frozen sperm, officials announced friday. An innovation scientists hope will help the endangered species avoid extinction. The new cub's birth Thursday means breeders will no longer be forced to rely on semen from China's few Virile sperm from zoo's in San Diego, Mexico City, or elsewhere. Thats key to promoting a healthy panda population because too much inbreeding can lead to birth defects that would further threaten the survival of the species. The new cub, born to You You (mom panda) a panda at the Wolong Giant Panda Research Center in southwestern Sichuan is the 10th born at the breeding Facility this year. It was You You's third successful pregnancy.

Dog News: Arizona - Animal rights groups are criticizing the decision by Arizona animal control officers to shoot and kill more than 50 dogs owned by a man who was in jail for a month in early May and couldn't take care of them. Anna-Marie Rea who heads the shelter where Navajo County usually takes the stray dogs, said the agency could have handled the dogs if someone had called. "Shooting is not a humane way to end an animal's suffering" said Rea. The dogs we're owned by Edward Harvey, who lives in a rural area in northeast Arizona. Harvey said he took in stray dogs, pets he called "my babies." He said he had been jailed on a gun violation in early May and couldn't make bail. He was released after about a month. County officials said the dogs we're aggressive and would have been difficult to round up. They said the dogs would have died on the trip in the animal-pickup vans, which aren't air-conditioned. Instead, the dogs were shot by animal control.

Famous animals: Los Angeles - Handlers say Gidget the Chihuahua, who was the star of the Taco Bell commericals had died at the age of 15. Turns out Gidget had a massive stroke late tuesday and had to be euthanized. The dog was apart of the commericals from 1997 to 2000. The ads which we're the "Yo, Quiero Taco Bell" sayings made the mascot wildly popular, although they provoked some criticism from activists who felt they used Mexican stereotypes. Gidget also had a role in the movie "Legally Blonde 2."


Well thats yer Furry news for the week. I'll have more furry friends posted every sunday to talk about whats happened during the week. I will also soon have my own news video for an even better deal. I may get tired of writing all this but I don't mind at all letting you know what's happening in the news. This is Blazger signing off.

Taken from  johnstripedfur

Hope ya don't mind dude but I wanna show this too.

http://cbs4denver.com/local/richael.....2.1090384.html

Once again the fandom takes a low blow for some fucked up woman to get her jolly's off on a teenage boy. Honestly I say this here and now.

Any person who joins the fandom solely for sex needs to be slapped with a reality check. You fucktards need to think before ya do something that becomes media bound and given us an even worse name. I dont care how old you are. Keep yer fucking pants on you dipshits.

I got tagged by  mercifur and  caseyredfox I get you two for this :P

Rules for the meme

1) Post these rules
2) Post 8 true things about yourself
3) At the end you must tag 6 people and post their icons
4) Go to their page and send them a message saying you tagged them
5) NO TAG-BACKS


1) I'm a sexy tiger wit a real pet Ratty. not common for a kitty to have a rat eh

2) I like strawberries ALOT!!

3) I can do many voice imitations

4) I'm a Left 4 Dead, trigger happy, gun nut :P

5) I'm down with the clowns till I'm dead in the ground!!

6) Music is what I live my life wit and play for all to hear......its just some people won't let me.

7) I'm a huge cuddle slut

8) I know what what goes in the butt.............a banana :P


ok now lets see who will I torture to do this meme too. I'm only picking 6 though.

 frostcat
 ellobahn
 psykrow
 straitfox
 geoson
 thegreatmilenko

Hey everyone just letting ya'll know I have my pictures of the whole AC weekend and the video's there of of the sillyness and the awesomeness. My pictures can be found here...

http://s130.photobucket.com/albums/.....hrocon%202009/

My video's however can be found on my youtube here...

http://www.youtube.com/user/Blazger

Thanks for a memorable weekend of fun and sillyness. Luv ya all.

*siiiigggghhhhssss* well guys I made it back home safe and sound from the hussle and bussle of the ever so awesome Anthrocon. I had the most wonderful time there. So many awesome friends I missed over the year, alot of new friends I met and snuggled and cuddled and stuffs

I took many many pictures and video's and I'll give a con report about it sometime tomorrow on my LJ. So if yer not apart of it find me on there and friend me so you can read my stuffs.

Although I have a minor case of PCD, I know I will see everyone again next year, or at least till the next furcon which is in fact MFF. So anyone going to that con I will see you there.

I was however mad at myself for not spending enough time with those I wanted to spend time with. Also to those who wanted me to take pictures for them of their fursuits I am seriously sorry. I do have to admit AC is not the best convention to do that at because of many things placed on certain time slots. I mean seriously 5 things I wanted to do on friday we're at the same time frame and I couldn't do them all. I was a little upset bout that.

I was glad however to many who stopped me to ask for Pop-tarts from my bag of awesomeness. Once again I had bought many of nummy pop-tarts and took them to AC and handed them out for free. Although a few people thought I was selling them.......If only they read my journals they know I wasn't gonna sell them. They we're of course free to take and I am happy many artists down in the Den we're happier that they got some food in their system so they can concintrait on making people art works. Once dude gave me a free fast sketch for giving him poptarts and I can't wait to scan and load it up. I'll do that once I can get it downloaded. So be on the lookout for new things I gots :)

Anyway's I'm gonna eat somethin and hit the bed cause I is tired. Good night everyone and thanks for a wonderful weekend of fun and naughtyness and lots of fluffy stuff :P