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	<title> &#187; Animals</title>
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	<description>A weblog by Lisa Brandt</description>
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		<title>Chickening Out</title>
		<link>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2012/01/24/chickening-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chickens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it important that the chicken I&#8217;m about to eat was allowed to roam freely, attend the school of its choosing and dream of a better life before it was slaughtered, cut up and packaged?  I&#8217;ve never understood the concept of free range chickens as evidence that we treat our meat-to-be humanely.  No matter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Dog Photo Ever</title>
		<link>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2011/12/19/best-dog-photo-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I love this picture. It never fails to make me smile. I hope it works for you too!]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution in Action?</title>
		<link>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2011/11/25/evolution-in-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[octopus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weird]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No matter how you slice it, this is just unusual.   It&#8217;s an octopus walking on land.  Seriously.  So when little Jimmy runs home one day and says he was chased by an octopus, he might be telling the truth!]]></description>
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		<title>A Fair Experience</title>
		<link>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2011/09/10/a-fair-experience/</link>
		<comments>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2011/09/10/a-fair-experience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celebrities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bachman & Turner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[llamas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Fair]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s corny (and corn-doggy) but I love the Western Fair.  It&#8217;s this area&#8217;s answer to the CNE, with a long and storied history and sheep and rabbits and pigs, oh my!  One of this year&#8217;s attractions is teacup pigs.  They&#8217;re like shrunken pot-bellied pigs and they define cuteness.  The Fair has taken a lot of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things to Love About London</title>
		<link>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2011/09/06/things-to-love-about-london/</link>
		<comments>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2011/09/06/things-to-love-about-london/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 09:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[antiques]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Delaware Speedway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/?p=6319</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This city is getting a bad rap lately for a big unemployment rate. Even Statistics Canada has said the rate might be skewed because they only used a very small sampling of workers/non-workers the last time it was calculated. But there it is, over 9-percent, and tweeted and repeated all over the country. This isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something For a Lazy Sunday</title>
		<link>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2011/08/28/something-for-a-lazy-sunday/</link>
		<comments>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2011/08/28/something-for-a-lazy-sunday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[massage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/?p=6273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s nothing quite like getting those knots out of tired muscles after a stressful week.   (embedded video of a cat massaging the back of a very happy looking Golden Lab)]]></description>
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		<title>Hobby Farming</title>
		<link>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2011/08/17/hobby-farming/</link>
		<comments>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2011/08/17/hobby-farming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hobby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[honey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the past few weeks I&#8217;ve been looking into the ins and outs of becoming an apiarist. That&#8217;s the fancy name for beekeeper. But what the person really is, is a bee sitter because no one really &#8220;keeps&#8221; the bees. It all started when I bought a book about urban farming with half an idea [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cousin-Fiesta</title>
		<link>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2011/08/07/cousin-fiesta/</link>
		<comments>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2011/08/07/cousin-fiesta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 13:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cousins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farm]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/?p=6151</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The farewell to the farm was a great time! Oh it was hot.  Sooooo very hot.  Even under the cover of a huge canvas tent, it was stinking, sweating, sweltering, soak-your-backfat kind of hot.      Some important relatives were missing from the mix but all but one of the &#8220;kids&#8221; who belong to that swatch of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday Monday Grin</title>
		<link>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2011/08/01/holiday-monday-grin/</link>
		<comments>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2011/08/01/holiday-monday-grin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/?p=6117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t think I will ever become jaded toward dogs.  Dogs rule.  Dogs are awesome.  And this particular dog&#8217;s owner obviously has a terrific sense of humour about their canine companion. ]]></description>
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		<title>Gone to the Dogs</title>
		<link>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2011/07/28/gone-to-the-dogs/</link>
		<comments>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2011/07/28/gone-to-the-dogs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celebrities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander McQueen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wills]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/?p=6094</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This madness has to stop. I am a dog nut who doesn&#8217;t own a dog. I have the ashes of beloved Lee Roy in drawer and I occasionally peek in and say, &#8220;stay!&#8221; and he always does, so I tell him &#8220;good boy&#8221;. Yup, nut alright. The will of Alexander McQueen, the fashion hero who, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Let His Size Fool You</title>
		<link>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2011/07/20/dont-let-his-size-fool-you/</link>
		<comments>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2011/07/20/dont-let-his-size-fool-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chihuahua]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robbery]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/?p=6005</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Paco the Chihuahua is one tough little pooch. Paco is a rescue dog that likes to patrol businesses around the Ace Smoke Shop in Altadena, California. When a couple of thugs decide to rob the shop, Paco rightly defends his territory. The Los Angeles police department released this surveillance tape of Paco in action. There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein</title>
		<link>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2011/07/03/the-art-of-racing-in-the-rain-by-garth-stein/</link>
		<comments>http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/2011/07/03/the-art-of-racing-in-the-rain-by-garth-stein/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chapters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garth Stein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[novels]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lisabrandt.ca/wordpress/?p=5896</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In Chapters last week I had planned only to buy SuperFreakonomics after it was recommended to me by someone who has also enjoyed Malcolm Gladwell&#8217;s What the Dog Saw and Outliers.   But they had a buy-3-get-1-free sale on throughout the store and books never go stale, so, I took advantage. The only novel in my [...]]]></description>
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