Another furry novel list has recently made its debut on the web. The new Furry Book List is maintained by Xenia Arrick, aka Swandog.

The original, of course, is the Furry Novel List originally created by Dan Lorey and currently maintained by Dave Farrance (this is the one that gets posted to alt.fan.furry and a couple of other newsgroups twice a month).

After a very successful run in FURRLOUGH, TALL TAILS returns to its self-publishing roots in the form of a trade paperback now available from Dream Weaver Press.


The Collected TALL TAILS Vol. 1 collects issues 1 - 4 including the very first preview originally printed in Golden Realm's REVELATIONS. The trade is hitting comic stores as we speak and retails for $14.95.


What better place to start a story than from the beginning so hop on!


For more information or to purchase your copy online, visit the official TALL TAILS website.

The Olive Ridley turtle is heading for land at this time of year, to make the trek up beaches to lay it's eggs. But in one of their major nesting areas, thousands have been killed before even reaching the shore. Intangling fishing nets and fatal propeller injuries from illegal fishing trawlers have been responsible for an estimated 1,300 turtle deaths in the last few days.
Officals estimate many more will die before the end of the laying season, as they suspected 50,000 died last year at the same time, but feel powerless to stop illegal fishing in the area where nesting is taking place. The high casualties may drive this turtle to extinction.

This article

describes a very unfortunate event on a train: In Helsinki, a train's television screens started showing a very graphic animal slaughter video, repeatedly. The article reads that the video "turned out to be the conductor's home video".

My only question... what kind of person would make a home video of "Images of a big white goose-like bird being slaughtered with an axe, including a close-up of the sliced neck" and "images of a pig split in half and hung from its feet with hooks"?

It's been said many times before, but it's well worth saying again. Do not buy or adopt animals for pets during Christmas. Several shelters are holding off adoptions due to worries of pets given as gifts. Pets are even abandoned BEFORE Christmas, to make way for the new animal presents or to to avoid the difficulties of animal care at this time of year.
And it's not just dogs and cats that can be abandoned by an unprepared owner after Christmas.Ferrets, rabbits,
and other critters are left homeless too after the holidays.
What can you do instead of buying a pet for yourself or a loved one? Why not donate to an animal charity instead?