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February 20 Today is Love Your Pet Day! Ilse, the spiritually confused Maltese This day was created by humans to celebrate the domesticated non-human animals with whom they live. You can view the strange things humans do with these animals at: http://ihasahotdog.com i can has a hotdog gnight bear http://icanhascheezburger.com poker cats contest funny pet pictures ruling cats and dogs My favorite dog: Ilse von Nestorhausen 
February 13-15 She-wolf suckles Romulus & Remus It’s Lupercalia time, baby. On this day the ancient Romans remembered the She-wolf who suckled the baby Romulus—the future founder of Rome–and his brother Remus. The priests of Rome, known as the Luperci, or ”Brotherhood of the Wolf,’ would commemorate this day by running around in loincloths smacking women on the back with an animal-skins. What is immediately apparent in a comparison between the sacred rites of then and now is …Read more 
February 2 If Candlemas be dry and fair Half o winter’s yet to come and mair, If Candlemas be wet and fowl Half o winter’s gane at Yule. If Candlemas Day be fair and bright Winter will have another fight. If Candlemas Day brings cloud and rain Winter won’t come again. Happy Marmota Monax Day! Not every species gets a holiday. Holidays tend to revolve around the species homo sapien, but February 2 belongs …Read more 
January 17
And God maketh the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, and God seeth that it was good. – Genesis 1:25 Before there was Doctor Dolittle, there was St. Anthony Abad, patron saint of the animal kingdom. St. Anthony the Hermit, or St. Anthony the Great, was born in Egypt in 251 AD and lived …Read more 
The Game Act of 1773 established what has come to be known as “the Glorious 12th” in England. Not to be confused with Northern Ireland’s Glorious Twelfth in July, August’s Glorious 12th is the first day of hunting season of red grouse in England. Apparently this is a big deal.
The foregoing observations relative to partridges may be nearly as well applied to grouse shooting, when we recollect that Lord Strathmore’s keeper, in killing forty-three brace of …Read more 
August 4 On August 4, Cornwall, England celebrates the Feast Day of Saint Sithney, the patron saint of mad dogs. Legend has it that the Lord Almighty asked good ol’ Sithney if he would be the patron saint of girls seeking husbands. Sithney politely declined the offer, fearing he would be besieged with prayers for rich hubbies and fancy jewelry and the whatnot. Instead, Sithney said he’d rather be the patron saint of something like mad dogs, and …Read more 
July 7 (St. Fermin’s Day) 14 people have been killed in the San Fermin Running of the Bulls since 1924, when they began counting. To give you an idea of the scope of the mayhem, that’s almost equal to the number of people killed by vending machines in the U.S. since 2001. Running with the Bulls (aka the Encierro) has been a Pamplona tradition for centuries. Local organizers remind tourists to take safety precautions and warn them of the …Read more 
1st Thursday in May If a hermit crab in Ocean City, New Jersey, sees its shadow today, summer will come one week early.
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