: About Me

My passion is ...

life, living, love

I know too much about ...

huskies. And yet I still own two!

My parents always told me ...

Never whine. There are no problems, only challenges.

My childhood ambition ...

to learn to fly. And I did.

My favorite memory ...

the fly-in resort in Ontario, where I grew up

Why I write ...

Lord knows why I put myself through this!

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Right now, I am juggling between the current issues of Popular Science and INSTyle, an Ayn Rand novel, and a book about the Kings & Queens of England. I watch Survivor, Desperate Housewives, and Lost. Music - I listen to EVERYTHING except Rap.

My first job ...

dishwashing

My best moment ...

when I had my children

My inspiration ...

mychildren!

Pets & Animals > Animal Rights & Issues Horses being killed for hormone-replacement therapy drugs

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Forty thousand foals are slaughtered every year for meat. Sixty thousand pregnant mares are denied exercise, given limited water, and restrained in eight foot by four foot stalls for six months of the year. Eventually they too are slaughtered for meat. Why? For PMU - pregnant mare urine. The urine is extracted from mares on over 300 PMU ranches, most situated in Canada, with a few situated in the mid-west states. The PMU season runs from October to March each year. The mares are impregnated, fitted with a UCD, a urine collection device, and kept tied up inside eight foot stalls for the dur...

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