
January is slow season for beach tourists, but busy for the Marine Mammal Stranding Center to get calls for beached seals.
Keep reading Atlantic City seal hospital gears up for busy season
![]() January is slow season for beach tourists, but busy for the Marine Mammal Stranding Center to get calls for beached seals. Keep reading Atlantic City seal hospital gears up for busy season ![]() We’ve been heading out to the Poconos and Delaware Water Gap part of PA recently with our two beagles, Moxie and Huckleberrry. The animal tourism has been great, but oddly this underused mountain region just 2 hours from New York City has thrown up a lot of inexplicable barriers to families with dogs. The wildlife watching here is fun, though the species are all pretty common. We rented a house in one of Bushkill’s many windy road developments and saw plenty of deer families–includge many pairs of twin fawns, wild turkey, songbirds, squirrels, crows and geese. On a path through the National Recreation Area, we also saw a turtle, blue birds, hawks and tiny broken egg that perhaps came from a hummingbird. But! We had a really hard time getting to enjoy the National Recreation area because so many of its main attractions are totally off limits to dogs and their people. The National Parks Service lists all the places dogs can’t go here: the 2 beaches (Smithfield Beach and Milford Beach); the three big waterfalls (Raymondskill, Dingmans or Hackers) or half the visitors centers. Even parts of the 40-mile McDade Trail are off limits to dogs. Hunters are banned from roughly the same areas. Of course, Moxie and Huck aren’t packing, so I don’t really see what risk the pose. If you happen to be traveling with a dog, to get to see a waterfall in the Delaware Water Gap Falls you’ll have to go to the private, but much friendlier Bushkill Keep reading DE Water Gap: great for deer and turkey, unfriendly to dogs ![]() Metro North, the commuter train that runs north of New York City, is pleasantly dog-friendly. Cab drivers taking you to and from the station, not so much. Keep reading Metro North loves dogs; train station cabbies don’t ![]() The best night of the year to see horseshoe crabs mate on east coast beaches is the full moon in June. Check your local tide chart to find high tide is. Keep reading Tonight’s the best night of the year to see horseshoe crabs ![]() The full moon, high tide is the best night this month to see masses of horseshoe crabs mate in Delaware Bay and all along the east coast. Also try the full moon in June. Keep reading See horseshoe crabs mate tonight and at full moon in June ![]() Huckleberry, one of 200 beagles rescued from a NC laboratory, is sometimes perplexed by the outside world. He likes to help me dry my hair. Keep reading My Beagle Beautician ![]() From New York to California, families are heading out to watch bald eagles at festivals. Winter forces the raptors to hunt over unfrozen water. Keep reading Eagle Watching Festivals for 2011 ![]() Laboratory beagles like my Moxie and Huckleberry were specifically bred to be experimented on because they are small and docile. Other dogs are picked up by Class B dealers in shelters and “free to good home” ads. Keep reading Where do laboratory beagles come from? ![]() Rescued for an NC research lab, Moxie and Huckleberry are sometimes bewildered by NYC civilian life, but they are becoming excellent cuddlers. Keep reading Two months with two laboratory beagles ![]() Hunters rush out to kill 246 NJ black bears in hunt approved by political commission and opposed by the public. About 8% of the NJ population hunts and 23% likes to watch wildlife. Keep reading 264 black bears killed in first day of NJ’s politically-approved hunt |
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