Steve`s Country
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Morning Coffee At Steve’s Country #16.
Good morning everyone! The coffee is ready so please help yourself! And Muffin is also ready, jumping with excitement, waiting for you to drop by for a visit with us again. We hope that all of you are feeling well and that your day is off to a great start. Here it is cloudy once more, but not very cold with a temperature of 14F (-10C), but there is a strong wind out there now which always makes it feel colder. And I see that some light snow has begun falling once more as well. Do you remember Major, that big buck that comes around once in awhile? He was here yesterday afternoon when I went out to shovel snow, but he ran a bit which I think was due to the shovel.
So I put it down and started to walk over to Major talking nicely to him. That made him stop and stand tall looking at me. I stopped, but kept talking and then he took a few steps towards me. We were within 10 feet of each other but I couldn’t get any closer. If he would just come every day we would be good friends by now. Quite amazing that a deer that size, who could easily kill me if he wanted, would actually make friends. It has happened with other deer, even bigger than Major. There are 5 blue jays out here this morning. And what’s this I see? Up there in the birch tree, Baxter is opening his peanut, then he flies over to another branch where Betty is sitting. He moves over beside her and feeds her the peanut which she gladly accepts! The yearly ritual of securing mates. So nice to watch this. Blue jays, and our gray jays too, mate for life. Many of our birds do in fact. But they still go through their rituals each year anyway.
Mating for life means that they always choose the same mate each year, but if one dies then they will choose a new mate. Sometimes people think that they won’t choose a new mate when one dies, but if that happened the species would soon go extinct. Jasper is here too, he had his breakfast and now he is busy chasing the blue jays around in the trees. I think he probably enjoys it, good exercise. I don’t see Jenny around though. This morning we have a couple more pictures of white-tailed deer to share with you. Muffin and I thank you for stopping in for a few minutes this morning to join us in a relaxing cup of coffee. Have a wonderful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2020 Steve McLeod.
Muffin’s Weekly Mewsings #3.
Meow, meow!=Hi everyone, Muffin here! Welcome back to my “Mewsings” for this week! Today going to be a bit different, not talk about my fun human. He did do some funny things, but I will talk about them another time. But yesterday when he try to do funny thing for me he actually hurt himself when he fall over antique oak chair. So that one not funny, not like when he get hurt. Most of time he not really hurt, just do something funny to make me laugh. But this one made me think, hey, I got good idea! I talk about why having a cat in house is good for human people’s health! Aside from fact we just cute and cuddly, we also good for many other things too. Everyone should have cat, even if you have dog. Cats and dogs can be very good friends, especially when start as kitten and puppy.
These facts I share today not something I make up myself, these facts come from actual studies done. Even dogs good for many health reasons too, but since I a cat then we concentrate on health benefits of cats for humans. Did you know that we cats can help children with their health right from very early age. When children under a year old were exposed to a cat in home, they were less likely to develop allergies of many kinds, not just allergy to cats. But high exposure to cats in children early life does protect against pet allergy. Also it help to protect against allergy to dust mites, ragweed and grass. And early exposure to cats helps reduce risk of asthma in kids. Also help to reduce risk of obesity. And interaction with cats helps kids absorb sialic acid which does not occur naturally in human body, and it help to regulate inflammatory reactions.
Cats also help to improve behavior and social interaction in children who have disorders like autism spectrum disorder. Cats helped to provide them with valuable bonding, attention and calming affection to the child. Wow, talk about lots of things we can help human people when just still children! But it not stop there, we good to help adults with their health as well in so many ways. But I think maybe that have to wait for next time, there so much more good health news to come! Right from little children and all the way up to older humans we can be good to have around to be a big help to you and your health! Some of these health helps would apply to having dog as well.
Did you know that cats and dogs actually make the best pets of all animals? It true, really. And cats are the number one pet in whole world! That all for today, don’t forget to come back Thursday, this week, for part 2 of cat health benefits for human people. Have a very bemeowtiful day everyone!
Muffin (as meowed to my human, Steve)
©2020 Steve McLeod.
