Help  Max A Pooch find an answer to the age old question. 

"Why does the dog always have to pull?"

Max A Pooch asks Awesome Animal Advocates why whenever there is a dog, a sled, a human, and either a harness or a rope why the dog has to pull. He thinks it would be fun to sit in the sled and have the human pull. What do you think?  Max A Pooch would love to hear your dog's point of view. Leave a comment and let's hear what your Pooch has to say about who should pull.

This is one of a series of pictures under of photos that are Max A Pooch's Max's Maxims. A new one will be posted every week or so. Please like this and share the link with your friends.

Max A Pooch's Max's Maxims

A maxim is according to the dictionary a general truth, fundamental principle, or rule of conduct

or  a proverbial saying.

 

Periodically Max A Pooch will add a photo that provides a look at his general truths and fundamental principals. Please come back periodically for more of Max A Pooch's Max's Maxims. 

Keith Sanderson is the creator and host of Pet Life Radio's Max A Pooch's Awesome Animal Advocates. He also writes Chicago Animal Advocacy Examiner, National Celebrity Animal Advocacy Examiner, and is the human companion of Max A Pooch.

Why advocate for the birds and bees?

Is what is happening to bees a proverbial "Canary in the coalmine" when it comes to warning us about the pesticides clothianidin and thiamethoxam? Photo courtesy of Center of Food Safety and taken by NY beekeeper Jim Doan.

 

Yesterday, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a suit in behalf of a coalition of four beekeepers and five environmental and consumer groups against the Environmental Protections agency seeking the suspension of the use of pesticides clothianidin and thiamethoxam.

 

Late last month the American Bird Conservancy released a study titled The Impact of the Nation’s Most Widely Used Insecticides on Birds. That study issued dire warnings about EPA’s failures to assess threats to birds and to the aquatic ecosystems many species depend upon. The chemicals included in that study were clothianidin and thiamethoxam.

 

 

"Busy as a bee" is a familiar attribute and we owe a lot to the work billions of worker bees do in pollinating both food crops and wild plants such as flowers. While not native to North America the demise of the honeybee would create the loss of, or serious decline of many food crops that growers and farmers depend upon honeybees to cross pollinate.

 

Birds! It saddens the heart to imagine as The American Bird Conservancy claims that "As little as one kernel of corn shows that a single corn kernel coated with a neonicotinoid can kill a songbird"

 

If that claim is anywhere near true the number of birds that can and will succumb to a cruel and painful death by poison is staggering. Of course of paramount importance is the damage that these poisons may do and are doing to creatures large and small to the entire ecosystem.

 

It would seem that birds and bees are the proverbial "canary in the coal mine" when it comes to warning of the negative results of the use of the pesticides clothianidin and thiamethoxam. It is because of this warning of the potentially incredible negative impact on the environment and humans we should advocate for the birds and the bees. If we don't we may very well suffer similar consequences.

Keith Sanderson is the creator and host of Pet Life Radio's Max A Pooch's Awesome Animal Advocates. He also writes Chicago Animal Advocacy Examiner, National Celebrity Animal Advocacy Examiner, and is the human companion of Max A Pooch.