by Trish Swain | Apr 19, 2020 | Featured
Reading through the posts on this website on my 41st day of self-imposed quarantine, I realize I don’t want to feature stories of outrage and injustice and animal cruelty, certainly not right now. This worldwide crisis wakes me up to see things in a new light. I...
by Trish Swain | Apr 5, 2020 | Featured
Keeping QuietPablo Neruda Now we will count to twelveand we will all keep stillfor once on the face of the earth,let’s not speak in any language;let’s stop for a second,and not move our arms so much. It would be an exotic momentwithout rush, without...
by Trish Swain | Feb 24, 2020 | Featured
Trapped -Douglas Balmain To be trapped in a mind that views the trapping of animals as a point of pride— as a way of life to be revered, romanticized, and protected… I wanted my next line to read: Is a reality I cannot imagine. But I can imagine it. I’ve been...
by Trish Swain | Jun 26, 2019 | Featured
November 7, 2013 Email I recently lost my beautiful Golden Retriever to a full body animal trap that was set next to the Walker River bank. I was walking with my dog along the same route as I have for the last two years when her life tragically ended when...
by Trish Swain | Jun 22, 2019 | Agency Response, Featured
Letter January 2013 To whom it may concern, On July 24, 2004, my husband Rob, myself and our daughter Jade went for a hike on the terraces at Ward Mountain. We drove to the terraces via the Lion Springs road and did not see any postings for government trapping;...
by Trish Swain | Jun 22, 2019 | Featured
February 1, 2011Personal email: [Message from Randy Johnston who created the unique Hard Luck Mine Castle – a must-see phenomenon in the Nevada desert not far from Death Valley.] First I must say its great to get some kind of response from persons that have the...
