Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good
to be alone. ~Elizabeth Gilbert

Does your dog love to hang out with kids? Most dogs love to play with kids. Come to think of it, dogs are just like kids. They love to run and they sure love to play. And some of us even talk to our dogs like we talk to our babies, right? Source: Iheartdogs

Consider before you buy…turtles carry Salmonella

Salmonella isn’t just a food-borne illness. Turtles and other reptiles carry Salmonella bacteria, which can be easily transmitted to people. A small turtle may seem harmless, giving parents a false sense that they’re a safe pet for children. But they’re not. The disease risk is so great that selling small turtles is illegal in the United States.

Salmonella is especially dangerous for children and senior citizens
In 2007, a baby girl in Florida died from Salmonella that was traced back to a pet turtle. The turtle was sold illegally at a flea market and given to the family.

Salmonella usually gives people a few miserable days of fever and diarrhea, but some end up in the hospital with life-threatening complications. Children and people with weak immune systems are most at risk. Additionally, a small number of people with Salmonella infections later develop Reiter’s syndrome, which causes pain in their joints and can lead to chronic arthritis.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says: Do not have a turtle in any household that includes children under five, the elderly, or people who have lowered natural resistance to disease due to pregnancy, cancer, chemotherapy, organ transplants, diabetes, liver problems or other diseases.

Source: The Humane Society of the United States

From the same mouth come blessing and cursing.
My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

~James 3:10 ESV 

The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer,
but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.

~Proverbs 15:28 ESV

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. ~James 2:14-26 ESV

There are 43 different species of dolphins that have been recognized. 38 of them are marine dolphins which are those that we are the most aware of and 5 of them are river dolphins. It can be very interesting to look at each of these species uniquely versus dolphins as a whole.

They are very entertaining due to the leaps that they make out of the water. Some of them leap up to 30 feet in the air as they do so. They have to come to the surface to for water at different intervals to get air. This can be from 20 seconds to 30 minutes between when they get air. The body of the dolphin is grayish blue and the skin is very sensitive to human touch and to other elements that could be in the water. Source: Dolphin Facts