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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Lake County Animal Care and Control has a new bunch of cats and kittens needing homes as the holidays near.
The cats include tabbies, calicoes and a Siamese.
In addition to spaying or neutering, cats that are adopted from Lake County Animal Care and Control are microchipped before being released to their new owner. License fees do not apply to residents of the cities of Lakeport or Clearlake.
If you're looking for a new companion, visit the shelter. There are many great pets there, hoping you'll choose them.
In addition to the animals featured here, all adoptable animals in Lake County can be seen here: http://bit.ly/Z6xHMb .
The following cats at the Lake County Animal Care and Control shelter have been cleared for adoption (other cats pictured on the animal control Web site that are not listed here are still “on hold”).
Domestic medium hair mix
This domestic medium hair mix kitten has calico markings.
She's in cat room kennel No. 12a, ID No. 1345.
Domestic short hair mix
This domestic short hair mix kitten has calico markings.
She's in cat room kennel No. 12b, ID No. 1346.
Siamese mix
This female adult Siamese mix has a short coat and blue eyes.
She's in cat room kennel No. 41, ID No. 1373.
Domestic short hair mix
This male adult short hair mix cat has a coat with brown and white markings.
He's in cat room kennel No. 48, ID No. 1364.
Domestic short hair kitten
This male domestic short hair mix kitten has white and gray markings.
He's in cat room kennel No. 58a, ID no. 1417.
Domestic short hair kitten
This male domestic short hair mix kitten has a coat with white and gray tabby markings.
He's in cat room kennel No. 58b, ID no. 1418.
Domestic short hair
This female domestic short hair mix has a coat with white and brown tabby markings.
She's in cat room kennel No. 73, ID No. 1316.
Adoptable cats also can be seen at http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/Directory/Animal_Care_And_Control/Adopt/Cats_and_Kittens.htm or at www.petfinder.com .
Please note: Cats listed at the shelter's Web page that are said to be “on hold” are not yet cleared for adoption.
To fill out an adoption application online visit http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/Directory/Animal_Care_And_Control/Adopt/Dog___Cat_Adoption_Application.htm .
Lake County Animal Care and Control is located at 4949 Helbush in Lakeport, next to the Hill Road Correctional Facility.
Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday. The shelter is open from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and on Saturday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Visit the shelter online at http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/Directory/Animal_Care_And_Control.htm .
For more information call Lake County Animal Care and Control at 707-263-0278.
Email Elizabeth Larson at
NORTH COAST, Calif. – The Mendocino County Sheriff's Office is attempting to identify a body found on a beach near Fort Bragg on Sunday.
Capt. Greg Van Patten said that at 7 a.m. Sunday a man walking his dog on Noyo Beach came upon the remains of a deceased male adult lying on the beach near the surf.
Mendocino County Deputy Sheriff-Coroner's staff responded and initiated an investigation, Van Patten said.
Van Patten said the decedent was estimated to be 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet tall and 130 to 160 pounds. The man appeared to have been in the water for some time and was in an advanced state of decomposition.
The decedent was wearing blue “Alfred Dunner” brand sweatpants, gray socks and brown "Outdoor Gear" hiking boots, Van Patten said.
The man also has a tattoo of what appears to be the letter “S” on the back of his left hand between the thumb and index finger and also a tattoo on his right shoulder of a “heart” and a name, which Van Patten said is unreadable.
No identification was located and the identity of the decedent is unknown at this time, Van Patten said.
Any persons with information which may assist in identifying the decedent are encouraged to contact the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office tip-line at 707-234-2100.
Long ago, in the largest canyon system in our solar system, vibrations from “marsquakes” shook soft sediments that had accumulated in Martian lakes.
The shaken sediments formed features that now appear as a series of low hills apparent in a geological map based on NASA images. The map was released today by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
This map of the western Candor Chasma canyon within Mars' Valles Marineris is the highest-resolution Martian geological map ever relased by USGS.
It is derived from images taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which reveal details smaller than a desk.
The map is available for download at http://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3309/ .
Additional information about the map is available at http://www.usgs.gov/blogs/features/usgs_top_story/new-usgs-map-of-mars-is-most-detailed-one-yet/ .
“This new map shows that at the time these sediments were deposited, a part of west Candor Chasma, specifically Condor Colles, contained numerous shallow, spring-fed lakes,” said map author Chris Okubo of the USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, Arizona. “These lakes helped to trap wind-blown sand and dust, which accumulated over time and formed the extensive sedimentary deposits we see today.”
The wet sediments experienced seismic shaking in “marsquakes” related to movement along several large geological faults in the area. A series of low hills resulted.
Valles Marineris is more than 2,500 miles long. The conditions under which sedimentary deposits in it formed have been an open issue for decades.
Possibilities proposed have included accumulation in lakebeds, volcanic eruptions under glaciers within the canyons, and accumulation of wind-blown sand and dust.
HiRISE is operated by the University of Arizona, Tucson. The instrument was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colorado. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project is managed for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington, by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, a division of the California Institute of Technology, also in Pasadena.
For more information about HiRISE, visit http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu .
Additional information about MRO is online at http://www.nasa.gov/mro .
UPPER LAKE, Calif. – A Lucerne man was flown to a regional trauma center Saturday evening after being hit by a vehicle near Upper Lake.
The 50-year-old man, whose name was not released by the California Highway Patrol, suffered major head trauma in the crash, which happened just before 6 p.m. on Highway 20 east of Main Street.
The CHP said that Arthur Takao, 66, of Applegate, was driving his 2012 Toyota RAV4 eastbound on Highway 20 at 40 to 45 miles per hour.
At the same time, the Lucerne resident was crossing Highway 20 on foot, the CHP said.
For reasons yet to be determined, the CHP said the pedestrian walked into the path of Takao's vehicle and was hit.
Northshore Fire personnel transported the injured man to Sutter Lakeside Hospital, where a REACH air ambulance picked the man up, according to radio reports.
The CHP said the injured man was flown to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital for treatment.
Arthur Takao and his passenger, 57-year-old Linda Takao, also of Applegate, were both wearing their seat belts and were not injured in the crash, the CHP said.
The CHP's report said that drugs and alcohol were not factors in the crash for Arthur Takao, but as of late Saturday night it was not known if those substances were factors for the injured pedestrian.
The crash's cause is under investigation by CHP Officer Ryan Erickson.
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“Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.” – Author unknown
Gray overtones in darkened skies hung heavy over Lake County bringing welcomed relief with December's rainstorms.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, we still need plenty of rain to end the drought here in Lake County – and statewide.
With Lake County's average annual rainfall being 25 inches in the Clear Lake Basin, 60 inches on Cobb Mountain and a 45-inch average in Middletown, it will take considerable precipitation to end the drought.
The wild critters of Lake County have their own ways of dealing with inundation by the rainfall.
In cold weather our resident warm-blooded mammals and birds find it necessary to keep their body heat stable.
Animals have the ability to maintain this thermal homeostasis via their own built-in generators, or metabolic method.
Fortunately their natural coverings repel water. Birds, such as our beautiful blue jays and egrets, preen by using their bills to keep oils distributed over their feathers. The oils originate from the special gland at their tails, providing aviary species with natural raincoats.
According to Bay Nature Magazine, birds are tough creatures, and you will find them out feeding in rainy weather.
If the storms are too fierce, the birds that naturally nest in nooks and crannies stay put, but the others may crowd together under brush piles feeding on food that they had literally “ put away for a rainy day.”
After a storm, watch for large birds, like hawks and turkey vultures dramatically drying their wings by spreading them wide while standing on posts or tree limbs.
Mammals such as foxes and coyotes take shelter under rock outcrops or large shrubs. Smaller animals like woodrats or mice may huddle collectively in depressions against hillsides, or in rotted logs – maybe even in your barn!
Our local western gray squirrels, who mate in December to June, take shelter in dreys – their nests, located high in trees.
These creative creatures construct dreys with twigs which have been inventively swathed with grasses. Their winter dreys can be up to 36 inches in diameter, and are lined with cushy mosses, bark, leaves, fur from their tails or lichen.
These semi-enclosed shelters are utilized for birthing, and nurturing young. Their diet of pine nuts, acorns, insects and fungi – all high in carbohydrates, aid in accumulation of body fat for winter survival.
Gray squirrels hide, or cache their food. Called “scatter-hoarding,” they hide food all over the forest, and have the ability to find food by scent. Their “leftovers” make for good reseeding of the forest.
They use their lush tails as built-in umbrellas, which also serve them as protection from predators such as eagles or hawks.
“Weather is a great metaphor for life — sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad, and there’s nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella.” – Terri Guillemets
Kathleen Scavone, M.A., is an educator, potter, writer and author of “Anderson Marsh State Historic Park: A Walking History, Prehistory, Flora, and Fauna Tour of a California State Park” and “Native Americans of Lake County.” She also writes for NASA and JPL as one of their “Solar System Ambassadors.” She was selected “Lake County Teacher of the Year, 1998-99” by the Lake County Office of Education, and chosen as one of 10 state finalists the same year by the California Department of Education.
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Lake County Animal Care and Control has dogs in a variety of ages and sizes needing homes this week.
This week's featured dogs include mixes of basset hound, boxer, Chihuahua, dachshund, hound, Jack Russell terrier, pit bull, pointer, poodle and shepherd.
Dogs that are adopted from Lake County Animal Care and Control are either neutered or spayed, microchipped and, if old enough, given a rabies shot and county license before being released to their new owner. License fees do not apply to residents of the cities of Lakeport or Clearlake.
If you're looking for a new companion, visit the shelter. There are many great pets hoping you'll choose them.
In addition to the animals featured here, all adoptable animals in Lake County can be seen here: http://bit.ly/Z6xHMb .
The following dogs at the Lake County Animal Care and Control shelter have been cleared for adoption (additional dogs on the animal control Web site not listed are still “on hold”).
Female Chihuahua mix
This female Chihuahua mix has a short black coat with white markings.
She's in kennel No. 3, ID No. 1398.
Jack Russell terrier mix
This handsome male Jack Russell terrier mix has a short tricolor coat.
He's in kennel No. 4, ID No. 1357.
German Shepherd mix
This female German Shepherd mix has a short black and tan coat.
She's in kennel No. 11, ID No. 1393.
'Rambo'
“Rambo” is a male shepherd mix with a tan and black coat.
He's in kennel No. 12, ID No. 1354.
Boxer-pointer mix
This female boxer-pointer mix has a short black coat with white markings.
She's in kennel No. 13, ID No. 1391.
Boxer-pointer mix
This female boxer-pointer mix has a short black coat with white markings.
She's in kennel No. 14, ID No. 1390.
Pit bull mix
This female pit bull terrier mix has a short black coat.
She's in kennel No. 16, ID No. 1380.
Dachshund-basset hound mix puppy
This female dachshund-basset hound mix puppy has a short tan and black coat.
She's in kennel No. 25c, ID No. 1271.
Dachshund-basset hound mix puppy
This female dachshund-basset hound mix puppy has a short tan and black coat.
She's in kennel No. 25d, ID No. 1272.
'Lela'
“Lela” is a female poodle-terrier mix.
She's got a long, curly white coat.
She's in kennel No. 27, ID No. 1330.
Male Chihuahua mix
This male Chihuahua mix has a sad story.
Shelter staff said he was found abandoned in a house. He was very scared at first but is now warming up.
He will need training and he may do better in a single owner home who is willing to spend time with him. He has been neutered and is ready to go to his forever home.
Find him in kennel No. 29, ID No. 1202.
Pit bull-shepherd mix
This male pit bull-shepherd mix has a short tan and white coat.
He's in kennel No. 31, ID No. 1348.
Pit bull terrier mix
This young male pit bull terrier mix is young, spunky and energetic, according to shelter staff, who said he just wants to get out and play.
He's looking for a great person willing to love and train him as he matures.
He's in kennel No. 33, ID No. 1307.
Hound-shepherd mix
This male hound-shepherd mix has a short brown coat.
Shelter staff said he is a very sweet dog that walks well on a leash and does not appear to be interested in cats.
He needs more socialization with other dogs; he does well with female dogs but caution is suggested around other males.
He has no signs of food aggression.
He's in kennel No. 34, ID No. 1107.
To fill out an adoption application online visit http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/Directory/Animal_Care_And_Control/Adopt/Dog___Cat_Adoption_Application.htm .
Lake County Animal Care and Control is located at 4949 Helbush in Lakeport, next to the Hill Road Correctional Facility.
Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday. The shelter is open from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and on Saturday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Visit the shelter online at http://www.co.lake.ca.us/Government/Directory/Animal_Care_And_Control.htm .
For more information call Lake County Animal Care and Control at 707-263-0278.
Email Elizabeth Larson at