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Home Planet archive for July 11, 2011

MONDAY, JULY 11, 2011

 (Cheryl-Anne Millsap / Photo by Cheryl-Anne Millsap)

Urban pests and backyard chickens 

The scene in the morning was terrible. What was left of the torn, bloodied carcass of my beloved Anacona hen, the crazy, flighty Italian chicken whose antics never failed to amuse me, was tossed like so much trash in front of the henhouse. The two…

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Cheryl-Anne Millsap's Home Planet column appears each week in the Wednesday "Pinch" supplement. Cheryl-Anne is a regular contributor to Spokane Public Radio and her essays can be heard on Public Radio stations across the country.