Category: The Madison Scene
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Thanks! We needed that!
A pig in a backyard poke! It’s Page One news in Madison WI and deservedly so! Rudi the pet pig has run afoul of the law. The little porker faces exile from his city home on the near West side. The one-year-old exotic Piglet — a character out of Winnie the Pooh — apparently violates…
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Turkeys and foxes wreaking havoc!
Earth day +2 in the city;back’a my neck getting burned real pretty! Our ritual Sunday morning quest for coffee-shop coffee, an almond croissant, and a generous helping of high-quality newsprint was delayed yesterday 04-23-23 by a gaggle of wild turkeys crossing Monroe Street here in Madison WI. Except cross, the four big birds did not.…
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Cuppa joe to go
and hold the outrage! Like don Vito Corleone told Virgil Solozzo: “It doesn’t make any difference to me what a man does for a living, understand. But your business is, ah — a little dangerous.” It’s always possible that your local coffee shop barista could scald themselves with hot coffee but the Bureau of Labor…
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Pig in a Madison poke
We’re rooting for Rudi! We’ve seen chickens in the urban backyards here in the Emerald City. Would host a flock at the Experimental Work Farm and Penal Colony, ourselves, if we weren’t convinced foxes would make off with them. We’ve seen raccoons peering into our four-season sun porch, turkeys and sandhill cranes traversing the property,…