Guess What Landed in My Back Garden?
A male sparrowhawk ripping the guts out of some small and very dead birdie in the centre of Amsterdam. If only I could persuade him to switch to veggie burgers...…
Does this Camel Support Mubarak?
I met him a year ago in Giza, looking ineffably noble and haughty. Yet last Wednesday he and his mates were rounded up and forced to participate in the violence…
Smugglers Beware!
Detective Trudi is following an interesting line of inquiry... © www.anniewrightphotography.com
Written in Feline
Everyone knows that cats can talk. They ask for food and they complain a lot. Sometimes you wish that they would just shut up. What is less well known is…
A Warm Welcome in Damascus
The multi-coloured fish of the Oriental House hotel rush to greet me a stunning feat of synchronized swimming. © www.anniewrightphotography.com Click to enlarge
The Elephants of Amsterdam
I met this perky pachyderm on Amsterdam's Damrak and was instantly smitten. He's part of a herd of one hundred that are are to be auctioned off, with the proceeds…
It’s a Doggy World
Since Pippa, my neighbour's pup, entered my life I've changed from being exclusively a cat lover into an occasional dog person. You meet people by meeting dogs. A few days…
Puppy Love
This is Pippa, a ten-week-old Münsterländer pup who has swept into the lives of my friends Vincent and Chitra. Me and my lovely Bertje have appointed ourselves her Furry Godmothers,…
Anonymous Protest
A few weeks ago, an anonymous animal lover taped a protest letter to the window of one of the houses in my Amsterdam neighbourhood. It reads: "How long must this…