Food storage is both a traditional domestic skill and is important industrially. Food is stored by almost every human society and by many animals. Storing of food has several main purposes:preparation for periods of scarcity or faminetaking advantage of short term surplus of food as at harvest timeenabling a better balanced diet throughout the yearpreparing for special events and celebrationsplanning for catastrophe or emergencyprotection against predators or others

Over the years your fellow taxpayers have beaten the IRS in court on payments for many crazy things that most of us wouldn’t even dream of claiming. We’ve uncovered what we think are the weirdest deductions allowed, ranging from pet food to free beer.

Most of us would be happy to receive a life-saving organ from a pig or a cow as long as that animal was never destined for their dinner plate, a survey shows... in general people didn't want to use animals that were bred and kept as pets, bred for food or free range, including wild animals

On Monday when I fed him, Chance came out and he started to eat. The way I have it figured, the wolf was watching him, ate his food and then ate the dog," she said."Not even his toenails were left."

For 17 years, he perched on carts, took rides on the shoulders of patrons and made smile many who came to Pet Supplies Plus for dog food or kitty litter.Charley, a blue crown conure, wasn't just another pet store parrot. He was practically an employee, a bird who greeted and lured customers.A dog killed the parrot on Saturday.

"The Position: I'm hiring myself out as a pet cat to anyone who wants to own me. I truly believe I would make a great pet cat, much better than your typical cat. If you're interested we'll sign a one year contract, renegotiable at the end of the term. Basically, I'll provide all the services of a pet cat, while you pay for all my food and ...."