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Kai Hikaru 🏳️‍⚧️
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Progressive, autistic, polyamorous, transgender, atheist, and neuroethologist. Advocate and educator.
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Spent the morning taking care of puppies at #UnchainedMelodies
Three puppies are peeking over the edge of a bed. From right to left - a black puppy with a bit of white on the chin, a reddish-tan pup with a white stripe down the nose, and a tan-brown pup. The comforter on the bed is yellow with flower designs. In the background, a toy "gym" is visible and a raised dog bed with a mat.
January 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Love this shot of Juneau! A 9-month-old shepherd I've been working with. #thedevoteddog #dogtraining #dogs #pettraining #germanshepherds #dogsinsnow
Juneau, a long-haired black and tan German Shepherd, is pictured mid-run through a bank of snow, a red toy in his mouth and a long-line trailing behind him, trees in the background with the sun shining through the branches.
January 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.

Day 13
Book cover art for "The Neverending Story" by Michael Ende and translated by Ralph Manheim The title, author name, and translators name are all written centered at the top of the image circled by two snakes eating the other by the tail and coiled around the branches of trees to either side of the book, flowers in the upper corners. Beneath the title, the cover art depicts Falcor the luck dragon with a lion-like head in the center, the protagonist sitting atop his head with his arms outstretched, wearing a red striped shirt and genes. To the right is a giant bat-like creature with a moth-like rider, and to the left is a small silhouetted man in a cap and holding a flag emanating an orb of yellow light standing on the pestil of a flower. Falcors tail can be seen sprawling behind him into the background on the left. And a stone building in the background to the right.
December 16, 2024 at 5:36 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.

Day 12
Book cover art for "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson. The background is a solid deep purplish-blue with an image of the earth in the upper right corner, an astrik just above the image. Above the earth, text reads: "The National Bestseller 'Destined to become a modern classic of science writing.' - New York Times Review" Beneath the image of the earth in large text is the author's name taking up two lines: "Bill Bryson" The title then follows, preceded by an astrik matching that above the image of the earth: "*A Short History of Nearly Everything" Beneath this is one final line of text reading "Author of A Walk in the Woods and One Summer"
December 15, 2024 at 2:42 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.

Day 11
Book cover art for "Evolution's Rainbow" by Joan Roughgarden. The top of third of the book cover depicts a red fish with a patch of purple scales on its side, a blue eye, and a hint of yellow touching it's fins, some white coral in the background. The text then reads over a black background: "Evolution's Rainbow, Diversity. Gender. And Sexuality in Nature and People With a new preface by the author Joan Roughgarden" In a circle to the left reads: "10th Anniversary Edition"
December 13, 2024 at 10:43 PM
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This 7-month-old pup has been making strides in his training with #TheDevotedDog and just had a field trip visiting the dog park, PetSmart, and walking around Stephens Lake to work on his socialization and manners. He is a prospective service dog candidate!
A long-haired black-and-tan German shepherd pup lays down on a concrete path, his head slightly tilted and mouth slightly open in a light pant as he looks at the camera. A red toy is on the ground next to him and some brown leaves and foliage cover the grass in the mid-ground behind him with a lake in the background.
December 13, 2024 at 10:19 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.

Day 10
Book cover art for "The Wind Masters" by Pete Dunne. In the upper left corner in white text written sideways, is "Mariner Books" in all caps. At the top in black text reads: AUTHOR OF Pete Dunne on Bird Watching" A belly shot of a flying bird of prey wings and tail spread wide with a grey sky background covers the top half of the cover. A quote in the lower left corner reading: "Dunne's prose... soars, creating new visions of the delights and devilment of birding." - NEW YORK TIMES The remaining bottom half of the cover has text over dark and light gray stripes. The book title in blue text "The Wind Masters" over dark grey. "The Lives of North American Birds of Prey" in black all caps over light grey. The author's name "Pete Dunne" in orange text over dark grey. And lastly, in black text over light grey: "Illustrated by David Sibley".
December 8, 2024 at 1:43 AM
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Leroy (the tripod hound) is the sweetest boy you ever could meet! Noctus (my pup) helped out with a play session yesterday. Leroy is adoptable through Unchained Melodies Dog Rescue in Columbia, Missouri. #UnchainedMelodiesDogRescue #TheDevotedDog
Two dogs sit looking just to the left of the camera. On the left is Leroy, a tan bloodhound with his rear left leg amputated wearing a gray collar. On the right is Noctus, a Dalmatian wearing a blue winter coat with orange lining and a black harness over the coat.
December 6, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.

Day 9
Book cover art for "A Dog Called Kitty" by Bill Wallace. At the top in black text reads: "Was the stray puppy a boy's worst enemy - or his best friend?" Between two horizontal lines to separate the test then reads the author's name in all caps: "BILL WALLACE" in maroon text. Beneath that, the book title is centered in red text: "A Dog Called Kitty" Just below the title is a color drawing of a scruffy brown dog that looks like a terrier mixed-breed sitting on green grass with a couple white flowers and a red farm-style house and barn in the background.
December 6, 2024 at 6:58 PM
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My pup helped dog-test three dogs at #UnchainedMelodies this afternoon, and enjoyed playing with one of them in the snow!
Head-shot of a Dalmatian in a blue jacket with orange lining, sitting in the snow and looking off to the right, a chain link fence, tree, and building with a red vehicle visible in the background. Side-profile of a Dalmatian sitting in the snow with his head slightly tilted and nose upward looking off-camera to the left. Wearing a blue jacket with a grey stripe down the side and orange lining. A blue and red bench is in the background with a gray bowl and a blue basket with some dog toys. A Dalmatian is seated in the snow on the left and a chocolate-lab on the right. The camera is pointing downward to view them from above with only snow visible behind them. Both are peering at something just above the camera looking poised and ready. The Dalmatian is wearing a blue jacket with orange lining, and the lab is wearing a pink collar and blue harness.
November 30, 2024 at 9:57 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.

Day 8
Book cover art for "Daughter of the Forest" by Juliet Marillier. At the top, a black bar displays the author's name in white text. Just below this, is the title for the book with a review reading: "A fine new fantasy writer," Anne McCaffrey in small black text over the word "Daughter". The "D" in Daughter is in an over-sweeping calligraphy format, and the "F" in "Forest" has a bold, fanciful styling reminiscent of medieval font. This title overlays an image of a moon, a swan flying in front of it just under the word "forest". A young girl with long, curly brown hair, wearing a Celtic style robe or dress stands in the lower left corner of the image, her head turned upward and eyes closed, her hands held out in front of herself, palms up as if in a form of prayer or waiting for someone to place something in her hands. In the background, another swan is pictured floating on a pond, and a shadowy black blend of trees is on the distant shoreline.
November 28, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.

Day 7
Book cover art for "Jurassic Park" by Michael Crichton. A strip of black across the top has white bold lettering reading "Read the book that started it all". Then the cover is a bright white with the author's name in large gold red lettering, "#1 New York Times Bestseller" in black lettering between the first and last name. Slightly overlapping the second "C" in Crichton is a black silhouette of a tyrannosaurus skeleton. It's mouth open and a red circle with sun-like rays just past its teeth with "25th Anniversary Edition" written in white lettering inside. In black letters just above the book title, reads "Wonderful... powerful." - The Washington Post Book World. "A Novel" is written in small red letters just above the "RK" in "Jurassic Park".
November 27, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.

Day 6
Book cover art for "Why Fish Don't Exist" by Lulu Miller. Text and artwork is displayed over a solid peacock-blue background. From the top, in white text, reviews read: "Magical." - Susan Orlean, "Shocking." - Sy Montgomery, "Perfect, just perfect." - Mary Roach Then the title in large gold lettering: Why Fish Don't Exist The tail end of a fish overlays the background as a gold outline of the scales and fins with a tag loosely tied to its tail containing white italic lettering reading: "A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life". In a white circle just beneath and to the right of a tag reads "National Bestseller" And the author's name in the same large gold lettering as the title is at the bottom: Lulu Miller The right edge of the cover has a gold strip going down it.
November 26, 2024 at 1:40 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.

Day 5
Book cover art for "Sojourn", third book of The Legend of Drizzt trilogy by R.A. Salvatore, a Forgotten Realms novel and New York Times best-selling classic. Across the top of the cover, written over a silver curved surface representing the blade of a scimitar reads "Forgotten Realms, The Legend of Drizzt Book III, R.A. Salvatore". Beneath this is a color drawing of Drizzt stepping upward out of a cave into the bright light of day, a few trees visible through the opening, one hand up to shade his eyes, long white hair framing his face and a tattered cloak windblown behind him, his other hand holding the hilt of a scimitar at the ready, and at his side his black panther companion Gwenwhyvar, stepping forward with her ears flat against her skull and her fangs bared in a snarl. Beneath the image, another curved blade surface bears the title. "The New York Times Best-selling classic, Sojourn".
November 25, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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From our "Walk in the Park" this morning, helping leash reactive dogs and their owners have more successful, less stressful walks around other dogs. 😊
A line of five dogs with their owners walking behind one another on a sidewalk near an open field with a house and some trees in the distance. The nearest dog to the camera is sniffing in the grass ahead of her owner with the next dog ahead of her about three leash lengths away. Some cars are parked along the side of the street.
November 24, 2024 at 11:42 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.

Day 4
Book cover art for "Vulpes the Red Fox" by Jean Craighhead George. Text across the top reads "The compelling story of a fox's life in the wild" with the book title arched over the image of a red fox running towards the "camera" through a stream pursued by a pack of hunting hounds and four men in red coats and black hats on horseback. Streaming sunlight rising behind the horsemen who are framed by trees and forest greenery. Beneath the image reads the author's name and "author of My Side of the Mountain, John George". The penguin house publishing symbol is in the lower right corner.
November 24, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers.

Day 3
Book cover art for "Contact" by Carl Sagan with text reading "Now a major motion picture from Warner Bros. Starring Jodie Foster [and] Matthew McConaughey. The New York Times Bestseller, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cosmos, astronomer Carl Sagan. Contact. 'Superb.' - United Press International." Text is displayed on the right of the cover with an image from the film displayed on the left in blue-toned color, suggesting a night shot. Jodie Foster sits on the ground in pants and a white blouse with Matthew McConaughey standing behind her in a trench style jacket, both staring off to the right. An array of satellite dishes pointing toward the sky behind them.
November 23, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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A couple cool cats soaking up some sun.
Two cats lay on top of a cardboard and carpeted perch in front of a window. To the right is a smaller all white cat with light reflecting off her fur as she gazes to the left. To the left is a larger grey and white cat facing the camera, eyes closed in a relaxed posture.
November 22, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚

Day 2
Book cover of "Black Beauty" by Anna Sewell, Illustrated Story Book edition adapted by Robin McKinley. Cover art depicts a headshot of the black Thoroughbred with white star and a windswept mane.
November 22, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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Greetings from Rayla, our "upstairs kitten" who decided to join us downstairs tonight by climbing the coats at the bottom of the stairs and getting herself stuck in this bookbag.
A black kitten with green eyes states directly into the camera from inside a hanging bookbag.
November 22, 2024 at 4:47 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚

Day 1
Book cover of "The Giver" by Lois Lowry. A black and white portrait of an elderly man with a long beard and wrinkled brow, glancing to the side with heavy shadow obscuring the left side of his face takes up the majority of the cover, with the lower left corner having the appearance of being torn to reveal a colored twilight scene of woodlands and a misty pond.
November 21, 2024 at 11:34 PM
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Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Today my thoughts are with my friends and chosen family who have lost trans loved ones to violence or suicide. And with our youth who need us to stand strong as examples and protectors.
The words "Transgender Day of Remembrance" are written in baby blue and baby pink on a black background with Trans Pride flag stripes in the corners.
November 20, 2024 at 8:23 PM
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Our Adult Etiquette Graduates! Champ and Monty #UnchainedMelodiesDogRescue #TheDevotedDog #dogtraining
A grey Yorkie mix with black nose (Champ) sits in front of a party background with graduation hats, diplomas and confetti and smiles for the camera A black Labrador mix with white chest (Monty) sits in front of a party background with graduation hats, diplomas and confetti and smiles for the camera
November 20, 2024 at 1:34 AM
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Our Puppy Etiquette graduates tonight! Briggs and Penny ❤️🐾❤️ #UnchainedMelodiesDogRescue #TheDevotedDog #dogtraining #puppytraining
A bullmastiff puppy (Briggs) sits in front of a background with graduation hats, diplomas, and confetti in celebration of a class graduation A miniature dachschund puppy (Penny) sits in front of a background with graduation hats, diplomas, and confetti in celebration of a class graduation
November 20, 2024 at 12:15 AM
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Scrolling through my photos on my phone and found this one that seemed worthy of sharing here. Taken while walking a client's dog through Stephens Lake Park earlier this year.
A red-winged blackbird in flight over green treetops with a blue sky backdrop.
November 18, 2024 at 5:36 AM