Around your town: Red Lion area

This is a partial list of events and other news of note in the area. To add information to this list, e-mail weekly@ydr.com.

Research pet care costs so they don't surprise you

Dogs are the most expensive pet for families to own; a small dog is estimated at $1,314.00 a year, which includes food, annual exams and treatments. A medium-sized dog costs an estimated $1,580 and lastly a large dog could cost up to $1,843.

A lively bible for city guerrilla

Author Lorraine Johnson offers a wealth of handy information about sowing, reaping and foraging in likely and unlikely places

These spiders not so itsy-bitsy

Randy Metcalf/The Explorer, Tarantula enthusiast Bill Savary displays a holothele, which is one of the many tarantulas and other arachnids he owns.

Attack Fowled

Catherine Huckaby of New Iberia never imagined after raising three children she would find herself now, at age 57, raising peacocks one she even rescued from the jaws of a giant snake.