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Post by Possum on Nov 7, 2012 19:55:25 GMT -5
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odee
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Kyokushin 10 years - Brazilian Jujitsu 3 years - Muay Thai 2 years.
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Post by odee on Nov 7, 2012 21:44:57 GMT -5
Bugger getting another batch of ferrets, I want an opossum!!!!
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Post by shurite99 on Nov 8, 2012 9:04:31 GMT -5
I do a bit of travelling for work so can't keep pets. Though my gf has been doing cat foster caring for a while - you keep the animal until someone takes it permanently (and the food is paid for by the agency). So i'm now a fan of cats. The current one is really playful - but not very obedient.
I also did house sitting a couple years ago with same gf. The animal we were taking care of was a great dane. 58kg and easily 6"2 when on its hind legs... and that was a small great dane.
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Post by the tank on Nov 8, 2012 9:15:43 GMT -5
I did not know that about the possum.
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Post by Possum on Nov 8, 2012 17:17:20 GMT -5
@frank, I am curious as to why this didn't seem to make big news - then or now. Also, I wonder what the progress is, in getting human trials under way? This seems almost too good to be true. It's like, "Take a possum pill. Eat at McDonald's. Never get cancer." I think with a possum pill, I could eat at any Chinese food restaurant near me and never worry. shurite99 - I too like cats. They allow me a bit more travel independence than dogs. My mother and sister fosters cats, but for her, it's the sick ones she takes in - the ones people abused and the vets bring back to life. Right now, my sister has a cat that strayed onto her property, but was too afraid of human contact. Eventually, after a few weeks, my sister was able to catch the cat, and lucky for the cat. It had a swatch of skin about 4 inches in diameter, at the nape of the neck, that was dissolving because of acid that had been poured onto it. The acid was still burning the fur - even after a few weeks - and was eating down to the bone. The nerves, muscles, and ligaments in the spine were completely exposed. They put the cat into an oxygen tent, gave it steroids... and a lot of prayer. It is now a year later, and the cat and my sister are doing fine. There has to be a special place in Hell for people who do this to animals...
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Post by Possum on Nov 9, 2012 13:53:13 GMT -5
Oh man, my beloved pleco died. Nitrates in the water proved too much, although my danio seems to be thriving right now. As it happens in my mourning of my pleco and oscar, I came across a favorite song of mine that until now I had no idea of it's lyrics, since they happen to be in German, and I don't speak German. If you care to listen, know that the music was written by Schubert, called "Der Forelle", which I recently learned was German for "The Trout", hence the name of the operatic piece in English "Trout Quintet", and the relevance to my fish. I prefer the soprano sung for this, mostly because of the extraordinary talent of 14-year-old Sasha Cherkas: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqOgsHvECgkBut this piece has English lyrics, and you can then see that even back in Schubert's day, there are people who love animals, even fish, the way I do, making the music apropros right now for me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF9DrUXowBoOne odd piece of trivia: This music appears in the soundtrack to the movie Sherlock Holmes, though the version of it is quite creepy.
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