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I guess the one I ran over wasn’t very smart. I wonder if over time there will be fewer and fewer squirrels hit by cars. Survival of the fittest – all the dumb ones get killed before they can reproduce while the car savvy ones have the kids. I bet Darwin never thought of that as “natural selection.” 😀
ddvm wrote:I guess the one I ran over wasn’t very smart. I wonder if over time there will be fewer and fewer squirrels hit by cars. Survival of the fittest – all the dumb ones get killed before they can reproduce while the car savvy ones have the kids. I bet Darwin never thought of that as “natural selection.” 😀
Ha ha! That’s exactly what I was thinking too. Running in front of a car must qualify for the squirrel version of the [url=http://www.darwinawards.com/[url]Darwin Awards[/url]. 🙂
ddvm wrote:I guess the one I ran over wasn’t very smart. I wonder if over time there will be fewer and fewer squirrels hit by cars. Survival of the fittest – all the dumb ones get killed before they can reproduce while the car savvy ones have the kids. I bet Darwin never thought of that as “natural selection.”
I’ve thought of that, myself. I guess GMTA. 😀
ddvm wrote:By the way, I re-read my previous post and it sounds like I don’t love my cats. I do – I just meant they aren’t hunters. They are the type to sleep under the covers and they prefer to drink out of a mug on the counter. God forbid I put the water in a bowl on the floor! How uncivilized! I admit – I have spoiled them shamefully but I figure that’s what cats are for.
Nah, I didn’t read it that way. I think the more somebody criticizes a pet they keep around the house the more they love it. If it lived outside it’d be a different story…
ddvm wrote:I guess the one I ran over wasn’t very smart. I wonder if over time there will be fewer and fewer squirrels hit by cars. Survival of the fittest – all the dumb ones get killed before they can reproduce while the car savvy ones have the kids. I bet Darwin never thought of that as “natural selection.” 😀
Something tells me that Mother Nature did not have tha plan
Greater Basilisk wrote:ddvm wrote:By the way, I re-read my previous post and it sounds like I don’t love my cats. I do – I just meant they aren’t hunters. They are the type to sleep under the covers and they prefer to drink out of a mug on the counter. God forbid I put the water in a bowl on the floor! How uncivilized! I admit – I have spoiled them shamefully but I figure that’s what cats are for.
Nah, I didn’t read it that way. I think the more somebody criticizes a pet they keep around the house the more they love it. If it lived outside it’d be a different story…
If you call them YOUR cats you have to love themExactly. I’m constantly complaining to my horse why he looks so bad and ruffed up, what’s ailing him, why we can’t figure it out, how come he’s so complicated, but I love him anyway!
Yeah, I kind of realised what my own personal attitude to my mice is when I had the following occur:
Here I am, feeding the mice, putting my arm down into the cage with my next lot of up-and-coming breeders.
Little solid black female mouse sees a chance and darts up my arm, then goes flying off the lip of the cage onto the floor… right in front of the cats.
Cats, being cats, do what they do – chase mouse. Newt catches it and kills it.
I spend five minutes trying to convince the cat to drop the nice dead mouse for me – “Good girl, Newt, nice girl, thank you for catching that for me, I wouldn’t have liked to have had that loose in the house…” She eventually does let me have it, dead but otherwise not all that bad off.
My thoughts?
“You stupid little booger. I was saving you for breeding, you had a free pass to live safe, eat and incidentally make me babies, not like your siblings who wound up as reptile food. Oh well, guess you’re going to feed a reptile sooner than I had planned.”
If I were going to try to take a photo of that particular ‘pet’ I’d have to draw a circle around my tegu’s tummy.
Now, on the other hand, if one of the cats came in and hooked one of the breeders OUT of a cage to kill it, that’s a totally different scenario. Then the cat’s invaded my own personal private larder instead of having stupid food run out in front of them and they WILL get shouted at for that!
I dunno. There are some fish with the same brain siye that are smarter than that. Like goldfish. I wouldn-t think of fish as intelligent or anything, but I-ve taught mine a few simple tricks.
Greater Basilisk wrote:I dunno. There are some fish with the same brain siye that are smarter than that. Like goldfish. I wouldn-t think of fish as intelligent or anything, but I-ve taught mine a few simple tricks.
Goldfish, tricks? They have a two second attention span. They don’t even remember if they ate or not. At least mine didn’t. When I first moved away I left my large aquarium at my parents. My mom gave them a years worth of food in less than a month. They didn’t live long in that mess. I took a smaller aquarium and moved what I had left. I only have a pleco left. He’s now too big to be put in with other fish. He’ll just attack them. The only fish he gets along with are betas. They get along very well. I’ve only been able to teach them to take food from my fingers. I guess that was a trick.
Dragon Master wrote:I would say so since I have NEVER heard of a fish taking food directly from humans hand
You never had Oscars! We had two and we loved them to death (literally). 😥 We didn’t know feeding them live food would give them hole in the head disease. I still feel bad and miss them – they were smart, beautiful, wonderful fish.
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