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Horse dragons, for the ultimate win. <3
Cause we all know. Horses are the best critters EVAR.
*strutstrut*
See, no one has offered to steal my collection. Because I have the “redneck warning system”.
2 rounds blanks.
2 rounds rock salt.
2 rounds buckshot.After that, if said invader isn’t driven off by buckshot, it’s time to get serious.
-Zorse, in a decidedly redneck mood.
I dunno about you guys, but I use my nose on-the-job a lot as a wildlife biologist. A healthy animal usually has a clean, wholesome smell, while still smelling like an animal. A sick animal will often smell differently, or have an off-scent, even if it looks just fine (this is important because wild animals often hide injury or sickness). I also use my nose when tracking and hunting. Often, I can smell whatever I am tracking long before I actually see it. I can smell elk from *miles* away.
Oh. And working in a wildlife necropsy room. Talk about an olfactory experience. Or a dermestid colony. Not for the weak of heart, or stomach.
Now, now. Not all us rednecks are inbred. I’m a redneck, and damn proud of it – though, my looks have been known to inspire terror instead of derision. 😛 Living in LA, I like to point out that all this drive by shooting, and robbery at gunpoint nonsense doesn’t happen in *my* neck of the woods. ‘Cause you never know who just might shoot back!
It’s interesting that people think only of rednecks as being inbred. Historically, it was all of the European royalty that was highly inbred – cousins to cousins and all that. And it was not uncommon for brothers to wed sisters when it came to ancient Egyptian royalty. Trying to keep all that “royal blood” in the family, as it were.
-Zorse, dragging this thread *waaaaaaaay* off topic.
Now back to your regularly scheduled Caturday thread.[/i]
ruffian wrote:Actually it is quite a bit different, very very few pug pups, or bulldog pups are born with facial deformities like those tigers, and it is not due to in breeding, it is due to genetics, you take 2 un related pugs and breed them the pups still look like pugs, there are no unrelated white tigers. It is the same as breeding albino Doberman Pinschers though, they are all bred down from 1 dog, a male, who was repeatedly bred back to his mother, then to his daughters to get more.
That being said, as much as I love bulldogs I have issues with breeding them, they do have the highest infant mortality rate of any PB dog, they have high numbers of water babies and spina bifida. I much prefer people who breed them naturally and have free whelpers though. This is why I like the movement taken on by some to create the “Olde English Bulldogge”, and American Bulldogs of course.
I was not referencing the inbreeding problem. You start inbreeding any animal, and it’s bad news, period. The royalty of Europe proved that case phenomenally. What I am getting more to the point of, is human manipulation in creating things that are almost almost totally incapable of existing beyond human care. This goes for everything as humble as goldfish (I.E. Ranchu goldfish), to everything as designer as the “snow tiger” farce.
She fell down a small incline, put her arms up to protect her face, and landed with her wrist against the curb. The ulna is fractured, possibly some of the smaller bones, and she has a nasty bump on her chin where she slammed into the pavement, and some minor scrapes and bruises.
She’s never broken a bone in her life, which is the amazing part – given how involved my family is with large, and often fractious horses. Trying to be supportive long-distance is more than a chore, and very time consuming.
She’s starting to annoy my father, so I suppose that means she’s on the road to recovery. But this was not the way to find out that she does not have osteoporosis (which is really, really good at her age).
ruffian wrote:Saddly this is what most are like 😥
http://tippedearclan.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/whitetigerdeformed1.jpgSome food for thought…
It’s no different than people breeding such dogs as pugs. Same smashed-in face, and ugly result. Only reason people empathize with tigers more, is because they are a more charismatic animal.
There will be a peek if I can remember my camera.
I’ve been really, really busy. My Mom broke her arm, and probably a few wrist bones… so I haven’t been paying attention to the board much.
This one made me snicker:
In 1986, Dan Harrison was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University .
On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seemed distressed, so Dan approached it very carefully.
He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant’s foot and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it..
As carefully and as gently as he could, Dan worked the wood out with his hunting knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot.
The elephant turned to face the man, and with a rather curious look on its face, stared at him for several tense moments.
Dan stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away.
Dan never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.
Twenty years later, Dan was walking through the Chicago Zoo with his teenage son.
As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to near where Dan and his son Dan Jr. were standing.
The large bull elephant stared at Dan , lifted its front foot off the ground, and then put it down. The elephant did that several times then tru mpeted loudly, all the while staring at the man.
Remembering the encounter in 1986, Dan couldn’t help wondering if this was the same elephant.
Dan summoned up his courage, looked to see if any guards were around and then climbed over th e ra iling and made his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder.
The elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Dan’s legs and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly.
Probably wasn’t the same elephant.
travistie wrote:Is it #2? It says #4 on the auction.
That would be correct. There was more than one, after all.
Rusti wrote:Yup. As the doctor who ran our vet tech program once said: Horses are anatomical accidents waiting to happen.
They’re pretty though. ;P
Amen. I’ve often looked at horse anatomy (in textbook, dissection, and live), and wondered how some things were gotten away with. But on the other hand, true wild horses like przewalskii horses, tarpans, and cherskii horses seem to be the hardiest animals ever.
Horses rule. <3
Rusti wrote:lamortefille wrote:Thank you all: -) I was hoping D_Z would include a sketch of a unicorn barfing, but no such luck! 🙁 😆
here’s an interesting horse-type factoid:
Horses can’t regurgitate.
(It’d probably help them out in a lot of cases if they could, but that’s beside the point).
As a horse type animal, I think I’d include Unicorns in that can’t-puke group.
But they are fantasy horses. They can puke if I think they can!
As a side note, this inability to regurgitate is one of the reasons why horses colic. They can’t rid their stomachs of irritants easily, unlike bovids and cervids.
Jennifer wrote:*laughs* I used to be lucky if they let me take a bathroom break at work!! I was so busy busting my rump that I’d come home and collapse and cry sometimes. I don’t miss working retail.
Yeah, tell me about it. I used to work grocery while in college. They would try to cheat you out of breaks and lunch, and not pay you if they thought they could get away with it.
Old warriors aren’t going anywhere yet. Still waiting for eyes. Packing department is a little swamped with other projects.
Like I said. Just stay calm. I said I would post an alert when I saw them getting eyes and horns. As of… one minute, thirty seconds ago, they were still sitting around eyeless and hornless.
And yes, there’s more than eight. There is a whole cart full.
Sit back and have a brewski. This could be a while. *wishes she could do just that with a margarita right now*
