This is a bit of chaotic fun... a wild echidna wanders into under the shop fridge:
The real big news all through mainstream media right now is that our iconic species of plants and animals are dying out, rapidly. Today’s breakfast highlight was koalas:
(This article is older, but the breakfast tv item I saw at the gym was discussing it at length and in great alarm. They kept saying it’s a CRISIS and YES WE’RE LOSING THE KOALAS!)
Not your average suburban pet! And needing to be rescued from a tall tree, either: I wonder if firefighters’ training actually prepares them for these situations???
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/world/europe/france-rural-urban-rooster.html
How are the chickens faring in town? Roosterless?
I keep confusing this thread with the following thread.
One is about cute little furry creatures and the other is about despicable monsters who tear children from their mother's arms and leave them to rot in cages.
Perhaps, for the sake of clarity, you should change the title?
ANIMALS......
An Associated Press report last week discussed the descriptions by lawyers of “inadequate food, water and sanitation for the 250 infants, children and teens” at a Texas border patrol station.
According to the report:
“A 2-year-old boy locked in detention wants to be held all the time. A few girls, ages 10 to 15, say they’ve been doing their best to feed and soothe the clingy toddler who was handed to them by a guard days ago.”
The report explained at another point:
“Three girls told attorneys they were trying to take care of the 2-year-old boy, who had wet his pants and had no diaper and was wearing a mucus-smeared shirt when the legal team encountered him.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/opinion/trump-migrants-camps.html
Seriously, if there is any justice in this world, the people who support this policy will burn in hell.
Now, I will let you get on with your visions of fluffy bunny's and whatever else there could possibly be that allows you to sleep at night.
We can tell the difference by looking at the category.
This isn't a thread for politics.
joanne said:
We can tell the difference by looking at the category.
This isn't a thread for politics.
Quite right. Like I said, I was confused by the title. My apologies.
@ridski, can the panto crew use any of the ideas in this training program for this year’s big production?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-25/japanese-zoo-uses-fake-lion-in-escape-training-drill/11244646
mtierney said:
the stuff of nightmares,
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/30/climate/yellow-jackets-wasp-nests.html
I read this. It’s like one of the plagues God visited on the Egyptians. Personally, though, I would prefer the frogs.
CBS: Japanese Murder Whales and Eat Their Corpses
I find it very hard to believe nothing can be done about this.
Apparently, the practice of eating whale corpses has largely died out in Japan but the murderers are trying to reintroduce it. If there is a Hell (there isn't) these monsters will surely burn.
Robert_Casotto said:
chicken, turkey and steer ”corpses”, np.
Chickens aren't sentient.
Robert_Casotto said:
chicken, turkey and steer ”corpses”, np.
My “gut” reaction to the story as well,
Klinker said:
Robert_Casotto said:Chickens aren't sentient.
chicken, turkey and steer ”corpses”, np.
If you read up on chicken flock behaviours, you’ll be surprised at how closely they model human populations that dwell in cities. (A fowl behaviour researcher told me this, a few years back. We used to correspond on stress behaviours and early interventions for self-harm/suicide patterns)
mtierney said:
Robert_Casotto said:My “gut” reaction to the story as well,
chicken, turkey and steer ”corpses”, np.
Really? In addition to everything else you support whaling?
Please tell me I am misreading your comment.
Robert_Casotto said:
Bacon much?
Actually not at all. I don’t eat pork anymore.
Anti-avian spikes won't deter this cockatoo! No, sir!!
joanne said:
Anti-avian spikes won't deter this cockatoo! No, sir!!
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/05/chick-flick-cockatoo-gives-anti-nesting-spikes-the-bird-in-viral-video
Cockatoo 1. Spikes 0
joanne said:
Didja read about the surfing deer??
Yes. I saw the story, but have forgotten where I read it.
There's a paywall here but you can get 5 views before it clamps down.
Sadly, the deer were interfering with heavy traffic so the solution chosen (since they're feral pests here, not native) was to euthanase them. This update to the earlier, happier article appears first. The happy pics of deer at the beach are worth scrolling for.
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Grumpy Cat, Internet Celebrity With a Piercing Look of Contempt, Is Dead at 7
https://nyti.ms/2Jn48cJ?smid=nytcore-ios-share
May the grumpy cat live on...