mike carey Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 Cheeky birdie. [MEDIA=twitter]1148711741846671361[/MEDIA] + quoththeraven 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvwnsd Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 Cheeky birdie. [MEDIA=twitter]1148711741846671361[/MEDIA] My cats took notuice when I watched the video. Meow, meow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ honcho Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 Cheeky birdie. [MEDIA=twitter]1148711741846671361[/MEDIA] You *do* have to listen to the audio in order to get the full effect of the post rvwnsd and mike carey 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhexum Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 (edited) Fla. man says his 20-foot python could grow to world-record size Ginormica is about 6-years-old and is an excellent swimmer. A Florida python could be slowly slithering toward a world record. Emerald Coast Zoo co-owner Rick de Ridder says their female reticulated python named “Ginormica” weighs more than 200 pounds and is a little over 20 feet long. Her diet consists of previously frozen goats and pigs. Ridder says she could near world record size in a couple of years, which is about 25-feet long. She could live to be about 75-years-old. Chicago officials close park in hopes 'calm and quiet' will cause alligator 'Chance the Snapper' to resurface Chicago officials have closed a portion of the park where a wayward alligator has been lurking in hopes of catching it. The noise from the onlookers gathering near the Humboldt Park Lagoon may be causing the gator, nicknamed "Chance the Snapper," to remain underwater, Kelley Gandurski, executive director of Chicago Animal Care and Control, said in a statement on Sunday. Animal control officials are hoping that "keeping the lagoon and surrounding areas as calm and quiet as possible" will help them humanely capture the gator," Gandurski said. "It is likely that residents who have been watching from the lagoon banks and paths in the park have been influencing the animal’s behavior," she said. "We are taking these steps in an attempt to create an environment that lends to the animal’s safe capture so we can quickly re-open the entire park to activity." Chance the Snapper, a 4 to 5-foot indigenous American alligator , was first spotted in the lagoon on July 9. The gator is believed to have been a pet that someone dropped off at the lagoon, Jenny Schlueter, a spokeswoman for Chicago Animal Care and Control, told ABC News last week. The City of Chicago has brought in expert Frank Robb, who owns Crocodilian Specialist Services in St. Augustine, Florida, to assist in the capture. Robb arrived in Chicago on Sunday and has assessed the park and lagoon, according to the CACC. The closure of parts of the park began Sunday night, and will continue until further notice. Just 20 alligators have been seen in Chicago since 1998, Schlueter said. It is believed that Chance is the first gator to surface in the Humboldt Park lagoon. Police: Flushing drugs could create Alabama ‘meth-gators’ Tennessee police arrested a man after he allegedly tried to flush a dozen grams of drugs down his toilet, something police jokingly said could create “meth-gators” in Alabama. Officers with the Loretto Police Department in Tennessee arrested a suspected drug dealer who was found attempting to flush grams methamphetamine down the toilet on Saturday, according to a post on the department’s Facebook page. Once police entered Perry’s home, officers found him trying to flush the meth and several items of paraphernalia down his toilet. Andy Perry was arrested after police found 12 grams of meth, 24 fluid ounces of liquid meth, and several paraphernalia items inside the house. He was charged drug possession with intent for resale, possession of drug paraphernalia, and tampering with evidence. The police department released a statement on Facebook about the incident. "This Folks…please don’t flush your drugs m’kay (sic)." "When you send something down the sewer pipe it ends up in our retention ponds for processing before it is sent down stream. Now our sewer guys take great pride in releasing water that is cleaner than what is in the creek, but they are not really prepared for meth." "Ducks, Geese, and other fowl frequent our treatment ponds and we shudder to think what one all hyped up on meth would do. Furthermore, if it made it far enough we could create meth-gators in Shoal Creek and the Tennessee River down in North Alabama. They’ve had enough methed up animals the past few weeks without our help. So, if you need to dispose of your drugs just give us a call and we will make sure they are disposed of in the proper way.” Edited July 16, 2019 by samhexum Rod Hagen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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samhexum Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Chicago officials close park in hopes 'calm and quiet' will cause alligator 'Chance the Snapper' to resurface The City of Chicago has brought in expert Frank Robb, who owns Crocodilian Specialist Services in St. Augustine, Florida, to assist in the capture. Robb arrived in Chicago on Sunday and has assessed the park and lagoon, according to the CACC. The closure of parts of the park began Sunday night, and will continue until further notice. Frank Robb, who became an overnight celebrity in Chicago when he caught the elusive alligator roaming the Humboldt Park lagoon, threw out the first pitch at Wrigley Field on Tuesday and got a huge hand from the crowd. Robb, with all his fingers intact, threw a perfect strike. The Cubs said that when they heard Robb was planning to go to the game against the Cincinnati Reds, they asked him to do first-pitch honors. Much earlier in the day, Robb caught "Chance the Snapper," the rogue alligator that captured the imagination of the city for the past week. The gator was given the moniker in an homage to Chicago's own Chance the Rapper. Robb, who said he has been hunting alligators for 24 years, came in from St. Augustine, Florida, on Sunday and caught Chance using something that even cartoon alligators know to avoid: a fishing pole. "I brought my fishing rod, and it went down pretty fast,'' Robb said at a news conference Tuesday morning. At about 1:30 a.m. -- about 36 hours into the hunt -- Robb said he "saw his eye shine and caught him on the fishing rod. One cast ... and it was done.'' Chance is a male measuring more than 5 feet and weighing 40 pounds. "Wherever he came from or however he got here, he's a very healthy animal," Robb said. City officials staged a news conference at the park Tuesday morning for a reveal. Robb opened a big plastic tub and lifted Chance by his tail so the crowd could get a good look. The gator was given a red bow tie collar, which a city official placed around his neck. A thick band of electrical tape held his jaw shut. Chance was a daily news story from the day he was spotted and photos started popping up online. Investigators don't know why the animal was in the lagoon, but they knew they had to capture it. That's when Robb came to the rescue. The Cubs tweeted a photo of Robb throwing out the first pitch, using some of Chance the Rapper's lyrics. "Everybody's got different blessings. This is my blessing," Robb said. As for Chance the Snapper, he was safely taken to the Chicago Dept. of Animal Care and Control, where he will stay until he is taken to an alligator sanctuary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest Posted August 4, 2019 Share Posted August 4, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFJ-EDRlb5U Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ quoththeraven Posted August 4, 2019 Author Share Posted August 4, 2019 [MEDIA=twitter]1149375670755254272[/MEDIA] + FreshFluff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike carey Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 Another parrot behaving badly. [MEDIA=twitter]1159057021745807360[/MEDIA] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjkrkwood Posted August 10, 2019 Share Posted August 10, 2019 Couldn't Resist ! rvwnsd and + sync 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mike carey Posted August 25, 2019 Share Posted August 25, 2019 You've heard about the cow that jumped over the moon. Not quite such a big deal, but ... [MEDIA=twitter]1165420556197322755[/MEDIA] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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+ quoththeraven Posted August 27, 2019 Author Share Posted August 27, 2019 Obviously the bird is the dom in this relationship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ quoththeraven Posted August 27, 2019 Author Share Posted August 27, 2019 From the department of cats are cute, but they're still assholes: [MEDIA=twitter]1165942022508859394[/MEDIA] From someone who feeds the cat when I get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom because it's preferable to the cat keeping me awake by stroking my face with her paws when I get back in bed. (The claws come out if I don't respond quickly enough.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ sync Posted August 27, 2019 Share Posted August 27, 2019 I'm not a cat person, but I admit that I'm impressed by the cat associating the lamp with food. One of my teachers in high school told me that animals are dumb only because they can't talk. + quoththeraven 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvwnsd Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 Obviously the bird is the dom in this relationship. My apartment in Evanston, Illinois had a big bay window. It also did not have central air (built in 1920-something, part of the vintage charm) so a window air conditioner lived in the bay window. My cat loved looking out the window at the birds in the mature trees. One day, a bird landed on the AC unit and started teasing the cat. The cat figured out he couldn't get at the bird, but he still had fun trying to catch him. And the bird teased the cat every day from Spring to the time it migrated in Autumn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvwnsd Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 I'm not a cat person, but I admit that I'm impressed by the cat associating the lamp with food. One of my teachers in high school told me that animals are dumb only because they can't talk. One of the cats I have now figured out how to dispense water from the water cooler. I rigged a way to cover the buttons (using a cardboard box fastened with velcro) and the little stinker figured out how to destroy the box and get at the water. Cats are smart, determined, and have nothing else to do all day. + quoththeraven and keefer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ quoththeraven Posted August 29, 2019 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 I'm not a cat person, but I admit that I'm impressed by the cat associating the lamp with food. One of my teachers in high school told me that animals are dumb only because they can't talk. Or with getting the hoomin's attention in order to get food. Very often the message I get from my cat is that I'm the dumb one (in the colloquial, not literal, sense) because I've missed all her previous signals and she's reduced to direct action. + sync 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ quoththeraven Posted August 29, 2019 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 My apartment in Evanston, Illinois had a big bay window. It also did not have central air (built in 1920-something, part of the vintage charm) so a window air conditioner lived in the bay window. My cat loved looking out the window at the birds in the mature trees. One day, a bird landed on the AC unit and started teasing the cat. The cat figured out he couldn't get at the bird, but he still had fun trying to catch him. And the bird teased the cat every day from Spring to the time it migrated in Autumn. It works the other way, too. The most alpha of my alpha cats (all ten pounds of her) discovered that the dogs next door could see her over the fence if she was on the roof of my car and enjoyed driving them crazy. Otherwise she didn't spare a thought for dogs. What she hated were other cats, although she eventually reconciled herself to living with two of them once she sufficiently established her dominance over them. They were each twice her size. One of the cats I have now figured out how to dispense water from the water cooler. I rigged a way to cover the buttons (using a cardboard box fastened with velcro) and the little stinker figured out how to destroy the box and get at the water. Cats are smart, determined, and have nothing else to do all day. One of the two cats the above alpha cat had to put up with liked the way a very primitive water dispensing unit gurgled when she pawed at the water. We had to stop using it because she would get water all over the floor. Fortunately, she didn't eat dry cat food, so we were able to continue to feed her brother by using a similar automatic dispenser for dry cat food. He sometimes pawed the dry cat food out of the bowl for fun, but not in quantities large enough to be a problem. + honcho 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ quoththeraven Posted August 29, 2019 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 Cats of a feather flock together: [MEDIA=twitter]1166054796463357958[/MEDIA] + sync 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ quoththeraven Posted August 29, 2019 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 Large domestic cat in British Columbia mistaken for a cougar: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/amp/entry/cougar-surrey-fat-cat-rcmp_ca_5d66ce38e4b022fbceb549cf/?__twitter_impression=true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RealAvalon Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 Large domestic cat in British Columbia mistaken for a cougar: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/amp/entry/cougar-surrey-fat-cat-rcmp_ca_5d66ce38e4b022fbceb549cf/?__twitter_impression=true How did you come across that story? Are you on some sort of 'cat story alert'? The Internet is scary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ quoththeraven Posted August 29, 2019 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 How did you come across that story? Are you on some sort of 'cat story alert'? The Internet is scary. Twitter. Believe me, there's plenty of cat-related material I don't post here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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