"…and it climbs like cat or other rodents"



harumph.

My name is Laura. I have a little boy named Brennan who is just over a month old. My boyfriend and I have been together for two years come November. We work fast!

I have a wonderful kitty named Gojira who is part lynx and has a very squishy nub tail--everyone asks when he lost the rest of his tail, but he never had a long tail to begin with! He's the light of my life and I consider him my first born son. Yeah, I know. I'm cat lady material. I also have a part husky, part boxer dog named Stanley Cup. Yes, we are hockey fans! My boyfriend has limited the amount of pets I can have or else I'd fill the house with reptiles and rescued animals. I had an opossum who killed himself. He crawled into the back of my mini-fridge. I've also had a raccoon. I've had a chipmunk. I've had bunnies, snakes, guinea pigs, hamsters, geckos, lizards of many creeds and colors, birds, you name it! I've tried to save so many birds and rodents who my parent's cats mangled. I feed all the stray animals in my neighborhood, including coyotes, to the chagrin of my neighbors. >:]

I love love LOVE to read.

I live in Indianapolis, Indiana. Not a bad town by any means. Just boring. But clean! I live on the far east side at the edge of the town, where cornfields and countryside begin.

I have a deep, abiding love of video games. I play WoW, although my raid members are upset with me because I haven't logged on since my son was born. Hard to commit when you have a little human completely dependent on you.

I work for my mother, who owns an insurance agency. I do everything I can to keep her organized.

I can't think of anything else to add, so that sums it up!

It looks like you have a Rodent of Unusual Size, or R.O.U.S., on your hands. Beware the fire swamp, because that's next.

>> ^Skeeve:

Further, the Least Harm Principle suggests that living a vegan lifestyle actually kills more animals than if we subsisted strictly on ruminant animals. So I think I'll stick with beef


Skeeve, I just read a quick summary of LHP and it has some pretty obvious holes in it:

- It counts exposing rodents to predators (when crops are harvested) as "killing" them. Obviously, predators would be eating rodents anyway. A loss to mice is a gain to buzzards.

- It bases deaths of wild animals caused by agriculture on decline in numbers compared to before the area is farmed. This is pretty flawed, since animal numbers would plummet when the land was claimed but level out afterwards. Some of the animals would move nearby and some would cut down on reproduction rather than dying in some great massacre.

- It goes by pure numbers, counting a fieldmouse the same as a cow. Now I don't want to see mice getting squished, but an animal with a pinhead brain does not have the same capacity to suffer as a large grazing animal like a cow or a pig. Otherwise you might as well count aphids in the death toll. (I appreciate that this was countering a hard-line vegan argument, so I suppose the equal treatment is valid in that particular context).

- It lists pesticides as a cause of death, but seemingly ignores the possibilities of organic farming. When was the last time you met a vegan that was keen on pesticides?


Sorry, that was really preachy. I'm kind of riled up because I'm lacto-ovo vegetarian and therefore indirectly responsible for those chicks getting minced. Not a nice feeling.

P.s. Props to Throbbin. I have a great deal of respect for people who have killed for their meat. If everyone had to slaughter an animal before they could buy KFC there might only be a small increase in vegetarianism, but at least there would be a large decrease in hypocrisy.

^kymbos

Blame old biology books if you want, but rabbits WERE rodents(until 1912), and the triple point of water WAS 0°C (and still is on the old centigrade scale)

Can't believe you thought rabbits were rodents. What a N00B!!!1!

So he is wrong because somebody else arbitrarily changed some arbitrary scale/nomenclature?

That shit drives me nuts. I once answered a question online about the care and feeding of rabbits, and mentioned their constantly growing teeth, seeing as they are rodents. The problem is that they are not rodents ANYMORE, since after they were classified as rodents an order was invented just for rabbits.

The thing is, changing the NAME of something does not change its attributes. I accept that taxonomy and measurements need to be standardized, but when you do you need to accept that both the old and new classifications are valid, or you need to build a whole new system as to avoid confusion.

When we discover that something is different than we thought, then the old understanding is accepted as false, but when we make arbitrary changes it's more reasonable to say they are both right, but that one is more current.

I saw an owl a few month ago. I thought it was a moth fluttering right near my head, and swatted it away. I realized that it was still too cold for moths, and that an owl had just alighted on a tree, about 30 meters away. Huge. Didn't make a sound. Gone again in a blink, leaving the branch deeply swaying. Almost scary.

Now, if I was a rodent, this silent night-vision hunter would be the size of a Cessna .

or for lagomorphs ('cause bunnies ain't rodents)

Cleavage cops and furry rodents, I thought this would fly outta the queue

Damn! The reason rodents are so scarce and we are all starving is because of those BB gun totin' druggy pot growers are eatin em all!! Why in the hell don't they grow somethin decent, anyway, like hops for beer production?? I mean, have ever seen a commercial showin a messed up brain in a skillit sayin "this is yur brain on alcohol"? Nope!

Ewww, that is NOT a dog! Some kind of rodent. And I hate jazz. So there.

The plasmoids (what the parasites are sometimes called) live in rodent GI tracts, but they can only reproduce in a cat's GI tract. The plasmoids alter the brain chemistry of rodents to change their physical response to the smell of cat urine - normally, a rodent will high-tail it in panic away from cat pee, but this response is altered in rodents infected with plasmoids. It basically de-compiles hard-coded instinctual brain wiring and re-writes a new behavior for a specific stimulus.

I always thought that this would be a good explanation for so-called "crazy cat-ladies" - the stereotypical old lady with a house full of more cats than any sane person would ever take in.

http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=1485

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oh good lord, sent it to the ferret lady!!
..and possum ≠ rodent.