LMAO - NSF PETA

[Joe Guy]

After reading your reference to the definition of rodents, I have a question.

Do marmots eat marmite?

[Sue U]

I thought "marmite" was the scientific name for the deposits left by marmots. At least, that's what it tastes like, so I'm told.

[Sue U]

[Rick]

Do marmots eat marmite?

The marmot on youtube (can never remember how to do that) shouting "Allen Allen" does...

[dales]

Since rabbits aren't rodents you would be right on that account...

You know Keld, I was all set to tell you that you were wrong about that, but I like to check my facts before making factual assertions, (I find it helps reduce the number of times I wind up looking foolish; there are some other folks around here who might want to give that approach a try sometime) and you are indeed correct:

The Rodentia also includes beavers, muskrats, porcupines, woodchucks, chipmunks, squirrels, prairie dogs, marmots, chinchillas, voles, lemmings, and many others. (Incidentally, the Rodentia does not include rabbits; rabbits differ from rodents in having an extra pair of incisors and in other skeletal features. Rabbits, hares, and a few other species make up the Lagomorpha. Shrews, moles and hedgehogs are also not rodents; they are classified in the Insectivora.)

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/rod ... entia.html

My whole life I have been laboring under the false belief that rabbits were rodents. Today I learned something new.

I like it when that happens.

Well, I'll be a SOB!

Ya learn something new everyday!

In regards to catapulting any animal, it's JUST WRONG.

So are glue traps!

[The Hen]

I was able to ban glue traps in the ACT.

[Gob]

Did Jim Dales, et all not know that rabbis were or the genus lepus, rather than rodentia?

Have you never seen the classic "Night of the Lepus"!




BTW, if anyone has never been exposed to the joys of Marmite, I'm happy to mail samples to you!



So lo has tried supporting animal cruelty, and child abuse, in a vain hope of attracting attention to herself, where to from here for her? Joining the KKK?

[Sue U]

Did Jim Dales, et all not know that rabbis were or the genus lepus, rather than rodentia?

Careful, Gob, your anti-Semitism is showing.

[Gob]

ROTFLMCO!! Freudian slip...

[Lord Jim]

Silly Rabbi...

Kicks are for Trids....

[Lord Jim]

Have you never seen the classic "Night of the Lepus"!

After watching the trailer, I recalled that in fact I have...

I saw it in a MST3000 episode...

Hysterical...

[The Hen]

The marmot on youtube (can never remember how to do that) shouting "Allen Allen" does...

[Rick]

That's the one...LOL

[The Hen]

Here is a clip that some might find extraordinarily funny.

I don't though. It is also NSF PETA

I suspect that all of you that didn't like the squirrel clip won't find this one funny either.

Still, you just never know what will be amusing.



As we all know, elephants can take a lot of punishment. And they probably don't object that much, as most of them don't kill their trainers.

Some do though.



I cheer for those ones.

[loCAtek]

I knew that.

...and if those choose to ignore, I know that, and care not.

So what?

[The Hen]

So, nothing obviously.

Animal suffering/cruelty just doesn't register with you.

Go on.

Have a big belly laugh. You know you want too.

Perhaps if the above clip had some funny music to accompany it, then that arse of yours might be laughed off once more.

[BoSoxGal]

I'll take a sample of marmite!

I can play truth or dare with the best.

[loCAtek]

Okay, not on ignore it is ...for now LOL. Like the weather, that will change.

Regarding the 'Squirrels as pests' confusion...

How did that get started? Did someone think that the squirrel(s) in the videos were being exterminated?
Nope, they were being launched ...and lived.
If you'd checked any other 'squirrel launching' videos, which you didn't; you'd see the footage of the squirrels landing, and running away.
I picked that particular video, because I liked the multiple camera angles he used.
What you don't see in the video posted is anything being hurled with significantly great force. If the squirrel had been fired with force of any greatness (like from a cannon) his trajectory would have been straight towards the tree. Instead, what you plainly can observe is the squirrel sailing in a slow arc, with enough momentum to spare to tumble him in the air...

What you also don't see: is the squirrel hitting the tree, because he didn't. His arc was already falling short of any obstacles, and upon closer inspection his tail was already stabilizing his descent- nature has given them this ability to correct course in midair, for eons. That's what the bushy tail is all about, people.

...but I digress.

Are squirrels pests?

The answer is yes. Squirrels are considered pests, and potentially dangerous ones at that. They are common carriers of rabies, and if a squirrel is behaving so boldly as to invade your home, it may be because it is rabid.
Secondly, in the US, squirrels are also carriers of Bubonic Plague.
No joke.

Center for Disease Control

Information on Plague

General

Plague, caused by a bacterium called Yersinia pestis, is transmitted from rodent to rodent by infected fleas.

...
Rock squirrels and their fleas are the most frequent sources of human infection in the southwestern states. For the Pacific states, the California ground squirrel and its fleas are the most common source. Many other rodent species, for instance, prairie dogs, wood rats, chipmunks, and other ground squirrels and their fleas, suffer plague outbreaks and some of these occasionally serve as sources of human infection. Deer mice and voles are thought to maintain the disease in animal populations but are less important as sources of human infection. Other less frequent sources of infection include wild rabbits, and wild carnivores that pick up their infections from wild rodent outbreaks. Domestic cats (and sometimes dogs) are readily infected by fleas or from eating infected wild rodents. Cats may serve as a source of infection to persons exposed to them. Pets may also bring plague-infected fleas into the home.


Sign from infected area in Arizona;

A squirrel may show no outward sign of illness, because they are not affected by the disease, like humans are. You can't tell a healthy squirrel from one carrying deadly black death. So, it's best to keep your distance and not handle wild rodents.

This has been your Loca-l Public Service Announcement, you're welcome.

[loCAtek]

More eduction:

The extent of the pest-status of squirrels has them labeled as 'vermin'

Wiki;

Vermin (in some dialect regions, varmint[1] or varmit) is a term applied to various animal species regarded by some as pests or nuisances and especially to those associated with the carrying of disease.

If you didn't like squirrels being launched then you really aren't going to like how vermin infestations are commonly dealt with;

This is what extermination looks like;

[Rick]

They are common carriers of rabies, and if a squirrel is behaving so boldly as to invade your home, it may be because it is rabid.

Lo I need to see some documentation on this one.

Hantavirus in the DRY West Ok, Plague we all know is caused more by the flea than the critter but OK.

Rabies? Show me...