Well, here I am again, wanting to talk about Trixie. I forgot a few things in my last post, and then, more stuff needed mentioning. I have so much Trixie goodness that I’ve started making lists so I don’t forget stuff. I really hope these aren’t boring to people. Sometimes I wonder if people groan …
Category Archives: other animals
Poisonous Stupidity
Ok, why is it that the completely dumb among us do things to themselves that should earn them a Darwin award, but manage to live? The latest moron is Matt Wilkenson. Strike 1. He kept a pet rattle snake.Strike 2. He put it down his throat because he thought it would be funny.Strike 3. It …
You were attacked bya what?
This is just weird. Nancy Campbell and her eight-year-old daughter were walking around in their Oregon neighbourhood when they were attacked by a…Llama? Yep, it was a llama. What’s even weirder is it didn’t escape from a petting zoo. It was someone’s private pet! Wanna know something even weirder? It was diagnosed with the strangest …
Criminal Cat?
Steve and I were talking about ASBO’s because of that story about that man who just loves hospital gowns and he told me about an ASBO being issued to a cat! Yep, it goes meow, claw, spit, hiss, chases string and anything that moves, including the neighbours in this one’s case, and it has a …
No What Allowed?
Wow. It’s not very often that, while browsing apartment listings, you stop dead in your tracks and laugh for five minutes at a listing…after staring at it in bewilderment for another 2 minutes. I’m trying to help a friend find an apartment, so I’m surfing around the newspaper’s classifieds section. I found one listing that …
>I Think Somebody’s A Little Squirrely
>Are squirrels super valuable in Israel? If not, do any of you have another way to explainthis?I hope so, because I’ve got nothin’, at least nothin’ better than mental illness. The victim, whose name was not released, said he was carrying his pet squirrel in his fanny pack when Surami grabbed it and tried to …
He’s a Sad Panda
Man, we’re dumb. I sometimes wonder why we do studies, because we never learn from them. China is trying to replenish the giant panda population. So their plan is to breed a panda in captivity, give it 3 years of survival and defense training and then release it. They did, and released Xiang Xiang. Because …
Say A Prayer For The Kids Today
A little over a year ago, Iposteda short note about a Sudanese man who was forced to marry a goat after he was caught having sex with it. Well, today I have the sad duty of reporting that the goat hasdiedafter choking on a plastic bag she tried to eat while picking up scraps on …
Baaaaahd Boy! Put Down That Paint Can!
A New York state man who broke into a barn in the middle of the night, spray-painted the genitals of 3 goats orange and left behind a number of pornographic magazines has had charges of burglary and animal cruelty dropped in exchange for himself and an accomplice making donations totalling nearly $2000 to their local …
Wow, Just…Wow!
I mentioned earlier that it’s getting harder and harder for me to find things in the news that I truly consider weird. Well, that bar is about to be set even higher. Observe. A man who was found dressed in latex and handcuffs brought a donkey to his room in a Galway city centre hotel, …