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Texas Couple Share Their Home With Gary, a Giant 112-Pound Rodent
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Posted on 06/30/2013 12:23:59 AM PDT by nickcarraway

Boring old dogs or cats won't cut it for this Texas couple. Melanie Typaldos and her husband, Richard Loveman, of Buda, Texas, share their home with a gigantic 112-pound rodent: Gary the capybara. The couple got Gary from a breeder in Arkansas after falling in love with his kind (the biggest rodent in the world!)

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TOPICS: Local News; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: marmaduke; rodent; texas
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They are going for a marmaduke-ripoff reality show?

1 posted on 06/30/2013 12:23:59 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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I was reading that these rats can grow as big as 250lbs.


2 posted on 06/30/2013 12:42:49 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: nickcarraway

Speak’s not a dog at all. He’s actually a giant rat.

-the Tick


3 posted on 06/30/2013 12:43:48 AM PDT by Tzimisce (The American Revolution began when the British attempted to disarm the Colonists.)
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To: nickcarraway

Are they good to eat?


4 posted on 06/30/2013 12:43:53 AM PDT by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
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A few are occasionally spotted in N. Florida along the Suwanee River and tribs. They are usually descendants from local owners that got loose. Sometimes a local will shoot one. I know one was killed back in 99.


5 posted on 06/30/2013 12:50:12 AM PDT by Theoria
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We have way bigger rats in DC.

TC


6 posted on 06/30/2013 1:02:23 AM PDT by Pentagon Leatherneck
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Capybara Recipes
7 posted on 06/30/2013 1:07:11 AM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: nickcarraway

mmmmm..... I’ll have mine crispy with a side of onion rings please.


8 posted on 06/30/2013 1:08:31 AM PDT by Bullish (Psalm 46)
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To: shibumi

Capybara. The other, other White meat!


9 posted on 06/30/2013 1:31:58 AM PDT by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
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To: nickcarraway

ROUS’s? I don’t think they exist!


10 posted on 06/30/2013 1:33:18 AM PDT by Peanut Gallery
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Has anyone told Richard Gere about these rotund rodents?


11 posted on 06/30/2013 1:34:20 AM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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12 posted on 06/30/2013 1:37:43 AM PDT by JoeProBono (Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
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To: BigCinBigD; nickcarraway
"The couple got Gary from a breeder in Arkansas after falling in love with his kind."

Here's that "slippery slope" we were warned about after the Faux Fag Marriage thing.
13 posted on 06/30/2013 1:37:44 AM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: Pentagon Leatherneck

Only you can’t see their tails.


14 posted on 06/30/2013 3:28:55 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: nickcarraway

Rodents of unusual size.


15 posted on 06/30/2013 3:48:27 AM PDT by Flick Lives (We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
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To: nickcarraway

They got skinny eyes.

I don’t trust a rat with skinny eyes.


16 posted on 06/30/2013 4:02:41 AM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
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To: BigCinBigD

Of course they are, they’re made out of meat. Seriously, they are commonly eaten.


17 posted on 06/30/2013 4:25:59 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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I met a woman from South America in a local Community College and I was told they raise them down there as a source of cheap meat, rodents can forage on a variety vegetation and thrive, but she said that they can be temperamental and have been known to bite when pissed off.

Any animal will bite or do something when it`s pissed but these things are huge. I knew a guy who had a white lab rat as a pet and that thing would occasionally take a little nibble at you. Can you imagine what this beast would do?

18 posted on 06/30/2013 5:29:14 AM PDT by nomad
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Let's hope these do not turn into a crazy like the pot-bellied pig. One for every apartment dweller.
19 posted on 06/30/2013 5:40:55 AM PDT by Bronzy
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from a breeder in Arkansas

People are going be very busy when they become an invasive species down the road.
20 posted on 06/30/2013 5:50:04 AM PDT by novemberslady
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