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What Are Animals Thinking? (Hint: More Than You Suspect)
Time Magazine ^
| August 25, 2014
| Jeffrey Kluger
Posted on 08/28/2014 7:23:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: Patriot365
Very sorry for your loss, it is never easy to provide that final gift of love.
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posted on
08/28/2014 8:44:54 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: HerrBlucher
@ the zoo..Simon & Garfunkel
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posted on
08/28/2014 8:53:53 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics in always to pick up a weapon...eh? "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah? d8^)
To: SWAMPSNIPER; All
Carolinas Anolis..Carolina Anole;Green Anole.
a fine childhood friend. 😄
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posted on
08/28/2014 8:57:21 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics in always to pick up a weapon...eh? "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah? d8^)
To: HerrBlucher
yeah..i was warned about them (alligator Liz.) before put 'em in any enclosure with other lizards..very sharp teeth/very "active". 😳
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posted on
08/28/2014 9:03:53 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics in always to pick up a weapon...eh? "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah? d8^)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Couch might float away. Must hold down couch.
Master is not in bed. Must protect bed
My belly needs rubbed.
Food.
Pee
Must sleep to recover from my exhausting dog duties.
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Those are wonderful!
You know of my ‘snake thing’ but I recently got a Russian Tortoise.
Being wild-caught and sold as a pet, I really did not expect much of her, interaction-wise.
Although I’m very aware of the strong personalities of snakes, for some reason, [I’m ashamed to admit] that I really did not anticipate anything similar from turtles/tortoises.
What a surprise she has been.
After a week of adjustment, she started by coming out of her ‘house’ in the morning when she saw that I was up, actively seeking me out.
Then came the ‘demands’ for personal attention, including but not limited to hand feeding of special treats.
I guess I should have known, seeing this tortoise’s sense of play, possession...and *revenge*. :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81720bVYf9Q
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posted on
08/28/2014 9:07:31 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(People will stare. Might as well make it worth their while.)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
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posted on
08/28/2014 9:09:39 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(People will stare. Might as well make it worth their while.)
To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise; yetidog
Whitetail are over abundant because they no longer have natural predators and
are dying from starvation and disease because there are so many.
Not harvesting them is cruel to the general population.
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posted on
08/28/2014 9:16:11 PM PDT
by
Clint N. Suhks
( Laughter is the best medicine, unless you have diarrhea.)
To: Salamander
That turtle loved the dogs ball, haha. I loved it when he chomped down on the mouthy terrier’s leg. Hope you been riding, boat races are coming up in my neck of the woods. Thunder in the Hills.
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posted on
08/28/2014 9:25:51 PM PDT
by
OftheOhio
(never could dance but always could kata - Romeo company)
To: OftheOhio
I *think* it was the turtle’s ball.
:D
We have been riding when it’s not cold and rainy.
“Global warming” has pretty much eliminated real summers for us, over the last 10 years or so.
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posted on
08/28/2014 9:32:01 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(People will stare. Might as well make it worth their while.)
To: Salamander
It’s terribly hot here, I went fishing this week and spent a part of the day with a great Blue Heron. I talked to him and we came to an understanding. He got surprisingly close, for his species is typically very skittish. He probably wasn’t more than twenty feet from me for a long time. Both of us fishing.
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posted on
08/28/2014 9:49:30 PM PDT
by
OftheOhio
(never could dance but always could kata - Romeo company)
To: OftheOhio
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posted on
08/28/2014 9:55:24 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(People will stare. Might as well make it worth their while.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
08/28/2014 9:55:40 PM PDT
by
uglybiker
(nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
To: Paladin2
i hope he starts with his balls.
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posted on
08/28/2014 11:13:57 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: bigbob
dogs, cats and rabbits - generally, develop an intelligence level of between a 5-7 year old child equivalent. of course like anything, some can exceed that and some don’t make it even to that.
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posted on
08/28/2014 11:20:39 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Shadowstrike
Sorry for your loss. Pets are very much family members. I just lost my cat a few weeks ago and was amazed at how much grief I experienced over it.
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posted on
08/28/2014 11:42:24 PM PDT
by
kelly4c
(http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=2900389%2C41#help)
To: Patriot365
I’m so sorry your kitten went to the Rainbow Bridge. You take care.
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posted on
08/29/2014 12:35:19 AM PDT
by
Gefn
(With the latest world events, I'm too sad to have a tag line.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I thought you were talking about the animals in Ferguson.
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posted on
08/29/2014 12:37:37 AM PDT
by
Tolkien
(Grace is the Essence of the Gospel; Gratitude is the Essence of Ethics.)
To: Patriot365; Slings and Arrows; Glenn; republicangel; Beaker; BADROTOFINGER; etabeta; asgardshill; ..
I had to send my Baby Kitten over Rainbow Bridge today. I'm very sorry for your loss.
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posted on
08/29/2014 12:55:17 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("Your Daddy Was Drunk and Your Mama Was Lonely" - http://youtu.be/4HYy62qiOwA)
To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
This is why I gave up hunting. I regretted the last whitetail deer I shot three years ago and have not picked up a rifle since.
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The very same thing happened to me in the mid-60s. I saw a buck with his harem on the top of a rise grazing at sunrise. I looked at the peaceful scene and could not shoot. I have not been hunting since but have been fishing for food but not for sport.
No, you stopped hunting because it was/is NOT absolutely necessary to do so to survive. You, and I, can do our hunting and gathering on aisles 4,6,8 and 12 of Kroger.
One may marvel at all that is nature and still encounter no moral quandaries about taking game for food. It's the need vs. the kill. I have no NEED for game, thus I do not hunt it. If I need it, I will hunt it, regardless of the optics.
Same for fishing. I have never kept Bass. Walleye? You betcha. Crappie, Bluegill and Rock Bass go without saying. Great eating. Northern? I have, but I don't any longer. Northern is great eating, but I can do much better with panfish.
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