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To: DancesWithCats

These “people” are sick.


4 posted on 08/19/2007 10:07:18 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto)
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

Not an animal person huh?


18 posted on 08/20/2007 8:26:41 AM PDT by Fawn
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
If you think people treating their animals as members of their family is 'sick' ... I hate to think what you think of a camel treating his person as .... well ... read on ...

An Australian woman was killed by a pet camel given to her as a 60th birthday present, police have said.

Dromedary camels can be dangerous if treated as pets without discipline.

The woman, whose name was not released, was killed at her family’s sheep and cattle ranch near Mitchell, 350 miles west of the Queensland state capital Brisbane, Detective Senior Constable Craig Gregory said.

The 10-month-old male camel — weighing about 330 lbs — knocked the woman to the ground, lay on top of her, then exhibited what police suspect was mating behaviour, Mr Gregory said.

“I’d say it’s probably been playing, or it may be even a sexual sort of thing,” he said, adding the camel had almost suffocated the family’s pet goat by straddling it.

Chris Hill, a camel expert, said he had no doubt the camel’s behaviour was sexual.

Mr Hill, who has offered camel rides to tourists for 20 years, said young camels were not aggressive, but could be dangerous if treated as pets without discipline.

The woman was given the camel by her husband and daughter. “She had a love of exotic pets,” Mr Gregory said.

The fate of the camel was not known.

Great birthday present.

26 posted on 08/20/2007 10:39:58 AM PDT by DancesWithCats
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