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Island says starfish aren't toys for dogs to fetch
AP ^
| August 2nd 2008
| staff reporter
Posted on 08/03/2008 4:14:50 AM PDT by Daffynition
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TOPICS: Hobbies; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: coastalenvironment; environment
Bad
dog owner!
To: Daffynition
Tourism officials on the Caribbean island of Grenada say they are concerned about dog owners snatching starfish out of the sea and throwing them like flying discs for their dogs to catch.
Has PETA been made aware of this atrocity?
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posted on
08/03/2008 4:21:30 AM PDT
by
SouthDixie
(We are but angels with one wing, it takes two to fly.)
To: Daffynition
Fielden said Saturday that treating starfish this way is "cruel and should be strongly discouraged."
The real reason is that the drying starfish made a bad stink, but this guy has to couch his objections in terms of cruelty to living things. Well, every time he craps, he consigns to oblivion more living entities in greater numbers than the cells in his body. So much for cruelty.
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posted on
08/03/2008 4:29:53 AM PDT
by
aruanan
To: Daffynition
Or better: Fielden was reported to have said on the day before Sunday that behaving in such a manner with starfish is "cruel and should be strongly discouraged."
The real reason is that the drying starfish made a bad stink, but this guy has to couch his objections in terms of cruelty to living things. Well, every time he craps, he consigns to oblivion more living entities in greater numbers than the cells in his body. So much for cruelty.
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posted on
08/03/2008 4:33:19 AM PDT
by
aruanan
To: SouthDixie
Dunno ... but they are now. ;)
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posted on
08/03/2008 4:35:46 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(The quieter you become the more you can hear.)
To: aruanan
Drying starfish may ‘stink’ for a while, but after they are sun-dry, they don’t. Also snails, beached fish, seaweed, yada.
Is this happening in such great numbers that this is really a problem? Geesh.
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posted on
08/03/2008 4:39:32 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(The quieter you become the more you can hear.)
To: Daffynition
Well, yeah, but the dogs didn’t like the jellyfish that much.
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posted on
08/03/2008 4:44:45 AM PDT
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: RichInOC
After a few days at the beach, my dogs have fetched a whole ton of "flotsam and jetsam". ;-D
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posted on
08/03/2008 4:55:28 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
(The quieter you become the more you can hear.)
To: Daffynition
If these starfish are like the ones here in Oregon, then I can’t understand how people are getting them off the rocks. You literally have to destroy the creatures by ripping off all their sucker feet to get them off the rocks. They aren’t just ‘floating’ around.
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posted on
08/03/2008 4:56:44 AM PDT
by
MovementConservative
(John Roberts and Sam Alito.... Thank you GWB)
To: SouthDixie
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posted on
08/03/2008 5:15:01 AM PDT
by
NavVet
( If you don't defend Conservatism in the Primaries, you won't have it to defend in November)
To: Daffynition
Inspiring me to post a link to
this. [turn the volume down a little bit before clicking]
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posted on
08/03/2008 5:16:34 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
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