Posted on 01/11/2009 1:34:30 PM PST by DogByte6RER
You are so right.
Tourists come into Boston restaurants and order the biggest lobster on the menu. No native would ever do that. Small ones are much sweeter.
I think it’s kind of old. I don’t have a good memory when it comes to when something happened. It was one of the West Coast States, it may have been a cleaning from an oil spill. They were all gathered on the beach to see it off, whether it was a sea otter or seal, I don’t know. Then as it swam away a big fish ate it.
I can’t help it, I laugh every time I think about it. All that money they spent.
Animals are absolutely brutal. When I was trying to look for the video of this event, I came across other videos of a similar nature on YouTube. One was a Blue Planet show of a killer whale, a younger killer whale, and a baby seal. They tossed the live baby seal back and forth for a half an hour. They continued it even after it died.
I've also seen a show on cable of the same series where a group of killer whales hounded a bigger whale and her baby for six hours before they finally killed the baby. They didn't even eat the baby. Dolphins are another group that can be brutal to other species of dolphins.
Anyway, what you saw must be the same one Rush was talking about. He said they even had school children out there to see it. Seems like he said a band was out there too--I can't really remember. It was a spectacle, like you said and then the thing was eaten within minutes.
For personal consumption, I'd buy a biggie - much less expensive - and portion it out into the freezer.
I think endorphins (my spelling is off on this) get released when an animal gets attacked. I really don’t think they feel pain the way we think they do.
I hope so. I guess the only way to know is to ask the people that survived bear and shark attacks if they felt much pain during the event.
Most say no pain. I was in a very bad accident when I was young. I didn’t feel a thing until much later in the hospital.
My GF lives on a small lake. There were three, large geese, like the golden goose type goose, not a Canada. I think a nearby Condo Association had put them out, not sure. They didn't seem to fly. Anyway, last winter, when the lake had been frozen over for some time, I got up one morning to make coffee, and looked out the window to see a hawk enjoying a tasty meal. Feathers and blood everywhere. The red spot was there til the ice melted. All three eventually disappeared.
Someone thought they'd make a nice decoration for the lake, but clipped their wings so they wouldn't fly away. Silly misguided people.
Ugh! Though the hawk said, “Thanks for the snack”. Kind of ironic given your screen name too.
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