- BREEP!
Posted on 04/05/2006 8:35:01 PM PDT by George - the Other
Australians promote humanitarian acts by trading beers for live toads
Mar 20, 2006 - Animal activists in Australia have set up a toad-for-beer exchange in order to promote humanitarian disposal of toads.
RSPCA Australia, Coopers Brewery in the Cavenagh Hotel in Darwin teamed with three Darwin organizations after a local film aired depicting toad hunters in a simulated orgy of killing.
Here's how it works: Anyone over the age of 18 who captures a toad and delivers it alive to the Darwin RSPCA qualifies for a glass of Coopers beer at the Cavenagh Hotel. Sean Gould of Coopers said the limit for beer vouchers was six per day, although hunters could turn in more toads.
"We want to encourage the humane treatment of animals," acting chief executive of RSPCA Darwin Lindsay Wilkinson said.
Cavenagh Hotel general manager Brett Simmonds added: "It's all about the toads, not about the beer."
The toads must be alive. "No coupons for squashed toads," Wilkinson said.
The RSPCA will then kill the toads with sodium pentobarbitone, an overdose of barbiturates administered with a few drops on the skin that kills toads immediately. "It's the most humane way to kill an animal," Wilkinson.
- BREEP!
Uh.....yeah.
Beer for snails!
they will hopefully clear their island of muslims in a similar manner
Cooper's make outstanding ales.
Oh sure, lets go out and chase down poor little frightened toads and carry them around all day in the back of a hot jeep only to turn them over to a group who sticks them with a needle just to watch them die. That's like, sooooo much more humane than a drunk going 90 mph and squashing them on the road.
Ok thats spooky, I was just pinging YOU.
Cheers,
knewshound
http://knewshound.blogspot.com/
In Sink Garbage Disposals are much more fun!
I predict an explosion of toad farms at colleges, especially fraternities.
they will hopefully clear their island of muslims in a similar manner"
Won't work, muslims don't drink alcohol.or so they claim.
In Vietnam, a few years back, the government was trying to eradicate the rat population. They began paying a bounty for each tail. Local farmers began to breed rats.
I suspect enterprising and thirsty Aussies will breed toads.
I suppose that's like getting a ribitt....I mean, a rebate.
Oh no! That part just brought back a tragic memory. I once killed a toad with kindness! I loved critters when I was a little girl. Always playing with the garter snakes, frogs, toads, baby bunnies...whatever I could find to befriend.
I found a huge toad and decided to give him the life of luxury in my bedroom. My mother had had enough. She told me that by the next morning Mr. Toad had better be out of my bedroom and back to where I found him "or else"!
So, before the bus came the next morning, I put Mr. Toad back under the wooden pallet that was our "sidewalk", told him I'd see him later, and ran off to get on the bus.
Grab a hanky...it gets real sad. When I got home from school, I ran to check on my lil buddy, lifted up the pallet and found Mr. Toad SQUASHED! Apparently, when I had put the pallet back down, he had hopped to where the cross section was and he was squashed by the wooden beam. I was unconsolable when it happened. I felt sooooooooooo guilty. Mr. Toad had croaked and it was all my fault. :(
No beer for you.
Keep your hands off my toads... they keep down the mosquitos here at my home near the river.
I KNOW! How sad it THAT. (pass the hanky again....) ;)
Since you're the resident toad killing expert (*snicker*), so to speak, maybe you can explain what a "simulated orgy of killing" toads is all about.
Sounds like lefties are making things up again.
Bizzare
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