Did you get anything good? Did everyone enjoy what you got them?
I got:
*The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" pop-up book
*A throw pillow that says "I love my chocolate lab"
*A headstone for my dogs grave (My deceased German shepherd, not thechocolate lab -grin-)*Final Fantasy X-2
*Mario Party 6
*Red Dwarf Series 1 DVD
*The Shawshank Redemption Special Edition DVD
*A decorative jar with $20 in it.
*And $20 from my Auntie.
If you live in the San Francisco area PLEASE consider adopting one of these poor rats before ALL of them end up being killed. -pout-
Anyone interested in adopting the homeless rodents should contact Animal Care and Control at (415) 554-6364 (located at 1200 15th St.) or consult www.oneatatimerescue.org or call the rescue group at (415) 317-1038.
The San Francisco Department of Animal Care and Control has a rat problem.
On Thursday, 178 domestic rats, stuffed into dog carriers, were brought in.
"They're in great shape," said Melissa Flower of One at a Time Rescue, a San Francisco nonprofit. "They're very affectionate."
She said the woman who delivered the rodents found them on her lawn, in the carriers. Two injured rats and 20 pregnant ones were euthanized, along with four litters born the first night. Another rescue group has promised to take at least 80. The rest need homes.
"Rats are very social and communicative," said Flower, who has three pet rodents. "They're very extroverted. They're kind of like dogs -- they respond to you."
The bubonic plague notwithstanding, Flower said domestic rats are quite clean and don't carry disease.
Bill Hamilton, president and founder of Friends of Animal Care and Control, said, "I've never heard of anything like this before. I'm wondering whether they were from a lab. Who would keep that many rats?"
Anyone interested in adopting the homeless rodents should contact Animal Care and Control at (415) 554-6364 (located at 1200 15th St.) or consult www.oneatatimerescue.org or call the rescue group at (415) 317-1038.
Haruko is my pretty girl. She looks exactly like her mom. Blazed rats are my favorite, but you dont see very many of them.
Haruko is a scardy rat. Every little noise makes her jump and run. She also seems to be afraid of my husband. We cant figure out why.
Even when she's NOT afraid of something she's a spasta rat. She's not big on being held and petted. She wants to RUN and PLAY and EXPLORE.
She's also sort of anti-social. She very often sits apart from the other rats, way up in the top of the cage, looking like she thinks she's queen shit of turd hill.
The pretty one's always do have the biggest egos, huh?
The answers to the pop-quiz a couple of posts down are as follows:
A. Rabbit
B. Guinea Pig
C. Hamster
D. Gerbil
E. Mice
F. Ferret
G. Rat
Congradulations to you and you for being smarter than the average person who comes into the pet store I work at.
See, every day we get people calling the Guinea Pigs hamster, and asking me "What kind of rabbit is that" about a male guinea pig we have in with the rabbits. We also have alot of people who do know know the difference in rats and mice or hamsters and gerbils or gerbils and mice etc, etc.
We even had one memorable person ask about the ferrets "Is that a fox?"
-sigh-
Sometimes it hard to remain sane when bombarded by the same questions day in and day out, as if NO ONE out there can tell their animals apart.
If you go on a "diet" and buy whole wheat bread because its supposed to be good for you, and then you make two HUGE and GOOEY grilled cheese sandwitches with the whole wheat bread, are you totally defeating your origional purposse for buying the wheat bread to begin with?
PLEASE take the time to leave me a comment telling me what you beleive each of these animals are. This is an unofficial, unscientific survey to find out the general ability of the average person to recognize and name small animal species.
A FLORAL foul-up has left a city street lined with swastika shapes in a week of major Jewish celebrations.
If you go on a "diet" and buy whole wheat bread because its supposed to be good for you, and then you make two HUGE and GOOEY grilled cheese sandwitches with the whole wheat bread, are you totally defeating your origional purposse for buying the wheat bread to begin with?