[thechat] animals

[spinhead]

I have three sons, and they're FULL of tricks. My daughter, however, is the
worst.

But for REAL animals, we've got a common brown  finch who thinks she's a
canary.

We were at Jack Murphy Stadium (now named something with a 'q' in it, I
hear) with some friends. Had been watching a mother bird feed her hatchlings
in a nest precariously perched on the edge of a drainage tank. Went off with
Mike to get some sustenance, and when we turned the corner for our seats we
saw a large crowd gathered in the aisle. I stopped Mike and told him that,
in a moment, the crowd would part, the clouds would part, the 'Jesus rays'
would come down from heaven, and Saint Gwen of Assisi (to whom I am
espoused) would walk out of the crowd carrying a small, broken bird, which
she would heal miraculously (for two days, then it would die; causing me
infinitely more grief than her.)

Well, I was wrong about the 'Jesus rays' but nailed the rest. Almost. The
litter blighter is still alive five years later. She was in the cage next to
our psychotic canary, and she (named Murphy, due to some gender confusion,
not a Candice Bergen thing) picked up some amazing tunes. The canary is
gone, but not forgotten.When we 1) vacuum or 2) play U2 or Collective Soul,
she sings loud enough to be heard over the noise. The louder we crank the
stereo, the more she loves it.

She hates me. If I so much as move her cage, she swells up to almost the
size of a tennis ball and tries to come thru the cage at me. Of course, when
St. Gwen is even in the room, Murphy hops frantically from perch to perch
trying to get her attention so they can 'talk.' I've tried feeding her, but
if she knows I've touched the seeds, she goes into Ghandi mode until someone
removes the foul effluvia and replaces it with something I haven't touched.

I'm thinking about getting a snake.

spinhead


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Haenel" <bhaenel at twcny.rr.com>
To: <thechat at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 7:16 AM
Subject: RE: [thechat] animals


> I have three sons. They don't do any tricks.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thechat-admin at lists.evolt.org
> > [mailto:thechat-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Salvatore Palmisano
> > Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 9:26 AM
> > To: thechat at lists.evolt.org
> > Subject: RE: [thechat] animals
> >
> >
> > I have a fish named Dennis, does that count?
> >
> > --Sal
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thechat-admin at lists.evolt.org
> > [mailto:thechat-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Andrew Forsberg
> > Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 4:56 AM
> > To: thechat at lists.evolt.org
> > Subject: [thechat] animals
> >
> >
> > How about a 'weird'n'wonderful evolt pet competition'?
> >
> > Michele had the bat in the wall ...
> >
> > We've got a really strange collection of cats: one (perdita), was
> > abandoned by her mother in a flax bush; her father, grandfather,
> > great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather were all the same,
> > blind-in-one-eye, tom of a really mental-looking cat colony; was fed
> > by my partner through a syringe for the first few months of her life;
> > suffered from a mega-oesophagus for the first 6 months (normally
> > restricted to spaniels, I think); is now 9 years of age, 4 1/2 kilos,
> > wields a massive girth, and is a grade-one human-attacker.
> >
> > Who's next?
> >
> > --
> > Andrew Forsberg
> > ---
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>