Animal Monday

[lavandarlizard2]

This is just too good not to share... 30 pounds of nuclear buzzsaw. O_O I'm kinda glad they're native to Africa and not North America. ^___^


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c81bcjyfn6U&feature=player_embedded



Photographed in a Florida Walmart... That pretty much says it all. O.o


http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?p=14794


Why, yes; I *do* have time on my hands! ^____^

Comments

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

That's kinda taking 'something I ate didn't agree with me' to a whole different level. O_o

And aren't there rules about pets and stores? I mean, there are around here. *blink blink* The comments were about as funny as the picture... :D

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

Isn't that amazing? ^___^ And if you ignore the whole "killing machine" thing, they're actually kind of cute.


Here, too. But it is Florida... >_>

I just really, really hope it's been de-scented. O.o

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

Well, according to the guys on Myth Busters, it's not as easy to get those suckers to spray as you would think. Though, they did not experiment with the one that seems to be living somewhere in my neighborhood. >_<;

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

All you need to do is scare them. O_O Trust me; I know this. >_>

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

I think the one they had was too used to people, and not easily scared. *snort*
And where were YOU that you stressed out a skunk? :D

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

Did I never tell you the tale of The Baby Skunk in the Shopping Bag?! Shame on me! O_O

Last place I lived was jammed up against a hillside and we were critter central. Under a huge oak tree that was growing out of the angle of the hill lived a family of skunks. They didn't bother us and we gave them a wide berth. Then one of the neighbors who lived next to the tree informed me that one of my cats was bonding with the skunks. O.o The cat never came home stinking, so I guess the bonding was mutual. Eventually, the management made everyone take down their fences across the back of the buildings and did the whole landscaping thing to make it all pretty. Couple months after that, all three cats glued themselves to the back screen, staring onto the patio. Since that's where the freezer lived, I got up to check that no one was trying to shop out of my freezer (yes, it was locked). I turn on the light and spy a plastic shopping bag scurrying around the patio. I went to pick it up with evil thoughts of people who let those things run loose. Just as I am reaching for a handle, a tiny little black nose pokes itself out and beady little eyes stare at me. I jumped; the bag jumped and the terrified baby skunk let loose with everything he had. Fortunately the barrel of his WMD was pointed toward the closed end of the bag. By then he had his head out one of the handles and was stuck there. I had to use the broom handle to nail down the bag until he could figure out how to back his head out and escape. I carried the bag around the back of the building on the end of the broom and dumped bag and broom into the garbage. >.< The smell lasted for days... Even with applications of tomato juice and clorox. And someone scavenged the damn broom.

^___^ Yes, even the babies are cocked and loaded.

[sunhawk16.livejournal.com]

Bwhahahahahahaaaaaaa! Oh, that's GREAT! And I'll bet the kitties were rolling on the floor! :D :D

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

They were definitely a rapt audience. ^____^ It was one of those times when i really could have used a videocam.

[merula31]

Those badgers are awesome- as long as they are no where near me!

I've seen the skunk for pets thing- I just never thought you'd take it to Walmart.... *shakes head*

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

I've always assumed something that formidable would be bigger... O_O

Somehow, I don't think the cats would accept that... Well, cats other than my ecumenical kitty who liked to hang out with the skunk family at my last apartment. ^_o

I see people with animals in Target and Walmart several times a month. And I know those aren't service animals. >.< Pocket dogs...

[turnippatch.livejournal.com]

My high school sophomore English teacher used to tell stories about his wild redneck youth in Texas... one of these stories was about how one year, he and his buddies waited until the dead of winter, when people were wearing their thick winter coats, and then they somehow acquired a badger, sedated or something, and put it inside a suitcase, and left the suitcase on the corner of some street, and this was back in the days before terrorism alerts, so then they waited until someone eventually opened the suitcase and got a faceful of angry badger...

I'm fairly certain that most of his stories were more or less true, if perhaps exaggerated for a good tale... the dude wasn't a total douchebag or anything, so I don't think he got his jollies tricking classes full of students.  But even if he exaggerated something in that tale, you can't exaggerate putting a sleeping badger in a suitcase. O_o

[lavendarlizard.livejournal.com]

A badger. In a suitcase. O_O I hope the person who opened the suitcase had insurance. Damn.

The most entertaining teacher I ever had (K-12) was the one whose mother was a concert pianist and for some reason related to that, he used to ride the train from Baltimore to somewhere by himself. He would buy up a bunch of the little kid-sized milk cartons and stand on the platform between cars and bomb the ties with them. >_> Until the conductor caught him. Hey, it was the early 60s! That was pretty exciting back then. ^___^