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dwest wrote:

Denny wrote:squirrels aren't tree rats?

Isn't that house cats? I don't know they all look alike.

So much for dwest and all that taxonomerising of his.

One of my goldfish DID try to swim through the air earlier this week. My husband went down the hallway and thought it was a dog toy lying on the floor. Then he realized it was the fish (our goldfish are monsters - about 6 inches long). He said it was dead. I saw its gills move so I picked it up by its tail and put it back in with the others. It gasped then went to the bottom and stayed real still for over an hour. I thought it had been too late and it really was dead, but when I nudged it with the net it jerked and swam around. It's still alive.

Nanohedron wrote:

dwest wrote:

Denny wrote:squirrels aren't tree rats?

Isn't that house cats? I don't know they all look alike.

So much for dwest and all that taxonomerising of his.

You really can't appreciate the differences until the dermestids have cleaned the bones a bit.

dwest wrote:...until the dermestids have cleaned the bones a bit.

You feed your housekeepers cats???

Boy, are you cheap. I'll bet you keep the stray lost sojourner - a Wisconsin delicacy, I hear - for your own larder.

Nanohedron wrote:

dwest wrote:...until the dermestids have cleaned the bones a bit.

You feed your housekeepers cats???

Boy, are you cheap. I'll bet you keep the stray lost sojourner - a Wisconsin delicacy, I hear - for your own larder.

Lost sojourners are a delicacy in Plainfield, Wisconsin. Unfortunately my dermestid colony isn't as large as needed for lost sojourners. UW can handle them though.http://www.zoology.wisc.edu/uwzm/bugroomhistory.html

Charlene wrote:One of my goldfish DID try to swim through the air earlier this week. My husband went down the hallway and thought it was a dog toy lying on the floor. Then he realized it was the fish (our goldfish are monsters - about 6 inches long). He said it was dead. I saw its gills move so I picked it up by its tail and put it back in with the others. It gasped then went to the bottom and stayed real still for over an hour. I thought it had been too late and it really was dead, but when I nudged it with the net it jerked and swam around. It's still alive.

This has happened to me all too often, probably the root of my nightmare.

Funny Story:
My wife once found a koi in our yard. Her immediate response was that we had finally personally experienced the phenomenum of a fish rain. Always one to burst her bubble, I told her a cat probably caught one from the neighbor's koi pond.

had a salmon one time

the barn cats loved it


an eagle was attempting to steal it from the osprey
they dropped it

Denny wrote:had a salmon one time

the barn cats loved it


an eagle was attempting to steal it from the osprey
they dropped it

We get shad and herring on the driveway, I really can't stand those scuzzy scavenging Eagles picking on ma Ospreys. Then there are the folks who put up Osprey nesting towers and change their minds and try to call them cell phone towers, what's the deal with that. Eagles do like kitties though, cheap fast food, here kitty kitty.

then ya wouldn't think ill of me for yelling at the eagle right after she snatched it?

Talk about goldfish nightmares...I had a dream the other night that I'd dropped my cell phone in a bucket of water. It swelled to three times its normal size and, in an effort to save it, I pried off the back to drain the water out of it...only to find two goldfish swimming inside!

Redwolf

Redwolf wrote:Talk about goldfish nightmares...I had a dream the other night that I'd dropped my cell phone in a bucket of water. It swelled to three times its normal size and, in an effort to save it, I pried off the back to drain the water out of it...only to find two goldfish swimming inside!

Redwolf

I don't get it, what's the down side?

dwest wrote:

Redwolf wrote:Talk about goldfish nightmares...I had a dream the other night that I'd dropped my cell phone in a bucket of water. It swelled to three times its normal size and, in an effort to save it, I pried off the back to drain the water out of it...only to find two goldfish swimming inside!

Redwolf

I don't get it, what's the down side?

Aside from the death of the cell phone, I realized that, as the water drained out, the fish were going to die, so I started frantically looking for a faucet to fill it up again (that's when I woke up).

Redwolf

OMG! Unless you live somewhere there is no chlorine in the water or you had anti-chlroinator on hand, you were going to be a pescamuertador or ichthycidist or something like that.

mutepointe wrote:OMG! Unless you live somewhere there is no chlorine in the water or you had anti-chlroinator on hand, you were going to be a pescamuertador or ichthycidist or something like that.

Have no fear thy rod and thy reel shell comfort thee.