Cats Vs Dogs

Yup. Once, Slug was feeding our pet geko, Zek. He was wiggling a dead meal worm in front of Zek's nose so he would think it was alive. Zek went for it... and bit Slug's finger in the process. Slug has been too scared of being bit to feed him again! It was only a year or so ago, too, and he still won't feed it!

Also, my cat would eat any big/spider he caught sight of. Once, when he was a kitten, I was playing with an old set of blocks I found, when a spider crawled out of the box. I showed it to him just to see what he would do... He ran after it, smacked it with him paw, and ate it! I was rather shocked, but he was okay and didn't get sick, althought I think he got sick from eating boxelder bugs in our latest house...

Also, once, I took a candle down into the basement and lit it, just to watch it burn down. My cat came down and began to circle it. After awhile, he put his paw over it and discovered it was rather warm/hot. He then smacked it so hard and fast it went out. I fell over laughing! It was really funny at the time!

 

What a sissy, a geko does about as much bite damage as a sock puppet.

 

They're also one of the most fragile types of reptiles from anywhere in the world.

A leopard gecko can actually die from the shock of losing it's tail, even though it's designed to lose it! Also, Leopard geckos can die if you touch them through heat shock. Again, they live in rather hot climates.

There are tougher lizards out there....

 

http://www.komodo-national-park.com/dragon-photos.html

You should have slug the punk feed one of these. No, really, you should.

 

We can all hope he does, and it eats his hands (personally, I don't have enough ill will towards him to want him to die, just enough to make sure he can't operate a computer ever again.)

 

I work in the biology lab of a science museum. We don't do anything that has really anything to do with biology, but they call it the Biolab because it's full of animals. Museum logic.
Anyway, in the six years I've been working there, I've been through about nine bosses (all hired by the university that runs the museum). The first one had a snake that wouldn't stop growing. After a while, she had to keep it in the backyard, and have the entire thing encased in chickenwire. The snake got to be about twenty feet long, long enough that she started needing to feed it live chickens. They had a whole miniature ritual worked out; because the snake was too big to hold, it had gone back to being fairly wild, so they avoided going out into the backyard to feed it (or really at all). She would open the back door and throw the chicken through it, then slam the door shut as quickly as possible.
However, one time, the snake somehow managed to get itself up onto the eaves over the door, and when she went to throw the chicken, the snake swallowed it. Along with her arm up to the elbow.
So she was stuck with a snake clamped onto her arm for several hours. In the end, they had to kill the snake just to get it off her arm.

The moral of this story? Gecko Bites Are Nothing.

 

I guess that minimizes my story about savannah monitor bites... or redtailed boa bites...

Oh well. Let me just say: Savannah monitor bites hurt. Alot.

 

But it probably would have killed him. Or injured him really badly. Komodo Dragons are tough, and their spit is pretty nasty stuff. Kills things slowly.

 

Are Yellow Spotted Lizards really dangerous? I've had a teacher who read the book "Holes," and those lizards could hurt...badly.

 

Well, to finish the above about Komodo's, it seems their mouths are filled with all sorts of vile, nasty bacteria. So if one was to bite you, you probably wouldn't live, even if the bite wasn't a lethal one. You would get sick and die, and I think that's how they hunt and kill prey, they bite it, it runs off and dies, and they track it's scent to find the body. Pretty gross stuff.

Oh, and talking about reptile bites? Wait until you have been bitten by a horse. THAT hurts.

 

Komodo Dragons also just catch things and eat them live. THey're damned fast, and very nimble. They can also climb trees.

It doesn't take much for them to run a human down, then swallow them whole, whislt still alive and then slowly digest them over the next two weeks.

Nasty things KD's...

 

That's true those creatures are fast! Can't they also swim? I am scared of them anyway's they are one of my fears when I sleep.

 

DAMN. Now i have to get my hands on a komdovaran. How em i supposed to get it to menions bed and dump it there while he is masturbating?

 

Etalis, I thought you said you were sixteen in that thread where we all gave our ages, you mean to say you've been working at a university operated museum since you were ten? This story is the wingdinger of the decade, if this was real, it certainly would have made the news somewhere.(ie: university paper, local news.) Perhaps you could display it here, or post a link.



http://www.terra-arcanum.com/phpBB/view ... highlight=
Yup, sixteen years old.

 

The joke's on you. I actually have been.

They had a program there for preteens where we'd volunteer to clean out cages and get credit for community service. I started in the sixth grade. They switched the program after a couple of years, though, and I started getting paid for the same work; they also raised the Age Bar so only teenagers can get into now.
I could direct you to the website, but I'd be afraid of you people coming to stalk me.

 

As a pet: the dog
As an animal: the cat

The dog makes a better pet but the cat is,to my opinion, a smarter animal.

 

I was thinking that maybe I could ask my mom if I could get a pet... I was thinking about getting a ferret. I heard they are very good pets because they use the bathroom like a cat (litterbox), but are kind and can be trained like dogs, and I personally know they are very cute.

 

I want a nice Falcon which I could train to hunt with me. NOW that would be a cool pet. But I will settle with my dog,cat,horses,cows,and a love bird.