Archive for the ‘animal occurrences’ category
November 6, 2010
– – J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels have popularized owls, which is a bad thing to the extent that fans of the young wizard and his owl Hedwig have been buying endangered owls from illegal bird traders!
This has been a problem in such countries as India, where the environment minister revealed that a recent report details that nearly half of India’s 30 species of owls can be found on sale at markets. In addition to their Harry Potter appeal, people also buy the owls for medicinal purposes and for sacrifice in some Hindu festivals.
In the Harry Potter novels, owls are used as a form of communication, carrying important messages…
Categories: animal abuse, animal occurrences, animals, endangered species, strange happenings
Tags: the owl and Harry Potter
Comments: 4 Comments
November 4, 2010
– – Hah!- -Just when you thought that Halloween was over, the Asian carp are knocking at your door! They may already be in waterways near Lake Michigan, and five states are embroiled in a lawsuit against the City of Chicago, barge companies, and others to close Chicago area shipping locks in order to stop the spread of the ravenous fish! The invasive carp, you see, may decimate a $7 billion a year fishing industry. Biologists fear that the fish, which can weigh up to 100 pounds, would gobble plankton and starve out prized species such as salmon and walleye should they get into the lakes.
Opponents counter that closing the locks would undermine critical flood control measures in the Chicago area, and cost barge and tour-boat owners as well as others billions of dollars in lost business. A U.S. District Judge is expected to rule on the matter within several week.
(I for one do not fear the Asian carp; they only want our computers for their young, and should be able to help me with my math…)
Categories: animal occurrences, animals, environmental, scalies
Tags: Asian carp
Comments: 2 Comments
October 18, 2010
– -It’s “Deer Gone Wild” time, with mating season or “the rut” having begun last week and ending in late November.- -Yup, deer will be chasing one another in fits of passion (Don’t look, Ethel!), making the roads in states and areas with significant deer populations a bit more hazardous. Deer are not known for their prudence on roadways, anyways!
Nearly 50 percent of vehicle crashes statewide in Pennsylvania involving deer occur during the rut, according to the Pennsylvania Dept. of Transportation.
“You have males chasing females; females running away from males; males fighting males for females,” said one naturalist. “They’re not in their right minds.”
Ahh, love!- -A fine insanity!
Categories: animal occurrences, animals, furry
Tags: deer mating season, deer rut
Comments: 3 Comments
September 27, 2010
– – When a Montana woman found a 200-pound black bear attacking her 12-year-old collie in her backyard early Thursday after midnight, she screamed to divert the bear’s attention from her dog. The bear then charged the woman, taking a swipe at her with its paw and tearing her jeans (of course you know, this means war)!
Driven backwards, the woman then jumped back and grasped the nearest object on the kitchen counter inside the doorway. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and so the woman grabbed one of the most loathed vegetables that the Creator in his wisdom ever put on the face of the earth…a zucchini!
Yes, and it was a big zucchini, too, a 12-incher harvested earlier from her garden! Flinging the dreaded vegetable at the bear from a distance estimated at 3 feet (point blank range), the woman bopped the bruin on the top of his head, and he wisely fled! Probably the bear feared that he might be forced to eat the horrid thing…that oughta teach him!
(…I don’t like zucchinis, but I do respect them!)
Categories: animal occurrences, animals, furry, furry stories, weird
Tags: Bear attack thwarted with zucchini, the deadliest vegetable
Comments: 4 Comments
August 26, 2010
– – A 45-year-old British woman recently became a hate figure after she was caught by a security camera putting a living cat into a trash bin and slamming the lid. The cat, named Lola, was found distraught and hungry by her owners some 15 hours later by following her cries.
The woman, a bank worker, has apologized for the incident but just doesn’t seem to fully understand the outrage following her behavior. She apparently trashed the poor cat on a lark, thinking that it would be “funny” to put the feline into the dumpster. “OK, I shouldn’t have done it,” the woman is quoted as saying, “but it’s just a cat at the end of the day.”
–Just a cat?!- –Some of my best friends are cats, and perhaps we should participate in such merry sport by confining the woman responsible in a trash dumpster for 15 hours. Police are guarding the house of the woman after a Facebook page urged that she be put to death… 😦
Categories: animal abuse, animal occurrences, animal rights, animals, deplorable practices, furry, things humans do
Tags: cat put in trash bin, Lola the cat
Comments: 2 Comments
August 19, 2010
– – Pennsylvania’s Raystown Lake in Huntingdon County boasts its own unidentified aquatic creature, with boaters describing sudden water turbulence and old photos showing large shadowy figures just below the surface…
Now Raystown Lake spans about 30 miles and reaches depths of over 185 feet, so there’s plenty of room for a potential cryptid to hide. Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files recently did a segment on the creature that included eyewitness accounts, experiments, a sonar run, and a diving search. Something was seen in the water of considerable size, while visibility was poor and the investigation was inconclusive; investigators felt that there was something in the water, but that it remained unexplained.- -What could more true, or safer to say? We’ve heard this kinda thing many times before…
The creature if it exists is felt to be vegetarian, and to display behaviors and feeding habits similar to a manatee. I personally have been on Raystown Lake, and unfortunately saw nothing…
Categories: animal occurrences, cryptozoology, furry, television, unexplained, unidentified
Tags: Pennsylvania's Loch Ness monster, Raystown Ray
Comments: 3 Comments
August 16, 2010
– – How, you may ask, do you thwart a polar bear attack?–After all, it is well-known that the readers of Foxsylvania want to be prepared for every possible contingency, including a zombie apocalypse. It is best not to tase the polar bear, or to tempt him with a picnic basket…so what do you do when the bear is standing on your gun?!
When you absolutely, positively must do something and prefer not to become bear kibble, consider making a loud, threatening noise and punching the offending bear in the nose. This tactic apparently worked rather well for a 67-year-old wilderness guide in the far Canadian north. Polar bears, you see, have a very sensitive nose. This was advice passed on to the wilderness guide by an Inuit elder, and it did work in this specific instance.
Failing in that, the wilderness guide might have had to resort to bad Terrance and Phillip impersonations, being that it was in Canada and all…
Categories: animal occurrences, animals, furry
Tags: Polar bear attack
Comments: 2 Comments
August 13, 2010
– – It’s a twisted world after all, and Geico has the perfect commercial to commemorate this fact; called “Piggy,” it puts a twist on the old nursery rhyme about the little piggy who cried “Wee! Wee! Wee! all the way home.”
Leaning out of a back window of an SUV, this little piggy does just that, much to the chagrin of an annoyed and weary mother and her son. He even holds two pinwheels out of the window as he does it! Not to worry, though…the piggy’s wearing his seatbelt! When this ultimate annoying rider makes it home, he declares “Oh, cool!,” and thanks his ride. Viewable on YouTube and many other sites, and well worth a look…
By the way, the pig’s name is “Maxwell,” and the long-suffering driver is “Mrs. A”…
Categories: absurdities, animal occurrences, animal oddities, animals, anthropomorphic, Brilliant but twisted, furry, humor, television
Tags: Geico commercial, Geico's Little Piggy
Comments: 6 Comments
August 7, 2010
– – Humans who seek to neutralize bears with a stun gun may wish to consider that it doesn’t work terribly well on them, and may leave them seriously annoyed, possibly resulted in you being mauled and eaten!
This is what happened in Anchorage, Alaska on July 22nd after a man caught a bear by his fish fryer and proceeded to shoot it with a stun gun; the bear “went inverted, with feet in the air, growling and crying at the same time, flailing with his feet. He actually rolled off the porch.”
Now while the gentleman in question escaped being mauled and eaten, Fish and Game officials in Alaska warn that after the initial shock, the bear might go into a rage and ruin your whole day. Even Sarah Palin understands this, which is why bear hunters carry a .45 pistol on their belt when they go hunting to back up their shotgun. Using a stun gun on a bear is like using a peashooter on a bomber.
So don’t tase bears, which outweigh you by 800 pounds and are pointy on five of their six ends. Should you, however, run across a picnic-basket stealing bear named Yogi, use whatever weapon you may have at hand…
Categories: absurdities, animal occurrences, animals, furry
Tags: Bear tasered in Alaska
Comments: 4 Comments
August 5, 2010
– – This is “Shark Week” on The Discovery Channel, and it appears that sharks are staging their own commemorations off the New Jersey coast…
…during the month of July alone, three shark sightings have occurred off the Jersey coast, one at Ocean Beach and two at South Seaside Park Beach. This past Saturday at Seaside Heights, N.J. a young blue shark swam toward the shoreline before turning around and heading back for deeper water…atypical behavior for the species.
There have been no injuries so far, but shark sightings have led to beach closings in New Jersey and along the Atlantic coast this summer (theme from Jaws plays)…
Categories: animal occurrences, animals, anomalies, unexplained
Tags: New Jersey shark sightings, summer shark sightings
Comments: 4 Comments
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