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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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 Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:16 pm
My cat luckily would maul a man for a piece of cheese.
And other than that little blip, the vet said he's perfectly healthy.
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Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:22 pm
Well that's awesome then.
Speaking of pets, Lindsay got a bunch of apple snails the other day.It's too bad African land snails are banned in North America though.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:25 pm
What's so bad about african land snails that they can't be here?
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Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:43 pm
Well, for one.....they are ginormous. They can get bigger than your hand. For two, they are a huge threat to our eco system. Snails, having the habit of being a) fast multipliers and b) hermaphroditic, (in some cases able to reproduce even without the introduction of new genetic material) if one got loose or was set loose by someone, they could seriously damage our vegetation.
In fact, most land snails have been banned in North America. The only ones we could get a hold of were native aquatic snails.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:45 pm
Not something you want to trip over while going to get the paper in the morning, hm?
Yeah, we'll pass on the land snails.
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Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:47 pm
When it rains here, we get snails all over the side walks :p some about as large as a toonie.
And yeah, haha. Not something I'd like to find stuck to my window in the morning either.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:50 pm
We don't get many snails here...mostly worms and the occassional rare nail whic is like...tic tac size.
Mostly slugs...and I die a little inside every time I step on one. gonk *shudders*
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Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:03 pm
*shudders as well* I hate it when we get slugs. I end up tip toeing everywhere.
Oh god, but the two I hate most: Shad flies, because they stink and their shear numbers make them nigh unavoidable, and June bugs, they sound like helicopters and are enormous and it creeps me out to find the cats chasing one down.
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 8:45 pm
I'll be honest...never heard of a shad fly but now I'm thinking I want to spare myself the knowledge. June bugs however freak me out because they kamakazi you in the head.
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Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:04 pm
Oh noes, Holly is a wealth of knowledge. She has a habit of forgetting important names and dates, but remembers all kinds of useless crap!
Allow me to demonstrate this power of mine. *Ahem* Shad flies are also referred to as 'may flies.' Generally, they populate areas that have lots of standing water, so large lakes for instance. A healthy lake has lots and lots and lots of flies, so much so that when the larvae become adults during the late spring, the white water front streets and buildings of North Bay become brown with them. They reach well into the rest of the city...and they make the city smell likes a mix of a bait shop and a wet dog. They look like thin maggots with wings and long antennae on both ends.
They only good thing about them is that they have no mouths, so at the very least they can't bite you.
As to june bugs...I am just hoping that they aren't in this general area of Toronto
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:08 pm
Well that's just plain gross and disturbing.
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Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:10 pm
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 10:16 am
I like random fact times...that one is just icky.
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Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 1:20 pm
So...now I gotta remember something cute and fluffy to make up for it.
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Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 5:29 pm
and yes I know my avi is a dirty old man one razz but I couldn't help it.
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