| 4/18/2008 10:37:33 AM From: eddo I just heard a snipit on the radio the other day that a plot to take down the Sears Tower was thwarted... Sucks to live in Chicago. You and Karen should come live with me. |  |
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| 4/18/2008 10:43:09 AM From: Chi That was probably just about the deliberations that are going on right now regarding the suspected terrorists plotting to take the Sears Tower down a few years ago. Bastards! |  |
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| 4/18/2008 10:45:08 AM From: Kethria I saw the cougar thing online too! You and Karen and Eddo and I should move in with Ali. I think we'd be safer. |  |
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| 4/18/2008 10:48:33 AM From: Chi Then we'd just kill each other from the over-crowdedness there-lol. But once Ali strikes into some oil, we can all live in her mansion comfotably:D | |
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| 4/18/2008 10:48:53 AM From: Chi *comfortably | |
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| 4/18/2008 10:49:08 AM From: eddo ^works for me. :D | |
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| 4/18/2008 10:58:13 AM From: Chi Keth- You can probably answer this, couldn't they have easily just tranquilized the poor cougar instead of killing it? It had been roaming around for DAYS and the first reports of the sightings in the city were reported very early in the morning. The cougar hadn't attacked a soul that we know of. I don't see the reasoning on *why* they killed it. | |
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| 4/18/2008 11:00:29 AM From: Chi They had plenty of time to have animal control looking for it and on stanby to have the equipment they needed to tranquilize it. I think the cops enjoyed hunting the poor animal down. And as usual, stupid Mayor Daley making excuses for them..... | |
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| 4/18/2008 12:24:12 PM From: eddo Around here we have bear issues, and if a bear goes into campgrounds and such, it learns that is where food is, so it has to be destroyed to keep it from going back and hurting people later. | |
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| 4/18/2008 12:24:29 PM From: Kethria Yes. Yes they could have. However large feral cats are really sketchy with anestesia. I personally knew a vet who was killed by a jaguar at a zoo because it woke up too soon. What they COULD have done is knock it out... toss it in a crate, drive it out to the middle of nowhere and then yank the crate open from a safe distance... | |
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| 4/18/2008 12:40:13 PM From: eddo ^^can you imagine the lawsuits if that cat made it back to the city and killed a child? | |
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| 4/18/2008 4:35:16 PM From: wildbob Boy, I've heard the Chicago is a tough town but cougars roaming the street is really tough. | |
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| 4/18/2008 8:15:20 PM From: Ali We have cougars and cold here too, but none of the rest. If I strike it rich, I'll definitely build us a nice commune where we can stockpile illegal weapons and not pay taxes. |  |
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| 4/19/2008 6:35:19 AM From: doheney can i come too ali? :P |  |
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| 4/19/2008 6:36:36 AM From: doheney damn chi. and i thought it was bad here lol. how can you bear to send the kids to school? it would drive me crazy. | |
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| 4/19/2008 7:06:50 AM From: mercury Wanna come to Florida with us? I guess the earth quake was felt here, too. I didn't feel it... BUT I have been feeling little tremors for about a month, now. I've been expecting it and I'm a little bummed I slept through it. |  |
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| 4/19/2008 7:17:32 AM From: doheney i ain't been too many places, but florida was the worst | |
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| 4/19/2008 7:24:17 AM From: mercury yeah, well... It's not my first choice, either, but they have people with more money than brains there, who like to spend it on ostentatious things like pretty floors, which will enable us to buy things like groceries :o) We have family there and it's not intolerably frigid 7 months of the year. I don't see this as a long term solution, but the change in scenery will be nice... maybe. I'm trying to get excited about this! don't pee on my parade! :P | |
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| 4/19/2008 9:20:18 AM From: Ash Of Pompeii If peeing on parades is cool, consider me Miles Davis. |  |
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| 4/19/2008 8:09:49 PM From: doheney i'm sorry sweetie, i honestly didn't mean to pee on your parade, i'd never do that on purpose. my god though woman! you ought not have any trouble selling those floors. they are beyond gorgeous! iffen things wern't so bad now with people losing their houses and everything, you ought to be selling it out here. i think you could really get what ya'll want and deserve for such beautiful work out here. | |
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| 4/19/2008 9:20:27 PM From: eddo wait a minute... I'm from Florida and I'm broke... | |
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| 4/20/2008 5:09:39 AM From: sk8r There were reports of that earthquake reaching my side of the border o top of lake erie. Glad you are ok . |  |
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| 4/20/2008 5:19:29 AM From: mercury it's all cool, doh :o) | |
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| 4/20/2008 8:02:06 PM From: Chi *cries* We just came home from a bbq and discovered that my son's new "boy" hamster popped out a bunch of baby hamsters while we were gone.... Anybody want any hamsters? Waaah... Keth or anyone else with knowledge, please give me some advice on what to do. We thought that we had two boy hamsters. I don't know if she was knocked up when we got her or while she was with us with my daughter's hamster. We got them both on April 5th. Wikipedia says gestation for their kind of hamster is 16-18 days. Can hamsters get fixed?lol. Should we just buy another cage and keep them separate from now on? I feel so irresponsible... | |
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| 4/21/2008 3:49:59 AM From: Kethria ummmm... in theory hamsters can get fixed... I'd go with fixing the boy. They have well... proportionally ginourmous testicles so it's relatively easy, however it will probably cost way more than returning the hamster and getting an exchange. The petstore might buy back the babies too. | |
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| 4/21/2008 6:36:04 AM From: emkay64 Boy hamsters are gross. They have a gigantic nutsack on them that can only be described as obscene. As far as babies...get them back to the pet store ASAP. The mom can sometimes eat them. Definately get a female hamster or keep the one you have...just name her Pat. |  |
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| 4/21/2008 6:42:15 AM From: emkay64 ^^^Wait...Keth....are you saying boy hamsters can have babies? | |
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| 4/21/2008 6:46:41 AM From: emkay64 Chi---as for the cougar...I get annoyed with all the "urban animal" killings. Poor things have no where to go anymore at the rate our civilization expands. We have lots of cougars, and coyotes killed here.*******As for school shootings, I considered home schooling for about 10 secs. I am soooo not patient, my kids would cry..everyday. I think they may choose the gunman over me (obviously kidding about the gunman part)....I hope. | |
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| 4/21/2008 7:24:33 AM From: Kethria they can make babies :P and since they have that obscene nutsack it's easy to find it to remove the nuts :P | |
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| 4/21/2008 7:21:46 PM From: Chi I don't know if it's the breed of hamsters that we have, the fur or what, but the hamster that might have gotten the other one pregnant doesn't have ANY testicles that we can see-lol. Maybe it's another girl, but I still don't want to take any chances. And the guy that was helping us at the pet store wasn't very knowledgeable. I was trying to get reassurance about the stuff that I had read up on like the hamsters' life span, etc. and asking about the products that they carried and he was giving me info like he was just hired there or something. And yeah, I read that the type of hamsters that we have (Syrian hamsters)- the male will eat the babies. So he has to be removed & separated from the mother and babies. And the mom will eat the babies who are sick, deformed, or if you touch them or make her feel threatened in any way. | |
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| 4/21/2008 7:28:49 PM From: Chi It was funny, I didn't know what to put the boy (at least we think that one's a male)hamster in until we get another cage, so I had to opt for those big popcorn tins you get during the holidays-lol. Poor thing, it tried all night to escape from it. Finally, in the morning when I thought it finally gave up and fell asleep, he really DID escape by climbing unto the igloo home I put in there for him. Good thing we found him just as we had to give up looking and had to leave for school & work. He was just standing in front of the kids' closet looking so cute like "Crap, they found me"-lol. | |
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| 4/21/2008 7:31:40 PM From: Chi And Em- I KNOW I couldn't home school my kids either. I hardly have any patience helping them with their homework as it is, I can just imagine. | |
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| 4/22/2008 6:39:16 AM From: emkay64 My kids have had two hamsters...Peaches I and Peaches II LOL. The first one lasted three years. The second one escaped and fell down a register....it was G-R-O-S-S! I love them though. Ours were the teddy bear hamsters. The kids could maul them and they were super friendly. We just had one at a time though. Craig thought they were gross and said they stink....I didn't think so. I liked cleaning their cages and putting fruit and veggies and stuff for them. The kids gave them these little yogurt treats. I thought they were sweet. | |
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| 4/22/2008 6:40:16 AM From: emkay64 Oh yeah...NO LETTUCE!! LETTUCE = wicked diarrhea for your hamsters. | |
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| 4/22/2008 8:52:11 AM From: Kethria I had a teddy bear hamster, Pokey that lived for 5 years. | |
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| 4/22/2008 10:15:59 AM From: Chi Aww, they ARE cute. Too bad about Peaches II's ultimate demise:( And wow, 5 years is a very good and long life span for a hammy. I gotta admit, I hardly touch the hammies though. I don't know if it's because of my detachment to animals (I had a bad and traumatizing experience with my beloved first pet when I was young) or because they remind me of mice. Probably a mix, more of the prior and also, I was a bad germaphobe several years back. | |
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| 4/22/2008 1:13:31 PM From: emkay64 I was never really a huge fan, but the first one used to sleep all day and then after the kids had gone to ed and I would be putzing around cleaning up and getting things ready for the next day, there the hamster would be...awake with its little paws holding on to its jail bars LOL. It looked lonely....so I would take it out and pet her for a while. I ended up liking them. They are really sedate and usually just curl up in a ball and eat treatts...mine liked blueberries :) Mice creep me out because they are so flittery and jumpy. | |
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| 4/22/2008 1:15:05 PM From: emkay64 *curiosity piqued* What happened when you were young? | |
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| 4/22/2008 2:47:49 PM From: Chi Yeah, our hammies do the jailbar thing, too-lol. It is just so cute you can't resist taking them out (or making the kids take them out and play with them and/or put them in their exercise balls:)). | |
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| 4/22/2008 5:43:48 PM From: Chi Well, when I was younger I was a very shy, introverted, awkward kid with very few friends. At the time when we got my cat Frisky, we had just moved to a new neighborhood and yet ANOTHER new school... So basically the cat was all I cared about at the time and the only friend I had. Then one day out of the blue, my mom got rid of it. No warning, no asking me how I would feel, nothing:( Ever since then I find it hard to get very close to any animals. I don't know why that affected me so much. We had an adorable Dalmatian puppy once who bled to death and died. I cried my eyes out and prayed a lot for that puppy, but it didn't scar me. Probably because that cat was all I had at the time. My older sister ran into it years later (my cat) at the then owner's house. She said it had turned really mean and vicious, and didn't like to be petted anymore. Maybe it got affected, too. | |
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| 4/22/2008 5:56:06 PM From: emkay64 Awww...sorry Chi:( Sadly we will outlive all our pets...unless you are one of those rare breeds that love parrots (85 year life expectancy).They'll rip our hearts out, but I'll never have a house without pets. | |
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| 4/23/2008 2:05:57 AM From: hugo My Dad was never real attached to my dog when I was a kid. I bet it was because his first pets, two goats who used to pull him around in a wagon, ended up in the freezer. Life was tough back then. | |
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| 4/23/2008 2:07:23 AM From: hugo What I read quickly about cougars is you just can't indiscriminately drop em in the wild because the dominant male cougar will kill other males. | |
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| 4/23/2008 3:12:38 AM From: mercury Better in the freezer than under the fishing boat. I was told he went ice fishing. Then, when spring came, that he went camping. He must have enjoyed that camping thing, because he never came back. Poor willy.... | |
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| 4/24/2008 7:43:27 AM From: Chi Yeah, or turtles. They can live well over a hundred years old. So how did your love of sheep develop, Hugo? | |
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| 4/25/2008 10:43:59 AM From: hugo Mom used to tell me to count sheep to help me fall asleep. This led me to associate sheep with bedroom activities. | |
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