Yes, I'd be just fascinated to see how the demographics shake out, not that anyone would keep them because it might be embarrassing to discover that the vast majority of "approved" and "invited" fliers have the same ethnic and socioeconomic profile.
Aha, he's a map turtle? It's a photo I snagged from online somewhere; I loved his shocked expression too much to pass up the icon opportunity. Never knew what kind of turtle he was 'til now.
Oh, mine will probably outlive me. We're seriously going to have to make provisions for them in our wills. One of them has gotten sick once in 15 years.
Except that parrots are a lot fussier about their human guardians than turtles--although I did have one shubunkin goldfish (another animal that can easily live 35 years and has been known to live to over 100) that was so bonded to us after we had to rehome her (since fish don't really tolerate cross-country relocations so well) that months later she was still refusing to come to her new guardian to be fed.
Goldfish love! Back at my parents' place, we've got a small backyard pond that houses a single massive pond comet (creatively known as "Big Fish"). I bought him in 2006, so he's going on 5 or 6 years old now, and I'm hoping he'll be around much longer. Not entirely prepared for him to live to over 100 though, yipes. I've heard that about 20 years is average for a well-cared-for goldfish.
That's really cute. Your fish knew her people! Big Fish doesn't seem to care who feeds him as long as the delicious pellets rain down from the sky with regularity.
Perhaps Big Fish could use a friend? They are very social animals and it's sorta like solitary confinement to have just one. We rehomed several of our fish in a pond that had just two fish, and those two fish went just about mad with joy when we added our three.
Big Fish had two buddies, but for undetermined reasons neither of them survived the first winter they were out. Probably related to their being cheapo feeder goldfish versus Big Fish being a proper comet. We might try some little friends again; my one concern is that Big Fish will get all territorial on them now that he's had the run of the pond for a year. Next time I'm visiting my parents, I'll check out the local aquarium store and see if they have any good-looking pond fish for sale.
I think cheap feeder has more to do with their being abused than with quality of breeding. A lot of our 18-inch long beauties, some of them comets with foot-long tails, started out as 13-cent feeders for our turtles. In any case, good luck with your friend's continued health!
Yeah, they were from one of those hellacious Big Tanks O' Feeders, so I suspect they had a less-than-stellar health history. To be fair to feeder fish, I once won a carnival goldfish as a kid, and he got so big and healthy that we had to give him away to a friend who had a larger tank. So like you said, it's a luck of the draw situation. Thanks for the fishchat and petchat, it's been fun!
Blue and golds are so lovely! And huge. Friend of mine has one, and he takes pleasure in chasing people's feet around the room and laughing after he nips them. Has yours gone through the birdie "terrible twos"? I've heard that they can turn into holy terrors when the hormones start kicking in.
hard to tell, really. She varies between lovey (toward me, and men in general) and irritable (toward my wife, and women in general.) Also, she hollers at the poultry outside for fun. :D
This sounds suspiciously like the unofficial Russian system where you leave a bottle of booze in the top of your suitcase to expedite the screening process.
*sigh* It's sad that I'm willing to consider doing this just because going through airport screening is so physically painful for me -- I usually do it in a wheelchair because standing in a line for that long is really hard on my body. I could walk through security if it were a relatively quick process, but I can't stand for 30-60 minutes.
When I can afford to fly more frequently again, I may spend the damn money just to save myself the pain :/
One of the large factors in our moving to FL instead of back to our loved Austin is that my husband has to go to DC pretty much every month, and from Florida he can take the train. The thought of having to put up with the TSA twice a month was really too miserable to contemplate...and that's really absurd to have to factor into where we were going to live.
Sadly the TSA is trying to get authority over all forms of travel. There have even been test runs where they take over highways and make checkpoints on them.
That's the same price as the "Flyclear" program from a few years ago, which the article didn't mention AT ALL! (a biometric ID card for expediting travel, from an independent company that the TSA "blessed" to work with them) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_Traveler
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Date: 2012-03-16 11:02 pm (UTC)Oh cool, that's not sketchy or potentially racist/classist at all. The United States of America, everybody.
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Date: 2012-03-23 11:52 pm (UTC)That's really cute. Your fish knew her people! Big Fish doesn't seem to care who feeds him as long as the delicious pellets rain down from the sky with regularity.
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Date: 2012-03-17 01:25 am (UTC)When I can afford to fly more frequently again, I may spend the damn money just to save myself the pain :/
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