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Beautiful Animals

 
 
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Tue 9 Feb, 2010 07:30 pm
@djjd62,
They're pretty darn cute. It's a shame... I bet they're illegal as pets here in NYC. Razz
djjd62
 
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Reply Tue 9 Feb, 2010 07:30 pm
http://www.turtles.org/ffs/mauinews/mnbndt.jpg
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djjd62
 
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Reply Tue 9 Feb, 2010 07:32 pm
@tsarstepan,
maybe these, keep them in the tub

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/1/9/1231501759601/Gallery-The-week-in-wildl-012.jpg
djjd62
 
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Reply Tue 9 Feb, 2010 07:34 pm
http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wp-content/gallery/animals/thumbs/thumbs_image00111.jpg
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djjd62
 
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Reply Tue 9 Feb, 2010 07:36 pm
http://www.aboutmyplanet.com/files/2008/12/spirit-bear-image-copy-resized.jpg
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djjd62
 
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Reply Tue 9 Feb, 2010 07:39 pm
http://i11.tinypic.com/2myc61d.jpg
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tsarstepan
 
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Reply Tue 9 Feb, 2010 07:44 pm
@djjd62,
I wouldn't want to keep an otter as a pet. Just might completely ruin my chances of ever being reincarnated as one.

If there is a god... please please please reincarnate me as an otter the next time around! Very Happy
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djjd62
 
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Reply Tue 9 Feb, 2010 07:44 pm
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/128/352517510_4a028f0d0e.jpg
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djjd62
 
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Reply Tue 9 Feb, 2010 07:47 pm
http://win7dl.com/uploads/posts/2009-11/thumbs/1259078061_izjvjsdxr2yubl8.jpeg
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djjd62
 
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Reply Tue 9 Feb, 2010 07:49 pm
http://www.designswan.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/Animal/BeautifulEye/7.jpg
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djjd62
 
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Reply Tue 9 Feb, 2010 07:57 pm
http://suzannemcminn.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_36829.jpg
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djjd62
 
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Reply Tue 9 Feb, 2010 08:03 pm
http://www.wildherps.com/images/herps/standard/07051008PD_gecko.jpg
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littlek
 
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Reply Tue 9 Feb, 2010 09:12 pm
Now a raccoon would be a good pet! I love their fuzzy little faces.
panzade
 
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Reply Tue 9 Feb, 2010 10:12 pm
@littlek,
A friend of mine rescued a baby raccoon and kept it til the day it jumped on his Doberman's back and rode it like a cowboy....biting its ears and neck.Bye bye raccoon.
dlowan
 
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Reply Wed 10 Feb, 2010 12:44 am
@panzade,
panzade wrote:

A friend of mine rescued a baby raccoon and kept it til the day it jumped on his Doberman's back and rode it like a cowboy....biting its ears and neck.Bye bye raccoon.



Dem raccoons can be a little bad.

But they DO love dem dogs!
http://ephemerist.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/raccoon.jpg



Have to love raccoons, though:


http://dnr.state.il.us/orc/Wildlife/virtual_news/images/raccoon/raccoon_on_snow.jpg











Quote:
Now somewhere in the black mining hills of Dakota
There lived a young boy named Rocky Raccoon
And one day his woman ran off with another guy
Hit young Rocky in the eye Rocky didn't like that
He said I'm gonna get that boy
So one day he walked into town
Booked himself a room in the local saloon.

Rocky Raccoon checked into his room
Only to find Gideon's bible
Rocky had come equipped with a gun
To shoot off the legs of his rival
His rival it seems had broken his dreams
By stealing the girl of his fancy.
Her name was Magil and she called herself Lil
But everyone knew her as Nancy.
Now she and her man who called himself Dan
Were in the next room at the hoedown
Rocky burst in and grinning a grin
He said Danny boy this is a showdown
But Daniel was hot-he drew first and shot
And Rocky collapsed in the corner.

The doctor came in stinking of gin
And proceeded to lie on the table
He said Rocky you met your match
And Rocky said, Doc it's only a scratch
And I'll be better I'll be better doc as soon as I am able.

Now Rocky Raccoon he fell back in his room
Only to find Gideon's bible
A Gideon checked out and he left it no doubt
To help with good Rocky's revival.




And their cousins, the coatimundi:

http://onlinecrmsolution.com/azcoati/coati/wp-content/gallery/coati-image-gallery/Coatimundi_003.jpg


http://www.johnjmcgraw.com/photos_costa_rica/Coatimundi.JPG





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Roberta
 
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Reply Wed 10 Feb, 2010 04:17 am
Wonderful pics, dj. Loved the snow owl and the caterpillar. Can't argue with wacoons and otters.

I generally take a dim view of wild animals being kept as pets. However, if an orphaned otter wanders into your apartment, tsar, or if an orphaned raccoon wanders into yours, littlek, what choice do you have? You can't let the cute little thing die.

These folks took in an orphaned hippo, named her Jessica, kept her as a house pet, and watched her grow:

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2008/05/hippohouseBM_450x300.jpg

Red spitting cobra:

http://img1.photographersdirect.com/img/21646/wm/pd1297313.jpg
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littlek
 
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Reply Wed 10 Feb, 2010 11:24 am
Roberta, I don't like it when people keep wild pets either. When I was a dark, depressed teen, family friends took in abandoned raccoon babies. They reared them, with the advice of a wildlife management group, until they were old enough to be released. Back they went to the spot they were found. I spent many hours in their pen with them trying to rescue my earrings, nose and earlobes from their hand-like paws. I was completely smitten. Later, after babies were born into a tree trunk outside my window, I researched raccoons as I watched the babies grow old enough to follow mom out of the nest. They don't transplant well. Any raccoon that claimed that land would terrorize them.

One more.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/202/510195223_43c92c0779.jpg?v=0
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tsarstepan
 
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Reply Wed 10 Feb, 2010 04:04 pm
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/02/03/nyregion/coyote.480.jpg
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/coyote-on-ice/
Quote:
Veryl Witmer, an amateur photographer who lives on the Upper West Side, was walking past the pond in Central Park on Tuesday afternoon when he noticed something unusual: a coyote. “The animal came out of the Hallett Nature Sanctuary and walked across the frozen pond several times,” Mr. Witmer writes. “It seemed timid and skittish and kept retreating back to the sanctuary " avoiding humans? It kept a watchful eye on me.” The coyote did, however, find a moment to pose for a more formal portrait.
ossobuco
 
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Reply Wed 10 Feb, 2010 04:05 pm
@tsarstepan,
graceful..
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Roberta
 
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Reply Thu 11 Feb, 2010 05:17 am
littlek, Thanks for sharing your first-hand encounter with those masked banditos. How I envy you. Glad your neighbor did the right thing.

tsar, I knew dem coyotes were in the park. Nice to see a pic. Followed the link and saw another pic. Dem canines is true survivors. I was visiting a cousin upstate. Heard coyotes howling in the night. An eerie and wonderful sound.

Beaver:

http://www.huntington.edu/thornhill/images/wildlifephotos/beaver.jpg
 

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