These two Hyla versicolor are currently in my collection.
The male's name is Squeaker, because in warm humid weather he starts calling whenever there is a loud noise
The female does not presently have a name.
My garter snake Oliver getting a treat.
My pine snake. Just named Sweety
My box turtle (One of my 12 turtles...). He got rescued from a busy roadside. I dont know how he had survived that much traffic. Lucky bastard. I am the type of person who stops to move animals off the road. Some people swerve to hit them.
My mud snake, Steve
Said mud snake eating a frog. Unfortunately, these guys ONLY eat amphibians.
Here he is, taking the frog down into his little hole.
And my last pet er slave... um... Undergraduate. Garrett
GALE Force Biological Agent/
BOTM/Great Dolphin Conspiracy/ Entomology and Evolutionary Biology Subdirector:SD.net Dept. of Biological Sciences
There is Grandeur in the View of Life; it fills me with a Deep Wonder, and Intense Cynicism.
Our Chihuahua, Abbie, who just turned eight. She's a terrible driver.
She also sleeps a lot.
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance--that principle is contempt prior to investigation." -Herbert Spencer
"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." - Schiller, Die Jungfrau von Orleans, III vi.
"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."
Whoever says "education does not matter" can try ignorance
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A decision must be made in the life of every nation at the very moment when the grasp of the enemy is at its throat. Then, it seems that the only way to survive is to use the means of the enemy, to rest survival upon what is expedient, to look the other way. Well, the answer to that is 'survival as what'? A country isn't a rock. It's not an extension of one's self. It's what it stands for. It's what it stands for when standing for something is the most difficult! - Chief Judge Haywood
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We have a guest, my girlfriends mothers cat, Simba. We had to take him because get this, she had left him alone for almost 7 days in her apartment when she went to visit another of her daughters (she had multiple hospital visits the week in question) so she had left the cat at home, added lots of water and food and just left him.
We felt that was pretty horrible for the cat. We found out towards the end of the week about this, so we went and visited him and he was crazy for company and also very hungry for anything but dry food. Then we found out she was gonna have to do it again and then we said "we'll take the cat this time". So now he is here, seemingly enjoying himself and having another cat to play around with.
Was sitting at my desk dismantling one of my .22lr's when he just plonked his almost 14lbs of cat down under my lamp and went to sleep, it's an incandescent so it gives of heat too, probably why.
Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who did not.
This one is a wee out of focus, but I he was shedding, and going nuts with the skin eating.
Perfect focus
Sand bottom, floor space is about 50/50 land water, but I make good use of three dimensions, so the total area of both adds up to greater than 100% of the actual floor space. Live moss, live grasses, some nice submerged plants with a micro-invert community. It is nice.
and here is the other one, hiding in the aquatic hid spot
GALE Force Biological Agent/
BOTM/Great Dolphin Conspiracy/ Entomology and Evolutionary Biology Subdirector:SD.net Dept. of Biological Sciences
There is Grandeur in the View of Life; it fills me with a Deep Wonder, and Intense Cynicism.