If we were all animals....

katiewhompus

I got it! Seshat is a praying mantis! Whenever I see them I always wonder what they are thinking, because they look like they are so deep in thought and just a very quiet insect (sorry for making you an insect lol).

I like Nebb as an owl.

I think we need animal badges...

AATB - One of my books uses the word "collie" as a kind of compliment. A collie is a dog who herds and protects, so if someone was being a little over protective (aka, a dad/mom) they would say "Oh stop being a collie and let them go out with their friends".

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[QUOTE]I got it! Seshat is a praying mantis! Whenever I see them I always wonder what they are thinking, because they look like they are so deep in thought and just a very quiet insect (sorry for making you an insect lol).
Posted by katiewhompus[/QUOTE]

And I kill my H after we have sex. Sorry H, thems the rules.

beatlesgirl25

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[QUOTE]I got it! Seshat is a praying mantis! Whenever I see them I always wonder what they are thinking, because they look like they are so deep in thought and just a very quiet insect (sorry for making you an insect lol). I like Nebb as an owl. <strong>I think we need animal badges</strong>... AATB - One of my books uses the word "collie" as a kind of compliment. A collie is a dog who herds and protects, so if someone was being a little over protective (aka, a dad/mom) they would say "Oh stop being a collie and let them go out with their friends".
Posted by katiewhompus[/QUOTE]

I'm good then... I'll be a taco cat.

AllAboutTheBenjamin

Animal badges are freaking hilarious.

Good point about the collies katie

I'm not sure what animal I would name myself - although the horse suggestion pretty much made my day lol

reddy123

cew as a meer cat just made me think about the meercat having a penis on it's forehead and what it would look like peeking out from a small hill top. Or better yet, going into it's burrow, lmao.

katiewhompus

I like dolphin and giraffe I think my employees would agree with both too. It takes a lot to get me pissed off, but when someone does it is apparently terrifying. Have you ever seen a dolphin/giraffe fight? Omg scary.

reddy123

AATB- I think you are a gorilla that has learned sign language and been released back into the wild, only to teach your gorilla family sign language and so you come back and take over the world. 

That, or a raptor. Something with both brains and braun.  

beatlesgirl25

So who's the Yeti? Someone's got to be the Yeti. I call not it.

AllAboutTheBenjamin

Reddy you are fecking hilarious.

I love the idea of me as a raptor.  I'd eat bitches.

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I've been in a giraffe fight. It's not fun.

I think I'm going with snow leopard, mainly because it reminds me of when I woke up from my surgery and my dad put a stuffed white tiger on my lap. I was so out of it I thought it was a polar bear and proceeded to argue with him over what it actually was. White tiger, snow leopard, close enough!

reddy123

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[QUOTE]I<strong>'ve been in a giraffe fight. It's not fun.</strong> I think I'm going with snow leopard, mainly because it reminds me of when I woke up from my surgery and my dad put a stuffed white tiger on my lap. I was so out of it I thought it was a polar bear and proceeded to argue with him over what it actually was. White tiger, snow leopard, close enough!
Posted by Seshat411[/QUOTE]<div>
</div><div>This is just a story begging to be told. I've seen a giraffe on acid once, that is a story NOT begging to be told.

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: If we were all animals.... : This is just a story begging to be told. I've seen a giraffe on acid once, that is a story NOT begging to be told.
Posted by reddy123[/QUOTE]

Um, yes, a giraffe on acid IS a story to tell!

I used to work at a zoo as an education guide. Part of my job was taking care of the giraffes during the day. Our male, Duke, was a punk and liked to get his way. Well, we had hung up signs but weren't ready to display them yet, so we covered them with cloth. Duke liked to chew on them, which led to eating and therefore making him sick.

So all day I was pushing his big head away from the sign, which he didn't like. Finally, I took the cloth down and he tried to headbutt me, but missed. So he left. A few minutes later I was talking to some guests and had my back to the enclosure. Then the kid points and says "raff!" and before I could do anything Duke swings his head over the fence and slams his ossicones (horns) into my head and neck.

He knocked me over, into a display I had set up. Other than some huge bruises I was fine. A few hours later I was feeding them (there were 5 out there, 1 male and 4 female) and he headbutted me in the back. I couldn't lift my arm right for a week.

beatlesgirl25

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: If we were all animals.... : Yeti's are kinda cool. Can I be the Yeti? I want to be a panda bear too since I'm Asian and all (Bwahahah!).
Posted by Champagne Supernova[/QUOTE]

Haha, of course! You can be the panda, and I'll be the panda/Yeti hybrid, since I'm only half-Asian and have the height from my Caucasian side.

Seshat, that's crazy! I was hoping you'd follow up with the actual giraffe story.

katiewhompus

That is so crazy Seshat! I wanted to work at a zoo when I was little but then realized how dangerous it could be, and I'm a chicken. So I went to horses instead, because those are completely predictable and safe *eyeroll*.

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I miss Duke. He was a butthead (pun intended), but I loved him. He used to let me hug him. I might have a pic of him at home on my computer. I had many a bruise from Duke, guy didn't know his own strength.

I also almost once got sprayed by a jaguar when grabbing a girl from running up to the cage during a behind-the-scenes tour. Scared the hell out of me, Luckily she got sprayed instead. Ha!

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: If we were all animals.... : When I was 9 I started horse riding lessons, and my school teacher went on a great long rant about how unsafe it was, and how my parents should be ashamed of themselves for letting me ride. Of course, once I'd had a fall and bruised up my face pretty bad (interesting sight on a 9 year old), the same teacher asked if I'd been beaten at home.  She was a strange one
Posted by rhonwynv[/QUOTE]

People are nosy like that. When I worked at a bird rehab center my arms were covered with scratches (we got in a huge flow of gannets and anhingas, and they were biters) and someone in class took me aside and gave me a card for a hotline that helped cutters. I was like, "If I was a cutter, do you really think I'd wear tank tops all the time and show off my work?"

beatlesgirl25

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[QUOTE]Speaking of Pandas....Dancing Panda was making the rounds in the local news all morning. The video cracks me up! <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/21/dancing-panda-is-the-best_n_690028.html" title="Linkification: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/21/dancing-panda-is-the-best_n_690028.html" class="linkification-ext">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/21/dancing-panda-is-the-best_n_690028.html</a>
Posted by Champagne Supernova[/QUOTE]

Haha! I love it. That panda's got some moves.

reddy123

Seshat: That is really scary!

ug, I just don't like the acid story because it's kinda animal cruelty, but I had no part in it, so please don't judge me, this was all back in my crazy days:

My friend was obsessed with giving animals drugs to see what they would do. Most of the time it was something little like spiders on pot, but eventually the animals grew and grew until he was giving mushrooms to cows and the like. I know it's abuse, I know it's horrible. 

 There is this Safari place that has acres and acres of land and it just lets the animals roam wild and you drive around the grounds in your car (how is this even legal or allowed?!). It is suppose to be like driving through Africa. The only animals they don't allow to roam are the big cats. But the ostriches and camels make up for it with their scariness.

Anyway, my friend gave the giraffe acid. And he did it in front of a ton of tourists watching too. It started flipping it's neck around like a windmill with it's tongue out and all the staff debated tranquilizing it, but decided instead to pretend like they could control the situation, when they really, really couldn't. Mostly they had to diffuse the crowd and just let it flip out, because no one was getting near that thing, even to tranquilize it.

I know it's more sad than funny, but that's my story. I remember being envious of a girl in school for having an intense monkey bite scar and story, but I guess seeing a giraffe on acid is kind of unique. Doesn't compare to a monkey-bite scar though (you could see all the little teeth!).

katiewhompus

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: If we were all animals.... : People are nosy like that. When I worked at a bird rehab center my arms were covered with scratches (we got in a huge flow of gannets and anhingas, and they were biters) and someone in class took me aside and gave me a card for a hotline that helped cutters. I was like, "If I was a cutter, do you really think I'd wear tank tops all the time and show off my work?"
Posted by Seshat411[/QUOTE]

I got this while doing archaeology. Our trowels have to be razor sharp and we test them by shaving hairs off our arms. I always kept my trowel and sharpie in opposite pockets so I would often cut my arm on the trowel while reaching for the sharpie. I came home after a 3 month assignment and everyone was like "Kristi, are you sure this is the field for you? Do you need to talk about something with a professional?"

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Did he get caught? I'm hoping so. I've known people like that too, but they mainly stuck to their pets. Tranquilizing it may not have been safe anyway, who knows how the drugs might itneract with one another.

We have a place like that in Florida, and you can drive with the big cats. it was neat, and me being my stupid self I opened the window to get a picture of the giraffe and it suck it's head in. It didn't scare me, but had my aunt screaming this high-pitched noise that still makes me laugh.

reddy123

Unfortunately, no, he lived to tell the tale over and over and over (what do you know, I've grown up and we've parted ways....)

Your giraffe aunt story reminds me of the ostriches here, they will do anything (including breaking a window) to see if you have food in your car.

SarahPLiz

I want to be a llama. I like pajamas, and sometimes I get so mad I could spit.