Outdoor cat poisoning - report back

"Mary" writes:

wrote :

I love armadillos! Unfortunately in Texas I mostly only saw them
dead on the road. They're so prehistoric looking!

Oh, they're cute as can be. The baby ones, their heads look like little
horse heads. I don't ever touch them, but adore watching them. They
look like little pigs in armour. They also make this cute little
chattering noise. They don't bother the cats. The cats just watch, sort
of nonplussed.


Why don't you touch them? Will their mamas leave them due
to human scent? Man, if you ever film them I want to see.

They carry leprosy, among other things.

"Christopher C. Stacy" wrote in message
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"Mary" writes:

wrote :

I love armadillos! Unfortunately in Texas I mostly only saw them
dead on the road. They're so prehistoric looking!

Oh, they're cute as can be. The baby ones, their heads look like
little
horse heads. I don't ever touch them, but adore watching them. They
look like little pigs in armour. They also make this cute little
chattering noise. They don't bother the cats. The cats just watch,
sort
of nonplussed.


Why don't you touch them? Will their mamas leave them due
to human scent? Man, if you ever film them I want to see.

They carry leprosy, among other things.

Leprosy?? Honest? What a segue. You went from Twinkies
to Leprosy. You are an intellectual renaissance man.

"Mary" writes:

"Christopher C. Stacy" wrote in message
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"Mary" writes:

wrote :

I love armadillos! Unfortunately in Texas I mostly only saw them
dead on the road. They're so prehistoric looking!

Oh, they're cute as can be. The baby ones, their heads look like
little
horse heads. I don't ever touch them, but adore watching them. They
look like little pigs in armour. They also make this cute little
chattering noise. They don't bother the cats. The cats just watch,
sort
of nonplussed.


Why don't you touch them? Will their mamas leave them due
to human scent? Man, if you ever film them I want to see.

They carry leprosy, among other things.

Leprosy?? Honest? What a segue. You went from Twinkies
to Leprosy. You are an intellectual renaissance man.

Well, that's what a friend of mine from a part of Texas
(where they are common road kill) told me. I am pretty
sure he was serious, but I never researched it further.
He kept a stuffed one in his office.

Mary wrote:
wrote :

I love armadillos! Unfortunately in Texas I mostly only saw them
dead on the road. They're so prehistoric looking!

Oh, they're cute as can be. The baby ones, their heads look like
little
horse heads. I don't ever touch them, but adore watching them. They
look like little pigs in armour. They also make this cute little
chattering noise. They don't bother the cats. The cats just watch,
sort
of nonplussed.


Why don't you touch them? Will their mamas leave them due
to human scent? Man, if you ever film them I want to see.

Well, I'm kind of embarrassed to admit this, but my mother used to say,
"DOn't touch it, you'll get leprosy." Do you know I have no clue
whether that's true or not.

Christopher C. Stacy wrote:
"Mary" writes:

wrote :

I love armadillos! Unfortunately in Texas I mostly only saw
them
dead on the road. They're so prehistoric looking!

Oh, they're cute as can be. The baby ones, their heads look like
little
horse heads. I don't ever touch them, but adore watching them.
They
look like little pigs in armour. They also make this cute little
chattering noise. They don't bother the cats. The cats just
watch, sort
of nonplussed.


Why don't you touch them? Will their mamas leave them due
to human scent? Man, if you ever film them I want to see.

They carry leprosy, among other things.

Holy crap. My mother was right. She probably thought I was weird enough
already, in an Ellie-Mae-Clampitt kind of way; without being a leper on
top of that.
Sherry

wrote:
Well, I'm kind of embarrassed to admit this, but my mother used to
say,
"DOn't touch it, you'll get leprosy." Do you know I have no clue
whether that's true or not.

Nine-banded armadillos are one of only three non-human
naturally-occurring resevoirs for leprosy known. The other two being
chimps (although rare) and sooty mangabeys (an African monkey).

-L.
(Primate welfarist)

"-L." wrote in message
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wrote:
Well, I'm kind of embarrassed to admit this, but my mother used to
say,
"DOn't touch it, you'll get leprosy." Do you know I have no clue
whether that's true or not.

Nine-banded armadillos are one of only three non-human
naturally-occurring resevoirs for leprosy known. The other two being
chimps (although rare) and sooty mangabeys (an African monkey).

-L.
(Primate welfarist)
(Failed Usenet censor)
(General all-around dickhead)

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Mary wrote:
wrote :

I love armadillos! Unfortunately in Texas I mostly only saw them
dead on the road. They're so prehistoric looking!

Oh, they're cute as can be. The baby ones, their heads look like
little
horse heads. I don't ever touch them, but adore watching them. They
look like little pigs in armour. They also make this cute little
chattering noise. They don't bother the cats. The cats just watch,
sort
of nonplussed.


Why don't you touch them? Will their mamas leave them due
to human scent? Man, if you ever film them I want to see.

Well, I'm kind of embarrassed to admit this, but my mother used to say,
"DOn't touch it, you'll get leprosy." Do you know I have no clue
whether that's true or not.


Well, Christopher says it is true! Who'd have thought it?

"Christopher C. Stacy" wrote in message
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"Mary" writes:

"Christopher C. Stacy" wrote in message
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"Mary" writes:

wrote :

I love armadillos! Unfortunately in Texas I mostly only saw them
dead on the road. They're so prehistoric looking!

Oh, they're cute as can be. The baby ones, their heads look like
little
horse heads. I don't ever touch them, but adore watching them.
They
look like little pigs in armour. They also make this cute little
chattering noise. They don't bother the cats. The cats just watch,
sort
of nonplussed.


Why don't you touch them? Will their mamas leave them due
to human scent? Man, if you ever film them I want to see.

They carry leprosy, among other things.

Leprosy?? Honest? What a segue. You went from Twinkies
to Leprosy. You are an intellectual renaissance man.

Well, that's what a friend of mine from a part of Texas
(where they are common road kill) told me. I am pretty
sure he was serious, but I never researched it further.
He kept a stuffed one in his office.

Sounds like you have some interesting friends.

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Christopher C. Stacy wrote:
"Mary" writes:

wrote :

I love armadillos! Unfortunately in Texas I mostly only saw
them
dead on the road. They're so prehistoric looking!

Oh, they're cute as can be. The baby ones, their heads look like
little
horse heads. I don't ever touch them, but adore watching them.
They
look like little pigs in armour. They also make this cute little
chattering noise. They don't bother the cats. The cats just
watch, sort
of nonplussed.


Why don't you touch them? Will their mamas leave them due
to human scent? Man, if you ever film them I want to see.

They carry leprosy, among other things.

Holy crap. My mother was right. She probably thought I was weird enough
already, in an Ellie-Mae-Clampitt kind of way; without being a leper on
top of that.
Sherry


Sherry, this is funny! Ellie Mae Clampitt??