AT : Pet dogs taught to use touchscreen computer. A dog is offered a choice of pictures on a touch-screen computer during a study of animal cognition. Without human coaching, the dogs were able to select the picture that shows a dog, just by touching the screen.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22026675/
boring pets I'm looking after my friends hamster whilst she in India (so jealous.....)
and it's so boring,
all it does is sleep and wander round its cage, whenever I get it out it just moseys around a bit....
any one else got any boring pets?
or really unusual ones?
(and no posts about how I could make it less boring by putting it up my bum :) )
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crazy animal photos (originals) finally found this crazy book with loadsa animal piccys in took me forever, its called sketched by the sun, and they are all original photos
this one i wanna get tatooed on ma back, but im scared of needles
its a rabbit on a carriage!!!!!!!!!!!
what came first the egg or the chicken!
theres a cat riding a lamb!!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!123
I love dogs I love dogs I love dogs ^_^.. and houses? =/ yeahhhhh :D:D:D:D
Thought I'd take it the topic off the 'Moderators wanted' thread and start a new one.
I used to work in a dog kennels (for about 2 years).. had to leave to get some more money in to move out.. have no idea where to move though? London was first option... WAAAY too expensive... Brighton was the second, but it's a bit out of the way and I wouldn't be able to get to most of free parties as easy. =[ Maybe Croydon? Norfolk would be a great place but none of my close friends are more interested in living where the alternative club life mostly is etc etc etc.
Anyway, yeah dogs :D:D:D
Someone buy me a french bulldog ^_^!!
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And these are just funny...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4KeV1JwNog
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look what this Camel did!
Quote:
A woman in Australia has been killed by her pet camel after the animal may have tried to have sex with her.
The woman was found dead at the family's sheep and cattle ranch near the town of Mitchell in Queensland.
The woman had been given the camel as a 60th birthday present earlier this year because of her love of exotic pets.
The camel was just 10 months old but already weighed 152kg (336lbs) and had come close to suffocating the family's pet goat on a number of occasions.
On Saturday, the woman apparently became the object of the male camel's desire.
It knocked her to the ground, lay on top of her and displayed what the police delicately described as possible mating behaviour.
"I'd say it's probably been playing, or it may be even a sexual sort of thing," the Associated Press news agency quoted Queensland police Detective Senior Constable Craig Gregory as saying. Young camels are not normally aggressive but can become more threatening if treated and raised as pets.
And then i found this......
Quote:
Camel attacks are becoming a serious problem nowadays. Every year, approximately 23.7 people are being attacked by camels, and some of them might not even be aware of that.
That's what this short guide was written for - to assist all those people who might be attacked by camels, or who think they might have been attacked by a camel and are not sure.
Don't become another statistic - read the Camel Attack Guide today!
[FONT=Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]How to know if you have encountered a camel
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Camels mostly live around the area of the Middle east and North Africa. If you are not in these parts, most chances are the animal you have encountered is not a camel. Either way, you want to ask yourself the following questions:
Is it a largish animal with ridiculously long legs, a hump on its back and a light-brown colour?
Camels are about 2m high, and are amazingly well-adapted to life in the desert. If the answer to any of the details in the question above is "no", the animal standing in front of you is not a camel, but something else. A dog, perhaps?
Does the animal have antlers?
If the answer to this question is "yes", you are probably standing in front of a moose, which is totally different from a camel.
Once you have established the identity of the animal, you can move to the next step.
[FONT=Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]What next?
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The next questions you should ask yourself are:
Is the camel looking at you?
Is it a tourist camel?
If the camel has a large fancy-looking saddle on its hump, reins decorated with all sorts of jingling bells and a person standing near its head and charging money for taking a picture of you on the camel's back, it is not likely to attack you.
Is the camel moving? Is it standing up at all?
This is a very important point. Camels can move pretty fast, but once they have laid themselves down they don't like getting up again, so they do not pose a threat. Camels might also be tied, in which case they move much slower.
Does the camel appear mad?
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[FONT=Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Oh my god, a camel is charging towards me, what do I do? [/FONT]
Run as fast as you can towards the closest shelter - a car, a bus, anything that might be camel-proof, and preferably something that can be driven far away from there.
Try deceiving the camel by throwing things at it. If you happen to be wearing a straw hat, now would be a good time to let it go once and for all. The same thing goes for any food you might be carrying on you. Do not throw your camera, you will need it!
Once you are safely inside the bus (or whatever shelter you have), and before you take off, pull out your camera.
Take a picture of the raging camel - better take more than one picture, just to be on the safe side.
After all, if you don't have a picture of an insane drooling camel trying to break through the bus window, who is ever going to believe your story?
and this was all on the BBC news website, who said news wasnt fun any more:laugh_at: :laugh_at: raaa
Training dogs helps disruptive teenagers
bbc.co.uk wrote:
Midhurst in West Sussex is about as well-to-do as any small town in England. A mile or so outside, in a converted farm surrounded by peaceful, rolling hills, is the headquarters of a charity called Canine Partners.
The centre is dedicated to the training of assistance dogs - mostly Labradors and golden retrievers. Here the dogs learn the extraordinary skills they need to help give independence to disabled people.
All the kids went through an emotional journey and all of them gained something real from the experiment. Whether three or four months can change them forever remains to be seen, though so far the signs look good.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6539093.stm
What a great idea
cat joke – check it out I found this a while ago and thought i would share it with my fellow cat lovers:
http://www.kittykondo.com/how_to_give_your_cat_a_pill%5B1%5D.htm
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