January 5, 2007
Deer, God, No!
There was a funny story about deer in Staten Island in The Advance earlier this week. Deer have been grazing on the green at the Staten Island Golf Practice Center, and apparently they are not afraid of golf balls or humans! The Advance has tips for deer-and-human safety (like what to do when they run in front of the car), but the best factoid was this: "The state Department of Environmental Conservation estimates that there are about 40 deer on Staten Island. Most of them are believed to have swam ashore along points on the South and West shores from New Jersey.
And in other animal news:
- The public has been helping the ASPCA track down animal abusers. In the NY Sun article, a particularly terrible case of animal cruelty is detailed - some teenagers stole a cat off someone's window sill to throw to pet Rottweilers (and it gets worse after that).
- In Finland, scientists have found that pet owners seem sicker than animal-free folks. And for some reason the dog owners were fatter. Bizarre, considering American studies that show pet ownership is good for you.
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deer swim? wtf?
"...scientists have found that pet owners seem sicker than animal-free folks. And for some reason the dog owners were fatter. Bizarre, considering American studies that show pet ownership is good for you."
Not so bizarre, considering "American Studies" also show that we as a nation are NOT torturering, murderous, sexual perverts who bomb and kill innocent woamn & children on a daily basis while invading other countries just because our Fuhrer says so....
Rottweilers get a bad rap, but you'll notice in that Sun article that the dogs had more sense then their 'humans.'
There are hundreds of deer on Martha's Vineyard. They swam, too.
today Gothamist, tommorow the Gagosian Gallery
-ireallylovecake.
Did you READ the article on pets in finland? It was quite brief, but anyhow, it goes on to say that the same study also showed pet owners there tend to be far poorer and partake in various unhealthy activity, so chances are that pet-ownership is not really to blame for their poor health. But hey, it makes a snappy headline now, doesn't it?
Actually Ben compared to other countries we aren't. You Blame America Firsters should take five minutes out of every day to look in the International section of the paper. Then you can go back to whatever point you were trying to make.
Very funny !