[TheForge] Re: Pet Colk

[Mike Spencer]

> When I was younger we got pet chalk at the local farmers Coop.  It
> was in the same area as the snake tongue oil.  Neither is that
> common anymore.  Folks don't oil their snake's tongue nor chalk
> their pets much these days.

We got, yew know, mo-derny pets now.  We pump our beetle and
digitally monitor our mouse.

The mouse -- blind and now elderly and deaf too -- has his exercise
wheel connected to a computer that can monitor how fast and far he
runs.  (Four miles in one evening at average 2+ mph when he was
younger; now maybe max of 1000' in a good evening.)

Our Dytiscus water beetle lives in a fishbowl.  He's carnivorous and a
messy eater so we have to pump the water out every couple of days and
replace it or it turns to murky slime.  We don't have a place for a
proper filtered aquarium.

ObBlacksmithing:  

Found the diving beetle crawling across the floor next to the anvil.
No idea how or why a water beetle would be wandering in such a
location.

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
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