for fotap » animals http://fotap.org/blog random crap for your abusement Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:05:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 rip http://fotap.org/blog/2007/11/28/rip/ http://fotap.org/blog/2007/11/28/rip/#comments Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:34:24 +0000 pete http://fotap.org/blog/2007/11/28/rip/ meatloaf says she's too sexy for her bandanabye meatie, we love you

]]> http://fotap.org/blog/2007/11/28/rip/feed/ 1 cat butts! http://fotap.org/blog/2007/09/21/cat-butts/ http://fotap.org/blog/2007/09/21/cat-butts/#comments Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:21:44 +0000 pete http://fotap.org/blog/2007/09/21/cat-butts/ since we have three cats, we have a thing for cat butts. there’s a grocery bag we got in the netherlands that’s a “cat butt bag”. the baggers at the grocery store love it.

and now, a horrible tattoo.

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(more at horrible tattoos)

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meerkats are so funny. i’ve always loved seeing them in the zoo, and meerkat manor is just an awesome show (new season august 10th!). reading this was just a crazy intersection of things. i bet i can think of a few other ways to help them socialize too!


Vaporub solves meerkat gang-wars:
Zookeepers at Paultons Park near Romsey, Hampshire, UK have solved their meerkat brawls with Vap-O-Rub. Meerkats attack newcomers unless they smell like family. The solution was to rub all the little critters with minty chest-sauce so that they all smelled alike.

Livestock manager Geoff Masson said: “It is normally extremely difficult to integrate new meerkats into an existing group – their usual instinct is to try to attack any newcomers.

“However, thanks to a suggestion from our vet, Kate Chitty, we were able to neutralise all odours by using a little of the VapoRub on the nose of each meerkat.

“The meerkats then all smelt the same to each other and gladly accepted the new arrivals.”

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