February 8, 2009
FW: Animal Odd Couple
Archive for the ‘Animals’ Category.
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January 31, 2009
FW: 25 Ways To Be Healthier In the New Year
Sent in by: Vicki from Golden, CO
1.) Brush twice a day!
2.) Dress right for the weather.
3.) Visit the dentist regularly.
4.) Get plenty of rest.
5.) Make sure your hair is dry before going outside..
6.) Eat right.
7.) Get outside in the sun every once in a while.
8.) Always wear a seatbelt.
9.) Control your drinking of alcoholic beverages.
10.) Smile! It will make you feel better.
11.) Don’t over indulge.
12.) Bathe regularly.
13.) Read to exercise the brain.
14.) Surround yourself with friends.
15.) Stay away from too much caffeine.
16.) Use the bathroom regularly.
17.) Get plenty of exercise.
18.) Have your eyes checked regularly.
19.) Eat plenty of vegetables.
20.) Believe that people will like you for who you are.
21.) Forgive and forget.
22.) Take plenty of vacations.
23.) Celebrate all special occasions.
24.) Pick up a hobby.
25.) Love your neighbor as yourself.
Do all these things and you will be a happier, healthier person!
26.) Send this to your computer buds to give them a warm fuzzy!
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January 28, 2009
FW: A True Friend
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January 17, 2009
FW: Looking For Your Golf Balls in Arizona??
Sent in by: Ed from Show Low, Arizona
There is a reason you don’t go into the desert in Arizona looking for your golf ball!
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January 9, 2009
FW: Dog Versus Bullet
SENT IN BY: Rebecca from Salt Lake City, Utah
Notice the suspect behind the car, firing a gun – you see the smoke from the muzzle, and a split second later – the Shepherd Police Dog leaps across the roof of the auto, clamps onto the suspect, and brings him down so quickly – you’ll watch it several times to really appreciate the valor of this dog.
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January 2, 2009
FW: Bridge in Canada
SENT IN BY: Rebecca from Salt Lake City, Utah
This is the actual turn-off From Banff , Alberta , Canada to the #1 highway to Calgary
Great picture isn’t it?
They had to build the animals (especially the elk) their own crossing because that was where the natural crossing was and after the highway was built there were far too many accidents.
It didn’t take the animals long to learn that this was their very own bridge!
And then you have some people saying ‘ Animals are stupid ‘. Really….?
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December 26, 2008
Pigeon Mischievousness
Hey-are you thinking what I’m thinking?
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April 20, 2007
FW: And the groom didn’t even show!
Charmed woman marries cobra in India
Jun 2 01:43 PM US/Eastern
A woman who fell in love with a snake has reportedly married the reptile at a traditional Hindu wedding celebrated by 2,000 guests in India’s Orissa state.
Bimbala Das wore a silk saree for the ceremony Wednesday at Atala village near the Orissa state capital Bhubaneswar.
Priests chanted mantras to seal the union, but the snake failed to come out of a nearby ant hill where it lives, the Press Trust of India (PTI) said.
A brass replica snake stood in for the hesitant groom.
“Though snakes cannot speak nor understand, we communicate in a peculiar way,” Das, 30, told the agency.
“Whenever I put milk near the ant hill where the cobra lives, it always comes out to drink.
“I always get to see it every time I go near the ant hill. It has never harmed me,” she added.
Villagers welcomed the wedding in the belief it would bring good fortune and laid on a feast for the big day.
Snakes and particularly the King Cobra are venerated in India as religious symbols worn by Lord Shiva, the god of destruction.
Das, from a lower caste, converted to the animal-loving vegetarian Vaishnav sect whose local elders gave her permission to marry the cobra, the world’s largest venomous snake that can grow up to five metres.
“I am happy,” said her mother Dyuti Bhoi, who has two other daughters and two sons to marry off.
“Bimbala was ill,” Bhoi told local OTV channel. “We had no money to treat her. Then she started offering milk to the snake … she was cured. That made her fall in love.”
Das has moved into a hut built close to the ant hill since the wedding.
Earlier this year, a tribal girl was married off to a dog on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar.
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March 26, 2007
FW: Woman stopped wearing girdle of live crocodiles
POSTED: 12:45 p.m. EDT, March 26, 2007
JERUSALEM (AP) — A woman was caught with three crocodiles strapped to her waist at the Gaza-Egypt border crossing after guards noticed that she looked “strangely fat,” officials said.
The woman’s odd shape raised suspicions at the Rafah terminal in southern Gaza, and a body search by a female border guard turned up the animals, each about 50 centimeters (20 inches) long, concealed underneath her loose robe, according to Maria Telleria, spokeswoman for the European observers who run the crossing.
“The woman looked strangely fat. Even though she was veiled and covered, even with so many clothes on there was something strange,” Telleria said.
The incident, which took place on Thursday, sparked panic at the crossing.
“The policewoman screamed and ran out of the room, and then women began screaming and panicking when they heard,” Telleria said. But when the hysteria died down, she said, “everybody was admiring a woman who is able to tie crocodiles to her body.”
In her defense, the woman said she “was asked” to carry the crocodiles, said Wael Dahab, a spokesman for the Palestinian guards at the crossing.
The reptiles, which had their jaws tied shut with string, were returned to the Egyptian side of the border.
Dahab said the animals were likely meant for sale to Gaza’s small zoo or to private owners. The crocodiles would fetch “good money,” even in the impoverished territory, he said. In Gaza, the animals can fetch about $500 — roughly two months’ salary for a low-ranking police officer.
The woman was not the first to try to illegally smuggle exotic wildlife through the Rafah crossing, Dahab said: another woman tried to bring in a monkey tied to her chest, and other travelers tried to smuggle in exotic birds and a tiger cub. Border guards more frequently confiscate cigarettes, prescription drugs and car parts.
The crossing is the only way in and out of Gaza for residents of the crowded coastal strip.
Since Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005, the crossing has subject to a complex system of control: Egypt and the Palestinians are responsible for the crossing, with European monitors stationed at the terminal and Israeli inspectors watching from a distance over closed-circuit TV.
Israel retains final say over whether the crossing can open, and has kept it closed over 80 percent of the time since an Israeli soldier was captured by Hamas-linked militants in Gaza nine months ago, charging that the crossing is being used to smuggle money and weapons to militants.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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March 7, 2007
FW: Shark Lunch!
This is an authenic picture. It can be varified at: http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/sharkkayak.asp
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March 6, 2007
FW: New Kayak Sport!
I there I was, sitting in my Kayak…