[Sp-EGG-u-late?]

I will not speculate...

You mean Sp-EGG-u-late?

[(OH and we never did find the piece of missing tail)...ew, did he eat it?]

One afternoon when Sam was 9 weeks old, we came home and noticed blood all over the kitchen floor and fridge. Sam came down and had blood all over the tip of his tail. I looked and noticed the tip of his tail missing. I figured him and Bucca were deviling and there was a mishap. I cleaned it and it was fine after a few days. Sam was notorious for chasing his own tail. OK, so move forward a few months. We came home from work and noticed Sam did not come down to greet us. Something was wrong. We searched all over...no Sam. Kara went in her room, (where Sam never went) and looked under her bed. Well there was Sam, looking all scared. She got him out and OMG, he was missing about 2 more inches of his tail. He was bleeding bad and not liking it. We took him to the vet. The vet asked what happened, I said I have no clue. I didn't like the look on the Vet's face, like we were abusive. We thought maybe a door shut on is tail but no one was home. We left Sam there so he could do some minor surgery on his tail, cut it even and it put a few stitches in the end. He put a cone on him and we had to leave it on him for 7 days...YIKES, Sam hated it. Eventually, we learned that Sam had a fetish with his tail, always chased it, always bit down on it and always screamed. We figured he bit his own tail off. He still does it but it's harder now for him to catch as it's just too darn short....but he still tries.

I measured both Sam and Bucca's tail. Bucca 9 1/2 inches...Sam 7 inches Here  you can see the difference in size.

(OH and we never did find the piece of missing tail)...ew, did he eat it?   

The reason I thought of this story was because Sam was going nuts this am trying to get his tail again. (He has his moments)!

looks like they are rebuilding the nest! 

Nest Update

03/27/10:
We're not sure about our ospreys' approach to nest building so far, but we hope as we get into April, their building skills will improve.

2 eggs for Jersey City

I think Cam 1 froze

same pic from earlier

Workin it!!

Shouldn't Archer be helping?

Workin it!!

Go lay an egg please!

Right there will be fine!

or there

A brief moment.

So sad 

TAIJI, Japan - "Heroes" star Hayden Panettiere and her boyfriend, world champion boxer Wladimir Klitschko, received a chilly reception Friday in the Japanese fishing village of Taiji, where they called for an end to its annual dolphin hunt.

Panettiere said she would "love to be a spokesperson" for the town if it abandons the hunt. Her visit to Taiji comes just weeks after "The Cove," a gory depiction of Taiji's dolphin slaughter, won the Oscar for best documentary.

The celebrity couple arrived in the morning with a small group of environmental activists. Panettiere tried to meet the mayor and representatives from the local fisheries union, but she and Jeff Pantukhoff, an anti-whaling activist from the U.S., were blocked at the door of the town hall.

"We are trying to peacefully come up with better ideas as to how to generate income and utilize the nature here," Panettiere told reporters. "We've been to Taiji before and it's a beautiful place with beautiful wildlife."

If Taiji were to quit killing dolphins, "I'd love to be a spokesperson or to help generate tourism," she said.

Fishermen in the village on the rocky coast of southwest Japan consider the hunt a proud legacy. But it has long been targeted by hardcore environmentalists and animal lovers, and the Oscar has given the opposition more mainstream attention.

Panettiere, followed by a crowd of media throughout the day, later walked through a large hole in a barrier along a path leading to the famous cove depicted in the movie. The cove was strewn with nets used to trap the dolphins, as well as firewood and debris left by the hunters.

Panettiere posed for photographs as she walked along the small pebbly beach for several minutes, but then two town officials ran up and after a tense exchange everyone left. A fisherman pulled up several minutes later in a truck and boarded up the hole.

"We just wanted to have a very peaceful and relaxed conversation," Panettiere said.

Panettiere, who plays an indestructible cheerleader on the hit U.S. TV series "Heroes," is also the spokeswoman for the "Save the Whales Again!" campaign, which wants to halt Taiji's dolphin hunt. The campaign cites studies that show dolphin meat contains dangerously high levels of mercury and is unsafe to eat, and says killing the animals is cruel and unnecessary.

The 20-year-old actress also protested the Taiji hunt in 2007, when along with five other surfers she paddled out into the cove where the hunt takes place in a peaceful protest that was broken up by fisherman. Scenes from that encounter are briefly shown in "The Cove."

The Japanese government allows about 19,000 dolphins to be killed each year. Taiji hunts about 2,000 dolphins every year for meat -- less than other places -- but is singled out in part because of its "oikomi" method of herding and killing them near the shore. Some are captured and sold to aquariums and dolphin shows at water parks.

Residents once welcomed foreign visitors, but in recent years have grown weary of what they feel are one-sided portrayals and grisly snapshots shown out of context. Overzealous protesters and photographers are occasionally approached and scolded by rough-and-tumble locals looking to defend their town's reputation.

As the group arrived, a truck of right-wing nationalists blasted slogans, saying Japan should not be singled out for whaling and dolphin hunts because Westerners "are killing cows." They also demanded President Barack Obama apologize for the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

There were no clashes between the environmentalists and the townspeople.

Klitschko, the six-foot, five inch (196 centimeter) heavyweight boxing champion, who just last week recorded his 48th knockout in defending his WBO and IBF belts, towered over everyone as he quietly took in the day's events.

"It's not about being aggressive and violent," he said.

Before the group left, John Quigley, an "aerial artist" who creates large works of art that can be viewed from the sky, made a giant outline of a dolphin on the sand.

[I already fainted and came to!!!!]

A cleaning crew preparing a foreclosed home for possible resale stepped into a snake pit, discovering containers filled with more than 120 snakes -- most, but not all, of them dead, reports Florida Today.

Barry Walter, 43, the homeowner, left 17 live snakes, which included three-foot-long ball pythons, king snakes and hognose snakes.

Officials also found extensive collections of comic books, Star Wars memorabilia and GI Joes inside the Palm Bay home.

"We got up to the door and smelled something real bad," said Ryan Slingsby, 25, who works for cleaning contractor Inafix. "That was when we saw the dead (python) in the window."

There were bags of rats in the refrigerator. This is probably the worst I've ever seen," said Slingsby.

I already fainted and came to!!!! 

Hopefully it will stay up more than down...

  Thank you!

[cheetah is a cat]

And the peregrine is the surprise winner

No surprise. The crocodile is ugly, the shark is smelly, and the cheetah is a cat.  

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