Amazing Animal Facts

I found these on another blog (thank you!) Since I love animals, I thought I would post this here today, along with some of my own commentary based on my own life experiences with animals.




The koala is the world’s fussiest eater and feeds uniquely on eucalyptus leaves. (I can be an even fussier eater!)






An elephant's tooth can weigh as much as 12 pounds.





In Alaska, it is legal to shoot a bear - but you'll break the law if you wake up a bear to take its photograph.



Americans own 55 million dogs, and 60 million cats. (None of that 60 million is mine! I prefer the first pet mentioned if they are no bigger than a cat!)




Adult fleas can live for up to 2 years during which time the female can lay up to 1,200 eggs. (I hope someday these get totally eradicated!)




Elephant seals are air-breathing mammals, but they can hold their breath for up to two hours while diving. (They also have the most flexible spine in the animal kingdom)




Apart from humans the only land animal that cries is the elephant.




The longest snake is the reticulated python, which can reach over 33 ft.

In Lousiana, you can be jailed for ten years for stealing an alligator. (When I lived in Lousiana, I almost never saw an alligator)

Dragonflies have the largest eyes and sharpest eyesight of any insect. Each eye is made up of more than 30,000 separate rod-like units. (Jumping spiders come in an amazing second, but they are not insects)

Desert rats can copulate 122 times an hour. (Hmmm. Some rat hanky-panky!)

One of the many Tarzans, Karmuala Searlel, was mauled to death on the set by a raging elephant. (and another one of them managed to really kill a lion on the set because the script called for it)

A scientist at Michigan State University has calculated that the production of a single hens egg requires about 120 gallons of water, a loaf of bread requires 300 gallons, and a pound of beef 3,500 gallons.

Great Whites can swim at up to 25 mph. They must swim continually or they would sink, as they don't have a swim bladder to keep them afloat like a bony fish.

Strands of spider web are stronger than steel wire of the same thickness.

The collective name for a group of frogs is an “army of frogs”; in the case of their warty cousins, it’s a “knot of toads”.

Dolphins are the only other animals besides humans that get pleasure out of sex. They are also the only other animals that have sex for reasons other than reproduction.

Contrary to popular belief, biblical Jonah was swallowed by a Great White Shark, not a whale. It is thought that a shark may have been landed with a man's body inside, prompting the myth to arise.

Not all polar bears hibernate; only pregnant females polar bears do. (and polar bear cubs are the size of a rat when they are born)

Most scientists agree that Great White Shark attacks on humans often stem from territorial aggression because of a perceived invasion of their space, and are usually non-predatory in nature. (I always heard it was because their first impression of us is we're their favorite prey, seals and sea lions)

Naked mole rats are the only hairless mammals. (they have whisker-like hairs coming from their skin instead to feel around with)

One 15 foot great white was found with 200 plus crabs in its stomach. (are they sure it was a great white?? It would have to capture the crab as it was swimming in the open ocean)

An armadillo can walk under water.

House mice are able to drop vertically down 12 feet without injury. (that's about the equivolent of a human falling off a 20-story building)

Goldfish history can be traced back over 1500 years to Ancient China.

Only 2% of male red deer are seriously injured in their antler-rattling contests.

An American Animal Hospital Association poll showed that 33 percent of dog owners admit that they talk to their dogs on the phone or leave messages on an answering machine while away. (Me being one of them, plus I read stories to my dogs too! They are my very first audience when I release a story)

Frogs may be hypnotised by placing them on their back and gently stroking their stomach.

The African driver ant Dorylus lives in colonies of up to twenty-two million workers. Their combined mass is more than fifty kilograms, and they feed off and protect a territory of a massive fifty thousand square metres.

Twenty-eight species of anemone fishes are known, along with 10 species of anemones that act as hosts. (they don't all resemble Nemo either)

The average body temperature of a sparrow is 105.8 degrees Fahrenheit. (I'd hate to feel what an abnormal temperature is for a sparrow)

Sheep's milk is used to produce Roquefort cheese.

A female donkey's milk is closest to human milk.

Stone-aged people tamed dogs to help them track game. (dogs are darned good multi-taskers, unlike cats)

A seagull can drink salt water because it has special glands that filter out the salt. (so can albatrosses and penguins)

The difference in weight between a 'newborn' caterpillar and the fully grown larva is typically 1000-fold or even more.

Snake venom is ninety percent protein.

The hippopotamus has the world's shortest sperm. (Amazing considering hippos are the 4th largest land animals)

A rabbit's teeth never stops growing. They are kept worn down by gnawing on food. (and anything else they can find! Food or not!)

Scientists estimate that there are currently 1.4 million animal species known to science; with possibly as many as 30 million on the planet. (Most of which are probably found in the deep-sea oceans or underground)

The only two mammals to lay eggs are the platypus and the echidna. The mothers nurse their babies through pores in their skin.

Kittens can clock an amazing 31 miles per hour at full speed, and can cover about three times their body length per leap. (and when they get to be older cats, they can run at 45 mph, but they don't become any better at leaping)

The tuatara lizard's metabolism is so slow they only have to breathe once an hour. (Anyone doesn't know what a tuatara lizard is, here's a pic:

Male bees will try to attract sex partners with orchid fragrance.

The giant cricket of Africa enjoys eating human hair. (All I can say is YUK!!! No wonder a lot of African natives don't have any hair!)

The octopus's testicles are located in its head. (That's one creature that literally has sex on the brain!)

The tuatara lizard of New Zealand has three eyes - two in the center of its head and one on top.

It takes the deep-sea clam 100 years to grow to a length of one-third inch. (You can just imagine how old those giant clams that get up to 6 feet wide are!)

The Venus flytrap can eat a whole cheeseburger. (Imagine what a good-sized Venus flytrap can eat)

Hamsters love to eat crickets. (So do dormice, a small pet emerging in popularity)

Dinosaurs lived on Earth for around 165 million years before they became extinct. (Humans have been around less than 2 million, and look what they have done to the planet in that short length of time! What would happen if we would have been around for 165 million years?!)

The rare Hawaiian monk seal has been known to dive to about 1,650 feet.

The female green turtle sheds tears as she lays her eggs on the beach. This washes sand particles out of her eyes and rids her body of excess salt.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

The color a head louse will be as an adult can depend on the color of the person's hair in which it lives.

The kangaroo and the emu are the two animals found on the Australian coat of arms.

Elephants and short-tailed shrews get by on only two hours of sleep a day. (Short tailed shrews are also the only mammals with a venomous bite)

Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel. (a new source of global energy!)

One way to tell seals and sea lions apart is that, sea lions have external ears and testicles. (Sea lions also crawl on all fours like a dog, while seals move by rubbing their bellies along the ground like an inchworm)

Sharks can go up to at least 6 weeks without feeding. The record for a shark fasting was observed in an aquarium with the Swell Shark, which did not eat for 15 months.

The shell of an egg constitutes 12% of its weight.

In ancient Egypt, entire families would shave their eyebrows as a sign of mourning when the family cat died. (Shows how much cats were worshipped by the ancient Egyptians)

The Sanskrit word for 'war' means 'desire for more cows'.

Using its web-like skin between its arms, an octopus can carry up to a dozen crabs back to its den. (Pinch! Pinch! Pinch!)

Electric Eels can reach up to 2 metres in length and larger specimens can generate 500 volts of electricity.

The zorilla is the smelliest animal on the planet. Its anal glands can be smelled from a half mile away. (Anyone doesn't know what a zorilla looks like, they are related to weasels and look like this:

Sheep can survive for up to two weeks buried in snow drifts. (I don't know how they found this one out!)

Bats can eat from one-half to three quarters their weight per evening. (Think about how many mosquitoes that is next time you want to bad-mouth about bats!)

It takes 24 hours for a tiny newborn swan to peck its way out of its shell. (It takes 3 days for an ostrich chick to break out of it's shell)

Certain fireflies emit a light so penetrating that it can pass through flesh and wood.

The porcupine's love for salt often leads the animal to roadways or walkways where salt has been sprinkled to melt the ice. They will lick and gnaw on anything containing salt, such as saddles, canoe paddles and axe handles. (That's how so many porcupines are killed on the highway)

There are more species of fish than mammals, reptiles and birds combined. (True, there are 10,000 bird species, 4,000 mammals, and about 3,000 reptiles, while there are about 20,000 fish. But there are 100,000 insect species known)

When angered, the Tazmanian devil turns pinkish red. (So do a lot of people)

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air. (They can from the water too because they can swim so fast)

When cornered, the horned toad shoots blood from its eyes. (Despite it's name, the "horned toad" is not a toad, it's a relative of the iguana)

In 1740 a cow was found guilty of sorcery in France and publicly hanged. (What the Hell did the cow do?? Put a curse on anyone who milked it? What a stupid waste of life!)

A newborn Chinese water deer is so small that it can almost be held in the palm of the hand. (That is sweet, but not really difficult to believe, the deer it's self is about 4 feet long as an adult)

A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.

A butterfly has to have a body temperature greater than 86 degrees to be able to fly. (That must be why I've not seen any butterflies out here. 80 degree temperatures are rare here!)

The tsetse fly infests 36 African countries and a total of 9-10 million square kilometres of land.
(That's about 10-million square miles too many! Too many chances of catching trypanosomiasis, or "sleeping sickness")

It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100. (Who cares!? I don't like wearing furs anyway! I always say the fur looks better on the animals, not us!)

Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike. (Why not? Cooking the animal gives it flavor. Although seriously, that could be an indication that lightening emits some amount of toxins in the animal's body it strikes)

About 600 species of plants are carnivorous. Most eat insects but also on the menu are frogs, birds and even small monkeys. (I once saw in a documentary a pitcher-plant eating a hummingbird!)

The 1st buffalo ever born in captivity was born at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo in 1884. (was it a buffalo or a bison? They are 2 distinct animals)

Squirrels are immune to rabies. (There shoots the theory that you can get rabies from a squirrel)

Unlike a frog, a toad cannot jump. (True, they crawl, not hop)

All racehorses in the U.S. celebrate their birthday on January 1st.

The candlefish is so oily that it was once burned for fuel. (I guess that's how it got that common name!)

The snow leopard protects itself from extreme cold when it sleeps by wrapping its 3-foot-long tail around its nose. (Snow leopards: the one and only feline I am forever loyal to)

The venom of a female black widow spider is more potent than that of a rattlesnake. (That doesn't surprise me at all!! I hate spiders!!!)

Lassie was played by several male dogs, despite the female name, because male collies were thought to look better on camera. The main "actor" was named Pal. (Males are also friendlier by default than females)

All pet hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930. (They were first caught and bred for labratory use)

A chicken once had its head cut off and survived for over eighteen months, headless. (Singing: "Don't Lose Your Head" by INXS)

Octopus and squid are thought to be the most intelligent of all invertebrates. (They are! Snails sure don't deserve that rank!)

During warm weather hippopotamus's secrete sweat that is pink. This substance not only cools them down but also helps fight infections of the skin.

By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with varicolored yolks. (great idea for Easter!)

A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it is born. (True, no matter how big they are as adults, and some can be anywhere from 3 inches to 18 feet in length)

The female dairy goat is a doe; the male, a buck; the young, kids; and a castrated male, a wether. Their life span is eight to twelve years.

In 1888, an estimated 300,000 mummified cats were found at Beni Hassan, Egypt. They were sold at $18.43 per ton, and shipped to England to be ground up and used for fertilizer. (EWW!! But I guess that's one good use for a cat)

The anaconda, one of the world's largest snakes, gives birth to its young instead of laying eggs. (Hmm, and 10 years ago, they would have been classed as THE largest snake!)

In the 1800's cats were used to deliver mail. In 1879, in Belgium 37 cats were used to deliver mail to villages, however they found that the cats were not disciplined enough to do this. (Cats are lousy multi-taskers!!!)

In a day, an elephant can drink 80 gallons of water. (Having worked in an aquarium store before, 80 gallons is a LOT of water!!!!)

The name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box is Bingo. (I wonder if he was the inspiration for the song about a dog named Bingo?)

There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones. (one of those useless facts)

Aphids are born pregnant without the benefit of sex. Aphids can give birth 10 days after being born themselves. (And humans aren't allowed to have sex until they are at least 13)

More than 99.9% of all the animal species that have ever lived on earth were extinct before the coming of man. (and most now are becoming extinct because of man!)

Asian tree frogs build nests in trees over water. When their tadpoles hatch, they drop directly into the water. (They also have African cousins that do the same)

It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many as 10,000 insects in the course of a summer. (great alternatives to spiders in grape vineyards, and not venomous)

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. (the last animal to be domesticated completely was the european polecat, we know them as "ferrets")

The world's oldest known captive goldfish, Tish, died peacefully at home in his tank at the age of at least 43 in 1999. (And I can't get A goldfish to last me more than 2 weeks!)

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again. (WTF was a frog doing in outer space?)

Despite man's fear and hatred of the wolf, it has not ever been proved that a non-rabid wolf ever attacked a human. (Anything rabid will attack anything that moves, even a rabid skunk has been known to attack humans!)

Goldfish lose their color if they are kept in dim light or are placed in a body of running water, such as a stream.

On June 20th, 1782, the United States Congress made the "American Eagle" the national emblem of the United States. (I heard Benjamin Franklin wanted the wild turkey)

You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather. (The one and only time I was stung was on a cloudy day, no wind)

The 'Silverback' gorilla is 30 per cent taller and almost twice as heavy as the females in the group he dominates.

The pom-pom cut was originally developed to increase the Poodle's swimming abilities as a retriever. The haircut allowed for faster swimming but the pom-poms were left to keep the joints warm.

Before the enactment of the 1978 law that made it mandatory for dog owners in New York City to clean up after their pets, approximately 40 million pounds of dog excrement were deposited on the streets every year. (I always thought New York was full of crap!)

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. (HAHAHA!!! I've been called a twit a lot!! I'll have to remember this one!)

The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939.

When ants find food, they lay down a chemical trail, called a pheromone, so that other ants can find their way from the nest to the food source.

There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States. (At least 2 of those dogs live here at my home and are here to stay!)

Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year. (I cannot afford that! I just keep the same toys and stuff for my babies. The only thing new I buy for them is food and water and vet care when they need it)

Snails produce a colorless, sticky discharge that forms a protective carpet under them as they travel along. The discharge is so effective that they can crawl along the edge of a razor without cutting themselves.

A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why. (I think this was already proven wrong)

Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not sweat by salivating. They sweat through the pads of their feet. (Itty-Bitty corn-chip feet!!!!!)

The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.

Lewis and Clark traveled with a 150-pound Newfoundland named "Seaman." This pooch was a respected member of the expedition team and his antics were included in the extensive diaries of the famous explorers.

'Zorro' means 'fox' in Spanish. (That's why the TV hero was so quick!!)

For Stephen King's "Cujo" (1983), five St. Bernards were used, one mechanical head, and an actor in a dog costume to play the title character.

A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as feelers or antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage. (Cats are not bad contortionists!)

The Venus flytrap takes less than half a second to slam shut on an insect.

Brazil has the most species of mammals (524), fresh water fish, insects and parrots of anywhere. (Personally, I think the most colorful parrots live in Australia, not the Amazon)

Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostate glands.

The world record frog jump is 33 feet 5.5 inches over the course of 3 consecutive leaps, achieved in May 1977 by a South African sharp-nosed frog called Santjie.

A 7-year study, which concluded in the summer of 2000, found that 33 U.S. deaths were caused by rottweilers. Pit bulls were responsible for 27 deaths. (Cats are no better! More people are killed by wild felines than by any dogs)

The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.

German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog. (Hmm, and I always thought chihuahuas were the biggest culprits of biting!)

Swans are the only birds with penises. (How do other birds have sex?)

Though human noses have an impressive 5 million olfactory cells with which to smell, sheepdogs have 220 million, enabling them to smell 44 times better than man. (I think bloodhounds have even more than a sheepdog)

When the Black Death swept across England one theory was that cats caused the plague. Thousands were slaughtered. Ironically, those that kept their cats were less affected, because they kept their houses clear of the real culprits, rats. (One of very few tasks a cat is good at)

Who Defines Beauty??

I was browsing other Blogger blogs and I found one that mentions this site called BeautifulPeople.com, and it's specifically for what the title says! They will not accept anyone as a member if they are ugly, and I must ask, who defines what is beautiful and what is ugly? How do they choose their members? Because what is ugly to one person may be gorgeous to another! Me, I only see the beauty on the inside. If there is beauty inside, then I don't care what a person is like on the outside! But in the case of some people, like Catsredrum, there is no beauty inside or outside!! If there is none on the inside I have no choice but to look at the outside. Anyway, it's all too political for me!

This is why I really did not like showing my chihuahuas and why I also object to beauty pageants! The politics of what is beautiful to one person and not so beautiful to another was just too much for me to bear!! I showed Odessa twice and that was enough. The first time we showed Odessa, the judge said she was not even going to give her a reserve for "lack of quality", those were her exact words! The next judge thought Odessa was great and she got a blue ribbon in that show. Many top chihuahua breeders have said Odessa is a beautiful specimen of a chihuahua. But it's like the saying goes, one man's meat is another man's garbage! What if I were to keep showing Odessa and then I get to the point where I need just that one little major to finish her? Then when I think I have it in the bag, she's dumped!! And another dog with not even a smidgen of Odessa's quality (and I have actually seen that happen!) wins out instead of her. I went to the specials once and there was a dog there that should not have even been there! I loved that dog a lot because it looked so much like my Groucho! But it only had a half a tail for a chihuahua! That's a serious fault! I don't know though, for all I know that dog may have lost it's tail in an accident. It happens. But still how it made it to the specials I will never know!

Anyway, I think that site is a little too degrading, because beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I personally don't think I'm that beautiful at all. But I've been told different more than once before! I even looked at some of their members and I can tell you I found a couple that I would not say were very attractive at all. But then that is my own personal taste. Real beauty should come from within! No one with any sense should look at how a person looks on the outside, unless their inside is so ugly (as in evil, like the people of the delusionalfans forum) you have no choice but to look at the outside!

I'm Not Sure of it, But I Think I May be in Love!

I just saw a pic of Timmy's youngest, Jake, and he is such a handsome boy!! He looks exactly like his pa!! I was amazed how much he looks like him. SHIT! I feel like a damn perv!!!!! Don't worry, I would never fall in love with him like I would Timmy. He's too young for me. I just had to comment on how handsome he is and how much he looks like his pa! I'll tell you one thing though, if I could only remember what band he plays for, I would follow them anywhere!! I wonder if he ever plans on coming to the states? I do hope he forgives me for stealing his pic, but like Iceni said, I need a visual aid!! You'll have to kinda squint to see it, but if you look close enough, he looks so much like Timmy it's uncanny!!!!!

Well, maybe not too uncanny, he is his child!! Both of Tim's children are beautiful guys! But while Jake looks like his father, I think James (the oldest) looks remarkably like his uncle Jon. LOL! I know that sounds silly but I saw a pic of him recently too and he looked like Jon with Timmy's eyes. Either way, Tim has some damn good genes!!! I heard Jake also plays with a band, and I kinda wonder which one? And I wonder if they will ever be coming to the states?

I guess those are some things I could ask him that would be pretty good ice-breakers. I know he has a MySpace, and one of my best MySpace friends made friends with Jake, and told me I should write to him and say hello sometime. But I couldn't. Not under the name Timmyfan!!!!! And I wouldn't even think of adding him to my MySpace friends!! Not that I don't think I'd like him. But this same friend told me he has a thing against adding INXS fans to his MySpace friends, and I don't blame him at all! That's why I would never ask him to become my MySpace friend. If I were him, I would think someone calling herself "Timmyfan" would only like me because Timmy would be related to me. I'm sure that's what he would believe.

Anyway, I know how it feels to be judged by the actions and interests of one of your family members, and so I can understand why the children of rockstars feel the way they do about the fans. So that is why I would never even consider asking the children of INXS to become my MySpace friends. If they ask me, that's different. But I would never ask them!

I feel like a damn pervert saying I think Jake Farriss is so handsome because he is so much younger than me!! He's 21, I'm 34! Yes I feel like a pervert! That too is a long story and it starts with a job I had in 1992 with a couple named Patti and Chris. I was the nanny for their children. And I think I tried too hard to be like a big sister to those kids. NO!! I was NOT trying to be a lover to them!! Anyway, Patti said something about how I was "hiding behind her kids" and "using them as a security blanket", and it made me feel a certain way. Ever since then, I've had this block against getting too close to anyone that is any number of months, years, even days, younger than me. Even if they are of legal age. I don't even know where Patti got those ideas from!! I have my limits. I tried being like a big sister, and maybe that was my big mistake. Maybe she prefered someone who would be more like a ruler. A tyrant. Or something of that nature. I only have a few friends who are younger than me, and I've known them since before I met Patti and Chris.

I remember one time ma tried to fix me up with a guy. I said if he's younger than me then forget it!! She said he was only a month younger than me, and even that was too young!!!! I said no, I didn't want to meet him. Ma gave up looking to hook me up with a guy. So there is no way I can be in love with Timmy's children. NO way whatsoever! But, I still think this one is handsome!!!

Warning For MySpace Users!!!!

I want to take this moment to warn any MySpace users of a hacking device being circulated. I know this is Blogger, but my MySpace is set to private, and I am hoping the word of this will get out. I was shocked to learn recently that this site is still up and people are still using it.

There is a myspace tracker being advertised through safeprofile.com. You sign up for this account and they give you a one or two-line code to put in your MySpace page and it leaves you with a green box at the top of your page that says "I See You". DO NOT USE THIS TRACKER!!! I had this tracker on 2 of my last MySpace sites. It is not authorized by MySpace, and if you are caught with this tracker on your page, your MySpace account will be deleted with no warning!! I one day suddenly realized my pages were gone, and the one thing both pages had in common was that tracking device.

I was grateful I was able to save one of my friends from using this. I'd like to think I can save all my MySpace friends from going through what I went through losing my last MySpace pages. I had a lot of cool pics and posts on my last Timmy-Love Space, and all were lost! I was horrified! I blame safeprofile.com!

Best Reality Rockstar?

Lukas won. Lukas's fans must have voted more than 100 times each. And I thought JD fans were quick and slick! JD has talent and he's at least kindof cute! Lukas is by far the ugliest man in the world! Well, he's the ugliest man I've ever seen and I've seen a lot of men! And he doesn't even have a thimbleful of the talent JD has!! I dunno, maybe I am prejudice because JD has already fit in well with INXS, and I never cared for Supernova. I never even saw Rockstar: Supernova, and mostly saw the performances of those rockers through YouTube and podcasts and stuff. I never even cared who won that! There was only supposed to be one person I was going to vote for and it was a man named Robert, and apparently he didn't make it to the final 15. It was for a personal favor he was going to do for me, I told him if he made it to Rockstar: Supernova I would cheer and vote for him. But since he didn't make it there, I didn't even bother to watch that series. That summer I wasn't in the mood for enjoying myself anyway. That was the summer I lost my Groucho. I thank GOD to this day Rockstar: INXS came on before I lost my Groucho, otherwise I might have missed it too, and I love those performances! I look back on them to this day just for fun. It's a shame I didn't get the first couple of weeks worth of episodes. But it wasn't until after Wil was eliminated that recording the show even crossed my mind! Funny how that happens! Then I started saying to myself, "I don't know why I am not recording this show! I love INXS!" That made no sense so, I did the only logical thing there was to do and started recording the show! I laugh now looking back on that. I laugh looking back on a lot of dumb things I did with no cause attached to them. I'm just one of those really mysterious types I guess.

Well, I am just shocked JD didn't win!

A Personal Challenge

I have decided this summer to walk every day. Both Odessa and I need to. We're both getting to be fat little cows! Yesterday we walked for what must have been about 2 miles. It was such a fun and interesting walk that I want to do it again today! I walked down a path I had never seen before, just because it looked interesting. For a long time on that path, there was nothing but trees and bushes. Now, back in Lakewood if there was a place like that I wouldn't ever consider walking there! In Lakewood, you don't know what to expect in areas like that, someone could jump you and there wouldn't be a house to run to to call the cops! But here there is no crime, and you can walk into a remote area and not worry about a thing!

Maybe, just maybe, I can also attempt to lose a little weight. Or at least if I am going to be fat maybe I can be a healthier fat person. Who knows? I only hope I can lose weight. I want to look better when I see Timmy the next time. Not that I expect him to fall head over heals over me! But I at least want to look better next time I see him. Then if I have another photo-op with him, it won't look like he's wrapping his arms around a big blob!! I also want to stick it in Kirk's face. He always ignores me, and I found out why. He doesn't like fat people. Well, he said they don't turn him on. But in truth, whenever I've met him, he seemed more to loathe fat people than simply just not be turned on by them. I always said that if I lose weight and I met Kirk again, I wasn't going to give him the time of day! The only reason (and I mean the ONLY reason) I am fat at all is because of the surgery I had. I had a hysterectomy, and the effect is the same as getting a dog or cat spayed, they slow down and bulk up. So do people. I got a little bit too comfortable then and discovered junk food. Well, I knew about junk food before, it's just I didn't have so much before then. I had a weakness for twinkies, but I only ate them very sparingly. I would have maybe one a week and that was it. I always loved chocolate!! But even that used to be a rare treat for me. When I had the surgery, I didn't have much to do for 6 weeks, my sisters and parents made sure I rested the whole time. That was when I started to take to junk foods. The only thing was, before the surgery I used to go hiking and mountain climbing a lot. So, it never showed that I enjoyed junk foods now and then. But I haven't been mountain climbing or hiking since the surgery, but I still was addicted to the junk foods. So, I just got fatter and fatter and fatter! Now, I'm as big as the side of a barn! I need to get back down again, I'm starting to notice I've been having some weight-related problems. Or I think they are weight-related!!! Been hearing for years obesity causes diabetes, heart attacks, stroke, shortness of breath, and some types of cancer. So far, the only thing I have been positively diagnosed with is my asthma is getting extremely flared up since I put on weight! So I want to lose some of this weight before anything else (and possibly something worse) happens.

Since Jon is having a baby this year, it may be a long time before INXS goes touring again. So, the next time they see me, I hope to be a completely reduced person.

Now to Answer The Other Post

This was the other e-mail I got last night about my Chihuahua website. A question like this deserves an answer.

Why is it that your website can not be accessed by typing the site in on my address line? It can only be accessed through google. You also have 2 names for your site? T.G.'s and T.G.'s & K?What's with that?

Well, to answer question #1, this person probably tried to access the site by typing in "luvapuddy.net" which was a domain I stopped after Groucho died. I stopped it because I wanted to give up breeding chihuahuas. I didn't want to go through what I went through losing her again. So I quit breeding. Now, it's back to the tripod.com domain, which is longer, and I've updated my links on my other websites.

To answer question #2, about having 2 names, I called it T&KG's a long time ago, before Groucho died. I got that name from the initials of one of my more common screen names, Tim-Kirk Girl. Tim and Kirk were (back then) my 2 favorite men from INXS. After meeting Kirk 3 times, and being terribly disappointed in him, I decided I didn't like him anymore, and erased everything to do with him. Including his place in my kennel name. So, I shortened it to just TG's, or Tim-girl's. I still LOVE Timmy!!!!!

I haven't updated much of anything on that website because first of all, when I gave up my domain name, I also had to give up a lot of disk space! So, Tripod would not let me update anything unless I got rid of some of the items on the site that were taking up too much memory. I was only finally able to do that this past month or so. Second of all, the chihuahua site is kindof at the back of my list of things to do since I am no longer breeding. If you've met some of the breeders I have in the past, you would understand another reason why I decided to give up breeding. Though I think the loss of my Groucho was a great enough reason. I just didn't want to become like one of those preppy, snobby show-breeders I have had the agony of meeting in the past!!!

I would have e-mailed this person back as well, but I believe the e-mail address he gave me was a bogus one. I don't know, the screen name for the address was "johndoe", and it was addressed to one of those freebie e-mail sites. I could only speculate it was a bogus e-mail, so I didn't even try to answer this one. Besides, I sort of believe this person, and the person I wrote about last night (who sent the angry e-mail saying how horrible my website is) are the same person! And I still believe that one was one of the people of the delusionalfans forum. I knew they would try this now that I am no longer at inxs.com. It's a ploy to get my IP address, so they can track me all over the internet again.

Can you tell I have some serious issues with trusting people? hehe!!

Looks Like the Delusionalfans Forum is Back!

Either that, or this is mcgillicutty, who was actually a teenage girl named Sara. I don't know. I got 2 messages tonight alone about my chihuahua website, both people seemed to have a bad chip on their shoulders. But hell, I don't care. But look at what this one has to say in this e-mail she sent me tonight:

Lady you give dogs a bad name. Your website (what parts of it are working! and what words are spelled correctly!) is supposed to be discussing Chihuahuas. You've discussed falling in love with 2 men from INXS, how you wanted to follow a dog to the grave, and your severe depression. Have you even ever met the guy from INXS? Have you ever heard of "dating" someone before falling IN LOVE with them? Granted your dogs are beautiful, but I don't think someone in your mental condition should be breeding dogs. You definitely give dog people a really, really, bad name. As a matter of fact, I'm using your website and the information on it in my research paper for college for my non-credible source. Thanks at least for that.

Well, let me break it down here. First of all, it's my website. Not hers. I can put what I want on it. I do have a page devoted to INXS on it, but it was my choice to put that up. I have INXS pages on all my websites. Not unusual, they are my favorite band.

and what words are spelled correctly!

Anyone else want to do a spell check on the site? I used Google Spellchecker when it became available, but I may have missed some words. Oh, and I think "and" should have been capitalized after an exclamation point in that sentence.

is supposed to be discussing Chihuahuas.

Once more, it is MY site, not her's!

You've discussed falling in love with 2 men from INXS

Yes...what of it? Actually now you can narrow that down to 1 man from INXS.

how you wanted to follow a dog to the grave, and your severe depression.

I still admit to having those feelings about Groucho, because she didn't deserve to die. I have no shame in admitting that I would gladly have given my life to save Groucho's. She was my baby.

Have you even ever met the guy from INXS?

This sentence here sounds just like the people of the delusionalfans forum. And the answer is still the same: YES, I have met the guy from INXS. Have you?

Have you ever heard of "dating" someone before falling IN LOVE with them?

Kinda sad that this person believes there is only one kind of love, and only one method of falling IN LOVE. No, I haven't heard of that, nor would I believe it to begin with. Because there are other ways of falling in love. There is such a thing as love at first sight.

Granted your dogs are beautiful

Thank you.

but I don't think someone in your mental condition should be breeding dogs.

Spoken truly like someone who has never met me, and probably never met other dog breeders. Many of the ones I have met were not very mentally stable when you look closer at them. And in fact, I have been checked many times before, by people who know more about "mental instabilities" than this young child, and none of them found anything wrong with me.

You definitely give dog people a really, really, bad name.

If I, loving my dogs like others love their kids, being totally honest, and correcting my own problems, give dog people a really, really bad name, as she implies, then thank you. I'll take that as a compliment!

As a matter of fact, I'm using your website and the information on it in my research paper for college for my non-credible source.

If my website is so horrible to her, why would she even offer to use it as a source at all? Good, bad or otherwise?

She can also tell her teacher (IF she's not afraid to) to go ahead and look up all the info I got on my site to see if any of it is credible or not, and I am sure he (or she) will see that everything I put on my site is truthful, and highly credible. Top breeders themselves have told me that. Loving INXS does not make me non-credible. That's as dumb a statement as if I were to say she's going to college because she's stupid! But someone like her is not likely to ask her teacher to do that, because she wants to think I am wrong in everything. But hey! That's her opinion, and she has a right to it. I will just say, I am sorry she feels this way. I get it all the time that there are parts of my chihuahua website that aren't working, but I cannot really figure out which parts are not working. Maybe she can create a better website that discusses nothing but chihuahuas. Much as I love my chihuahuas, they are only one part of me. My chihuahuas site is also a site devoted to ME. Naturally enough, when I have a story to tell, I will tell it on my site. And I gave up breeding after Groucho died.

I would have e-mailed her back, but if this really is the people of the delusionalfans forum, or mcgillicutty, they have ways of tracking people through ISP numbers, and I don't want them finding where I live!! Yes, they can actually get IP numbers from e-mails, and I won't give in to that! So, I will respond to it here.

Personally, I think this all proves correct, my theories I placed on this blog titled "Generation X" on here.

Generation X

Geesh! I cannot believe the total lack of brains in today's teenagers! I go into YouTube and I feel like I'm being surrounded by morons! Too many damn teenagers with no life! Last night I came across one who totally misconstrued a comment I made on a video. He found lion's and sheep's buns attractive, then he shit his pants because I didn't! I guess he's just a typical panther-lover. He's not the first one I ever met like that. Every panther-lover I've ever met was like that. For some reason, they feel the need to aggressively defend the feline race. Why I don't know, what have felines ever done for humans? They don't even protect our homes. At the same time, I've found all cat-people to be nothing but hypocrites. Many of them say they don't like dogs because dogs kill people. But they somehow seem to forget about the thousands of people who have been killed or seriously hurt by large felines. And at least dogs have an alibi for killing people, and it's called irresponsible owners and breeders. The dogs don't do it, the owners and breeders do it. Most of the maulings I've heard of by dogs have been done by pit bulls, rottweilers, german shepherds, and doberman pinschers. If not those breeds, it's always (and more often) mongrels. The purebreds I mentioned have a reputation of being bred by people more interested in breeding dogs for fighting and that's not a good thing anyway. They are irresponsible people who give those breeds a bad name because they only breed dog fight winners that are very aggressive to begin with anyway. Then there are the mongrel breeders who think they can take 2 faulty purebreed dogs of different breeds and breed them together to create pups with better temperaments than the parents. But that is sooooo not true!! Don't believe anyone who tells you mongrel dogs live longer, have fewer genetic diseases or better temperaments than purebreeds because none of that is so!

However, when a tiger, lion or leopard attacks a human, there is no one to blame but the tiger, lion or leopard because they are hard-wired to attack anything that moves. And more people are killed by panthers of any kind than by dogs of any kind. But yet, panther-lovers are blind to those statistics. They are hypocrites!!! I like dogs, but I am not blind to the number of dog-attacks there are, or how bad they've been. But sensible people don't judge a whole race by the actions of a few bad apples, especially when my chihuahuas would never attack and kill another person!! At the worst, they might just nip their ankles. Even then they don't bite hard. I don't blame dogs because I don't believe dogs kill people, only people kill people!! I won't even say all teenagers are bad just because of the mindless pricks I've seen on YouTube!! But now I can see why they call this "generation X". Some of these teens give a whole new meaning to the term. They think they can say shit to anyone just because they can't see faces over the internet. Maybe they do it to make themselves feel bigger, a satisfaction they can't get with anyone in real life. My guess is always people push them around all over the place in real life, so they take their frustrations out on people on the internet. Like when I was their age, I took my frustrations out in my drawings and stories. But at least I never shit-talked anyone in my drawings and stories.

I'm the type of person that I don't make threats over the internet, and if I have something to say to someone, I say it to their face. I also don't believe in censorship. I don't tell people on the internet to shut up. What's the point? If I can't make someone shut up, I don't tell them to. And how can you make someone on the internet be quiet?? When someone tells me to shut up on the internet, I always challenge them saying "What will you do to me if I don't?" That always leaves them blundered. hehe! Seems I'm the only one on YouTube who makes any sense among those teenagers! I'm not even a teenager. I'm going on 34 this month. I've forgotten much more than any of these teenagers will ever know!!

With all the goings on in YouTube, I'm almost afraid to release my stories out to the public. Most of them were made with teens and young adults in mind. Especially since I am allowing comments to be made on each story on my website. The good thing is that not just anyone can come in to the site and post a comment. They have to have purchased or downloaded the story first.