My White Tiger
January 18, 2010 at 2:29 pm | Posted in creature, Wildlife Humor | 3 CommentsTags: animal inbreeding, feral cats, kittens, White Tigers
While reading recently about white tigers I made a discovery. Probably everyone knew this but me….white tigers don’t occur naturally in the wild. They are the product of inbreeding in captivity and have pale stripes; pink noses, ears and toes; and have beautiful crossed blue eyes. I started comparing white tigers to my adopted feral cat and her kittens. I suppose being feral there is a lot of inbreeding due to the small environments they have to live in.
White Bengal Tiger - Mission Zoo by eliselovesprada on Flickr
White Tiger by Timotheus1 on Flickr
My white tiger!
How Many Frogs…….?
January 18, 2010 at 12:50 pm | Posted in creature, Wildlife Humor | Leave a commentTags: frogs, spring cleaning, swimming pool
How many frogs does it take to clean a swimming pool? Well, let's see.....1...2....
...3....
....4....Hmmm...I guess it takes five...
..as long as one of them is a racoon. "OK, let's haul 'er up, boys."
Summer Shenanigans
July 4, 2009 at 8:21 am | Posted in creature, Cute, Florida, humor, silly spooky, summer, swamp, tropical | 2 Comments
Ever wonder what a frog is thinking about during all those hours of log sittin'?
"...7 times 4 is 28...7 times 5 is 35...7 times 6 is 42..."
"...7 times 7 is 49..." "Hey, Ya wanna jump into the pool where it's nice and cool?" "Not now, can't you see I'm doing my times tables?...7 times 8 is 56..."
"Well, if you're gonna be that way about it..."
3 green and speckled frogs, sitting on a speckled log, eating some most delicious bugs, yum yum! 1 jumped into the pool, where it was nice and cool....
then there were 2 green speckled frogs. 2 green and speckled frogs, sitting on a speckled log, eating some most delicious bugs, yum, yum! 1 jumped into the pool, where it was nice and cool...
then there was 1 green speckled frog. 1 green and speckled frog, sitting on a speckled log, doing his times tables and sums. He jumped into the pool, where it was nice and cool...
then there were no green speckled frogs! Ribbit, ribbit.
"Hey! Where'd everybody go? I just got here. Did I miss the whole party? Isn't SOMEONE still around? I even brought my swimming trunks....Hey....anybody here?"
AN EARLY SPRING, ANYONE?
February 9, 2009 at 2:12 am | Posted in creature, Cute, flamingo, Florida, Holiday, humor, summer | 3 CommentsTags: ground hog day, prognosticators, spring, weather, winter
So good ol’ Punxsutawny Phil saw his shadow and thus predicted 6 more weeks of winter. The very same day General Beauregard Lee did not see his shadow in Georgia so they will enjoy an early spring. Since Florida is closer to Georgia I hope that means an early spring for us–as long as we don’t end up with a looooong, hottttttt summer! I like my temperatures to range between 70 and 80 degrees.
And so what ABOUT Florida anyway? Do we have no famous (or even infamous groundhogs?) And if we DID have one what would his/her name be? Miami Miranda?
Miami Miranda
How ’bout Weeki Wachee Walt?
Weeki Wachee Walt
Or perhaps Pensacola Pork Chop?
Pensacola Pork Chop
"Flamingo" by Nightjar
And maybe we would really rather have a flamingo prognosticator. It would certainly cast a much more interesting shadow.
Speaking of shadows… Since we had such contradictory responses from the more celebrated groundhogs, my class and I decided to have our own sighting. We stood in front of the overhead projector and looked for our own shadows. I believe everyone saw their shadows except for the 2 students who were afraid to look. Soooo…. does that mean 6 more weeks of winter (well, 5 now that a week has already gone by) or an early spring because Georgia is getting one, or does it simply mean we look on the calendar and see that the first day of spring hasn’t changed one bit due to ground hog day?
I’m so sorry to be getting this blog in a week late, but it takes time to ponder the intricacies of the sciences. From now on I’ll just leave that up to the local meteorologists to figure out. THEY are welcome to consult with Punxsutawney Phil or Beau or Porkchop as much as they want. Just get us through this winter as quickly as possible.
Living the WILD Life!!!
September 22, 2008 at 5:12 am | Posted in creature, Florida, humor | 1 CommentTags: backyard habitat, bengal cat, foxes, frogs, green pool, hawk, paradise, raccoon
Just another day in paradise!
It's a dog's life...even if you're a fox.
Oops...I think I've been made.
Yep! Gotta go now!
I have GOT to stop scaring off the other wildlife!
Knock, knock....
Who's there?
The King
King??? What King???
- Kitty King…The King of our Jungle
….From the Black Lagoon….
August 8, 2008 at 11:37 pm | Posted in creature, Florida, humor, silly spooky, swamp, Uncategorized | Leave a comment
Deep in the swamps of north Florida, among the cypress knees, gators, and skeeters...
what creature lurks here?
Green of eye, black of body, as slimy as the brackish water of the swamp itself,
... dwarfed only by the expanse of swamp surrounding him, he sits... he waits...
Who is this mysterious creature; and from what steamy depths did he emerge in the morning mist?
Why, it's merely the bullfrog who has made our algae-filled swimming pool his home.
So, what do you see lurking around YOUR home?
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