Re: Twilight for the fishes, we say goodby to our great Clown Loach.

"Rich The Newsgropup Wacko" <wacko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:pan.2005.04.07.00.12.16.184020@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 21:49:15 +0000, Joerg wrote:
>
>> Hello John,
>>
>>> Are you actually proposing that we went out and hunted dogs down for the
>>> purpose of domesticating them instead of eating them? You've obviously
>>> either never read or have chosen to ignore the ancient stories about
>>> dogs befriending humans for scraps of food and eventually wound up
>>> hanging out with us voluntarily.
>>
>> It still happens. Not that we feed the wild foxes around here anything
>> but
>> one family returns every year to give birth and provide their kits a few
>> months of a safe home. They must feel secure and welcome around us.
>>
>> They even show off their newborn to us. The vixen often nurses next to
>> the
>> garage. I can start the car and drive away without them getting into a
>> panic. As long as it's our cars, not with any others. In the evenings the
>> adults take turns resting on a rock about 20ft from where we sit,
>> listening to our conversations and then slowly dozing off.
>
> Once, while I was sitting on a rock at Solana Beach, a sea lion or seal
> came gaflumping up the beach, gave me the eye as if to say, "hey, that
> was supposed to be my spot", and after a moment or so of she and I eying
> each other, with me sort of asking, "What? Is this your spot?" she
> gaflumped a few feet to the side and climbed up on the rocks to a spot
> very near where I was sitting, as if to say, "Well, OK, this is good
> enough, I guess (Idiot! Humph.)." ;-)
>
> Cheers!
> Rich
>
>
My folks live in a small seaside town where they've been feeding some native
birds (kookaburras, magpies and parakeets) for a few years. Now the latest
generation are quite happy to hop in to their garage to have a nosey around,
but they still avoid other humans. Mum and dad moved a couple of years ago,
just a few blocks but they wondered what would happen to the birds.

Took 'em a few weeks but the birds found where the feed-bin had shifted to!

Ken


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