By now I’m sure all of you know how I feel about wildlife. I’ve been working hard to gather followers in creating a wildlife free zone here in Douglas County. Now before any of you animal lovers create an uproar, let me clarify that I’m not in favor of having no animals at all on this earth, we after all, are animals. All I’m saying is we could use a little more elbow room in keeping the more dangerous animals among us further away. The older boys tell me that it that “It takes all kinds” but I disagree, I say we just have all kinds, and you know who you are so I’m not going to name names. Yet. Of course around the world many animals are nearing extinction and I don’t want to see that happen either, I like zoo’s, and where else can our children, since they never go outdoors anymore, see animals in their natural habitat. One thing I find particularly troubling today in the news; “The Heartbreaking Poaching Epidemic You Haven’t Heard of Yet” Of course I’m talking about Pangolin’s. “Pangolins are among the oddest and least-familiar animals on Earth. They’re mammals, but theyre armor-plated. Their chief defensive posture is to tuck their heads under their tails and roll up, like a basketball crossed with an artichoke. (It works: Even lions generally can’t get a grip.) (I know other animals that can’t get a grip as well) They have tongues that are not only coated with a sticky, fly paper–like substance but can also extend up to 16 inches to probe into nests and snag ants for dinner. (Whoa) They’re shy, nocturnal and live either high up trees or deep underground.” Lisa Hywood, of the Tikki Hywood Trust, her rescue center in Zimbabwe, says “Pangolins are the new Rhinos”, with illegal trade now raging across Asia and Africa. They are routinely served up as a status symbol on the dinner plates of the nouveaux riches in China and Vietnam. Their scales are ground up, like rhino horn, into traditional medicines. Pangolin scales, like rhino horn, are made from keratin and about as medicinally useful as eating fingernail clippings.” This really has me irritated. For someone to say that fingernail clippings have no medicinal value is pure hogwash. I routinely trim my nails in the house and when they ricochet around like bullets, you never know where they’re gonna land. If you’ve ever seen the energy created by someone that’s chomped on a toenail in their soup, you’d beg to differ as well. Someone I know (I won’t name names. Yet) once chased me three miles after finding one of my toenails in her soup, and that’s just from contact and not actually ingesting it, which leads me to believe that toenails are more powerful than steroids. Tomorrow; we’ll talk about some of the scary things in processed meat but until then, we’re still pulling for you and as always; We’ll leave the lights on
Posted on: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 13:45:53 +0000
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