Posted on 07/17/2012 8:31:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Over to you Slings and Arrows. :)=^..^=
The people that live in the range of the Snow Leopard care very little for human life.. Animals are just food and clothing.. Western ideas are foreign to them.. They are not very civilized..
The collars placed on animals are a source of death. They can be used by hunters to track the animal, they are a source of infection and some animals can not stand the collar and end up dead trying to remove them. This is typical of the environmentals. Anything they decide to
do is fine such as wind farms that kill birds.
In early 1990`s there was a snow leopard from Afghanistan in the San Francisco Zoo. He was in a steel barred cage.
One day I took an Afghani mujhadeen fighter wounded in fighting against the Russians and his family to a trip to that zoo.
When he saw the snow leopard in the cage, he started talking to it in pashtu. The snow leopard got up and started making purring sounds kinda and rubbing up against the bars. I asked the Afghani Fighter “What did you say to the snow leopard?”- He said - “I talked to him. ‘Hello- How are you?’ I know this cat from my country because we tame them there in the high mountains .- He`s a tamed cat- he shouldn`t be in a cage.” True story.
I agree. I think that the snow leopards, in fact most animals or birds, will go crazy trying to remove the collar. I would think the collars on snow leopards would very easily lead to infections or snow crusted rings aroung their necks.
Hey, here's an idea! How about if we outfit the environmento wackos with permanent collars fitted around their grubby socialist necks. That way we could keep track of the wackos, whereever they might scurry to like the RATs they are. Include Algore in the catch & release collar fitting, large enough to fit around his fat double chin.
Wow! Look at that tail!
Very cool story. Snow leopards, unlike ‘real’ leopards (which are not even the same species), are surprisingly easy to tame. Almost like cougars. Also, considering the respect the Mujahadeen had for ‘strong’ animals it is not far-founded that, as long as it didn’t prey on their livestock, they wouldn’t necessarily kill the animals. Totally believable story that is only made more credible by the fact you were there yourself.
My Mac is run on the snow leopard. :)=^..^=
Isn’t that some kind of violation of the “Prime Directive”? Now they will go back and talk about how they were captured by aliens, poked, prodded, and had their thoughts read.
She was bitten by a puff adder, a natural enemy of the Mercat. Her throat swelled to the point that the collar suffocated her. I do not believe she died from the snake bite, but rather from the collar not letting her neck expand.
Could we get a Freeper veterinarian to comment? BA
the snow leopard faces threats that are bringing this species closer to extinction...The Taliban will probably cut his head off.
Gorgeous. I want to reach out and touch that tail, but I suspect that he wouldn’t allow that! Ouch!
Ping to comment #16. Can you shed light on this?
Liberals/Socialists/Communists initiate their big “ideas” with lots of tunnel-vision thought that is riddled with “unintended consequences”. . but, then they will not backtrack and discontinue ANYTHING or program they started - it would be admitting they were wrong. Also, all those great government grants they’re riding would dry up.
DDT is just one foray into tunnel-vision thought that comes to mind that has killed hundreds of thousands of people due to malaria. So, now we donate mosquito netting instead. . a band-aid at least.
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