Tea Cup Pigs

Yep, you read that right .. Tea Cup Pigs .. cute little things, but I don't know if it is the right thing to show while everyone is worried about the swine flu.

Oh yes, and one more thing... it doesn't take them long to mature and start having little piglets all over the place.

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Oz Crop Circles Blamed On 'High' Wallabies

Wallabies are getting high on opium from poppy fields and flattening crops, an Australian official has said.

The marsupials have been snacking on poppies growing in fields in Tasmania, the world's largest producer of legally-grown optium for medicines.

Afterwards, they hop round in circles before crashing on top of the crops and trampling them to the ground.

State attorney general Lara Giddings told a parliamentary hearing: "We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles.

"Then they crash. We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high."

Other animals, including deer and sheep, have also been seen "acting weird" after eating the poppy plants, according to an opium industry spokesman.

"There have been many stories about sheep that have eaten some of the poppies after harvesting and they all walk around in circles," Rick Rockliff said.

Tasmania has around 500 farms which supply about 50% of the world's raw material for morphine and other related opiates.

— Sky News

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CoCo, The Neighbor's Pit Bull

This is an old issue with me, but have not written it on the blog.

This is my neighbor's second pit since I've been living here and this one is being abused just as bad as the other one was. The dog barks at all hours of the night and day and as these squalls are coming through, this animal is outside barking in it.

I've called the police once on them. That time, the dog was outside barking for 7 hours.

The problem has for the most part subsided, but there are these times, in wind and heavy rain, that I hear the poor animal whimper. Their other pit was a nice dog and I did pet him, but this animal is vicious and I will not go near him. I also tell people that come to my door that if they are going next door to BEWARE. If they open the door, all of their dogs come out.

Scary.

Cat, Dog, Rat ...