No Bananas, No Yogurt

[mar]

Put the cat between Gil and the glove, two problems solved.

[SurvivorSteph]

You meanie, Mark! Poor Kitty!

[mindtrix]

Dominick said:

I'm sorry folks,

I just don't like the creatures. I had a horribly mentally scarring experience when I was a child and their "wild" side scares the crap out of me.

Hahah funny because I would think that Iguana's would have a FAR worse "wild side" than a domesticated cat!! LMAO! ;D

Hate to see your face when you see that wild side of my kittie chasing that ball of string across the floor.

And now I await to be told how evil I am for loving cats. But in my defense I love all creatures equally.

[IguanaKing]

OMG!!! How did I miss this thread? That's a hilarious note Roc!!! ;D How's your back doing now? I know its been a while (oh...just 6 months ), but the back is a tricky thing...every once in a while mine goes "Hey man, better watch your step, I can make your life a living hell...don't mess with me", and it was QUITE A WHILE ago that I was in that plane crash.

Cats are cool, so is every other animal...well...except for Mud Wasps, they're definitely the scourge of the planet (I had a bad childhood encounter with these...got stung 47 times). So...I definitely understand where Dom is coming from...those childhood experiences can certainly alter our perception.

[Cyndi]

Do I have to defend the mud wasp?! LMAO

You guys are all nuts (still LMAO).

This thread was funny the first time, and even funnier the second!

Cyndi and Kyo (who also dislikes those vile creatures that we call "cats")

[Marie]

Well I ended up having to join to comment on this thread.

I think iguanas personalities are very similiar to cats. They both are unpredictable and you never really tame them completely--they always have a wild side to them. They both can be violent during their breeding seasons--my female cats (when I was a kid) always had hunks bit out of their necks during mating season. They both aren't the jump all over you and slober all over you affectionate--I'm not a dog person. Cats and Iguanas are both very territorial. Growing up I was a cat person. I think that is why I took to iguanas so easily.

But to each his own. As long as it is just a joke (and I assume it is) and someone isn't deliberately hurting an animal. I have a neice who's husband thinks it is hilarious to take his bb gun and shoot cats in the a** and then says it doesn't hurt--the cat howls because it feels good I guess. I'd like to take a bb gun and shoot him in his a** (perhaps hit him in his family jewels) and see if he then thinks it doesn't hurt. But I would like to do that to him also because how he treats my nieces oldest disabled son--just because he isn't his.

I can relate though to a childhood traumatic event. I began not liking (but not hating) dogs when I was trying to be nice to my sisters terrier dog and let him in the house (I had felt sorry for him). Well he attacked and killed my bird. My mother wasn't very sympathetic since she is the own who put him out. She told me it was my own d**n fault. Although I do not even remember what that bird looked like, I still started to dislike small dogs. Maybe I was so upset because it was my sister's dog that killed my bird. The dog later got stolen.

The cat being held up for ransom was quite funny though. I just didn't like the bumper stuff too much--I'm not into that kind of humor.

Cats and Iguanas are cool IMO.

Marie

[SurvivorSteph]

Welcome Marie... we're a fun bunch around here, and LOVE to joke and raz each other a lot... don't take it too seriously, though...

[Marie]

Yes I know. And I thought the cat being held for ransom was very cute. I just didn't really like the bumper stuff. But I know it was just a joke--I just am not into that kind of humor. People are always telling me how good iguana taste in stew. I live in San Diego near the border. So there are a lot of people who have eaten them around here. I always just tell them mine don't taste good and that I feed them something that will make humans infertile if they ate them. I mainly wanted to point out how similiar cats and iguanas are in personality.

[WillemsMom]

This is a funny thread. I just found it. The ransom note is a trip, Roc. I agree the jokes about hurting cats aren't funny. It's quite a stretch from saying you don't like cats to laughing over doing them harm, even accidently.

Maria, that is a clever comeback to folks who talk to you about eating iguana meat I think I'll tell that to anyone who mentions to me about eating our buddies. I'm going to say that in a general context. I don't know...in Florida they eat 'gator meat. Here in San Antonio buffalo meat is on the menu. And now, iguanas. I find that sad.

[SurvivorSteph]

I know I'm gonna catch flack on this, but I would eat iguana.

I grew up on a dairy: helping to feed calves, vaccinate the herd, and whatever else needed to be done. And I was right there watching the butcher when it was time for that too.

Growing up we had a bull calf (we called him #7) that was born with something wrong with his front legs... he couldn't stand up on all four legs. He ran around on his elbows and had the entire ranch as his pasture; he was never corraled because he couldn't reach into the mangers to eat. He was like a pet for all of us... but eventually his time came too. And many nights as we sat around the dinner table as a family eating BEEF, we told stories about #7 and commented on how great he tasted.

I'm sure some of you are appalled by this; I know that some of you are vegetarians, and I really don't mean to offend. But people have to eat too, and not all of us want to exist purely on non-meat sources.

There is such variety of life on this planet, and I for one, want to taste as much of it as I can... so if I'm ever at restaurant and iguana is on the menu, you bet I'm gonna try it.

It's a very different thing to kill an animal for food than it is to torture an animal for pleasure or out of neglect.

[dominick]

I agree Steph.

It's not like we're eating someone's pet. Iguana meat is a great source of protein for many countries. I ate goat in Mexico, Buffalo in Newark, Ostrich in Elizabeth and many other "exotic" meats.

I'm all for trying new things, doesn't mean that I would be willing to snatch someone's pet and eat it!

This is reality and I for one live in the real world. And I'm a proud carnivore.

As one of my favorite bumper stickers says: I didn't claw myself to the top of the food chain to eat salad! LOL

[SurvivorSteph]

I didn't claw myself to the top of the food chain to eat salad

LOL!!

[IguanaKing]

Yup, I'm with Dom and Steph. I think as long as the animal is eaten after its killed, its nature's way. On the other hand, people who hunt just for trophies to hang on their wall...those people bug me. I ate some really strange animals when I was in the survival portion of SERE (Wasps...didn't have a problem with killing them , ants, beetles, grubs...yum, yum ;D)

Hey Dom, was that Elizabeth, Colorado where you ate ostrich? I know they have a few ostrich farms out that way.

[Marie]

Hey I wasn't against them eating iguanas just mine. They keep saying that I should let them have my iguanas tails. That is when I started to tell them that I fed my iguanas something that would cause humans to be infertile if they ate them. They can go catch their own.

I used to watch my Dad butcher the rabbits we raised when I was a kid and still ate them. The male was the only one that was like a pet.

Oh they say Iguanas taste just like chicken. Since I do not like chicken that much I wouldn't make the effort to try an iguana.

Marie

[dominick]

Marie said:

That is when I started to tell them that I fed my iguanas something that would cause humans to be infertile if they ate them. They can go catch their own.

LMAO! That will stop them cold I bet!

Sean: Elizabeth, NJ! LOL I WISH it was Colorado!