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... includes a PRESS!

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[oops - typo in the header... "Opportunity"]
 

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“Drowns itself willingly”
What a relief; it can be so hard to convince them to drown themselves.
 
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So... I'm guessin' they taste like chicken?
 

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that's just gross. "Dad can I start a chinchilla farm?"
 
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Pressed and with a nice Chianti?

What got me on this silliness is the classic LP skit done by Firesign Theater:

"If you have kids, like I know I have..." or "these are synthetic chinchillas."
 
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I'm now thinking that a chinchilla is a gate-way rodent to a more serious addiction. What do you think?
 

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While I was growing up in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in the 60's, my father got hooked on the idea of raising chinchilla's. There was a chinchilla farm in the valley that offered them to raise. Idea was to raise them for their fur pelts. We took a family trip to this farm. Cages upon cages of these little rodents. Sorta looked like a guinea pig or gerbil. My parents after a lengthy discussion with the farmer, bowed out of the idea. One huge factor was the odor these little rodents emitted. Back home we were raising chickens, quail, rabbits, dogs, bees. My father than began to research raising mink and sables. But that's another story.
 
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In case of chinchilla overdose have Nar-cat on hand. :excitement:
 
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Maybe more like a mid point, Gerbils to Chinchillas, to Beaver, to Capybara... (look it up...)

Capybara... now THERE's an addiction!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :playful:
 

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Near Galveston, Texas there's a wildlife refuge called Anahuac. When we visited quite a few years ago, the place was overrun with Nutria - digging burrows, messing up the place. They were brought up from South America by fur farmers but ran wild. I don't know if they were ever brought under control.
 
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Near Galveston, Texas there's a wildlife refuge called Anahuac. When we visited quite a few years ago, the place was overrun with Nutria - digging burrows, messing up the place. They were brought up from South America by fur farmers but ran wild. I don't know if they were ever brought under control.

Maybe they're tasty too! :excitement:
 

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They've tried repeatedly to get people to eat them and use the fur for trim. You can get $4 or $5 for each one you kill. Ugly buggers with orange teeth. Not too appetizing.
 
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