[OK so we now have a blog..O-joy! So what's there to jabber about... Hm..*ponder*ponder*...*more pondering*......]
Well in typical Onion fashion, one of the most randomly talked about things are the pets that we want...
Well in typical Onion fashion, one of the most randomly talked about things are the pets that we want...
Here's the official onion barnyard wishlist...
- Fainting Goats
- Cats
- The Flying dongkey-dragons from Shrek3
So my contribution to the list is a "spitting alpaca" (see pix of odd but hideously cute goat-like creature above...) Friend of mine sent me this pix after a trip to some zoo…
Alpacas are indigenous to the high altitude regions of South America (and some parts of NYC *smirk*!). Here’s the funniest thing that tickled me silly… their curious social graces which include the following... [courtesy of our good friends at wikipedia]
- They tend to spit (like A LOT) and it comes out in some funkily foul projectile that contains air, saliva and sometimes a bit of ‘acidic stomach contents’
- They have a communal dung pile. And get this - males have much tidier, and fewer dung piles than females (who tend to stand in a line and all go at once...ewww!!)
- Oh... and they can live up to 20yrs... the worlds oldest alpaca "Vomiting Violet" (haha!!) lived to the ripe old age of 29yrs!
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