Re: Seeing more ticks this years..

On 2008-06-13, pakrat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:43:03 -0400 in
<uzw4k.4340$Nr.426@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> me <someone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
wrote:
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>> You named your cats after hard drive manufactures?
>
> I'm only to blame for
> Miss Cadet "Squirrely Girl" Seagate, aka "Evil *****"
>
> You can blame Ana Burrows, aka Arcturus for naming Maxtor Maxtor.
> She gave me the little monster in 2002.
>
The little monster now weighs about 15 pounds.

> Seagate is a compromise between my wife's naming convention and my own.
> She likes giving her pets names related to the military, but they get
> get a last name if it's a rank.  It was a good three months before
> she realized I'd slipped in a harddrive brand.
> "Squirrely Girl" got tacked on when we started watching the cat
> do things that should violate the laws of physics...
>
> There's also Colonel Owen, but he's now an old fart that doesn't
> care that much for catnip.
>
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>> I have two birds name shut-up and you-heard-me :) 
>
> We also have three dogs.
>
> Duchess, the pitbull/hound thing we rescued in February.
> Scout the Scufflewumpus, the australian shepherd/husky/glub knows
> what else mix we got from one of Liz's cow-orkers.
> Pathfinder Puppydog, the "pure bred lab/chow mix," and the other
> old fart animal in the house.
>
> If anyone can think of a Duchess that is somewhat responsible for
> a devastating military cockup, Duchess will get a last name.
>
> We also have what we deem to be an irrational number of fish.
> Two tetras that are going into their 3rd year of life.  
>
>


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