Cute Picture of the Day

[tomahawk6]

U.S. Army Soldiers from Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division are approached by a pack of playful puppies as they talk to the resident of a home in Muqdadiyah, Iraq, Feb. 7, 2008. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Shawn M. Cassatt)

 

[Trinity]

Is this like Monty Python and the killer rabbit...

Should be in the Headlines thread.

"Shortly after the soldier was eaten by the hungry killer puppies."

 

[midget-boyd91]

Not only does that one in the bottom picture look like it could be a German Shepard ... it looks like he's goose-stepping too. 

Midget

 

[medaid]

That's quite cute actually

 

[tomahawk6]

Sgt. Ashley M. Lorenc, a 25-year-old administration clerk with the 9th Marine Corps District, from Derby, Kan., snuggles with her Canadian lynx, Kisa, at her home in Kansas City, Mo. Lorenc has taken care of the 16-month-old, 21-pound lynx since the cat was only 5 weeks old and weighed less than one pound. Their relationship resembles that of a mother and child.

 

[medaid]

Um... she knows that Lynx is dangerous right?  :-\

 

[Yrys]

REALLY cute.

They may need veterinarian over there, for sterilization...

 

[S.Stewart]

How does one come to own a Lynx exactly? Can't be legal, at least not here anyway. (zoo's, specialized permits aside)

 

[The_Falcon]

How does one come to own a Lynx exactly? Can't be legal, at least not here anyway. (zoo's, specialized permits aside)

Same way people come to own tigers, cougars, lions etc. people trade em and buy em.  That lynx maybe cute and cuddly now, but when its all grown up.......

 

[deej96]

Um... she knows that Lynx is dangerous right? 

yes, wild Lynx are dangerous, but since she has raised this one since it was a wee little thing, I'm guessing it's just as tame as my cat.  That's how peaple are able to have random illegal animals [tigers, lynx, etc.]...get it when they are young and they will normally be safe from then on.  It's all about the evironment they are raised in.  Of course some are rebellious, but hey, if you volunteer to have a wild animal in your home, you are asking for problems.

 

[Reccesoldier]

yes, wild Lynx are dangerous, but since she has raised this one since it was a wee little thing, I'm guessing it's just as tame as my cat.

And that's probably exactly what she will think right up till the moment when the wild animal takes a mouthful of face.  Film at 11.  :

 

[The_Falcon]

yes, wild Lynx are dangerous, but since she has raised this one since it was a wee little thing, I'm guessing it's just as tame as my cat.  That's how peaple are able to have random illegal animals [tigers, lynx, etc.]...get it when they are young and they will normally be safe from then on.  It's all about the evironment they are raised in.  Of course some are rebellious, but hey, if you volunteer to have a wild animal in your home, you are asking for problems.

Yes and Seigfried's tiger was just "protecting" him.  If animals like lynxs, tigers, etc were domesticatable (sp??), don't you think people would have been sucessful a long time ago in making them pets?  And don't forget even "domesticated" animals like I dunno DOGS, can sometimes be unpredicatable and cause serious injury and death.

 

[deej96]

hey, I'm not saying that it's a smart idea, I fully think wild animals should stay in the wild...but sometimes it is necessary for an animal like that to be rescued...and the people that do that have had success in taming them.  Of course with every success there is a fail, and I'm pretty sure I stated that for those who do that are taking high risks...whether it be when it's time to release them to the wild [attachment factor], or if it starts attacking people [although, I wouldn't put a tiger down just because a stupid person provoked it....they are asking for it]

 

[Yrys]

I wouldn't put a tiger down just because a stupid person provoked it....they are asking for it]

You would not but there are laws that say they have to be put down. Which mean people keeping tiger or other
wild animal because they 'loved' them are putting them in the place to be lawfully killed...

 

[Shamrock]

I can has MRE?

(or...)

Halt.  Your papers.  Let me see them.

 

[deej96]

ya, it's stupid that there are those laws, and more importantly, it is stupid that people have the animals....unless it is an actual animal rescue shelter, a place specifically designed for that