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To: skinowski who wrote (359353)	4/13/2010 9:36:07 PM
From: Geoff Altman	5 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793963

we were fully aware that we must be grateful that we are much bigger than she.... for otherwise she'd probably hunt us down. I hear that! Want a really scary thought? What if humming birds were as big as, say, a condor? They're aggressive little suckers. I had one just about take out my eye cause I was standing too close to his feeder....<g> For shear aggressiveness I've never seen anything as bad as a habu. When I was in Okinawa, a friend of mine from Osaka and I were driving to the north tip of the island to make a night dive and hopefully catch some octopus. We round this curve on the highway and I see this habu that was about 7 feet long crossing the road, so I ask Kiminobu to stop since I'd never seen a habu in the wild. I get out of the car, wet suit and all and start heading over to the snake. It was half on the road half heading into the jungle by the time I got close to it. As soon as it saw me, it turned and made a bee line right at me. I'd never seen a snake that would choose to confront rather than escape given the chance. Anyway, IT WAS FAST! I was running backwards as fast as I could, and while our distance was increasing , it wasn't fast enough in my opinion at the time....<ggg> Couple of seconds later 3 Okinawan guys jumped out of a car, pinned the snake with a branch and took it away. 8000 yen was the going price for an adult hapu, uh er, not that I would have caught it myself...<g> I'll stick to octopus and fish, it's safer....

To: skinowski who wrote (359353)	4/13/2010 11:11:04 PM
From: KLP	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793963

By George, you've got it, skinowski!!! Maybe we should send about a million cats to DC to Congress....Maybe they would instruct those CongressCritters just who is boss...and it isn't CongressCritters. But since the big Critters aren't listening, or are Stone Deaf, they won't have a clue, until a Cats's Paw drags them out of the Capitol and boots them down the steps.... Well, it's a nice dream..... That's what they do... Our cat used to bring her catch home all the time - to show off. We had a nice loving relationship with that beast, but we were fully aware that we must be grateful that we are much bigger than she.... for otherwise she'd probably hunt us down... ;)