Visitor to garage today!

mumps- Ah, that`s just SOOOO cool about Mumps! Never woulda thunk it...I swear I learn *something* new here all the time.

And I hear you on the dog breeds; my wife and I have been all about Beaucerons for years now, primarily because of their unique personalities.
 
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mumps- Ah, that`s just SOOOO cool about Mumps! Never woulda thunk it...I swear I learn *something* new here all the time.

And I hear you on the dog breeds; my wife and I have been all about Beaucerons for years now, primarily because of their unique personalities.
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I`m not familiar with those (at least I don`t think).... Google here I come!

Chris
 
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... but I did have plenty of lizards/amphibians, and while some were surprisingly smart, none of those ever displayed the higher brain functions that determine human-like personalities.
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I need to start hangin` around different people. I`m convinced a turtle could out-think half the folks I run into each day. And I`d guess all the folks who run into me each day think the same thing
 
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My wife and I only like dogs that exhibit higher-level anthropomorphic personality/intellectual traits, those that don`t are...boring and of no interest to us.

Q for anybody who knows: Do snakes exhibit those personality traits? IIRC, and I have little confidence that I do hence the Q, they simply don`t have the brain parts that do that. I`ve never had snakes, but I did have plenty of lizards/amphibians, and while some were surprisingly smart, none of those ever displayed the higher brain functions that determine human-like personalities.
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Well that’s the reason YOU own dogs. Some people love when their dogs are dumb as door nails and like to snuggle.

Some people enjoy snakes to feed them. Some like that people are scared of them. Some people just enjoy the simplicity of a snake.

Some people eat snakes or dog and would wonder why you have food as pets but have a pet wombat. Everyone wants a pet for their own reasons.....


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Hey Mumps, maybe you can help with some snake identification. We saw this one at a local park a while back. The phone camera didn`t capture the colors too well, but it was really cool how it was a darker color toward the head and faded to kind of a copper color toward the back. It was a big one, the rest of the tail was actually still hidden under the walkway we were on. :o


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Hey Mumps, maybe you can help with some snake identification. We saw this one at a local park a while back. The phone camera didn`t capture the colors too well, but it was really cool how it was a darker color toward the head and faded to kind of a copper color toward the back. It was a big one, the rest of the tail was actually still hidden under the walkway we were on. :o


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Hi Liz,
That looks to me like an Eastern Coachwhip (Masticophis flagellum flagellum). A harmless colubrid.

Chris
 
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Ooooh! Very Rottweiler-ish! At least in appearance. Now I`ve got some reading to do!

Chris
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You`ll find that opinions vary regarding which came first, both date to the Middle Ages. The Beauc is where Dr. Doberman`s concoction got its coloring :D

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Well that’s the reason YOU own dogs. Some people love when their dogs are dumb as door nails and like to snuggle.
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Oh, absolutely! Like...90% of the people we know!

Some people enjoy snakes to feed them.
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Heh heh, lots of, uhm..."snake food".. is in that "so cute we`d hate to watch it die" category. Yeah, I know.. :o

Everyone wants a pet for their own reasons.....
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Yep, and plenty of other-pet owners are every bit as serious about `em as we are about the dogs. Heh heh, I grew up thinking that households with birds/rodents/raccoons/you-name-it were the normal ones (my Uncle and Aunt owned a pet store and had a real menagerie..all but the horses/donkey were in the house too).

Guys I know with tropical fish go through routines that make my head spin!
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I need to start hangin` around different people.
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Heh heh, oh just get me going on how we think [so many individuals] compare to our dogs ;)
 
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You`ll find that opinions vary regarding which came first, both date to the Middle Ages. The Beauc is where Dr. Doberman`s concoction got its coloring :D



Oh, absolutely! Like...90% of the people we know!



Heh heh, lots of, uhm..."snake food".. is in that "so cute we`d hate to watch it die" category. Yeah, I know.. :o



Yep, and plenty of other-pet owners are every bit as serious about `em as we are about the dogs. Heh heh, I grew up thinking that households with birds/rodents/raccoons/you-name-it were the normal ones (my Uncle and Aunt owned a pet store and had a real menagerie..all but the horses/donkey were in the house too).

Guys I know with tropical fish go through routines that make my head spin!

Heh heh, oh just get me going on how we think [so many individuals] compare to our dogs ;)
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Im not sure if you ever said but what kind of dogs?


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Eh, I`m utterly [freakin`] *terrible* about taking threads off-topic by mentioning my dogs :o

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Im not sure if you ever said but what kind of dogs?
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We have Beaucerons, a very old French Herding Breed..kinda the, uhm...Widebody Hellcat/.44 magnum/etc. of Herding dogs. Whole `nother ballgame compared to the German Shepherds/Rotts/etc. I was used to before. Internet searches used to bring up as #1 "Don`t buy a Beauceron; if you don`t already know everything there is to know about them then it`s simply not for you."

Extremely rare dog, yet a huge % end up as Rescues...for a reason. But we love `em. Everyone we know IRL loves `em too, but that`s because *they only know ours*. Even we are leery of approaching ones that belong to others, again..for a reason.

Back to your usual programming....
 
I think if I ever saw a snake or large sized spider I`d pass out.

No shame in admitting it.

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