As The Tick just noted recently, feeding kittens to alligators "is just WRONG!" and that's enough philosophy on the matter for me.

In general I'm not bothered by animals eating other animals. That's what animals do. All the biz about domestication and "pets" seems like a wooby net of rationalization. Cats are predators and kill things all the time: mice, cockroaches, birds et al. It's no fun to be prey, of course, and at least in the wild the mice have a scampering chance.

This morning I watched a few minutes of the Today show because Johnny Depp was supposed to be on. Instead, I saw a long segment about how pushing/pulling heavy furniture can cause it to tip over and hurt you. I didn't know people needed to be alerted to that fact. Apparently someone thinks there should be warning labels on, I don't know exactly, tall dressers and TV sets and things like that.

What would these labels say? "Object is not immune to the laws of physics"? Will someone who doesn't understand gravity actually comprehend a warning label?

I didn't know people needed to be alerted to that fact.

But remember, Strega, we are the people who need coffee lids that say "Contents will be hot."

People are stupid.

Also, on a package of peanuts: MAY CONTAIN PEANUTS.

I had an argument a while ago with the BF about some household or farm animal that wasn't actually domesticated. Can't remember what it was, does anyone have a clue?

Also, I don't understand why anyone would wear that Greece shirt, because it's just an invitation for trouble. I do love the "You have died of dysentery" shirt and am considering buying it.

In MA, you can't have a pet that is wild, or within X number generations of wild. Ferrets and I think snakes are not legal pets, as well as things like alligators and tigers and bears.

Wait, I know people in MA with or who've had Ferrets (and not just Victor and Thessaly), and I've also seen people walking around in public with pythons draped around them. Is the law just not being enforced very strongly (or at all)?

Can't remember what it was, does anyone have a clue?

Deer? Cause all over NZ they have deer farms and I kept thinking, "Are they really domesticated?"

What would these labels say? "Object is not immune to the laws of physics"?

Oh please, oh please. That's a warning label I'd never peel off.

I tried to take a picture up on the cliff of Monserrat in Spain of this sketchy little cliffside trail. There was a weathered sign warning PELIGRO! lying about 10 ft down on a outcropping. Obviously, it had fallen down. And no one cared.

The contrast between that and the near-psychotic level of rails and warnings you see in major national parks here really struck me.

Ooh, so Victor and Thessaly have outlaw ferrets? In retrospect, it all makes so much more sense.

Also, I don't understand why anyone would wear that Greece shirt, because it's just an invitation for trouble.

I think you just answered your own question.