Stupid mistakes with animals

[Tim Benzedrine]

Here is the ad that you guys probably responded to:

Even worse though was this.....

 

[JohnEDove]

OMG, I remember those ads. I never responded as I was in the military back then and I can't remember where I saw the ads either, old age kicking in, but I remember them both.

 

[El Viejo]

I remember those too. My parents wouldn't allow me to get anything like that. The only thing they let me get through the mail was a taxidermy course from the Northwestern School of Taxidermy. I still have those booklets somewhere. The only thing I ever stuffed was a grackle. It looked horrendous, but the cat attacked it, so that convinced me it was lifelike (even though it had few feathers, and lumps where they didn't belong). I guess that event would qualify this post to fit under the title of the thread, as that was yet another mistake with an animal!

 

[Tim Benzedrine]

OMG, I remember those ads. I never responded as I was in the military back then and I can't remember where I saw the ads either, old age kicking in, but I remember them both.

They were often in comic books, but I also remember them in "Boy's Life" magazines as well as in the back of barious hunting and fishing magazines.

I was too oung to really remember it now, but my sister ordered the sea-horses for a school project. I can just vaguely remember them arriving. I'll have to ask her, but I'm guessing they did not fare any better than anyone else's.

 

[Drachenjager]

my dad went to dip some bird dogs once and thought that since they had fleas and ticks pretty bad he should double the dosage... they howled all night till they died. never had them again. never dipped a dog again. never ever again i cried all night. I was 5 .

I let Galapogoheros hold a centipede once while i was getting the container and he got bit. I think the pede died from food poison after that lol
(sort of not quite true but close lol)

 

[bhoeschcod]

my dad went to dip some bird dogs once and thought that since they had fleas and ticks pretty bad he should double the dosage... they howled all night till they died. never had them again. never dipped a dog again. never ever again i cried all night. I was 5 .

I let Galapogoheros hold a centipede once while i was getting the container and he got bit. I think the pede died from food poison after that lol
(sort of not quite true but close lol)

thats really sad:8o

 

[Veneficus]

Here is the ad that you guys probably responded to:

Even worse though was this.....

OMG!!! That is the seahorse ad! Wow, it only cost $2.98-- I never saw the monkey ad though... that is bad.

This was the other thing my mom bought me when I was young--I was disappointed because they never looked like the picture:

 

[joshuai]

i caut a bunch of tree frogs in oregon once and took them home when i was about 8 i had them in a dome like cage and put them in the window to get some sun and came back an hour later to some stretched frog leggs

 

[Skullptor]

They were often in comic books, but I also remember them in "Boy's Life" magazines as well as in the back of barious hunting and fishing magazines.

I was too oung to really remember it now, but my sister ordered the sea-horses for a school project. I can just vaguely remember them arriving. I'll have to ask her, but I'm guessing they did not fare any better than anyone else's.

What a flash from the past with those pics, Tim. After I ordered the "sea monkeys" and found out they were just shrimp, I realized then that I probably won't reach my quota selling "Grit" magazine either....well, there was always my birthday to look forward too.

 

[Tim Benzedrine]

Those sea-monkey ads were strokes of deceptive merchandising genius!
I had them, but I think we bought a set at a toy store somewhere. I remember that we still thought they were pretty neat, even though they didn't turn out to be humanoid crown-wearing denizens of the deep.

 

[bhoeschcod]

Glad it worked for you it didnt for us

 

[Scorpendra]

child abuse is wrong, but a lot of kids these days lack discipline and respect. there's a line somewhere to some extent.

i learned to keep the lid secure when dealing with certain types of fish and also to do my own research about pet care.

 

[bhoeschcod]

Um is this torwards me?

 

[smokey progg]

one of the things i i did when i was a kid was catch common crabs and fish from the sea and keep them in a bucket but in the hot sun the all died

 

[Dave]

Child abuse is child abuse, no matter what "day" it was in. Every wonder why it is still rampant?


IF YOIU ARE READING THIS AND HAVE BEEN HIT GET HELP!! GO TO SOMEONE SAFE AND TELL THEM!!! YOUR PARENTS OR WHOEVER HITS NEEDS HELP TOO.

BEING A CHILD SHOULDN'T HURT. IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT!! NO MATTER WHAT!

Good for you. Pets are fun, but this is what's really important

 

[Lucille]

I definitely did my share of catching starfish and crabs and so on and putting them in buckets of warm water, they didn't make it.

As far as discipline, we all have theories on child rearing, and whoever raised John did a fine job.

 

[LeilaNami]

I think my worst experience was keeping crayfish in a plastic bowl of tap water. I couldn't figure out why they were dying. My mom always did the water changes on the fish bowl (with a goldfish and betta ugh) so I didn't know about chlorine. I think I was 7 or 8. I also did the sea-monkeys bit around that time.

My little sister (who is now nine) is getting into this phase. She insists on keeping house geckos in shoe boxes and no matter how many times I tell her they will die, she keeps doing it gecko after gecko. Now she gets a severe reprimand whenever she's caught. She also seems to think the thought of torturing bugs is funny which she also got a reprimand from me and from our parents. She really likes animals but is severely misguided.

 

[JohnEDove]

whoever raised John did a fine job.

Thank you Ms. Hollander, coming from someone of your caliber I take that as an extreme compliment.
Nice to run into you on yet another forum, welcome to AB.