heck i keep em as pets.

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my cousin jethro has 2 of em!

[Edited 4/5/12 23:28pm]

Fury said:

Ottensen said:

That's what I hate about those suckers; they're so freaking big you can actually hear them ! The worst is that you can hear their wings flutter when they fly It's practically like a battle cry

I always invested in professional pest control in Miami and never had a problem with insects on the day to day. But these bugs? They're like robbers that case your house from 100 feet into the wild, and just decide to break in one day as soon as you leave an opening and they see opportunity. Because of that, Raid was always in my house just in case one of them tried to bumrush the premises !

Now, you know you are oh so wrong for that!!!

This is what happens when you kill off the predatory animals.

God forbid something should prey on something else.

The lamb will never lye down with the lion because there will be no lion to lye down with!!!!

[Edited 3/31/12 9:31am]

Deadflow3r said:

This is what happens when you kill off the predatory animals.

God forbid something should prey on something else.

The lamb will never lye down with the lion because there will be no lion to lye down with!!!!

[Edited 3/31/12 9:31am]

That's what I thought... they should let the rat outside where the crocodile lives and let it eat it...

free2bfreeda said:

heck i keep em as pets.

my cousin jethro has 2 of em!

now there's a mufucka wit issuses

even witout the rats

[Edited 3/31/12 16:09pm]

Ottensen said:

peb319 said:

oh..and they bite.... BITE!!!!

do you hear what im saying.. they can and will bite you

oh my danm!!! I didn't know that!!!

I used to live on a canal in Miami Beach, which was just wonderful for the insects ,. Once in a blue moon a Palmetto bug would just fly through my front door, like "Hi, what's for dinner " I would just spraaaaaaaaaaaay them until they drowned , so they never got close enough to try and bite my ass like Mike Tyson bit Evander Holifield. Thank you Lawed for having spared me, because being bit by one??? That would have been enough to send me to the crazy house

I was bitten by a flying cockroach once. It hurt pretty bad and you could see the bite for a long time.

Deadflow3r said:

This is what happens when you kill off the predatory animals.

God forbid something should prey on something else.

The lamb will never lye down with the lion because there will be no lion to lye down with!!!!

[Edited 3/31/12 9:31am]

It appears a private owner let them loose...

The protection of people, animal and plants is threatened on a daily basis byirresponsible exotic pet owners. All exotic animals are not dangerous and all owners are not irresponsible, but stricter state laws are necessary to protect native wildlife and unsuspecting residents. When dangerous exotic pets escape, children playing on a backyard swing set are placed in grave danger. Even nondangerous exotic pets can wreak havoc on the native flora and fauna.

While legislators in Ohio continue hammering out the final details on new laws pertaining to dangerous exotic pet ownership, Florida officials are scrambling to deal with a "giant" rodent problem, NBC 6 Miami News reports.

The invading 3-foot long rats in one of the nation's most beautiful locations might not boast the same ferocious demeanor as the tigers released in the fall in Ohio, but they are dangerous. Residents and visitors to the Keys deserve to sit among the towering palm trees without the fear of being bitten by the razor-sharp teeth of dog-sized marauding rats. The rats can reach 9 pounds by adulthood.

An exotic pet breeder released eight Gambian rats into the wild more than a decade ago, NBC 6 Miami News reports. The animals reproduced and have the potential to upset the ecological balance on the string of islands. Destroying native crops will harm the economy. Florida wildlife officials have been working diligently to capture the evasive rats, which burrow underground.

Exotic animals, the public and responsible pet owners deserve the right and protections of clearly defined laws and appropriate enforcement.

http://news.yahoo.com/gia...00817.html

Serious said:

Ottensen said:

oh my danm!!! I didn't know that!!!

I used to live on a canal in Miami Beach, which was just wonderful for the insects ,. Once in a blue moon a Palmetto bug would just fly through my front door, like "Hi, what's for dinner " I would just spraaaaaaaaaaaay them until they drowned , so they never got close enough to try and bite my ass like Mike Tyson bit Evander Holifield. Thank you Lawed for having spared me, because being bit by one??? That would have been enough to send me to the crazy house

I was bitten by a flying cockroach once. It hurt pretty bad and you could see the bite for a long time.

ain't nothin worse than a roach wit an attitude

that eats meat AND flies

noimageatall said:

Deadflow3r said:

This is what happens when you kill off the predatory animals.

God forbid something should prey on something else.

The lamb will never lye down with the lion because there will be no lion to lye down with!!!!

[Edited 3/31/12 9:31am]

It appears a private owner let them loose...

The protection of people, animal and plants is threatened on a daily basis byirresponsible exotic pet owners. All exotic animals are not dangerous and all owners are not irresponsible, but stricter state laws are necessary to protect native wildlife and unsuspecting residents. When dangerous exotic pets escape, children playing on a backyard swing set are placed in grave danger. Even nondangerous exotic pets can wreak havoc on the native flora and fauna.

While legislators in Ohio continue hammering out the final details on new laws pertaining to dangerous exotic pet ownership, Florida officials are scrambling to deal with a "giant" rodent problem, NBC 6 Miami News reports.

The invading 3-foot long rats in one of the nation's most beautiful locations might not boast the same ferocious demeanor as the tigers released in the fall in Ohio, but they are dangerous. Residents and visitors to the Keys deserve to sit among the towering palm trees without the fear of being bitten by the razor-sharp teeth of dog-sized marauding rats. The rats can reach 9 pounds by adulthood.

An exotic pet breeder released eight Gambian rats into the wild more than a decade ago, NBC 6 Miami News reports. The animals reproduced and have the potential to upset the ecological balance on the string of islands. Destroying native crops will harm the economy. Florida wildlife officials have been working diligently to capture the evasive rats, which burrow underground.

Exotic animals, the public and responsible pet owners deserve the right and protections of clearly defined laws and appropriate enforcement.

http://news.yahoo.com/gia...00817.html

i said this in a previous post,

and also stated that the worst part is

they pick up human qwalities from bein owned

which makes them more visious hunters

and even harder to catch

KingBAD said:

Serious said:

I was bitten by a flying cockroach once. It hurt pretty bad and you could see the bite for a long time.

ain't nothin worse than a roach wit an attitude

that eats meat AND flies

The worst thing was that my boyfriend who was there when it happened told me that thing did not bite me because they don't bite even when I showed him the bite . And it only bit me because he refused to help me to get it away from my hand where it was sitting on and I did it in a way on my own that shocked that thing and made him bite me .

Serious said:

Ottensen said:

oh my danm!!! I didn't know that!!!

I used to live on a canal in Miami Beach, which was just wonderful for the insects ,. Once in a blue moon a Palmetto bug would just fly through my front door, like "Hi, what's for dinner " I would just spraaaaaaaaaaaay them until they drowned , so they never got close enough to try and bite my ass like Mike Tyson bit Evander Holifield. Thank you Lawed for having spared me, because being bit by one??? That would have been enough to send me to the crazy house

I was bitten by a flying cockroach once. It hurt pretty bad and you could see the bite for a long time.

yep.... one got me while i was sleeping...it felt like a bee stinging me..or a bull ant...

KingBAD said:

free2bfreeda said:

heck i keep em as pets.

my cousin jethro has 2 of em!

now there's a mufucka wit issuses

even witout the rats

[Edited 3/31/12 16:09pm]

you tho crazeee!

free2bfreeda said:

heck i keep em as pets.

my cousin jethro has 2 of em!

This kid looks like an urban Goth. "Jethro" on the other hand, while being from the Hebrew Bible , is more like an Appalachian mountain name. Somehow, I don't see the correlation here.

noimageatall said:

Deadflow3r said:

This is what happens when you kill off the predatory animals.

God forbid something should prey on something else.

The lamb will never lye down with the lion because there will be no lion to lye down with!!!!

[Edited 3/31/12 9:31am]

It appears a private owner let them loose...

The protection of people, animal and plants is threatened on a daily basis byirresponsible exotic pet owners. All exotic animals are not dangerous and all owners are not irresponsible, but stricter state laws are necessary to protect native wildlife and unsuspecting residents. When dangerous exotic pets escape, children playing on a backyard swing set are placed in grave danger. Even nondangerous exotic pets can wreak havoc on the native flora and fauna.

While legislators in Ohio continue hammering out the final details on new laws pertaining to dangerous exotic pet ownership, Florida officials are scrambling to deal with a "giant" rodent problem, NBC 6 Miami News reports.

The invading 3-foot long rats in one of the nation's most beautiful locations might not boast the same ferocious demeanor as the tigers released in the fall in Ohio, but they are dangerous. Residents and visitors to the Keys deserve to sit among the towering palm trees without the fear of being bitten by the razor-sharp teeth of dog-sized marauding rats. The rats can reach 9 pounds by adulthood.

An exotic pet breeder released eight Gambian rats into the wild more than a decade ago, NBC 6 Miami News reports. The animals reproduced and have the potential to upset the ecological balance on the string of islands. Destroying native crops will harm the economy. Florida wildlife officials have been working diligently to capture the evasive rats, which burrow underground.

Exotic animals, the public and responsible pet owners deserve the right and protections of clearly defined laws and appropriate enforcement.

http://news.yahoo.com/gia...00817.html

I saw this from the onset when the article was posted by the OP: my dude and I were just saying how incredibly irresponsible that is to just release animals into the wild like that from a completely foreign habitat. In Gambia there are birds of prey who are known to hunt these things, but to just release them into the American wild with no natural predator to speak of??? I hope his ass was fined heavily, and he just demonstrated why everyone is not capable nor responsible enough to handle so-called "exotic pets".

What he did has the potential to jack up the food supply, just because his dumb ass was likely bored of the responsibility of an animal that had no business being brought over for people's amusement in the first place. If those animals reach the mainland and become a threat to crops, I hope his business is closed and there is a reprimand of some kind.

Ottensen said:

free2bfreeda said:

heck i keep em as pets.

my cousin jethro has 2 of em!

This kid looks like an urban Goth. "Jethro" on the other hand, while being from the Hebrew Bible , is more like an Appalachian mountain name. Somehow, I don't see the correlation here.

there are also large rodents in that dwell in parts of the appalachian mountains. it's called the allegheny woodrat and it ranges about 15 to 18 inches in length whereas 7 to 8 inches of this is tail. that is quite large imo.

i refer to the name Jethro as in Jethro Boudine who was from west virginia. West virginia is a state which is a part of the appalachian mountain range. thus jethro.

it's not suppose to be that technical! a big rat is a big rat. goth that?

[Edited 4/2/12 9:29am]

Why did I have to open this damn thread! I'll be having nightmares for weeks

free2bfreeda said:

Ottensen said:

This kid looks like an urban Goth. "Jethro" on the other hand, while being from the Hebrew Bible , is more like an Appalachian mountain name. Somehow, I don't see the correlation here.

there are also large rodents in that dwell in parts of the appalachian mountains. it's called the allegheny woodrat and it ranges about 15 to 18 inches in length whereas 7 to 8 inches of this is tail. that is quite large imo.

i refer to the name Jethro as in Jethro Boudine who was from west virginia. West virginia is a state which is a part of the appalachian mountain range. thus jethro.

it's not suppose to be that technical! a big rat is a big rat. goth that?

[Edited 4/2/12 9:29am]

cute.

But that poor kid still looks like a city dweller to me and not from the mountains. Instead of Jethro- I see him more as something like a Jane Gacy (in the tradition of Marylyn Manson).

Big ass rats are still big as rats, but not all white folks have inbred, backwoods, country names. Just sayin'.

these are the type of rats that are trained to sniff out explosives and landmines

in their region of origin. they're actually pretty damn awesome.

not when they're running wild and loose in your backyard, mind you. but they

do some amazing work in saving people's lives by finding landmines.

The "how my babble thread post jumped into the rat thread" edit

[Edited 4/3/12 5:04am]

IstenSzek said:

these are the type of rats that are trained to sniff out explosives and landmines

in their region of origin. they're actually pretty damn awesome.

not when they're running wild and loose in your backyard, mind you. but they

do some amazing work in saving people's lives by finding landmines.

Idk why I keep coming back to this thread to look at big ass rats smh lol

Kill all the rats, roaches, mosquitos and slugs then you have a nicer world in which to live.

IstenSzek said:

these are the type of rats that are trained to sniff out explosives and landmines

in their region of origin. they're actually pretty damn awesome.

not when they're running wild and loose in your backyard, mind you. but they

do some amazing work in saving people's lives by finding landmines.

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BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE!!!

they are qwite expendable

HotGritz said:

Kill all the rats, roaches, mosquitos and slugs then you have a nicer world in which to live.

Can we add possums to that list?! They like to run out in the street in front of your car while you're driving at night; they're kinda like the Floridian version of deer and look even nastier than those giant pouch rats

Ottensen said:

HotGritz said:

Kill all the rats, roaches, mosquitos and slugs then you have a nicer world in which to live.

Can we add possums to that list?! They like to run out in the street in front of your car while you're driving at night; they're kinda like the Floridian version of deer and look even nastier than those giant pouch rats

Oh yes we must rid the world of them critters! They are horrid looking and it doesn't help that their babies hang off of them like extra big skin tags.

I always see dead possums on the road.They foolishly run out into the streets at night and become roadkill.

Ottensen said:

noimageatall said:

I saw this from the onset when the article was posted by the OP: my dude and I were just saying how incredibly irresponsible that is to just release animals into the wild like that from a completely foreign habitat. In Gambia there are birds of prey who are known to hunt these things, but to just release them into the American wild with no natural predator to speak of??? I hope his ass was fined heavily, and he just demonstrated why everyone is not capable nor responsible enough to handle so-called "exotic pets".

What he did has the potential to jack up the food supply, just because his dumb ass was likely bored of the responsibility of an animal that had no business being brought over for people's amusement in the first place. If those animals reach the mainland and become a threat to crops, I hope his business is closed and there is a reprimand of some kind.

A simular problem happened with another rodent, rabbits in Australia. Somehow they were all killed off. I just hope they find a way to kill them off without using deadly chemicals.

Yes Timmy, Crocodiles would enjoy these.

Can there skins be used for anything. When humans can sell the skins of an animal for money they will hunt that animal to extinction.

Maybe humans can kill them and turn them in for money somehow. They need a motive though like can recycling. Five cents a can, maybe fifty cents a rat?

KingBAD said:

free2bfreeda said:

heck i keep em as pets.

[image deleted]

my cousin jethro has 2 of em!

now there's a mufucka wit issuses

even witout the rats

[Edited 3/31/12 16:09pm]

image was deleted, might have defended.