Would be cute if no harm was done. I think this harms their health and shortens their lifespan. Sad. I have 6 aquariums and love keeping fish. I won't be buying these.
We heard that too but ours never talked. They did seem intelligent though. I remember them as being huge and definitely smarter than chickens. Someone told us you had to cut a little slit in their tongue in order for them to have talking ability. Of course we never tried that. I have a few pictures of them.
Canned dogfood would work as well. When I was a child my family raised a pair of baby ravens in our chicken coop and fed them canned dogfood. They loved it. Their nest had been in a tree that got cut down so we thought their mother might abandon them. She eventually did find them even though we lived a good drive from where there nest had been. Once they were grown we thre them up in the air and they learned to fly. Over the next few years they would pay us a visit but they never got close enough to touch again. I'm sending my parents this article. They'll probably enjoy it. :)
Scientists are continually regrouping and reclassifying data. I'm trying to identify all the plants that grow where I live and there are so many different ways to classify them. The olders books are different than the new ones. It's confusing at times but the newer classifications are sometimes necessesary as we gain new knowledge.
The factory farms I'm referring to are in North Carolina. They were turkeys and pigs. They were very cruel. I saw it. Animals laying in their own waste, no space to hardly turn around, fed nothing but pelleted food and given a lot of antibiotics. I wanted to bring them some fresh greens from my garden but the farmer said they wouldn't know what to do with it because it would be so unfamiliar to them. I know some of guys who work there and may parents live near the farms, so we actually know a LOT about this. One turkey farm I know of gives there turkeys so much growth hormones to "beef" them up that they lost about 1000 turkeys from heart failure. I heard that cattle were also mistreated but haven't seen that with my own eyes other than some sorry cattle being transported in trucks. And I don't agree with many things PETA does. I think they may do some good but I feel they are too extreme. For one thing I think fishing is a great activity for families even though I don't eat fish. It's a great way to experience nature. It makes me want to preserve the quality of our lakes, streams and oceans etc. I know I got a bit off topic but anyway, hopefully you get the idea. I wasn't referring specifically to the treatment of cattle but rather the animals being raised for food in general. I'm sure some farms treat animals quite humanly. I just happen to know that many don't.
ewwwwww, I didn't think of that. good point