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Thought for the Day I was a vegetarian until I ...

Paul Whybrow

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I was a vegetarian until I started to lean towards the sunlight.

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Does that mean sheep- and cow-eaters find they drop down to all fours and graze? Those that eat venison start plucking leaves from bushes with their teeth? Those that eat rabbit find they have to re-consume their poop?
 
Took me WAY too long to figure out that was humour. My first thought was that cult that preached you could reach such a high state of spirituality that you lived on sunlight. AAAANNNd. At least one woman starved to death.

Wait rabbits eat their own poop? If so why did I find those little brown BB's all over. If they did that would make them the best indoor pets evah!
 
Took me WAY too long to figure out that was humour. My first thought was that cult that preached you could reach such a high state of spirituality that you lived on sunlight. AAAANNNd. At least one woman starved to death.

Wait rabbits eat their own poop? If so why did I find those little brown BB's all over. If they did that would make them the best indoor pets evah!
They actually produce two different kinds of poop. The (usually) dry pellets you see everywhere and and night pellets called cecotropes that they consume directly out of their own behinds. If you see them "licking" their bum then chewing in the early morning or late evening that's probably what they're consuming.
 
They actually produce two different kinds of poop. The (usually) dry pellets you see everywhere and and night pellets called cecotropes that they consume directly out of their own behinds. If you see them "licking" their bum then chewing in the early morning or late evening that's probably what they're consuming.
Aw heck! I thought they were just cute liddle bunny wabbits until I read that.
 
It sounds like those old Smirnoff ads: 'Accountancy was my life until I discovered Smirnoff.' (Fabulous, that one. Check it out.)
She needs to take more tonic with it.

Cows in the part of the world where I grew up would have a hard time leaning towards the sunlight. (Also sheep, goats, pigs, etc...) As observed by the Big Yin, 'Scotland's got two seasons: July and winter'.
 

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