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Dear Caudate friends;
I’ve noticed that as caudate-keepers, we sometime find that our other herp-loving peers treat us with less than total respect.
Some of our friends with the other herp-keeping disciplines grapple with gators or cuddle with crocs. Others wrassle with rattlers or kickbox with Komodos (OK, I’m reaching now … but you get the idea!)
Well my kind and gentle supporters of all things salamander-like … you can now lift your head up high, fix your python-pummeling peers with your steely gaze and righteously declare:
“Pshaw! Pshaw I say!! Bully for you and your Boa!! We salamander people live for pain, danger and the lure of the great dark and watery unknown!! Sit lad (or lass) at my feet, and let me tell you a tale of ice-strewn rushing rivers, pitch-black nights, rows of teeth … and the wild … Mudpuppy!!”
(Insert theme music of Jaws’ movie here)
The horror … oh the horror!
I’ve just excerpted the fun parts … you can access the full item at the URL …
<u>WICHITA EAGLE</u> (Kansas) 03 March 07
Hays, Kan (AP): …
Schmidt's unusual encounter happened while he and Taggart were driving from northwest Kansas to Pittsburg for a late February meeting of the Kansas Chapter of The Wildlife Society.
On the way, they stopped near Neosho Falls to trap mudpuppies - aquatic salamanders - and put on their waders before stepping into the 33-degree Neosho River.
Something on the murky bottom bit Schmidt.
"I just started wondering what had hold of me," he said. "It just didn't hurt at all. I just felt it clamp around my foot."
Taggart watched as Schmidt hopped toward the riverbank, thinking a rock or log had fallen on his colleague's foot. …
"It was hilarious and scary at the same time," Schmidt said.
Hilarious to Taggart, certainly, who was laughing too hard to talk. But Schmidt did worry about losing his footing and having his waders fill with the icy river water.
…
Schmidt said the tiny, sharp teeth allowed … to hold on tight, but did no damage to the waders he was wearing.
"They're really small," he said of the teeth, "but they're sharp and there's a lot of them."
….
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/state/16827909.htm
I’ve noticed that as caudate-keepers, we sometime find that our other herp-loving peers treat us with less than total respect.
Some of our friends with the other herp-keeping disciplines grapple with gators or cuddle with crocs. Others wrassle with rattlers or kickbox with Komodos (OK, I’m reaching now … but you get the idea!)
Well my kind and gentle supporters of all things salamander-like … you can now lift your head up high, fix your python-pummeling peers with your steely gaze and righteously declare:
“Pshaw! Pshaw I say!! Bully for you and your Boa!! We salamander people live for pain, danger and the lure of the great dark and watery unknown!! Sit lad (or lass) at my feet, and let me tell you a tale of ice-strewn rushing rivers, pitch-black nights, rows of teeth … and the wild … Mudpuppy!!”
(Insert theme music of Jaws’ movie here)
The horror … oh the horror!
I’ve just excerpted the fun parts … you can access the full item at the URL …
<u>WICHITA EAGLE</u> (Kansas) 03 March 07
Hays, Kan (AP): …
Schmidt's unusual encounter happened while he and Taggart were driving from northwest Kansas to Pittsburg for a late February meeting of the Kansas Chapter of The Wildlife Society.
On the way, they stopped near Neosho Falls to trap mudpuppies - aquatic salamanders - and put on their waders before stepping into the 33-degree Neosho River.
Something on the murky bottom bit Schmidt.
"I just started wondering what had hold of me," he said. "It just didn't hurt at all. I just felt it clamp around my foot."
Taggart watched as Schmidt hopped toward the riverbank, thinking a rock or log had fallen on his colleague's foot. …
"It was hilarious and scary at the same time," Schmidt said.
Hilarious to Taggart, certainly, who was laughing too hard to talk. But Schmidt did worry about losing his footing and having his waders fill with the icy river water.
…
Schmidt said the tiny, sharp teeth allowed … to hold on tight, but did no damage to the waders he was wearing.
"They're really small," he said of the teeth, "but they're sharp and there's a lot of them."
….
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/state/16827909.htm