DennisFranz

I just saw a special on genitically engineered animals.

One topic (not going into animals for food or growing human parts) was pets.

I think it would be intresting to have a pocket elephant.

Anyone have any ideas on animals that could be household pets. Nothing like a flying shark, or a sheep hair snake, or 200 lb gecko.

Mike C

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Funny and scary at the same time. Designer pets, you could just imagine what some people would do with the time and the money. I got an idea, let's leave nature well enough alone on this point. There's something wrong about a cyclops pet.

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Raynne413

I don't know. I wouldn't mind having a minature camel. :D

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Originally posted by Raynne413@Feb 10 2003, 01:54 PM I don't know.  I wouldn't mind having a minature camel.  :D

As long as he didn't spit at you !

Thinking back of that idea, it reminds me of Blade Runner. He took a scale he found to an animal manufacturer. She found it was a snake by its serial number genetically imbedded in the scales. WERID for something written in 1968.

Yeah we should leave nature alone but where do we start/stop? They have gentically engineers many animals already. Plus we kill many animals and some groups use DNA to keep some species both frozen and alive.

Soon we may have our Noah's Ark of genetic animal coding just because we killed them all.

Woah, that was heavy.

Raynne413

I know what you mean. I read that by 2010, they believe tigers will be extinct in the wild.

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poor fat kid

[QUOTE]Raynne413 Posted on Feb 10 2003, 01:54 PM
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I don't know. I wouldn't mind having a minature camel.


I would like a minature Axim. :D

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Raynne413 Posted on Feb 10 2003, 01:54 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't know. I wouldn't mind having a minature camel. I would like a minature Axim. :D

On that note I would like a minature Axim, or a normal Axim, or infact any Axim still not got one yet !


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DennisFranz

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StrykerdXP

You have to stop thinking about shrinking big animals, i.e. the elephant, and the camel.
Much more comedy lies in making small things... well big; a 300lbs tree frog, a mouse the size of a race horse, a hamster that could only live outside. That stuff is funny! Times where this has worked.... and failed. Godzilla, that was funny and scary, King Kong, very funny to think about!

This list could go on, and we could discuss it for days!

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Fritz

I dunno, somehow there's this certain cool factor in having a blue-whale or dolphin in my sea-monkey tank... :P

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Raynne413

I like sea monkeys. My sea monkeys had babies. Then I got newts, which eat frozen sea monkeys. I forgot and had them next to each other, and my sea monkeys ended up dying. I think they were too stressed out. :(

On the note of small animals made large: Capybaras look like huge Guineau Pigs, and are the world's largest rodent. :D

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roixnus

Why did you freeze your sea monkeys? I hope you wouldn't consider freezing a Capybara, one or two of them would fill your freezer!

Fritz

Speaking of sea-monkeys. You know how it comes with its own packet of food, well I ran out. So I just left it in the sun, and let the algae grow itself, and then the whole tank was self-sufficient for like 9 months!

It had babies and stuff, but the really really funky part is this:

The male has this 'horn' on them, whilst the females do not, and i've observed:

1) There were about 3 pairs of male homo-sexual sea-monkeys. One male would hook onto the other male's tail and try to copulate.

2) Then there were this occasion when there was a 'chain' going on -- and I mean like 4 or 5 of them would chain together, male and female. The sight was much like the oriental express ;)

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Originally posted by roixnus Why did you freeze your sea monkeys? I hope you wouldn't consider freezing a Capybara, one or two of them would fill your freezer!

LMAO I didn't freeze them myself. The salt would have killed the newts. Sea monkeys are just brine shrimp. And you could buy packages of frozen brine shrimp to feed the newts. It is just a block, and you break a piece off, put it in the water, and it would thaw out.


Fritz,
My sea monkeys did the same thing. :D

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