Pet Monologues

vine snake - Ahaetulla nasuta

inland taipan - careful! most venomous snake in the world

can anyone identify this snake?

Snakes, like other reptiles, have a skin covered in scales. Snakes are entirely covered with scales or scutes of various shapes and sizes. Scales protect the body of the snake, aid it in locomotion, allow moisture to be retained within, alter the surface characteristics such as roughness to aid in camouflage, and in some cases even aid in prey capture (such as Acrochordus). The simple or complex colouration patterns (which help in camouflage and anti-predator display) are a property of the underlyingskin, but the folded nature of scaled skin allows bright skin to be concealed between scales then revealed in order to startle predators.

Scales have been modified over time to serve other functions such as ‘eyelash’ fringes, and protective covers for the eyes[2] with the most distinctive modification being the rattle of the North American rattlesnakes. Read the rest of this entry »

A tribute to Wordless Chicken Tuesday created by Speedcat Hollydale, a fan of PM. Speedcat, never say “last” though I don’t have a good reason
why (PM).

boot ransom

100 chickens and a worm

The participants…

Chicken picture for Eric / Blue Ribbon Bloggers (PAINTED) Another ‘Chicken’ post for Eric…” / Blue Ribbon Bloggers (HAYBAR ANTICS!) Final Edition of Wordless Chicken Tuesday! / Julie’s Blog (TALENT SPOTLIGHT) WCT Beacon: Chicken Wonton Soup for the Soul / New England Lighthouse Treasures (MY CHILDHOOD CHICKEN TRAINING) The (gasp!) Last Wordless Chicken Tuesday?! / Olga the Traveling Bra (UPROAR HENHOUSE!) One hundred chickens and a worm / Laketrees (PUZZLE PICTURE) Chicken Tuesday: Yoga Chicken / Outta the COOP (ACTION) Chicken Licken Tuesday with Speedycat / Sugar Queens Dream (LOTS OF CHICKENS) Wordless Chicken Tuesday/a> / Auntie Dar’s Life (DANGER) target=”_blank” / OMYWORD! Did I say that? (RUFFLED) Super Tuesday Wordlesss Chicken< / Cuppacinjo: A Man of the Froth (MOVING) Nekkid Chicken, Clone Production & Damn Doctors / Divalicious (SKINNY) Wordy Chicken Tuesday and Kidnapped Part 2 / Observations from the Back 40 (LOOK AT THE TOP PICTURE) Big bird(s) / Pet Monologues (MASSIVE) Silly Girls / Creative Treasures (S T R E T C H Y) Lookin’ Pretty For My Last Wordless Chicken Tuesday / Can You be Part of My Life (SHOCKING) Boot Randsom / Drowsey Pictures (CHICKEN MAN VENDETTA) I hAvE nO iDeA / Olga the Traveling Bra (DEMANDING)

Caw to art! is an effort to showcase pets and animals in an ARTFUL manner. A photograph, fine art, a scribble, sculpture. A poem, a monologue, a short story, motion.

Submissions: Beginning Wednesday 2/6/08 thru Friday—and maybe
a bit longer…

Diane Clancy submits Chi Chi in butterflies.
Donogo submits Adorable cat web tools to show off your love for kitty.
Laketrees submits One hundred chickens and a worm.
Eden Stern submits Substitute teacher.
What works for us submits Ball. Someone> Anyone?
Pet Monologues submits red-veined darter with dew on wings

chi chi

100 chickens and a worm

substitute teacher

red-veined darter with dew on wings by Martin Amm

Still steeping…

…in the meantime. Questions? Comments? Editor’s note: please look at Comment 1 below for more C2a! details as well as look at the previous editions of Caw to art!…

and while you are curating your submissions don’t forget Friday Ark roster for this weekend. And Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday.

Let’ put this image into words and see if you conjure up the image…

…obsession with imaginary insects, mysterious adoration of just one spot on the bed, barf gland, search and destroy lobe for expensive imported textiles, ceramics, inexorable fear of vacuum cleaners, short circuit that makes a purring kitty an arm-shredding maniac in two seconds, licking gland, total drive to be where they are forbidden to go, shedding on freshly vacuumed surfaces cortex, can opener sonar, asthmatic person locator, inability to get along with new cat, hatred of dogs, commitment spot (get larger when can opener sonar is activated), infatuation with people who hate cats.

(Originally published in MS Magazine, Vol III, #1, July/August 1992)
via xmission.com note: this post can be see at Friday Ark #177