Irish people care more about lizards than anything else!

Demonique

Look what's winning this charity vote thing, one of my aunts was bitching about it this morning the miserable old goat.

http://bettertogether.ie/content/shiny-happy-lizards

I didn't even know there were reptile charities in Ireland


So, what's everyone's favourite type of animal? I like wee baby turtles and horses myself

Lapin

My favourite animal is a rare to medium cooked steak.

Demonique

Lapin wrote: »

My favourite animal is a rare to medium cooked steak.

If we're going to be talking about tastiest animals, my vote goes to the camel

Absolutely delicious the only time I had it

Turtyturd

Ninja Turtles.

Poor Uncle Tom

I dreamed that a cow ate a pig and I ate the cow....mmmmmmmmmmmm, moolicious....

Lumbo

Demonique wrote: »

If we're going to be talking about tastiest animals, my vote goes to the camel

Absolutely delicious the only time I had it

I asked for that in Egypt and the waiter got the hump with me.

Demonique

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

I dreamed that a cow ate a pig and I ate the cow....mmmmmmmmmmmm, moolicious....

That made me think of turducken - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turducken

Odysseus

Demonique wrote: »

Look what's winning this charity vote thing, one of my aunts was bitching about it this morning the miserable old goat.

http://bettertogether.ie/content/shiny-happy-lizards

I didn't even know there were reptile charities in Ireland


So, what's everyone's favourite type of animal? I like wee baby turtles and horses myself

What the issue with them? I have been voting for them all along. In fact according to another thread I may be more evolved for having one as a pet

Those charities do a great job, I rescued my own dragon.

seven_eleven

There is actually a lizard species native to Ireland, or at least they are out there living in the wild. Extremely rare these days though unfortunately. I think you can find them up around the West or North.

LivelineDipso

I thought this thread was going to be about David Icke.

keith16

Demonique wrote: »

So, what's everyone's favourite type of animal? I like wee baby turtles and horses myself

What would you prefer though? 10 baby turtle size horses, or one horse sized baby turtle?

My favourite animal is the corncrake.

Where To

seven_eleven wrote: »

There is actually a lizard species native to Ireland, or at least they are out there living in the wild. Extremely rare these days though unfortunately. I think you can find them up around the West or North.

Yep, this wee fella visited me in the summertime.

OneArt

Lizards prevented me from being eaten alive by mosquitoes when I was a kid. So they're awesome.

9959

keith16 wrote: »

What....

My favourite animal is the corncrake.

Must have been a bit awkward to mash it into a bowl before adding milk and sugar.

Cantona's Collars

Demonique wrote: »

If we're going to be talking about tastiest animals, my vote goes to the camel

Absolutely delicious the only time I had it

Did you try the toe?

keith16

9959 wrote: »

Must have been a bit awkward to mash it into a bowl before adding milk and sugar.

That wasn't even the worst part, went to get milk from the fridge and there was none :mad:

af_thefragile

I don't like reptiles... They freak me out...
Reptiles and arachnids...

af_thefragile

Demonique wrote: »

So, what's everyone's favourite type of animal? I like wee baby turtles and horses myself

I like cats and squirrels...
And also hedgehogs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2bV1Qhvfrk

That's too vague! I love to own a horse because I love the whole horsey scene, the competing and all. But I cannot resist a kitten, they are the more irresistible creatures ever. But a dog is a more rewarding pet. Therefore I love all three of those, but my favourite animal is still gonna be an orca. Or a penguin. But probably orca.

seven_eleven

Where To wrote: »

Yep, this wee fella visited me in the summertime.

Looks like dog poop with legs.

Odysseus

Where To wrote: »

Yep, this wee fella visited me in the summertime.

Did you post about it at the time? I remember some posting a similar pic,if it was you did it survive? The one I remember the poster was worried about it.

Odysseus

I am tempted to go with an iguana next, there is quite a reptile market over here.

Odysseus

af_thefragile wrote: »

I don't like reptiles... They freak me out...
Reptiles and arachnids...

Out of interest what is it about them that freaks you out?

af_thefragile

Deleted User wrote: »

That's too vague! I love to own a horse because I love the whole horsey scene, the competing and all. But I cannot resist a kitten, they are the more irresistible creatures ever. But a dog is a more rewarding pet. Therefore I love all three of those, but my favourite animal is still gonna be an orca. Or a penguin. But probably orca.

I like orcas (prefer calling them killer whales cause it sounds cooler!) but they're bloody vicious and have attacked many humans too...

af_thefragile

Odysseus wrote: »

Out of interest what is it about them that freaks you out?

Dunno. I know they don't bite and most of them are fairly harmless.
Its just like some/many people are scared of spiders. Its the same I guess.

V_Moth

af_thefragile wrote: »

I like orcas (prefer calling them killer whales cause it sounds cooler!) but they're bloody vicious and have attacked many humans too...

Orcas are so last year, Narwhals is where its at these days. They invented the Shish-Kebab, don't you know:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykwqXuMPsoc

:pac:

9959

Deleted User wrote: »

That's too vague! I love to own a horse because I love the whole horsey scene, the competing and all. But I cannot resist a kitten, they are the more irresistible creatures ever. But a dog is a more rewarding pet. Therefore I love all three of those, but my favourite animal is still gonna be an orca. Or a penguin. But probably orca.

You've eaten an Orca!?!?

Where To

Odysseus wrote: »

Did you post about it at the time? I remember some posting a similar pic,if it was you did it survive? The one I remember the poster was worried about it.

Yep that was me. Unfortunately Larry is now with the great Godzilla in the sky.:(

Never forget.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DqK2PkFgtw

Demonique

Odysseus wrote: »

What the issue with them? I have been voting for them all along. In fact according to another thread I may be more evolved for having one as a pet

Those charities do a great job, I rescued my own dragon.

She's whinging because she's a child-obsessed moron who's annoyed that more people are voting for a reptile charity than the childrens' charities

Capt'n Midnight

seven_eleven wrote: »

There is actually a lizard species native to Ireland, or at least they are out there living in the wild. Extremely rare these days though unfortunately. I think you can find them up around the West or North.

Irish lizards don't lay eggs



might explain why they are rare :pac:

meoklmrk91

Demonique wrote: »

Look what's winning this charity vote thing, one of my aunts was bitching about it this morning the miserable old goat.

http://bettertogether.ie/content/shiny-happy-lizards

I didn't even know there were reptile charities in Ireland


So, what's everyone's favourite type of animal? I like wee baby turtles and horses myself

This is a great charity in fairness, rang them not so long ago at 10 at night as we found what we thought was a lizard, sent off a pick, had an answer from the girl who runs the charity in 10 minutes and she even got 2 other people to take a look to see what they thought it was. It was a little smooth newt which are native to Ireland but quite rare, I released her into the wild. They were so nice and helpful about it.

I think its nice to see charities like this getting a boost of some much needed cash, even though the department of agriculture does give out grants to animal charities every year they are very minimal, one of the larger ones only recieved enough to cover half of their costs for one month, so you can imagine that the smaller ones are lucky if they get anything at all. Our animals are really suffering in this recession, please take the time to give them something be it money, food or time every so often, it really does make a difference to them.

flutterflye

The whole cat family, and cobras.

flyswatter

Was always a huge lizard fan.

dodderangler

flutterflye wrote: »

The whole cat family, and cobras.

Dunno what cat taste like but I can tell ya what a cobra taste like
Delicious!!!! Bit boney though


My favourite animal(not to eat) would be dog and my Harris hawk

starviewadams

Viviparous Lizard is the one native to Ireland.If you tread carefully on the boardwalks in Glendalough during spring/summer you might see them out basking in the sunshine.We have smooth newts too,very rare you'll see one though.

I'd say that charity are busy,tonnes of ignorant people buy baby snakes/lizards/turtles from pet shops who don't care who they sell them to,they grow and need bigger tanks/equipment/food and people get fed up with them.

I know the reputable staff like Ben in Reptile Haven in Temple Bar or Thomas in Boardwalk Pets try to educate their customers on the needs of what they want before selling it to them.The majority of big chain pet stores don't give a toss,unfortunately.

mandrake04

This is the little fella living in my back garden.

flutterflye

dodderangler wrote: »

Dunno what cat taste like but I can tell ya what a cobra taste like
Delicious!!!! Bit boney though

raggedyman

Hippopotamuses are my favorite. They're graceful and they're mean as all get-out, plus it's a fun word to say.

Here's my porch lizard. Just a local lizard that moved in next to the kitchen porch.

K-9

Arctic Fox, hopefully our winters get much colder and they can live here.

flutterflye

K-9 wrote: »

Arctic Fox, hopefully our winters get much colder and they can live here.

Oh yes, hopefully. Just what we need - even colder winters! :P

dodderangler

mandrake04 wrote: »

This is the little fella living in my back garden.

That's a Berber skink by the look of it
Take it you don't live in Ireland?
unless that's your own pet lizard?

mandrake04

dodderangler wrote: »

That's a Berber skink by the look of it
Take it you don't live in Ireland?
unless that's your own pet lizard?

Its not a Skink its a Blue Tongue Lizard, I live in Sydney. Its not a pet although I do feed it a bit of cat food, it usually eats all the slugs and snails in the back garden.

K-9

flutterflye wrote: »

Oh yes, hopefully. Just what we need - even colder winters! :P

Worth it to see this beauty, even then, it would be a rare sight.

9959

K-9 wrote: »

Worth it to see this beauty, even then, it would be a rare sight.

Hopefully with warmer summers we'll see Ring-Tailed Lemurs swinging from the trees in Stephen's Green.

Demonique

seven_eleven wrote: »

There is actually a lizard species native to Ireland, or at least they are out there living in the wild. Extremely rare these days though unfortunately. I think you can find them up around the West or North.

Never seen one myself. I heard there's a colony of English slow worms in the Burren, apparently they're protected despite being non-native (I guess they must be non-invasive)

dan1895

seven_eleven wrote: »

There is actually a lizard species native to Ireland, or at least they are out there living in the wild. Extremely rare these days though unfortunately. I think you can find them up around the West or North.

The common lizard lives out west. Was lucky enough to see one while at the Cliffs of Moher at the end of the summer.

Miss Lockhart

I like lizards but I wouldn't choose to keep one as a pet.

I have seen lots of lizard-like creatures down around the lighthouse at Mizen Head several times - I couldn't say whether they were newts or lizards though.

Demonique

mandrake04 wrote: »

Its not a Skink its a Blue Tong'ue Lizard, I live in Sydney. Its not a pet although I do feed it a bit of cat food, it usually eats all the slugs and snails in the back garden.

It is a skink though, the tiliqua genus is in the skink family, we call them blue-tongue skinks over here. There's one in one of our local petshops

Check this out - http://www.bluetongueskinks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=21047

And this adorable video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y58u6OMsDFQ

mandrake04

Demonique wrote: »

It is a skink though, the tiliqua genus is in the skink family, we call them blue-tongue skinks over here. There's one in one of our local petshops

Check this out - http://www.bluetongueskinks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=21047

And this adorable video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y58u6OMsDFQ

Ok I thought the skinks were the really small ones that my wife's cat catches and brings into the house, they drop their tails as a decoy when stressed and run away and hide while the stupid cat is sitting watching a moving tail.

Capt'n Midnight

9959 wrote: »

Hopefully with warmer summers we'll see Ring-Tailed Lemurs swinging from the trees in Stephen's Green.

They've made it as far north as Foto Island already

Neewbie_noob

Lapin wrote: »

My favourite animal is a rare to medium cooked steak.

If God didn't want us to eat animals he wouldn't have made them outta meat.

When I grow up I'm going to Bovine University - Ralph Wiggum.