Re: Possums Vs. Humans?

[Teddy Lancaster <Teddy@runningbear.com>]

No, ROADENTS!!!!!  That's what you call and unsuccessful pedestrian....

Teddy

steven wrote:

> Teddy: Happy New Year, that must make up to 100,000,00 humans at least those
> that are reported that are killed by cars ect. to be RODENTS??
> best steven
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Teddy Lancaster" <Teddy@runningbear.com>
> To: <MBlanchrd@aol.com>
> Cc: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 7:38 PM
> Subject: RC: Possums
>
> > Well, I consider any animal whose destiny in life is to be run over by a
> car a
> > ROADENT!!!
> >
> > Teddy
> >
> > MBlanchrd@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > > In a message dated 01/01/2000 4:22:57 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> > > ridecamp-d-request@endurance.net writes:
> > >
> > > << broke my heart but not my husband's who was tired of sleeping
> > >  with a rodent--no not me--the opossum) and had a pet gray squirrel >>
> > >
> > > Forgive me for possibly starting another unrelated thread, but opossums
> are
> > > NOT RODENTS. They're not even closely related. Possums are marsupials
> and
> > > co-existed with the dinosaurs in the Cretaceous, long before rodents
> even
> > > considered evolving!
> > > And you may want to reconsider keeping them as pets. They've been
> fingered as
> > > carriers of the protozoan that causes EPM in horses.
> > > Michelle Blanchard
> > > MBlanchrd@aol.com
> > >
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Teddy Lancaster
American Endurance Ride Conference # 139422
- Member since 1974
6000+ career miles

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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

-- Winston Churchill
================================================

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Teddy Lancaster, President
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