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[Freedom]

Something about cats above does not agree with what my vet told me. He said that in the wild, whatever it is cats eat (rare mouse bones?) pushes the hair through and they don't normally cough it up. In homes, they don't have "whatever it is" in their diets. And they CAN die from throwing up repeatedly; ripped diaphram. That's why the hairball remedies are important; not for human comfort of not steeping on one, but to prevent the repeated throwing up.

Anyway, on to a maybe unknown fact. Underneath all that fur, a dog has pink skin. BUT if you shave a cat down, the skin is the color of the fur which grows there (except white fur grows on pink skin). So a brown tabby has skin that is black and brown stripes! An orangie has orange skin. A tuxedo has black and pink skin. And . . . A calico has . . . skin of many colors!

[Husky_mom]

actually if you wet the white haired part of a dog........you can see some spot of different colored skin........not only pink skin.........

[DrKym]

Did you know Giraffes only have 7 neckbones?

[Freedom]

Did you know only cats, camels and giraffes walk two left feet, then two right feet? All other animals walk front left and rear right, then front right and rear left.

There's are term for each type of walk, but I don't remember what they are.

I've noticed giraffes seem rather "stiff necked" looking when they move, now I know why. Must be large bones, those 7!

[DrKym]

HEHE yes I knew that about the walking ( I dig giraffes so I found that out in story about them )

The neck bones btw are 10 inches each, and humans have 7 neckbones also.

Did you know that Dolphins are voluntary breathers? meaning they can never truly sleep? They have to choose to breathe, sleep would put them at risk of asphyxiation!

[Kalei]

Wow! That's amazing about the dolphins! I could never imagine a life without sleep. I wonder if some dolphins are like "I don't wanna breath! I'm sick of breathing!" lol.

[Beki]

Did you know that there are no true albino horses in the world (white coat, pink skin, pink eyes) because for some reason it is lethal to horses.
If there is such a horse, its ither still born or dies within two weeks. There is also a LWS (lethal white syndrome) aswell, common genetic disorder mainly with American Paint Horses. born all white and has a non functioning colin( extracts water from feases).
Also True white horses are rare! a horse with white coat and pink skin is a true white and they usually have blue eyes or brown eyes.
Also one more fact about horse coat color!
True black horses are uncommon but not rare! there are two types, non-fading black and fading black. fading black horses fade to a brownish color when normally expsed to sunlight on rebular basis, and non fading have like a blueish black coat. visually you can tell the difference between a true black horse, and a dark bay or dark brown horse because a true black horse does not have fine brown hair around the muzzle and eyes.

[TamanduaGirl]

My cat is back and has white skin

[Beki]

wow that sounds really neat can you put a pic up?

My cat is back and has white skin

[TamanduaGirl]

wow that sounds really neat can you put a pic up?

Really she's just a black cat unless you see skin but here's one of her showing off a naked belly

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tamanduagirl/362780560/

Just a little more dignified pic

[CathyBogart]

And they CAN die from throwing up repeatedly; ripped diaphram.

Vomiting will not tear the diaphragm, though it can rupture the esophagus.

Did you know that snakes have a third lung?

[Zippy]

No,I didn't.
Did you know that guinea pigs can't make there own vitamin C

[Karen]

I didn't know that about snakies, hmm, I guess with all that length, they'd have room for an extra lung!

What creatures can make their own vitamin C?

[Zippy]

Here is a quote for a guinea pig book:
Guinea pigs,unlike most other mammals,are unable to manufacture vitamin C within their bodies.
Guinea Pig:your happy healthy pet 2nd edition by Audrey Pavia

[Ceph]

oo,ooo, I have a did you know about rabbits

They are hind gut fermentors...they have the same general digestive system as a horse does...which explains the no throw up thing...ruminants such as cows regurgitate to chomp on the food and break it down some more...but horses and rabbits have enlarged cecum's and do all their fermenting back there.

random animal science fact....I have lots of them....I no more random facts than testable ones (its because they are more interesting)