CAN CANS

Posted by gspeed on Mar 8, 2009 in Animalia | 2 comments

I have a confession to make: I just wrote this short post as an excuse to use the image I drew for no apparent reason.  *sigh* I wish I had a toucan. Wait!…No…I take it back. I’ve owned birds before…and I can live without the crap covered couches and ear-piercing screeches at 5am for some attention.  

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Back in the day, dog food was thought to be an adequate meal for anything from stray cats and iguanas to neighborhood bums and pet toucans. But nobody understood why the birds would suddenly keel over and die for no apparent reason while everything else had no problems shoveling down the canned goodness. Who would have thought that toucans store iron like magnets and can only handle so much of the stuff before coming to an untimely demise?  

The more you know…