The Wombat - A User's Guide
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humbleminion Six Reasons You Should Get A Pet Wombat
1) They're kinda cute. See above.
2) Wombats don't jump or climb well. Therefore they will not snitch food off the bench, or tromp on the keyboard while you're trying to type.
3) Wombat droppings are square, and easy to clean up.
4) Wombats are marsupials, so a pet wombat that gives birth in your cupboard will not make too much of a mess.
5) Wombats are environmentally friendly. Their herbivorous diet means that they have less of an ecological footprint than carnivorous animals such as dogs and cats, and they are less likely to prey on native wildlife should they escape into the wild.
6) A wombat is a highly survivable pet. Should a 4 wheel drive travelling at a healthy 80 or so hit a wombat, the most likely outcome is a stunned yuppie sitting in pile of shattered, smouldering wreckage and a slightly irritated wombat.
And One Reason That You Shouldn't
A five-kilogram wombat has the same muscle density as a 40kg rottweiler. A full-grown wombat weighs about 45kg. You do the maths. Wombats can dig through concrete. Wombats regularly kill foxes and dingos by using their backsides to crush the predator's skull flat. There is recent case (that defies my google-fu, alas) of a wombat casually smashing through the wall of a fire station, settling in, and defying the combined efforts of an entire brigade's worth of firemen to get it out. A wombat could kick your arse, mate...
Fear the wombat.
1) They're kinda cute. See above.
2) Wombats don't jump or climb well. Therefore they will not snitch food off the bench, or tromp on the keyboard while you're trying to type.
3) Wombat droppings are square, and easy to clean up.
4) Wombats are marsupials, so a pet wombat that gives birth in your cupboard will not make too much of a mess.
5) Wombats are environmentally friendly. Their herbivorous diet means that they have less of an ecological footprint than carnivorous animals such as dogs and cats, and they are less likely to prey on native wildlife should they escape into the wild.
6) A wombat is a highly survivable pet. Should a 4 wheel drive travelling at a healthy 80 or so hit a wombat, the most likely outcome is a stunned yuppie sitting in pile of shattered, smouldering wreckage and a slightly irritated wombat.
And One Reason That You Shouldn't
A five-kilogram wombat has the same muscle density as a 40kg rottweiler. A full-grown wombat weighs about 45kg. You do the maths. Wombats can dig through concrete. Wombats regularly kill foxes and dingos by using their backsides to crush the predator's skull flat. There is recent case (that defies my google-fu, alas) of a wombat casually smashing through the wall of a fire station, settling in, and defying the combined efforts of an entire brigade's worth of firemen to get it out. A wombat could kick your arse, mate...
Fear the wombat.
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Date: 2004-12-06 03:24 pm (UTC)Australia is weird, dude.
Wombats rock
Date: 2004-12-06 03:56 pm (UTC)Re: Wombats rock
Date: 2004-12-06 11:15 pm (UTC)Re: Wombats rock
Date: 2004-12-07 04:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-06 09:14 pm (UTC)<3 wombats.
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Date: 2005-01-10 11:48 pm (UTC)