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The New Livestock: Rodents of Unusual Size
(Thanks to The Perts)
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November 02, 2012
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Now I know what to get my brother for Christmas.
One year, my sister and I both gave him the back half of a pig from Heifer. Dad didn't know what to do with the water buffalo.
Posted by: Not My Usual Alias | November 02, 2012 at 09:37 AM
Rodents of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist.
Hey! Get off me! Aggghh
Posted by: Ford79 | November 02, 2012 at 10:06 AM
i saw then open for mott the hoople in '77.
Posted by: mudstuffin | November 02, 2012 at 10:22 AM
Wonderful story of helping to create a sustainable livelihood for a poor community.
Give a man a fish and feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime.
Posted by: Curtis E Flush | November 02, 2012 at 10:45 AM
Inconceiveable!
Posted by: wiredog | November 02, 2012 at 10:53 AM
OK. That's Benin and Ghana crossed off the bucket list.
Posted by: Jan in Grimsby | November 02, 2012 at 11:05 AM
This one is a bit obscure, so I'll provide a link.
"I know who's behind the Giant Rat of Sumatra!"
"All right, Stones, I'll bite. Whose behind is the Giant Rat of Sumatra?"
Posted by: Omniskeptic | November 02, 2012 at 11:17 AM
And, as I'm sure was predictable, I just had to go off and get all academic. In fact, this critter is not a cross between a beaver and anything, it's the Greater Cane Rat (Thryonomys swinderianus).
The Greater Cane Rat: it's Africa's other, um, meat-colored meat!
Greater than what, you ask? Well, greater than the Lesser Cane Rat (Thryonomys gregorianus,) evidently, which is just a good rat, not a great one.
Posted by: Omniskeptic | November 02, 2012 at 11:46 AM
So you saying Omni that it doesn't build dams ? (Damn...)
Posted by: LeDud | November 02, 2012 at 12:43 PM
Hmm, I see a business opportunity. Rat-Fil-A restaurants, and you could have billboards with chickens and cows holding up "Eat Mor Rodant" signs.
Posted by: max | November 02, 2012 at 01:50 PM
It's cute.
Posted by: Guin | November 02, 2012 at 02:04 PM
I'm sorry to hear that the poor thing has a swinderianus. I bet that hurts.
Posted by: Wolfsong | November 02, 2012 at 02:39 PM
Build a man a fire and you keep him warm for a day.
Set a man on fire and you keep him warm to the rest of his life.
Posted by: Hammond Rye | November 02, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Wiredog ~ You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Posted by: Ms. Flukey | November 02, 2012 at 03:39 PM
That story was WAY too much work for one funny caption so...
Posted by: HogsAteMySister | November 02, 2012 at 06:37 PM
Rodents of Unusual Size WBAGNFARB.
Basically a spineless version of their porcupine cousins. Yum!
Posted by: Ralph | November 02, 2012 at 11:32 PM
Rabbits were classified as rodents until 1912, with which they share many characteristics. They are distinguished from rodents only by the arrangement of their teeth. Recent DNA based studies indicate that rabbits and rodents share a common ancestor.
Thus, for all practical purposes, if you have eaten rabbit, you have eaten Rodent of Unusual Size.
Posted by: Ernie G | November 03, 2012 at 10:12 AM
Give a man a cheeseburger and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to cheeseburger and you set him up for a minimum wage job.
Posted by: Ernie G | November 03, 2012 at 10:17 AM
In fact, there's a lagomorph in the freezer right now. Civet de lièvre ... mmmm.
Posted by: Omniskeptic | November 03, 2012 at 01:01 PM
IIRC, sumwhere in myth, legend, or archeologisticalness, the early/ancestral "rabbit" wuz the size of a Buick station wagon ... more than enuf for all the family @ Thanksgiving Dinner ...
Posted by: O the Umanity | November 03, 2012 at 02:51 PM