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Has anyone ever seen one in person?
Ha, I was gonna ask just this - in the wild, not captivity, of course.
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Saturday, 9 April 2011 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
eleven months pass...
My daughter's pet Platypus is driving me nuts
Bicycle Repairman
09-20-2003, 08:31 PM
Okay, here's the situation...
Now that the weather has turned cooler, Pia the Platypus has moved indoors from the pond out back of Stately Repairman Manor to the hot tub next to the swimming pool. Before my morning swim, I must scoop up the poop found floating using my golf ball retriever, and believe you me, there's a lot of poop!
On top of all that, Pia eats almost exclusively a diet of giant tiger prawns and turns up her leathery bill-like snout to less expensive options like worms or imitation crab meat. I can tell you from personal experience what smell a Platypus gives off with such a diet, and it isn't Roses.
All well and good, you might say. Except for one important fact: Platypi have to be about the most useless creatures on God's Green Earth. I can't possibly understand what purpose they serve. While we all know of the unusual fauna in Australia (some that feature up to five orifices), I can't help but think this mutant species is nothing more than proof that Darwin's theory is out of whack. There's absolutely no endearing qualities this animal has. They show nothing in their behavior that can be considered the least bit pet-like. Plus, Pia really freaks out the dogs. They won't go anywhere near the swimming pool.
How do I break it to my daughter that I want Pia gone? And would the SPCA accept a Platypus?
― Kenneth Toilethole (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 03:50 (twelve years ago) link
i got this plat at the xmas market in hyde park, london
Never Seen A Real Platypus Productions, Beijing
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 04:49 (twelve years ago) link
five years pass...
three years pass...