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Hello Wayne - 

WC>> Sister's Labrador has a fondness for consuming tree frogs.
WC>> Makes the dog dreadfully sick. Wendy lives in Saint
WC>> Petersburg Florida so it's likely we're talking the same
WC>> species critter. 

CA>> Daughter just took both dogs to the vet and they were both
CA>> sick but I don't recall what the vet said it was. I really
CA>> view Florida as a hostile environment for man and beast
CA>> alike. :-\ 

WC> Same here. Lets see mom got bit by a scorpian, I've killed
WC> three out of four of the poisnous snakes found here, come
WC> face to face with a large shark diving, 

Could've been worse if it was a leopard seal (see other message
to 'All'). 

WC> killed brown recluse poisonous spiders, 

I was the first person in my 'universe' to even know about the
brown recluse spiders. Stumbled onto them after a suggestion to
view a website about Australian spiders. The BR spider is being
'tracked' as it tries to move north in the USA. I think six
bites total were reported in Michigan last time I checked. The
BR migration is somewhat 'stalled' in Ohio somewhere. :-) 

I did mention to my daughters that having been raised in
Michigan they would have to change many 'habits'. In Michigan if
we think something is under a dresser we just reach under and
'fish around' for it. Not good in the South (it's where BR
spider like to hide among other places). Also not shaking out
shoes and not sitting in grass without looking for fire ants.
In Michigan, if you avoid the tall grass (weeds), you'r
generally not insect bait. 

One poisonous snake, masauga(sp?), that I have never seen but I
don't wander in the woods.

WC> nearly got sucked into oblivion in some quicksand 

In Michigan we have 'sink holes' in the woods that a friend
stepped into once. He was lucky he didn't drop his shotgun. He
used it to leverage his way back to solid ground. 

WC> and suffered in hostile work environments in our _right to
WC> work state_. 

Worker safety is a bad joke. I clipped the end of my finger off
(they sewed it back on at the hospital) in a manuf job when I
was quite young and the 'safety engineer' told me every young
man they put on that job eventually was injured. Then "duh -
fix it" was my attitude. They fired me shortly after that and I
couldn't get another job till the finger healed. Neat huh? 

WC> The state motto ought to be "Florida, the toxic state", but
WC> I guess for the time being Texas has the lock on that one
WC> from what I've read about the place. 

I think anyone who really cares and takes the time to check
would find that this is not "the land of the free and the home
of the brave" advertised to us.

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