Staff at the Great Yarmouth Sea Life Centre in Norfolk give turtles a seasonal treat of brussel sprouts at Christmas which provide a healthy dose of vitamins, minerals and fibre.
However, the turtles, like humans, are prone to heavy bouts of flatulence after eating the vegetables.
Last year a turtle at a Sealife Centre triggered overflow alarms in the middle of the night after the splashes from gassy bubbles hit overflow sensors.
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Actually, the sulfurous veggies are okay once in a while as part of a Bones & Raw Foods diet but shouldn't be a daily thing.
BTW: B&RF diets mimic what a dog would eat in the wild. Feeding this way eliminates bad dog breath, dry coats, tartared teeth etc. I haven't had any of those problems, or paid for a vet to clean teeth under anesthesia, for any of the two dozen or so dogs that have lived with me during the last 15 years - including for show champions who have to be in top condition. Check out the book Give Your Dog a Bone by aussie veterinarian Ian Billinhurst for info.
If you don't do a full B&RF diet, then the next best thing is a kibble like the Wellness brand or Nutro Natural Lamb & Rice, supplemented each day with a (raw only) chicken wing or back, or an egg or (occasional but not daily) a tablespoon of low-salt cottage cheese. Include a nutritional supplement like Fresh Factors (available online) or The Missing Link. Feeding a diet like this repays itself in lower vet bills, a healthier pet and, yes .... better dog breath and fewer dog farts.
No promises about the breath or flatulance of the owners however. ;-)
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Lest we fergit, 1980's + POTUS BUSH 1 + BROCCOLI/VEGGIE-GATE.
D *** NG IT, MORIARITY, "HERBIE" BUSH 1 WAS POTUS OF THESE UNITED STATES, AND NO ONE - MOM, FIRST LADY, OR THE SOVIETS - HAD THE POWER TO MAKE HIM EAT HIS BROCCOLI!
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AL BUNDY > D *** NG IT, PEG, DON'T THREATEN ME WID SEX!
The United States has followed the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) in refusing to recognize the legtimacy of President Mamadou Tandja of Niger, who has extended his term of office for three years by unconstitutional means. Tandja claims his mandate from a referendum and an election he organized after dissolving parliament and the Constitutional Court.
Earlier this year, Tanja dissolved the National Assembly and the Constitutional Court after the court had ruled that he could not run for a third term in office when his second term expired on December 22.
On Tuesday, Ecowas released a statement saying it "takes note of the fact that December 22, 2009, marks the legal end of the mandate of President Mamadou Tandja." Ecowas had suspended Niger's membership in October.
On Wednesday, the U.S. State Department announced that the country was suspending non-humanitarian assistance to the government of Niger and had imposed travel restrictions on members and supporters of Tandja's regime.
On the same day, the White House announced that Niger would be one of three African countries - the others being Guinea and Madagascar - which would lose their preferential trading status with the U.S. in 2010.
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Uzbekistan is holding parliamentary elections, but some people do not even seem to have noticed.
Nevertheless the streets of the Uzbek capital Tashkent are lined with banners, posters and flags to remind people that 27 December is election day, when up to 16 million eligible voters are being asked to choose members of the Oliy Majlis - the lower house of parliament.
President Karimov seems keen to use these elections to showcase what he sees as his country's democratic credentials. "Freedom of speech and freedom of choice indeed exist in our lives. This process means that a multi-party system is gaining strength," he said in a national address in early December.
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An American Christian missionary slipped into isolated North Korea on Christmas Day, shouting that he brought God's love and carrying a letter urging leader Kim Jong Il to step down and free all political prisoners, an activist said.
Robert Park, 28, from Tucson, crossed a poorly guarded stretch of the frozen Tumen River that separates North Korea from China, according to a member of the Seoul-based group Pax Koreana, which promotes human rights in the North. The group plans to release footage of the crossing today, he said.
"I am an American citizen. I brought God's love. God loves you and God bless you," Park reportedly said in fluent Korean as he crossed over Friday near the northeastern city of Hoeryong, according to the activist, citing two people who watched Park cross and filmed it. The activist spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.
No information has emerged about what happened next to Park, who is of Korean descent. The communist country's state-run media was silent. The State Department and the U.S. Embassy in Beijing said they were aware of the incident but had no details.
"The U.S. government places the highest priority on the protection and welfare of American citizens," State Department spokesman Andrew Laine said.
The illegal entry could complicate Washington's efforts to coax North Korea back to negotiations aimed at its nuclear disarmament. Park's crossing also comes just months after the country freed two U.S. journalists, who were arrested along the Tumen and sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for trespassing and "hostile acts." They were released to former President Bill Clinton on a visit to the isolated country in August. North Korea and the United States do not have diplomatic relations.
Park carried a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, calling for major changes to his totalitarian regime, according to the activist from Pax Koreana.
"Please open your borders so that we may bring food, provisions, medicine, necessities, and assistance to those who are struggling to survive," said the letter, according to a copy posted on the conservative group's Web site. "Please close down all concentration camps and release all political prisoners today."
North Korea holds about 154,000 political prisoners in six large camps across the country, according South Korean government estimates. The North has long been regarded as having one of the world's worst human-rights records, but it denies the existence of prison camps.
The activist said Park, who he described as not belonging to Pax Koreana, also carried a separate written appeal calling for Kim to immediately step down, noting starvation, torture and deaths in North Korean political prison camps.
North Korea's criminal code punishes illegal entry with up to three years in prison. But that could be the least of the missionary's problems in a country where defectors say dissent is swiftly wiped out and the regime sees all trespassers as potential spies.
Kim wields absolute power in the communist state of 24 million people where he and his late father - the country's founder, Kim Il Sung - are the object of an intense personality cult.
Other activists said Park had become known over the past year in Seoul human-rights circles. They suggested that his passion for helping North Koreans may have blinded him to the consequences of his actions.
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This misguided fool is about to get a quick harsh lesson on real life and real terror.
Hes a long way from Tuscon - he had absolutely no clue what he was about to become involved in.
I pity him.
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I do not pity him. Gene pool maintenance, is all. Too stupid to live.
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He should have made a left turn at Albuquerque and he would have been ok.
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Abilene Paradox?
On a hot afternoon visiting in Coleman, Texas, the family is comfortably playing dominoes on a porch, until the father-in-law suggests that they take a trip to Abilene [53 miles north] for dinner. The wife says, "Sounds like a great idea." The husband, despite having reservations because the drive is long and hot, thinks that his preferences must be out-of-step with the group and says, "Sounds good to me. I just hope your mother wants to go." The mother-in-law then says, "Of course I want to go. I haven't been to Abilene in a long time."
The drive is hot, dusty, and long. When they arrive at the cafeteria, the food is as bad as the drive. They arrive back home four hours later, exhausted.
One of them dishonestly says, "It was a great trip, wasn't it?" The mother-in-law says that, actually, she would rather have stayed home, but went along since the other three were so enthusiastic. The husband says, "I wasn't delighted to be doing what we were doing. I only went to satisfy the rest of you." The wife says, "I just went along to keep you happy. I would have had to be crazy to want to go out in the heat like that." The father-in-law then says that he only suggested it because he thought the others might be bored.
The group sits back, perplexed that they together decided to take a trip which none of them wanted. They each would have preferred to sit comfortably, but did not admit to it when they still had time to enjoy the afternoon.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Staff at the Great Yarmouth Sea Life Centre in Norfolk give turtles a seasonal treat of brussel sprouts at Christmas which provide a healthy dose of vitamins, minerals and fibre.
