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| Casey the Australian Crocodile hates raw meat, prefers mud cake & potatoes |
| 2005-08-10 |
| Casey is no ordinary crocodile. Her favourite dishes are Danish potatoes - preferably with lashings of gravy - and mud cake. She also likes fried fish and well-cooked steak. The one thing Casey can't abide is raw meat. The 3m saltie even has her own plate. The 12-year-old croc has become the unofficial mascot at the fishing lodge on the Adelaide River's Goat Island, 75km from Darwin. Lodge owner Kai Hansen said: "She's getting really fussy and only wants things we have made in the kitchen." She has lived at the island since 1994 after being brought there by previous owners Tony and Dixie Kaissis. Casey climbs up the river bank of the island every night to get to the food left out on her plate. But despite putting meals out for the croc most nights, Mr Hansen said she was not a pet. "She is a wild animal and we treat her accordingly," he said. "No one is allowed to get close to her and I leave the food out while she is at a distance." In September she disappears for a week to mate, and leaves again in December to lay eggs. But at other times of the year Mr Hansen said her appearance on the steps of the lodge was part of life on the island. "She comes up every night without fail," he said. "I call her Casey the Cute Croc because I love her." Despite his familiarity with the croc, Mr Hansen said he wasn't about to touch her or drop food in her mouth. "I will leave that to Steve Irwin," he said. |
| Posted by:Oztralian [AKA] God Save The World |
| #4 Huuum....Excess Islamic-Fascisti *and* hungry 'Gators & 'Crocs...what to do..what to do. /Mick Jagger + Reptiles = law suit, Peta. |
| Posted by: Spemble Phemble3444 2005-08-10 14:01 |
| #3 |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-08-10 11:24 |
| #2 Waaaaaay back in the early '80s I was working in Mobile, Alabama and after work most (OK, EVERY) evening we went to a small bar that had a deck on one of the bayouus there. There was a rather large alligator that we named Izod and fed marshmallows off the deck. One evening when we went in the owner told us we couldn't feed Izod any more marshmallows because Izod had chased him across the parking lot earlier that day. It seems the owner had on a brand new pair of very white tennis shoes and Izod must have thought they were marshmallows. It can be dangerous to feed meat-eating wild animals. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2005-08-10 10:36 |
| #1 In Wilmington, NC, there is an old alligator who has taken up residence by the battleship North Carolina, and is regularly feed tidbits from the patrons of a nearby snack bar. Having tried to eat food at that snack bar, I can understand why the alligator is overweight. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-08-10 10:23 |