04-03-2014, 03:50 PM | #23731 |
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Lol. (Mostly because I thought I was the only one left who still says, "Homey don't play that.")
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04-03-2014, 08:04 PM | #23732 |
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04-03-2014, 11:24 PM | #23733 | |
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Edit due to phone issues... The forgetting of the agony of childbirth and cats in heat and the resultant cuteness of humans and kittens is probably the only reason both species have not died out Last edited by kindlekitten; 04-03-2014 at 11:27 PM. |
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04-05-2014, 02:44 PM | #23734 | ||
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Don't get me wrong, love 'em, they're gorgeous, but when I look at those price tags (and all the wrangling that has to occur with the servals to keep the "breed" going as it is), I think to myself..."It's a cat, not a car." ;-) Plus, I always have real concerns when a breed (of cats, horses, dogs, pot-bellied pigs, etc.) becomes the "fad du jour." This must worry you, too, I'm sure. I think that all the wrong people (not talking about you, obviously) end up with them, whether it's celebutwits with dogs in their purses or spoiled rockstars that dump their pets in Germany and forget about them, or that poor potbellied pig that had to be rescued from I-forget-which "rap star" in NY (not to mention the tiger). Just because someone can write a $20K check doesn't mean that they should necessarily be the "right" person for a particular animal,and we both know that far too many breeders only see the checks, not the future "home" of the kitten/puppy/foal/piglet, etc. I was involved in a breed of horses that became "the hot new thing," and I bailed out of it for that reason. We had people who barely knew the nose from the tail entering the breed, all those women whose parents never got them that pony when they were 5, and we started to end up with a lot of colts that should have been gelded but never were (so that their star-struck owners could "stand a stallion,") badly trained and very large animals that were raised by people who didn't know the first thing about training foals...it was fairly disastrous for the breed, and of course, the thing that suffers when that happens is that the animals end up being put down or (in the case of horses, sold for meat), or if they are very lucky, a rescue organization takes them, but...well. When a more-than-1200lb. horse is badly trained and unreliable, there's only one future for that animal, and it isn't pretty. And I concur: Quote:
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04-06-2014, 12:54 AM | #23735 |
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I can't begin to tell you the level of vetting this breeder does with her prospective owners. I swear my army security clearance was less invasive.Lol
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04-06-2014, 06:25 PM | #23736 | |
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However, when I see Savannah breeders' sites, what I see are a lot of celebutwits, etc., brandishing these animals (some at awards' red carpets, where I'm pretty damned sure no cat WANTS to be) like the latest fashion accessory. I agree, Savannahs are lovely, but between having to keep Servals captive to keep the breed going, the price tag(s) and the "fad breed" issues, I'd personally rather acquire my cats either through adoption or via paying a (relatively) normal price for my MC's and give the other $9-20K or what-have-you to no-kill shelters, myself. BUT: to each their own, and just being able to afford F1/F2 Savannahs means you are doing quite well. Good for you. HItch |
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04-06-2014, 11:20 PM | #23737 |
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The military can get rather stringent in that regard. Security on the military base I was working on prior to my retirement called me in about five years ago to ask me about a joint I smoked in 1970.
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04-07-2014, 05:00 AM | #23738 | |
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They did, however, ask some incredibly intrusive questions about the parentage of some of my relations, vis-a-vis conception dates versus dates of their (presumed) parents' marriages, which I thought was rather irritating. Not to mention, truly ancient history (decades if not several scores earlier). After all...MI; weren't they seeking bastards, after all? Hitch |
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04-07-2014, 05:54 PM | #23739 |
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Dad just got nailed by an email phishing attempt. They simulated an (outrageously expensive) Itunes purchase that he never made, and gave him a carefully crafted address that looked like Itunes to dispute it. He went there, was prompted to give them his financial data, etc. -- which he did.
He realized something was wrong as soon as he did it, touched base with me and one of my brothers (his IT department). Anyway, he's been spending his afternoon making phone calls. His old credit card has now been canceled, new one on the way, he removed his billing info from his Itunes account, etc. It's going to be a pain in the butt. |
04-07-2014, 06:55 PM | #23740 |
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It is going to be a RPITA. But at least he realized it quickly. Hopefully he got to it before they did too much damage.
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04-07-2014, 07:32 PM | #23741 | |
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Well, at least he was on the ball enough to catch it. That's super, and it's great that he has you and your brothers (boy, do I know what you mean about being the familial IT unit) to rely upon. What a bugger that is! (The phishing, I mean, not you guys being the IT department!) Hitch |
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04-08-2014, 12:21 PM | #23743 |
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One of the things I learned to do a long, long time ago was set my email readers to use Plain Text mode. All those links? You can suddenly see where they REALLY go.
It may not make for pretty email, and you'll miss some of the cat pictures, but it is the simplest, cheapest, and one of the most effective ways to use email safely. |
04-08-2014, 01:41 PM | #23744 |
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Outlook does a pretty good job of catching these things. That one was in my spam folder, but I always make it a habit never to click on links in email.
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04-08-2014, 01:43 PM | #23745 | |
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Setting your email client to always use plain text can be fun. At a prior employer, I set up Outlook to do so, and was nonplussed when a list I was on that required plain text posting complained about mine. It seemed that while I had Outlook properly configured, Outlook talked to Exchange Server, and Exchange Server was undoing my efforts before sending the mail. The Exchange Admin had to dig to find out where to fix that. (Outlook Express could be forced to display incoming mail as plain text. Full Outlook made that trickier.) These days I use Gmail as my primary email account. Gmail's filters are the best I've seen, and spam and phishes all get flagged and labeled as Spam, and never appear in my Inbox. I prefer the browser interface, I don't need a local copy of mail and Gmail implements viewers for most common attachment types, so my mail and any attachments live on Gmail's servers, and never actually reach my machine.) An additional security measure I recommend if you use Windows is to change the default behavior of hiding extensions of known file types. One of the primary vectors for exploits is malicious email attachments. If "Hide extensions for known file types" is on, you don't know that Cute Kitten Picture.jpg attached to your mail is actually Cute Kitten Picture.jpg.exe, because the exe extensions is hidden, and you click to see it, well... (To change that behavior, in Windows Explorer, click Tools and select Folder Options. In Folder Options select the View tab. Under Advanced Options, uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types".) ______ Dennis |
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