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[kattabelly]

Something different

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Factory farming strikes again That poor wee hybrid monstrosity looks nothing like our native wild haggis. Put it out on a hill or mountainside and it would just roll down without longer legs on one side of its body, and without proper teeth or claws it's basically defenceless against the trows that live in the hills.

 

[BDutch]

Factory farming strikes again That poor wee hybrid monstrosity looks nothing like our native wild haggis. Put it out on a hill or mountainside and it would just roll down without longer legs on one side of its body, and without proper teeth or claws it's basically defenceless against the trows that live in the hills.

As a foreigner from the EU mainland I had heard about the famous haggis dish. Never about wild haggis. The jokes made me wonder. Luckily I found a good read before I made myself ridiculous with all kind of questions.
The Myth and Mystery of Scotland’s Wild Haggis

 

[kattabelly]

As a foreigner from the EU mainland I had heard about the famous haggis dish. Never about wild haggis. The jokes made me wonder. Luckily I found a good read before I made myself ridiculous with all kind of questions.
The Myth and Mystery of Scotland’s Wild Haggis

They were hunted almost to extinction at one point. No one is quite sure if that's what started the idea that they never really existed, or if that story was spread on purpose to limit the demand for their pelts.

There's a taxidermy Lowland Haggis in the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow (the google algorithm that tags photos saved to your account has clearly improved - I used to be able to find this by searching "dog" ) and a plaque in the park nearby to mark the place it was shot, as it was the last of its subspecies.

 

[BDutch]

They were hunted almost to extinction at one point. No one is quite sure if that's what started the idea that they never really existed, or if that story was spread on purpose to limit the demand for their pelts.

There's a taxidermy Lowland Haggis in the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow (the google algorithm that tags photos saved to your account has clearly improved - I used to be able to find this by searching "dog" ) and a plaque in the park nearby to mark the place it was shot, as it was the last of its subspecies.
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Recently a GPT photographer saw 3 wild haggis and took this photo somewhere in the Scottish highlands.

 

[BDutch]

This bird is a real statue we came across in a park of a great retired comic (Herman van Veen) who bought a domain near Soest in the Netherlands and made a theatre and art centre in it. Open for the public for free.
https://artandmuseum.com/en/portraits/herman-van-veen

 

[kattabelly]

Haggis tax

 

[HiEverybirdy]

Update on the Naked neck rooster:

He disappeared, and I felt bad that he might have been killed. But this afternoon as I was in my backyard I saw my neighbor, the one with chickens. Yes, it was his rooster, and it found its way home, is back in the run safe.

Happy ending.

Thanks for the update! He was on an adventure.

 

[fuzzi]

Thanks for the update! He was on an adventure.

He was checking out the other roosters he was hearing...


Tax:

All the Sussex, though Hannah is hiding under the chair. Zaccheus is on the right. his son Jacob is on the left, by the blocks.

 

[RoyalChick]

I haven’t paid tax in a while so here goes. My Princesses have been joined by a young Prince.
One of Tassels’ babies turns out to be male.
Mr. Chips is 15 weeks old tomorrow and just tried his first crow.