TulsaPets Magazine September 2023

September / October 2023 • TulsaPets 21 Small Animal Hospital Digital Radiology Surgery Complete Lab Work Mon-Fri 7:30am - 5:30pm • Sat 8am - Noon 6333 E. 120th Court, Ste G, Tulsa, OK 918-584-8535 Dr. Russell Donathan Dr. Phil McKinney The Family’s Pet Physician Surgery • Dentistry • Boarding Daycare • Spaying/Neutering Cold Laser Therapy Office Hours : M-F 7:30-6:00 Dr. Sandra Rawlings Dr. Jonathan Stout 2732 E. 15th Street Tulsa, OK 74104 Fax: 712-2760 (918) 712-2750 JACOX ANIMAL HOSPITAL Miscellaneous Meanings What’s black and white and red all over? AN EMBARRASSMENT OF PANDAS Pandas urinate as high as possible to mark territory and fake how tall they are. They achieve that by doing handstands against a tree. Then they climb the tree. This hardly qualifies as efficient to me, but it does add weight to the term “embarrassment.” AN INFESTATION OF LICE (IMHO, the one who decided on that term had little imagination)…. A school of fish…. If you think YOU feel lousy, don’t complain to a red snapper. There is an aquatic bug out there called Cymothoa exigua, or tongue-eating louse. It enters a fish’s body through the gills, hooks into the tongue, and severs the blood ves- sels. The tongue dies and falls off, while the parasitic louse sets up shop as a new tongue until the fish dies — although it could actually still have a normal life span. Photos of this phenomenon give new meaning to the idea that a picture is worth a thousand words, especially considering how hard it would be to talk with a lousy tongue. BTW: A lawsuit against a supermarket chain in Puerto Rico claimed poisoning resulted from having ingested a louse from inside a snapper. The suit was dropped when it was proved that louses aren’t poisonous and are consumed in some cultures. A FLOCK OF CHICKENS A rare breed of Indonesian chicken called the Ayam Ce- mani possesses a hyperpigmentation gene causing fibromelanosis. The feathers, beaks, internal organs, and bone and muscle tissue are all black. Many people call them goth chickens. Interesting note: I have no clue what color the meat becomes when cooked, but these chickens lay cream-colored eggs and have red blood. Go figure.