Re: Doggie treat

Hm. Jim, not sure what he expected.  Put a bored person in the room  with a 
bunch of doggie treats in their house........ I'm sure that the  response would 
be about the same.  Don't quite understand what he  expected??  LOL   Animals 
do get bored, like humans, but only  something of interest to them would get 
their attention and keep  it.  A basketball would not keep me from boredom 
either, nor my  animals.
Noreen
zone 9
Texas Gulf Coast
 
 
In a message dated 2/23/2006 11:02:36 PM Central Standard Time,  
gardenchat-owner@hort.net writes:

Remember  once I interviewed an aggie animal scientist about an 
experiment he  conducted with pigs. He surmised they were bored and if 
they could be  induced to be active they would develop greater muscle 
mass and, hence,  bring a better price at the auction. To test this 
notion, he put a half  dozen basketballs in a pen with a like number of 
pigs, set video cameras  to record their behavior, and pretty much left 
them alone. When I asked  him how it worked out, he said it didn't. "Let 
me show you," he said, and  put a VCR tape in his play back machine. We 
sat there and watched for  about 15 minutes, a bunch of pigs lying on 
one side of the pen and a half  dozen basketballs sort of scattered 
around. He finally shut off the VCR.  "I've got about 80 hours of tape 
just like that," he  said.

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