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I have a puggle. It's fully spined but she weighs 300g and fits into one hand.

Margeurite told me it's a girl, and I was given The Look when I questioned her. So it's a girl. Her name is Rexie.

We fed her 50ml of milk. I held Rexie in my right and pushed the palm of my left hand under her nose, and Helen dribbled echidna milk onto it. Rexie shoved her long nose in and started licking. Her nose is 2" long, but her tongue is about 4" long, a long, pink thing like a flat worm. After a few minutes of licking, she began slurping. 50ml vanished in 10 minutes.

That's about half of what she needs, but echidna metabolisms are so slow 50ml will do her for 2 days.

I showed the dogs. Scruffy was interested and excited but wary of the spines. Polly hid in her kennel.




Male echidnas have 2 penises. I didn't know that.

Date: 29 Mar 2003 21:10 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hedgegoth.livejournal.com
We want picture so f course

Date: 29 Mar 2003 21:24 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weyrdbird.livejournal.com
Pictures! We want piiiiiiiiictures!!

What does an echidna puggle tongue feel like?

Date: 29 Mar 2003 21:43 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ironbark.livejournal.com
thats not all the story about the echidna snout and the human penis
http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/montage/Montage_96-04/Echidna.html

Date: 29 Mar 2003 22:02 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] makovette.livejournal.com
I don't even want to know how one goes about finding echidna milk, that falls wat too far intothe TMI catagory :) Wonder if male echidna's have a difficult time finding underwear that "works" properly ;-P

Silly dogs :)

Now about those photos...? :)

CYa!
Mako

Date: 29 Mar 2003 22:11 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sinboy.livejournal.com
Asking that question is illegal in the US.

Date: 29 Mar 2003 22:23 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
(falls off chair)

Date: 29 Mar 2003 22:27 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
Eventually, when I get this film developed or until I can borrow a digital camera.

Date: 29 Mar 2003 22:30 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
It's quite easy to get echidna milk. I ring Sharpe Laboratories and say "I'd like 1kg daivetalact powder, with echidna supplements."

Nothing illegal or immoral in that. Fattening, yes, especially if you're a puggle.

Date: 29 Mar 2003 22:37 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] makovette.livejournal.com
So much for cornering the echidna dairy farm business plan I was working on (crumples up paper and tosses into the trash)...

Doesn't answer the underwear problem though. Wonder how many pairs per year I could sell (wanders off to research a new biz plan :)

CYa!
Mako
Silly Zzyzxian Monotreme Clothier

Date: 29 Mar 2003 22:39 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
The toungue feels like a warm earthworm. Pictures to come eventually.

Date: 29 Mar 2003 23:04 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beki.livejournal.com
Why do they have two penii (penises)?? Dont they know if they are coming or going? or is it two in the hand are better than one? Enquiring minds and all that :)

Date: 29 Mar 2003 23:26 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] level-head.livejournal.com
Side note--it puts the echnida at half of the complement of a male rattlesnake.

Either of them could start their own penal colony.

===|==============/ Level Head

BASTARD!

Date: 30 Mar 2003 01:12 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ionotter.livejournal.com
*snarfs his coffee*

GNAAAHHHG! *choke*cough*splutter*

Not while I'm at work, dammit!! *laughs into his paws*

Date: 30 Mar 2003 01:24 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
(falls off his chair)

Date: 30 Mar 2003 05:55 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tygermoonfoxx.livejournal.com
What a neat little creature! Are they related to hedgehogs and porcupines at all?

Slow on the uptake

Date: 30 Mar 2003 08:34 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kittiwake.livejournal.com
It's fully spined but she weighs 300g and fits into one hand.

When I read that, my immediate response was to wonder you mention it having a backbone. It's a vertebrate, so obviously it's got a spine.

Oops !

Iseult.

Date: 30 Mar 2003 08:56 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] julesong.livejournal.com
Yay, echidnas! :) I *definitely* wanna see pics!

Monotremes rule, man. Far out.

Date: 30 Mar 2003 15:15 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
Not related at all! Echidnas are monotremes like platypuses; they are egg-laying mammals.

Date: 30 Mar 2003 21:53 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ceruleanst.livejournal.com
When you take into account what "monotreme" means, the redundancy is all that much more perplexing.

Date: 30 Mar 2003 22:12 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arcturax.livejournal.com
You need to fix that chair :P

Date: 30 Mar 2003 22:13 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arcturax.livejournal.com
Wow, and I thought only people on Taps could have more than one unit :P

Date: 30 Mar 2003 23:55 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
actually, it's a single penis but it has four heads.

And everything comes out of the one hole. What a strange animal.

Plurals

Date: 31 Mar 2003 13:06 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fledchen.livejournal.com
The proper, biological plural for "penis" is "penes." Your Random Fact for the day.

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