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Posted Friday 29th May 2009 10:11 GMT
Let me be the first to say...
...Nice beaver
Posted Friday 29th May 2009 10:12 GMT
Unless there beaver with frickin' lasers on there heads, I fail to see the IT angle.
Posted Friday 29th May 2009 10:50 GMT
I'd say most beaver in Scotland is pretty wild myself.
Paris because she likes to introduce beaver in every habitat she visits..
Posted Friday 29th May 2009 10:50 GMT
Anyone who thinks wild beaver was extinct in Scotland obviously hasn't been to Clatty Pat's!
Posted Friday 29th May 2009 10:50 GMT
c'mon dude... this is the most beaver I.T. boys see at ant one time isnt it . . .
Posted Friday 29th May 2009 11:10 GMT
No beaver-related double entendres and it's Friday too
Paris, because I've heard her minge is very nice
Posted Friday 29th May 2009 11:49 GMT
Clatty Pat's (aka Cleopatras) closed in 2006......
Posted Friday 29th May 2009 11:49 GMT
Change the title of the story to "Beavers goto Scotland" and your Velociraptors shouldn't be far behind.
And that would satisfy Steven's request for an IT angle.
Posted Friday 29th May 2009 11:49 GMT
RE: paris hilton:
nice beaver, shame about the face
the european beaver's latin name?
clungeus futeo
no bother ;)
Posted Friday 29th May 2009 12:37 GMT
Let me see:
My greatest way of getting kicks / is go to Knapdale Forest, Mid-Argyll and hustle chicks.....
Nope, doesn't work for me.
My Vestan Pantz please.
Posted Friday 29th May 2009 13:38 GMT
They have an osprey webcam - http://www.swt.org.uk/ - but thing of the traffic a live beaver cam would get
Posted Friday 29th May 2009 14:32 GMT
Erm... Oh yeah. I'm all for protecting native species, but hasn't it occurred to anyone that in the last 400 years the other wildlife might have changed its behaviour a little to account for the lack of beavers?
Suddenly reintroducing them could be as disastrous as introducing a pack of Tasmanian Devils...
[ Oh, and if anyone needs their beaver gagged... ]
Posted Friday 29th May 2009 16:31 GMT
They can always do what Arkansas has done...introduce alligators to prey on the beavers.
Sorry, I don't have a pun that hasn't already been used...
Posted Friday 29th May 2009 16:31 GMT
Greetings from Oregon, the Beaver State--there's one on the state flag. Yes, beaver will "..impact migratory fish numbers, especially salmon", and the impact will be positive. Beaver dams are low enough and leaky enough that salmon go right thru them, and beaver ponds are excellent salmon habitat.
Posted Friday 29th May 2009 16:31 GMT
... can't have enough of them. Good move, Scotland!
Posted Friday 29th May 2009 19:44 GMT
for the heads-up on this. I'll be sure to check out the wild beaver next time I go to Scotland.
Posted Friday 29th May 2009 19:44 GMT
Or all the beavers will be shaved and if that happens it will take lots of money to keep them warm. Not to mention fast cars and big dam houses.
Posted Friday 29th May 2009 22:27 GMT
Problem is letting all that beaver out in to the country side is bound to have some side effects, which is why they are trialing it just now, with just a few in the local native populations. thing is they dont have a clue whats going to happen for all we know we could be up to our necks in beaver before too long.
Posted Friday 29th May 2009 22:27 GMT
In your dreams. It clearly says "Norwegian beavers' liberation". Are they tall and blonde?
"the animal was driven to extinction" Is that anything like going down to London?
"24 European countries have already reintroduced beavers " I do hope the little shavers are doing ok...
Posted Friday 29th May 2009 22:27 GMT
Further greetings from Oregon, where much jingoistic amusement has been garnered from reading quotes and opinion pieces from concerned British people who believe that rampaging gangs of beavers will need only a few years to fell the forests and murder all the salmon in the country. Especially good was this suggestion that it's all a vile Anglo-European plot against the Scots:
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/spectrum/Eager-for-beavers.5271704.jp
Posted Friday 29th May 2009 22:27 GMT
There is the Scottish Fold - a breed of cat crossed with the Don Sphinx to make a hairless breed, so I see nothing wrong with a hairless breed of beaver.
Lord knows, Scottish lasses have been "clam" - moring for a bit of the hairless kilt snake for some time, eh? I know I have had none of them complain. ;-)
Paris - because she always keeps her beaver shorn.
Posted Friday 29th May 2009 22:27 GMT
That's hardly news.
I have lived here all my life and can safely say that not only have there always been some wild ones there are more than a few that are absolutely freaking livid!
Paris because ours look better than hers. ;-P
satanswombat
Posted Friday 29th May 2009 22:27 GMT
Too late!
http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1198286
Posted Friday 29th May 2009 23:10 GMT
Wouldn't you just love to introduce yourself in a highland pub with THAT as your job title (and on your business cards)
Posted Saturday 30th May 2009 10:07 GMT
"thing is they dont have a clue whats going to happen for all we know we could be up to our necks in beaver before too long."
That'll be easily cured the way one got rid of them the first time around: you eat them.
Posted Sunday 31st May 2009 10:12 GMT
was lost for words and unable to comment.
Only an Excuse.
Posted Sunday 31st May 2009 10:12 GMT
Although we're keeping them out in the fringes I don't think there's been enough consideration of what migrating urban beaver might precipitate.
Tux, 'cos he's on the march too.