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Tickling the Slow Loris

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 12:44 pm
by Batvia
I nicked this from Twitter.

Look at the lovely thing!

Re: Tickling the Slow Loris

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 12:52 pm
by high_life
Videos like this (and Scribble's freecycle pic) make me fear for the world. Make your freaking bed before you put it on the internet! Or actually, just make it anyway. People disgust me :suesylvester:.

It is a very cute little animal though :).

Re: Tickling the Slow Loris

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 1:14 pm
by Marmalade Fires
Someone has written "what kind of monkey is this?" Will people never learn?!?

I hope that woman works at an animal sanctuary.

Re: Tickling the Slow Loris

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 1:23 pm
by Finisterre
Oh dear, it's a good thing you've never had to meet me, High Life!

I'm more worried about the loris, though. Is that pleasure, demanding to be groomed, or terrified surrender? Hands in the air, dropped weapons...

Re: Tickling the Slow Loris

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 1:48 pm
by la Fée Verte
My cat lifts her arms up so you can tickle her properly.

Re: Tickling the Slow Loris

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 2:43 pm
by Shoe
Marmalade Fires wrote:I hope that woman works at an animal sanctuary.
She's a pet, called Sonya. The slow loris, not the woman tickling her.

There are bugs being eaten in this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Th199ySVdU&NR=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Re: Tickling the Slow Loris

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 2:58 pm
by Marmalade Fires
That's extremely bad; lorises are now highly endangered in the wild, thanks to habitat destruction, the illegal pet trade (where often animals caught from the wild have their teeth pulled to stop them biting), and the traditional medicine trade. Even if that animal was bred in captivity, someone obtaining it still encourages the trade in them.

Sorry, I'll get off my high horse now. Well, not before linking to this fine organisation, which has targeted the slender loris as in need of urgent conservation measures.

Re: Tickling the Slow Loris

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 3:00 pm
by la Fée Verte
Marmo, Shoe can't be told. She went to the monkey sanctuary in Looe which is all about rescued pet monkeys and stuff, and came away wanting a pet monkey. :))

Re: Tickling the Slow Loris

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 3:02 pm
by Marmalade Fires
Oh, Shoe. :no:

:))

Re: Tickling the Slow Loris

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 3:06 pm
by Shoe
I CAN be told, I want a monkey, and a loris now, but I would never actually have one. What I really want is to win the lottery so I can have a sanctuary and let them live as wild as possible but in a place they are safe and I can watch them. It makes me sad to watch wild animal pets, even when they are massively beautiful and smooshable. :(

Re: Tickling the Slow Loris

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 3:07 pm
by Topcat
Twitter, you say?

Re: Tickling the Slow Loris

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 3:09 pm
by Batvia
Twitter. I use it to masturbate over John Prescott's news feed.

Re: Tickling the Slow Loris

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 3:09 pm
by Topcat
You two deserve one another.

Re: Tickling the Slow Loris

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 3:12 pm
by Marmalade Fires
So you want a monkey in the same way that you want to eat a person, then; in a want to, but know you shouldn't kind of way?

Lorises.

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They are my faves. :)

Re: Tickling the Slow Loris

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 3:15 pm
by la Fée Verte
A monkey would be more useful than a cat, though. I bet a monkey would turn on the telly for you, and possibly make you tea.

Re: Tickling the Slow Loris

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 3:16 pm
by high_life
Marmalade Fires wrote:So you want a monkey in the same way that you want to eat a person, then; in a want to, but know you shouldn't kind of way?
:nerves:

Re: Tickling the Slow Loris

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 3:16 pm
by Marmalade Fires
You're not helping, Fée. :lg:

Re: Tickling the Slow Loris

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 3:17 pm
by Hamm
When I see eyes that big I just want to poke them.

Re: Tickling the Slow Loris

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 3:17 pm
by Shoe
I should have mentioned; you're not meant to actually tell people about the eating people thing. :look: But yes, it's the same kind of reasoning. :))

Re: Tickling the Slow Loris

Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 3:18 pm
by Shoe
Hannieroo wrote:When I see eyes that big I just want to poke them.
:lol:

They are so pretty, you can see why people would want one, but it's not right. :no: