Its oh so quiet Shh Shh

[RedSidedSPR]

What's with all the spray-painted animals?

Pretty cool, nice to see ya back.

[ConcinusMan]

sorry iv been off for a while, look at this!

Sylvia Mythen, a 70-year-old grandmother from Venice, Fl, has discovered what appears to be the world's first orange alligator.

The alligator itself wasn't orange. It had been swimming in a rusty culvert. This "orange" alligator is old news and has already been determined to not be what it appears to be. Just saying.

Now here's some news that is true and very upsetting so unless you want to get really upset and ticked off don't look:

http://www.dailyreptilenews.com/?p=4340

[kibakiba]

Anyone know what this is? The picture is blurry, it was taken with an ipod touch... My boyfriend found it in his back yard, he's in Ontario, Canada. He said it's a long parasite-like worm.. Thing.

[ConcinusMan]

Hard to say. Could be a tape worm expelled by it's host.

[kibakiba]

He said he thought it might have been a horsehair worm, but yeah. It grosses me out. I've been feeling like something is crawling on me since he showed me that. Haha

[ConcinusMan]

Wait, are you sure you don't feel something moving inside you? (I just had to) Lots of people have worms inside them and don't even know it. Seriously.

[kibakiba]

Yeah, I had H plyori or whatever, when I was a kid. My doctor said it was just "schoolitis" for 3 years until she found out i had that and then proceeded to tell me it was my fault that she never found out. The oddest and probably funniest part about it is she said if i didn't get it treated soon, it would continually eat away at my stomach until it finally killed me. It wasn't funny when I was 8, but I can see how stupid it was. I think she put unneeded stress on me as an 8 year old. She could have said to take the magical pills once a day and I'd be all better!

[ConcinusMan]

Yeah, I had H plyori or whatever, when I was a kid.

That's a bacteria, not a worm. Eats away the lining of your stomach, removing your protection from stomach acid. Once the protective lining is gone, you literally digest your own stomach. Loads of fun!

[kibakiba]

She told me it was a parasite and showed me a picture of a worm-like thing. I kind of never trust doctors though. Here in my area they could give you poison that makes you really sick and there is nothing wrong with it.

[ConcinusMan]

It very well could be you had both (which is very common) and so you got confused as to which is which. Even though the plyori is a bacteria, the tests to find it also usually reveal worms too if you have them. Ironically enough, one of the same medications (Metronidazole, also known as Flagyl) for getting rid of plyori also gets rid of worms and other types of parasites and is commonly used for reptiles too.