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POPSPill Popping Pets
"One thought had haunted me as I listened to the Bridges’ story: If I were locked inside the bathroom all day, I’d swallow the shampoo, too. Although most animal-behavior problems are believed to have genetic roots, their expressions are typically triggered by the unnatural lives that people force their pets to lead. “A dog that lived on a farm and ran around chasing rabbits all day would be more prone to being stable than a dog living in an apartment in Manhattan,” Dodman says. Undomesticated canids, neither confined nor excessively attached to people, don’t suffer from separation anxiety. Some captive horses endlessly circle their stalls or corrals — a compulsive behavior similar to Max’s tail chasing — but such purposeless repetitions have never been observed in the wild. Dodman’s theory, essentially, is that the causes of mood disorders and obsessions in humans and our pets aren’t so different — faulty genetics, dreary environments. Whether cubicle- or cage-bound, we get too lit
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POPSJelly Bellies more widely available *scratches head in puzzlement* Maybe it's because they're local (been on the factory tour a couple of times, myself), but having them more widely available certainly doesn't seem to have hurt sales around here. I have little patience with this kind of appeal to exclusivity and snobbery. Sure, if the quality has gone down as a result of the expansion (like it did with Ben & Jerry's), that's one thing. But "it's too easy to find them, too many people are buying them now, I don't want them anymore"? Bah.
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POPSBertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans Plaice Potato Prawns Prune Raisin Raspberry *NEW*Rotten Egg Rubber Rum Salad Dressing Salmon Salt Sand Sardines Sausage Shampoo Shrimp Soap Soda Water Sour Cream Spinach Squid Strawberry Jelly Strawberry Mousse Sugar Sulphur Sushi Sweetcorn Syrup Tartar Sauce Tea Thyme Toast Toe nails Toffee Tomato Ketchup Tripe Trout Turnip Vanilla Varnish Vinegar Vomit Walnuts Wildgrass Wood Worcestershire Sauce Yoghurt Zucchini
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POPSStupid Costumes I dressed my kids as Christmas presents one year- Got a lot of compliments. One year we made our daughter a bag of jelly beans using a clear trash bag and a whole lot of ballons. Everytime she sat down she popped and we gave her a bag of balloons so she could 'Refill'. It was a big hit and she got a lot of candy. We also had a great time popping them when she got home!