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In the Emergency Responce Guide, or as we call it the ERG, the chemical placard number for liquid nitrogen is 1977. it is carried in pressurised containers such as the MC338.

This guide is given, free of charge, to all public safety (ems, police, fire, dispatch etc) divisions and is kept most often on the responding trucks. it is updated every 4 years and gets thicker every update.

Truckers also are known to carry these, they are not classified, or "secret". they describe the response procedures for the first responders in the event of a HAZ-MAT incident. They are one of the most important books we use.

We have come a LONG long way from the days of the "cop-o-meter". (police officers used to be known for getting too close to haz-mat spills and some even going as far as tasting the substance in an effort to identify it. we call a "cop-o-meter" the process of finding the dead police officer furthest from the scene and setting a perimeter 50 yards out from that. It is said in jest, but I have seen videos where fire chiefs and police officers have been killed because they got too close toa toxic substance, or, they accually tasted it.)

If a kitten is raised in an artificial environment which contains no vertical objects. It will not develop the ability to percieve vertical objects in adult life.

i fostered a cat that can't jump because she grew up in an environment where jumping up (as onto a counter) was unnecessary. She is not restricted in her new home, but she still doesn't jump.

Cats can get acne.

Onion, a common seasoning for human-consumed meat, can cause anemia in cats.

Siamese cats were bred specifically for guarding sacred buildings. Their assertive, terriotorial demeanor made them good attack cats, and their long, lean frame allowed them to lie atop narrow ledges over the entrance and pounce down on any strangers entering the sacred place.

Many Siamese cats today still retain these traits. Pet Siamese have been known to attack or yowl at strangers entering their owner's home, or climb atop bookshelves and other tall furniture and then pounce down on people walking by.

Because cats is a fairly recently domesticated animals, there are very few genetic mutation humans have bred into as we have with dogs.

One example of a bred mutation in domesticated cats is the Siamese cat. The unique coloring of the Siamese cat is due to a specific genetic mutation that causes pigment of more exposed areas of the body - areas that lose body heat the fastest - to form in higher concentration than in other parts of the body. Normally this gene isn't triggered until right before birth. So kittens with this gene will be born with only nominal markings which continue darken and expand throughout the first two years of life.

This same genetic mutation has appeared in domesticated rabbits.

My siamese (mix) cat is named Nimitz. after the Adm. C. Nimitz of WWII fame. He propogatee the Island hopping idea in the pacific to help win that portion of the war. He was also highly decorated in many countires. A class of Submarines were named for him.

The first sub in a new class designates the name of that class....

USS Nimitz the Nimitz class subs

All variations of coat colors in domesticated cats are a variation of the standard grey tabby coloration they inherited from their wild cat ancestors.

In most solid colored coats, you can see faint tabby "ticking" in the hair shafts when held to bright light. Solid colors are created when pigment is produced in excecss so the ticking doesn't contrast as much.

White coats and patches of white are caused by a seperate gene that turns off the pigment cells. Otherwise every white or partly white cat is genetically capable of having a fully colored coat.

Calico and tortoise-shell coats occur mostly in females because it require a special gene, called the "bar gene," in duplicate. Since it only occurs on the X chormosome, two X chromosomes are required. Calico and tortoise-shell males are the result of the animal having one Y and two X chromosomes, which is extremely rare.

Feral dogs breeds refer to breeds that are more closely related to wild dogs than other domesticated dogs, or breeds of dogs that developed with little human selection and intervention.

Some feral dog breeds include pharoah hounds of North Africa, aborginal dogs of Latin America, Asia, Pacific islands, and sub-Sahara Africa, the Rhodesian ridgeback of South Africa, and the Catahoula Leopard Hound and the Carolina Dog of the Southern United States. Many feral breeds are difficult to train due to having a stronger sense of independence.

The Rhodesian ridgeback is believed to be a cross between European domestic breeds and the Southern African Hottentot hunting dog, a feral aborginal breed. Ridgebacks get their distinctive "ridge" along their back from the Hottentot. They were once know as "lion dogs" because they were use to hunt lions.

Since we're on the subject:
Dogs have no ability to perceive size. That's why you'll see a chihuahua go after a german shepard.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

The reason firehouses have weird stairs is because horses used to pull the engines and they figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes.

I don't. But then again, I'm not average.

A t shirt maker in Miami made t shirts in Spanish and they said I saw the pope but he didnt do it right and they said I saw the potato.

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