{"id":6634,"date":"2013-12-03T09:18:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T14:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=6634"},"modified":"2013-12-03T09:18:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T14:18:51","slug":"if-you-have-a-pet-brown-snake-with-a-headache-dont-give-it-tylenol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/if-you-have-a-pet-brown-snake-with-a-headache-dont-give-it-tylenol\/","title":{"rendered":"If you have a pet brown snake with a headache, don’t give it Tylenol"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"asnake\"<\/a>Tylenol doesn’t work for me, so I’ve gone back to good old aspirin and sometimes, Ibuprofen. I was always suspicious of Tylenol after reading the warning label – I bet there are a couple thousand snakes that wish mice came with warning labels.<\/p>\n

Because we found this article interesting — and illuminating — we are sharing it with you. Though you may think this has nothing to do with computers — you’d be wrong. At least 80% of you use a mouse \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Read on my friends…<\/p>\n

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\nTwo thousand mice dropped on Guam by parachute \u2014 to kill snakes<\/h2>\n

They floated down from the sky Sunday \u2014 2,000 mice, wafting on tiny cardboard parachutes over Andersen Air Force Base in the U.S. territory of Guam.<\/p>\n

But the rodent commandos didn’t know they were on a mission: to help eradicate the brown tree snake, an invasive species that has caused millions of dollars in wildlife and commercial losses since it arrived a few decades ago.
\nThat’s because they were dead. And pumped full of painkillers.<\/p>\n

The unlikely invasion was the fourth and biggest rodent air assault so far, part of an $8 million U.S. program approved in February to eradicate the snakes and save the exotic native birds that are their snack food.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest on the NBC News Web site.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tylenol doesn’t work for me, so I’ve gone back to good old aspirin and sometimes, Ibuprofen. I was always suspicious of Tylenol after reading the warning label – I bet there are a couple thousand snakes that wish mice came with warning labels. Because we found this article interesting — and illuminating — we are sharing it with\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1426],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6637,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634\/revisions\/6637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}