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From: Janet <nobody@home.com>
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Subject: Re: Need eggs? Rent a chicken.
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:24:41 -0000
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In article <vovr4o$183ki$2@dont-email.me>, 
j_mcquown@comcast.net says...
> 
> On 2/17/2025 10:53 AM, songbird wrote:
> > Ed P wrote:
> > ...worms...
> >> Pets?  Just curious, I know how many people treat their pets. Do you do
> >> the same?  Like have them sit on your lap while watching TV, some even
> >> have them sleep in bed with them.  People walk pet dogs, do you take a
> >> worm out for a slither?
> > 
> >    no.  once a year they get taken out to the gardens and
> > are used to fertilize the plants i'm putting in.  i keep
> > some back and then restart the buckets from them so i don't
> > have to sort them out - it saves a lot of time.
> > 
> > 
> >    songbird
> 
> Yeah, yet you call them "pets".  They're not.  They aerate your garden 
> soil and compost heap.  They're living tools, not pets.

   I  don't regard our compost worms as " pets ". They 
don't even have names.

  Janet UK