22 September 2005

Has anybody seen my pet camel ?

| Maelinar
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I don’t know how this one got though, but alongside cats, birds, a few reptiles and fish, you can apparently also have a pet camel in Canberra without registration.

Does this sound weird to anybody else ?

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You can have one as a pet 🙂

mmm

Camel Fillet with a Shiraz Butter Glaze

Degree of difficulty: Low

You need:
1 camel fillet trimmed of sinew and cut into medallions
olive oil
butter
4 small onions, sliced
1 carrot, finely chopped
250 ml shiraz or other red wine
250 ml beef stock
camel trimmings

Method:
To make the glaze, put olive oil and onions, carrots and celery in a pan and fry until slightly brown. Add cut up camel trimmings and cook until brown. Then add wine and beef stock. Simmer for approximately 30 minutes. Strain and whisk in butter pieces until the liquid has a buttery glaze.

Brush camel fillet with olive oil and grill to your taste.

To serve pour shiraz butter glaze onto a plate, arrange camel medallions in a pyramid shape and serve with tossed salad.

This recipe was featured by Louise Maher

Date published: 14/6/2002

There will of course be an R18+ version:
“Comrade on the Hump” (camel’s hump, that is…)

No, it’s not “Lawrence of Arabia”: it’s a totally new film called “Stanhope of Manuka”. It’s an epic about coffee and blamestormimg.

I always knew Canberra would be the location of the remake of ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ – this is a good start. Alert the Film Office.

What if it was a particularly large goat? Or if you got a dead cow and gave it plastic surgery to make it look like a goat int he face and hooves?

Bugger it, I’m obviously bored so I’m going home.

Thumper I think the goat’s just a unit of measurement. Possibly if you have a dead goat you want to dump, it’s free to do so cos a goat is neither larger nor smallr than a goat.

A pet ostrich could be interesting too.

Makes perfect sense though – if you can keep a horse in the ACT without registration (as they are considered stock animals) then a camel should be treated the same.

My former neighbours in Ainslie had two horses in their backyard. It’s legal, as long as you get planning approval for building the stable, and keep things clean and tidy so the neighbours don’t complain about the smell. The only animal considered out of the question for a suburban backyard is a pig (I called Urban Services to check in 2003) because there’s no way (so they say) to keep them in a clean and non-neighbour-offending state.

Samuel Gordon-Stewart7:09 pm 22 Sep 05

I hear that camels have interesting ways of deterring parking inspectors….

Do you have to pay for parking a Camel?

Samuel Gordon-Stewart5:09 pm 22 Sep 05

If Brogden was right, then Bob Carr is lucky he didn’t order from New Zealand.

SGS, I know this house in Hackett. The bloke sent for a mail order bride… from New Zealand!

I used to see a woman walking her pet goat on the grass strip that runs up the centre of Limestone avenue.

I reckon it would be great to have a camel as a pet. I reckon obedience class would be amazing.

I dont think i’d want it sleeping in my laundry over winter though.

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Samuel Gordon-Stewart2:55 pm 22 Sep 05

There is somebody in Hackett who has a pet Sheep which often stands in the front garden. It is unclear whether the sheep owns the human or the human owns the sheep, but I’ve never seen the human so it could just be that the sheep owns the house.

According to the linked document, “Poultry” has a scientific name of “Domestic Varieties”

I’ll have a pack of Camel filters please.

At the tip at Surf Beach (a bit south of Batemans Bay), the measure of how large a dead animal is and hence how much you have to pay to dump it is a goat. I’ve always wondered what happens if you have a dead goat you want to dump.

Ralph, I think you’ll find that not all cameltoes are created equal!

Absent Diane2:06 pm 22 Sep 05

hahaha ‘Camel Toe Sandwich’

I’ll have the camel toe.

what kind of stock? Mmmmmm, anyone fancy a camel burger? Or even a camel-toe sandwich?

Perhaps they are classed as stock?

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