{"id":1866,"date":"2007-12-28T05:42:29","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T10:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2007-12-28T05:42:29","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T10:42:29","slug":"whew-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1866","title":{"rendered":"Whew"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was worried the Saint Paul City Council wasn’t going to tackle the big issues facing our city<\/a>:<\/p>\n

On a 6 to 1 vote, council members banned the [Sugar Glider, a breed of] nocturnal marsupials that hail from the South Pacific and have flaps of skin from wrists to ankles and a bit of a sweet tooth.<\/p>\n

Although St. Paul isn\u2019t teeming with the critters, banning their purchase, sale and ownership is a preventive measure, city officials say. The animals wouldn\u2019t do well in this climate, and are high-maintenance, leading the city\u2019s animal control department to fear frustrated owners would abandon their pets.<\/p>\n

The ordinance stems from an incident in which a person was selling the animals at a trade show without a license. Animal control employees did research and found that sugar gliders take a lot of maintenance, make a lot of noise and can smell.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They haven’t actually chewed any children to death, of course; stealing candy, maybe, but again, we don’t know.\u00a0<\/p>\n

No, the Saint Paul City Council – led by the Gang of Four<\/strike> Five – is getting out ahead of the plague of flying, candy-craving mini-possums because the might <\/em>be difficult to handle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they were misinformed about many things when they made their decision,\u201d said Jeff Stein, who with his wife, Terri, breeds sugar gliders in Lino Lakes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They have a room full of about 34 adult gliders, which sell for prices starting at $200. \u201cThey\u2019re harmless little friendly things.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Put “Buck Fush” T-shirts on ’em.\u00a0 The Council will reconsider faster than your Sugar Glider can unwrap a Starburst.<\/p>\n

(Via Margaret at Anti-Strib<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was worried the Saint Paul City Council wasn’t going to tackle the big issues facing our city: On a 6 to 1 vote, council members banned the [Sugar Glider, a breed of] nocturnal marsupials that hail from the South Pacific and have flaps of skin from wrists to ankles and a bit of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}