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on dog island one of the pics looks like a random boat going to a random island. Also it seems like a joke. Also it says it was a restricted area and it said you can send your dog there.

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We just read about the endangered Tree Octopus. Octopi live in water, not trees! I have never heard of these "endangered species". According to the article, they are not on the endangered species list, but apparently they should be! Apparently they need to be on the list. The reason it is not on the list is because THEY AREN'T REAL. This entire website is fake. They also talk about a sasquach being one of its predators. A sasquach is not real and we all know that. I clicked the link to learn about sasquaches, and they had no pictures which means that sasquaches are fake.

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we read Save the northwest tree octopus THIS IS FAKE whats a tree octopus it says it lives in a rain forest but how did it get up in the tree and i have never heard of the olympic peninsula.

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We read Dog Island Free Forever. We thought that it was fake because there is a spot where dogs can type there information and last time I checked my dog cant use a computer. Also, there is no such thing as dogologists!

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we think that Dangers Of bread is not reliable. One reason is that it said that bread will us into a gooey soggy bread person. Also because it said that it causes cancer, which is obviously not true.

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We read the dangers of bread  we do not think  its true because... zillion is not a number and a lb of doe can not suffocate a mouse.

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We all think this is not a reliable web site. we read dangers of bread. It mensiond a lot of falls facts about what bead can do to your body such as causing cancer, and absobing our body water. It also said that bead caused students to have lower scores on test. yet lots of kids I know eat bread every day that are above average. Also in the first paragraph it said [i am not making this stuff up].

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it is impossible to turn into a piece of soggy or dry piece of bread and you are not violent when you eat bread.

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We read the danger of bread and we think its uncompatible it says if you eat bread you become a soggy goey puddling person how does pudding relate to bread.It also said no advertising bread with in 1000 feet from a school.It also said more than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread eaters. That makes no sense how would anyone figure out that.If thats true why do they steal from banks when they could steal from bread stores.This is why we think this  web site is unreliable

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We read Dog Island Free Forever it is not reliable because it is $6.099 for a dog leash it should not be that much because you should walk your dog not the dog walk you. The leash does not even fit you.

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Minors are people 18 and under in the the article it says no sale of bread to minors! It also said that that 90 percent of voilent crimes are comitted during a day of eating bread and nobody knows that for sure.

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We read the dangers of bread and here is why we think this sight is not reliable. We think this because at the end of the first paragraph  it said I'm not making this stuff up in parentheses  and also the writer didn't use any facts to support his reason.And it said that they use bread to make tobacco  which is not true. Because they plant it in a felid . I know you can plant bread in a felid but it dose not go in tobacco.

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The Dangers Of Bread is not a reliable website.  We really don't think that bread must be soled 1000 feet away from school because it aparrently kills a ton of people.  Also it aparrently choke people. apperently 90% of violent crimes happen within 24 hours of eating bread.

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We read "The Danger of Bread" this website is not reliable. It gave many incorrect facts. An example of this is when they said that since bread is obsorvent, that if a human eats too much bread, they will become a bread pudding gooey monster. This is obviously not true

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We read dog Island free forever and it is not reliable website.  The first reason is it says it is free but than it makes you buy a dog lease.  Also because the lease is meant to hook onto "your collar" which you can't do. It also proves thats dog island is not a place it only talks about how you need to act like your dog and let it walk you..  It does have a page for sending your dog away but it says to put it in a box which you can't do.  What if you send your dog on the island and it go's out into the ocean. It would be lost because it said then island is free range and unsupervised. It also says that they have to interveiw your dog and how would they do that? And again It said it was free yet on island it said only rice people could afford. That's why Dog Island forever free is not a reliable website.

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A recent Cincinnati Enquirer headline read, "Smell of baked bread may be health hazard." The article went on to describe the dangers of the smell of baking bread. The main danger, apparently, is that the organic components of this aroma may break down ozone (I'm not making this stuff up).

I was horrified. When are we going to do something about bread- induced global warming? Sure, we attack tobacco companies, but when is the government going to go after Big Bread?

Well, I've done a little research, and what I've discovered should make anyone think twice....

1. More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread eaters.

2. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.

3. In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home, the average life expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality rates were unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; and diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever and influenza ravaged whole nations.

4. More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.

5. Bread is made from a substance called "dough." It has been proven that as little as one pound of dough can be used to suffocate a mouse. The average American eats more bread than that in one month!

6. Primitive tribal societies that have no bread exhibit a low occurrence of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and osteoporosis.

7. Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and given only water to eat begged for bread after only two days.

8. Bread is often a "gateway" food item, leading the user to "harder" items such as butter, jelly, peanut butter and even cold cuts.

9. Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more than 90 percent water, it follows that eating bread could lead to your body being taken over by this absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person.

10. Newborn babies can choke on bread.

11. Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit! That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.

12. Most American bread eaters are utterly unable to distinguish between significant scientific fact and meaningless statistical babbling.

In light of these frightening statistics, we propose the following bread restrictions:

1. No sale of bread to minors.

2. No advertising of bread within 1000 feet of a school.

3. A 300 percent federal tax on all bread to pay for all the societal ills we might associate with bread.

4. No animal or human images, nor any primary colors (which may appeal to children) may be used to promote bread usage.

5. A $4.2 zillion fine on the three biggest bread manufacturers. Please send this e-mail on to everyone you know who cares about this crucial issue.

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Dog Island Free Forever - Products, Featuring Our Empathy Leash

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Dog Island -- Free your dog!! send your dog to dog island

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Help Save The ENDANGERED

From EXTINCTION!

The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

Rare photo of the elusive tree octopus
(Enhanced from cropped telephoto)

The Pacific Northwest tree octopus ( Octopus paxarbolis) can be found in the temperate rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula on the west coast of North America. Their habitat lies on the Eastern side of the Olympic mountain range, adjacent to Hood Canal. These solitary cephalopods reach an average size (measured from arm-tip to mantle-tip,) of 30-33 cm. Unlike most other cephalopods, tree octopuses are amphibious, spending only their early life and the period of their mating season in their ancestral aquatic environment. Because of the moistness of the rainforests and specialized skin adaptations, they are able to keep from becoming desiccated for prolonged periods of time, but given the chance they would prefer resting in pooled water.

An intelligent and inquisitive being (it has the largest brain-to-body ratio for any mollusk), the tree octopus explores its arboreal world by both touch and sight. Adaptations its ancestors originally evolved in the three dimensional environment of the sea have been put to good use in the spatially complex maze of the coniferous Olympic rainforests. The challenges and richness of this environment (and the intimate way in which it interacts with it,) may account for the tree octopus's advanced behavioral development. (Some evolutionary theorists suppose that "arboreal adaptation" is what laid the groundwork in primates for the evolution of the human mind.)

Reaching out with one of her eight arms, each covered in sensitive suckers, a tree octopus might grab a branch to pull herself along in a form of locomotion called tentaculation; or she might be preparing to strike at an insect or small vertebrate, such as a frog or rodent, or steal an egg from a bird's nest; or she might even be examining some object that caught her fancy, instinctively desiring to manipulate it with her dexterous limbs (really deserving the title "sensory organs" more than mere "limbs",) in order to better know it.

Map of estimated tree octopus maximum range, including spawning waters

Tree octopuses have eyesight comparable to humans. Besides allowing them to see their prey and environment, it helps them in inter-octopus relations. Although they are not social animals like us, they display to one-another their emotions through their ability to change the color of their skin: red indicates anger, white fear, while they normally maintain a mottled brown tone to blend in with the background.

The reproductive cycle of the tree octopus is still linked to its roots in the waters of the Puget Sound from where it is thought to have originated. Every year, in Spring, tree octopuses leave their homes in the Olympic National Forest and migrate towards the shore and, eventually, their spawning grounds in Hood Canal. There, they congregate (the only real social time in their lives,) and find mates. After the male has deposited his sperm, he returns to the forests, leaving the female to find an aquatic lair in which to attach her strands of egg-clusters. The female will guard and care for her eggs until they hatch, refusing even to eat, and usually dying from her selflessness. The young will spend the first month or so floating through Hood Canal, Admiralty Inlet, and as far as North Puget Sound before eventually moving out of the water and beginning their adult lives.

Why It's Endangered

Route 101, separating the rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula from Hood Canal

Although the tree octopus is not officially listed on the Endangered Species List, we feel that it should be added since its numbers are at a critically low level for its breeding needs. The reasons for this dire situation include: decimation of habitat by logging and suburban encroachment; building of roads that cut off access to the water which it needs for spawning; predation by foreign species such as house cats; and booming populations of its natural predators, including the bald eagle and sasquatch. What few that make it to the Canal are further hampered in their reproduction by the growing problem of pollution from farming and residential run-off. Unless immediate action is taken to protect this species and its habitat, the Pacific Northwest tree octopus will be but a memory.

The possibility of Pacific Northwest tree octopus extinction is not an unwarranted fear. Other tree octopus species-including the Douglas octopus and the red-ringed madrona sucker-were once abundant throughout the Cascadia region, but have since gone extinct because of threats similar to those faced by paxarbolis, as well as overharvesting by the now-illegal tree octopus trade.

Tree Octopus hat from 1923

The history of the tree octopus trade is a sad one. Their voracious appetite for bird plumes having exhausted all the worthy species of that family, the fashionistas moved on to cephalopodic accoutrements during the early 20th Century. Tree octopuses became prized by the fashion industry as ornamental decorations for hats, leading greedy trappers to wipe out whole populations to feed the vanity of the fashionable rich. While fortunately this practice has been outlawed, its effects still reverberate today as these millinery deprivations brought tree octopus numbers below the critical point where even minor environmental change could cause disaster.

While efforts were made in the past to preserve remaining tree octopus habitat, these were met with resistance by the timber industry, which has traditionally viewed the tree octopus as a nuisance, both because the octopuses favor the valuable, moss-shrouded trees of old growth forests-pitting conservation needs against lucrative sources of lumber-and because octopuses hiding among felled trees often gummed up sawmills and stained pulp vats with their ink.

Traveling sideshow exhibits, such as this one by Glen "Bones" Hartzell from 1942, demonized tree octopuses to the ignorant masses
(Click to enlarge)

These nuisances led many loggers to regard tree octopuses as bad luck, resulting in the pointless killing of octopuses on sight at logging camps in a misguided attempt at eradicating the troublesome species. Anti-octopus sentiment was so strong among loggers that some even began to fear that the octopuses were prone to attacking humans.

These fears were fueled in no small part by gratuitous stories involving tree octopuses harassing lumberjacks and distressing damsels in Northwestern-themed pulp magazines of the 1930-40s and variously "nipping", "entangling", or "suckering the flesh" of the heroes of men's action magazines of the 1950-60s. (The magazine publishers depended on cheap paper made from wood pulp and were glad to contribute to the anti-octopus propaganda campaign of the timber industry.)

To this day, misunderstanding and fear of these gentle creatures can still be found among many old timers, although education campaigns-and special octopus-separators installed at sawmills-have largely halted the practice of tree octopus eradication.

How You Can Help

More Tree Octopus Information

Posters motivate the citizenry to action! Post them!

Tree Octopus FAQs - Frequently asked questions, now with answers.

Tree Octopus Sightings - Includes photos of and behavioral research on the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus and other tree octopus species.

Tree Octopus In The Media - appearances of tree octopuses, both real and fictional, in the media and popular culture.

Research On Other Tree Octopus Species:

The author of this article and its subsections is Lyle Zapato.
This site is not associated with any school or educational organization,
other than the Kelvinic University branch of the Wild Haggis Conservation Society.
Not to be confused with the Pacific Northwest Octopus Tree.

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Information about the endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus and what you can do to save it.