I dimly remember that a long time ago - a long time before I had my stroke in 2005 - there was a news report about some Australian government official who said in an interview that koalas do not make good pets. They are high-maintenance because they only eat a limited kind of eucalyptus leaves (not any eucalyptus leaves), they sleep almost all the time, they do not show affection, they cannot be housebroken, and they are designed by nature to have very sharp claws so they can climb trees, so when they are picked up by people, they instinctually dig into the people with their sharp claws. The official got a lot of hate mail for saying such bad things about the darling koalas.
I dimly remember that a long time ago - a long time before I had my stroke in 2005 - there was a news report about some Australian government official who said in an interview that koalas do not make good pets. They are high-maintenance because they only eat a limited kind of eucalyptus leaves (not any eucalyptus leaves), they sleep almost all the time, they do not show affection, they cannot be housebroken, and they are designed by nature to have very sharp claws so they can climb trees, so when they are picked up by people, they instinctually dig into the people with their sharp claws. The official got a lot of hate mail for saying such bad things about the darling koalas.
Fred Patten