Herodotus wrote:

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:38:39 -0400, Rosalie B.
wrote:

There is a problem for animals in almost all English colonies - I no
longer remember exactly which ones.

I do hope that you are not referring to EX English "colonies" such as
Australia (independent 1900), New Zealand (1908), Malaysia (1957) and
so on. I do believe that the English have very few "colonies" today.
As the great English comedian said "The British Empire ends at Charing
Cross Station"

I should have said former English colonies, but I wasn't thinking of
Australia or the Pacific, or Indian Ocean locations, but the Caribbean
island like the BVI, and Barbados, and also the Bahamas and Bermuda
and other places like that. And also of course the parts of Great
Britain - Scotland, Wales, northern Ireland and non-UK closeby
places.

In fact, the US empire has more colonial possesions that Britain even
if you exclude Iraq.

Sorry to burn, but some of the bloody English still refer to us
Antipodeans patronisingly as "colonials"

regards