Can you name the 3-letter words in this themed word ladder?

Clue	3-Letter Word
'I saw a mouse!!!!'
A snakelike fish
Salt, in French
Part of a tennis match
Rested on a chair
A large container
A doctor for animals
A tamed animal kept at home
To tap gently
Piece of metal cookware
Soda container
Feline animal
Flying mammal
Sunk teeth into
Huge
Create a hole
Canine animal
Porcine animal
A witch
Head covering
A rodent
A manta is this animal

Clue	3-Letter Word
What horses eat
Star Wars' '___ Solo'
A female chicken
A curse
Gender of an animal
MLB's Chicago White ___
Vulpine animal
An Enemy
A female deer
Poet Edgar Allan
Cambodian despot ___ Pot
A large ISP
A tool for making holes
A nocturnal bird
Be under obligation to pay
Wonderment
Simian animal
Kwik-E-Mart proprietor
Weight of an H atom (abbr.)
A flightless bird
End of an American college's URL

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Word Ladder: Animals Quiz

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Created Mar 4, 2011 in Just For Fun
Featured Apr 10, 2011
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	stevemaster:	Apr 10th, 2011 at 04:34 GMT	33 points
	I have problems with "eek" and ".edu" being here. They're the bookends of the ladder and aren't really needed. Eel - Emu would be a fine quiz. Otherwise, nicely done!

	Nol_Solano:	Apr 10th, 2011 at 09:50 GMT	11 points
	I had the correct answer for Porcine Animal ("Hog") and Head Covering ("Hat"), and tried "Hot" without even looking at the hint between those aforementioned. Although I find Magica De Spell kind of attractive, I concede that "Hag" is a better answer.

	Stran:	Apr 10th, 2011 at 13:15 GMT	6 points
	In the UK a college would be .ac (not .edu)

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	picard:	Apr 10th, 2011 at 13:23 GMT	9 points
	i'm guessing horses don't eat man?

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	Midmi:	Apr 10th, 2011 at 13:50 GMT	3 points
	really you put in eek

	budd:	Apr 10th, 2011 at 13:59 GMT	14 points
	Could mention The Raven in the Edgar Allen clue to fit with your animal theme.

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	hotshot617:	Apr 10th, 2011 at 15:02 GMT	-2 points
	Gender does not equal sex.

	ostroffj:	Apr 10th, 2011 at 15:49 GMT	19 points
	I agree with everything rockgolf said, except for the part where he suggested that vets don't have anything to do with animals.

	climber_v12:	Apr 10th, 2011 at 17:12 GMT	-2 points
	Awl could have gone straight to Awe without Owl and Owe inbetween, although Owl is in the theme. I agree with ostroffj, and I suggest that hotshot617 goes and reads a dictionary.

	TJohn:	Apr 10th, 2011 at 18:08 GMT	3 points
	I got them all and am shocked that less than 5% got "can", "sat", "vat" and "pan." Were these added later or is something wonky?

	lilbrownwren:	Apr 10th, 2011 at 18:20 GMT	-1 points
	Hotshot617 is correct. Sex is a physical attribute. Gender is a mental construct.

	Bio:	Apr 10th, 2011 at 18:23 GMT	3 points
	@TJohn - Last night when I did this ladder there were only 39 answers, today there are 43, so at some point the author added the four you mentioned, so I had to do the ladder all over again to get 100%

	Sunnydayz3081:	Apr 10th, 2011 at 19:14 GMT	-1 points
	I did not get eek.

	nahtanoj999:	Apr 10th, 2011 at 19:24 GMT	3 points
	An atomic mass unit is 1/12 the weight or carbon-12. This makes a hydrogen-1 atom weigh 1.00782503207 u. The average weight of all hydrogen atoms on earth is 1.00794 u because of a small amount of heavier isotopes.

	wgisland:	Apr 10th, 2011 at 19:45 GMT	3 points
	Gender is a classification of nouns, which in many European languages corresponds roughly to sex. Thus, the two words have come to be used almost synonymously, though the distinction that lilbrownwren mentioned is also commonly cited. In casual speech I mostly encounter it as a way to avoid using the word "sex".

	Pogues:	Apr 10th, 2011 at 19:52 GMT	2 points
	I thought we used gender these days so when Middle School kids taking a standardized test don't see SEX and giggle. As for the quiz itself, too many vague clues allowed for several answers that could have worked, forcing multiple guesses or having to jump down a rung just to see which answer worked. Examples are: Pan/Pot and Hat/Rag.

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	stamp:	Apr 10th, 2011 at 22:19 GMT	6 points
	Ah, the emu. Such a great animal. Like the platypus. Or the narwhal.

	ostroffj:	Apr 10th, 2011 at 23:02 GMT	7 points
	My take: yes, sex and gender have different meanings, but crossword clues don't need to have the same exact meaning as the words they're cluing, as long as they agree in some contexts.

	jefe_:	Apr 11th, 2011 at 00:03 GMT	4 points
	Foe/Doe/Poe - 2 same-letter changes in a row

	hotshot617:	Apr 11th, 2011 at 14:59 GMT	3 points
	The argument that the watering down of language to make two words of distinct, separate meaning "almost synonymous" is ridiculous. Pasting one word's (sex) onto another word (gender) so as to avoid having to say the first (sex) is equally shameful. Perhaps if parents would discuss sex with their teenage children in a mature manner, we wouldn't have to worry about Middle Schoolers "giggling" whilst filling out an exam?

	Koltrane:	Apr 11th, 2011 at 15:54 GMT	1 point
	The clue for head covering - both HAT and RAG work and don't disrupt the ladder. Should accept both.

	JoeSchmaugh:	Apr 11th, 2011 at 18:28 GMT	2 points
	Solid quiz, especially since it was one continuous ladder rather than two individual ones like we normally get with this many answers

	dvdgarber:	Apr 14th, 2011 at 14:42 GMT	1 point
	Did anyone else try bag for head covering?

	hotshot617:	Apr 14th, 2011 at 22:56 GMT	-3 points
	@climber_v12: I did as you suggested and checked out the dictionary. As I expected, the definitions of the words hadn't changed. (Source: Merriam-Webster) I took the liberty of interpreting it for you, as the definitions might be a bit over your head. sex: (n) either of the two major forms of individuals that occur in many species and that are distinguished respectively as female or male especially on the basis of their reproductive organs and structures. (hotshot's note: PHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC) gender: (n) the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex. (hotshot's note: NOT A PHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC) BTW...How's your foot taste?

	eacarst089:	May 23rd, 2011 at 01:00 GMT	1 point
	i put pot for 'piece of metal cookware'

	teddylupin_snape:	Feb 20th, 2012 at 22:13 GMT	1 point
	Lucky me, we just studied the Periodic Table.....!

	abcdefggfedcba:	Feb 28th, 2012 at 15:24 GMT	1 point
	salt in french would usually be salé

	C3_Quest:	May 6th, 2012 at 07:53 GMT	0 points
	25/43 ... Today's not my day XD Good quiz :D

	scallops14:	May 26th, 2012 at 15:49 GMT	1 point
	Great game! I loved it, i gt the first column but the second column was harder. To check out mine just type in 'dawdling mania'. Tell me what you think of them. Please?