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Moles/gophers heading my way - how to stop?
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:43:30 GMT, Janet Baraclough
wrote: I have not likened anyone to a rock star. Surely you recognise why any internationally important figure on public engagements, is preceded by detailed arrangements, agreed in advance between the host and the VIP's team of assistants. The DL is no exception. Janet. I'm now going to once again "unattach" myself to your silly statements about someone you've probably never seen in person, let alone know how his attendants give orders of protocol to hosts. It's not done. If the host asks, they give protocol. If not, they proceed. |
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Moles/gophers heading my way - how to stop?
In article , "Ook" Ook Don't send me any freakin' spam at zootal dot com delete the Don't send me any freakin' spam wrote:
There is a vacant lot adjoining my lot, and at the far end we are just now seeing signs of moles/gophers. They are spreading into the lot, and I want to stop them before they hit my lot. Any suggestions? I'd like to drive them off, but I'll kill them if I have to - no holds barred, I won't have them terrorizing my garden. I have tried just about everything to get rid of the moles, but after 22 years they are still in my yard.From what i have read trap killing them works the best, but takes alot of time and you have to find where they are digging also.Also my cat has caught quite a few of them,but they keep coming back.Have you thought about selling your home? Rick |
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Moles/gophers heading my way - how to stop?
"Rick Yerke" wrote in message . .. In article , "Ook" Ook Don't send me any freakin' spam at zootal dot com delete the Don't send me any freakin' spam wrote: There is a vacant lot adjoining my lot, and at the far end we are just now seeing signs of moles/gophers. They are spreading into the lot, and I want to stop them before they hit my lot. Any suggestions? I'd like to drive them off, but I'll kill them if I have to - no holds barred, I won't have them terrorizing my garden. I have tried just about everything to get rid of the moles, but after 22 years they are still in my yard.From what i have read trap killing them works the best, but takes alot of time and you have to find where they are digging also.Also my cat has caught quite a few of them,but they keep coming back.Have you thought about selling your home? Rick Maybe a tactical nuke would do the job...sigh....they are getting closer every day. |
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Moles/gophers heading my way - how to stop?
On Feb 15, 6:18 pm, Jangchub wrote:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:42:45 GMT, Janet Baraclough wrote: The message from Jangchub contains these words: . I have emailed the author to find out if she indeed said that in any book she's written and would like to know where she got her information. From this interview, which was widely publicised ? http://www.readersdigest.ca/mag/2004/05/dalai_lama.html quote "RD: Do you have a favourite animal? Dalai Lama: Birds maybe. I feed birds, peaceful birds. I'm a nonviolent person, but if a hawk comes when I'm feeding birds, I lose my temper and get my air rifle. RD: You have an air rifle? Dalai Lama: Yes, although I shoot only to scare the hawks. " (end quote) The same interview quotes His Holiness saying he eats some meat. Presumably it's killed first. Janet This is a whole lot different than saying His Holiness shoots aggressive birds at the feeders with a rifle. Miles different. He uses the sound of the air gun. He happens to do this not only to protect the birds of prey, but to help the predators and keep them from killing and creating more non-virtue, which will hold them for eons in the animal realm. They eat meat, but they kill with their talons and beak, ripping at flesh. For H.H. this is an act of compassion for the raptor. Secondly, His Holiness eats meat only when his health absolutely requires it and when he goes to a special award dinner or has audience with people from other countries which don't know Buddhists are mostly vegetarians (I am) and will cook delicious meat shrimp, etc. When teaching, H.H. often says if you must eat meat, eat the meat of a large animal so only one life had to be taken to feed many people. Thus, shrimp are out of the question, or fish. He will eat it so not to be rude. It's not that important for a living Buddha to be concerned with karma because he no longer creates it. This is not really a discussion for this newsgroup, but it frustrates me when people don't look at the whole scope, put all the information together accurately and report it using wisdom. I can't or won't allow someone to say His Holiness shoots birds with his rifle when I know he would rather die.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Back to His Holy Molee topic: We should all be mindful that we make life and death choices for many animals every day. Most of us eat animals that someone had to kill. Or we eat the eggs of animals that destroy the future life of the egg. Sometimes we put our pet animals down when they get old or sick. Sometimes we carelessly subject our pets to risks such as when we expose them to harmful pesticides we spray around our gardens. I got mad at a bluejay recently when I saw him eating the eggs of a finch nested on my window sill. The only thing I could do was hope that maybe someday my cat would catch him by surprise. My cat, whom I call Princess, is a great hunter, and almost every day finds a rodent to catch and torture. She's actually quite brutal when she catches something, throwing it around, chewing its head, flipping it high in the air, pawing it to try to make it move just a little so that she can pounce on it again. Sometimes, I feel sorry for the rodent. His life would have ended more painlessly had someone shot a pellet through his heart. The lesson I take from these observations, is that we all kill living things, little or big animals, plants we don't like in a certain spot, etc. Agriculture (monoculture) in general is very destructive to the ecology and destroys the habitats of many beautiful critters. Yet we need the food it produces in order to survive. However, I feel better when I use a kinder way of taking the life of a critter that has feelings and wants to live, just like me. ----------------------- If you're interested in more about the damages caused by agriculture, read "On the Semantics of Evolution" available free online. |
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