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Hey PETA, Screw Wildlife
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:49:23 -0400, Ernie Willson
wrote: You didn't mention Squirrels. Also didn't mention wasps or the time that a huge yellowjacket nest grew within the exterior cedar siding. Yellowjackets emerged at several spots within the house trying to find their way out. Problem persisted the entire month of October 1997. What a hassle! Also didn't mention the occasional field mouse who gets in. As for the gray squirrel, his presence has been only a minor nuisance, digging small holes to bury / retrieve black walnuts and acorns. _____________ EJ in NJ Way Back Jack wrote: RACCOONS: dig up the old lady's annual flower garden, shit all over the decks, and tear up the cushions on deck furniture. Why? On three sides of this property, there are woods, farmland, ponds, and streams .... a wildlife paradise; yet they sometimes get on the roof and try to access the house. Why? Yes, I'll anti-freeze them and don't care who likes it. WOODCHUCKS: are even worse digging burrows near the east side property line, but at least they have an excuse with the row of mulberry trees that defines that property line. Still, it's a bitch dodging the burrows on the tractor. I set a record this year by killing seven of them, two of whom while they were mating on -- believe it or not -- Valentine's Day. Heh. WHITETAIL: deer can be dangerous, especially in autumn. One decided to live under a deck. He had an injured leg. He had absolutely no fear and would approach the old lady while she played in the perennial flower garden. Shotgun blasts did not scare him. One day while on a deck, I dropped a 10 lb. barbell plate on him. He was quick enough to dodge it but he finally got the message. He spent a few days down below by the pond but then disappeared. WILLIE THE WILD TURKEY: adopted us one summer. He terrorized the cats, attacked his own reflection in auto bumpers, and slept on the roof, even in thunderstorms. The only good thing about Willie was that he exterminated most of the cricket population. ASSORTED SMALL BIRDS: attack their reflections in windows and really create a mess. This year, a robin, last year, a lady cardinal, the year before that, a song sparrow. Still, some wildlife is enjoyable. Young turkey vultures are friendly and inquisitive while you work outside. Their parents demonstrate a high degree of surgical skill extracting a brain from a deceased woodchuck or raccoon through the decedent's eye sockets. Interesting to observe. Then there were the pheasants strutting and eating a ton of bugs but they suddenly and mysteriously disappeared 20-25 years ago. |
Hey PETA, Screw Wildlife
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:19:12 -0700, Billy
wrote: In article , (Vladimir Tschenko Badenov) wrote: On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:36:05 -0400, Karl Kleinpaste wrote: Billy writes: When are YOU going to get alarmed, when, except for the zoos, the only animals left are pets and food animals? Our biosphere is dying, and we can only save it, one raccoon at a time. Geez...you haven't looked out my back door lately. I live on 15 acres of nowhereness, northwest of Pittsburgh near the Ohio line. On any given day, 20 or 30 deer wander by, mostly at the treeline that abuts the open field of the next parcel, ~150ft behind the house. Local turkey flocks are positively routine, and I don't mean 5, I mean 30 or 40 at a time. Raccoons aren't too common, but I see them now and again. This year, there is a family of foxes living in the woods somewhere just southwest of the house who step now and again into the yard, generally at dawn or dusk. The deer congregate most days in what we've long called "town hall", which is a low hollow inside the treeline on the far side of the power tower right-of-way, ~200yds due east of the house...except during hunting season, when they disappear for parts unknown. They figured out long ago when they need to make themselves scarce. Then there's the possums that often befriend our cats for playful romps after dark. Add in the moles and voles that the cats hunt during the day. I can't say I'm sorry to see our feline Mighty Hunters having success in that department, as long as they don't bring gifts (or [worse] half-gifts) into the house. Coyotes avoid the house, but they are known to live in the woods down near the creek, still on my property but well toward the northeast corner of it. No bears these days, at least none that we know of. But small stuff like toads and whatnot are everywhere. I could feed my household using nothing but a crossbow, without ever having to step outside the yard immediately surrounding the house. All I have to do is wait for the game to show up. It's a funny view of "the dying biosphere" that some folks have. Billy has bought into the hoax. Billy has read the numbers and understand them. Billy believes that global warming is man-made; man can reverse it; and if man doesn't reverse it, will be necessarily catastrophic. Bill has drunk the Goron Kool-Aid. Billy doesn't know that there is no longer a consensus. Billy doesn't know that the global temp has dropped .74 since "An Inconvenient Truth." Happy to edify. |
Hey PETA, Screw Wildlife
On Jul 9, 4:56*pm, (Vladimir Tschenko Badenov) wrote:
Vladimir think you are enviro-nutcake tree hugger, care more about animal and tree than human. *Original poster say that area has lots of met a lot of humans. met a lot of trees. by and large, prefer most of the trees to most of the humans. case in point. |
Hey PETA, Screw Wildlife
On Jul 9, 9:34*am, (Way Back Jack) wrote:
RACCOONS: no need to post all this, your sexual habits are already known to us, more than we would like. |
Hey PETA, Screw Wildlife
"Vladimir Tschenko Badenov" wrote in message
... On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:19:12 -0700, Billy wrote: In article , (Vladimir Tschenko Badenov) wrote: On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:36:05 -0400, Karl Kleinpaste wrote: Billy writes: When are YOU going to get alarmed, when, except for the zoos, the only animals left are pets and food animals? Our biosphere is dying, and we can only save it, one raccoon at a time. Geez...you haven't looked out my back door lately. I live on 15 acres of nowhereness, northwest of Pittsburgh near the Ohio line. On any given day, 20 or 30 deer wander by, mostly at the treeline that abuts the open field of the next parcel, ~150ft behind the house. Local turkey flocks are positively routine, and I don't mean 5, I mean 30 or 40 at a time. Raccoons aren't too common, but I see them now and again. This year, there is a family of foxes living in the woods somewhere just southwest of the house who step now and again into the yard, generally at dawn or dusk. The deer congregate most days in what we've long called "town hall", which is a low hollow inside the treeline on the far side of the power tower right-of-way, ~200yds due east of the house...except during hunting season, when they disappear for parts unknown. They figured out long ago when they need to make themselves scarce. Then there's the possums that often befriend our cats for playful romps after dark. Add in the moles and voles that the cats hunt during the day. I can't say I'm sorry to see our feline Mighty Hunters having success in that department, as long as they don't bring gifts (or [worse] half-gifts) into the house. Coyotes avoid the house, but they are known to live in the woods down near the creek, still on my property but well toward the northeast corner of it. No bears these days, at least none that we know of. But small stuff like toads and whatnot are everywhere. I could feed my household using nothing but a crossbow, without ever having to step outside the yard immediately surrounding the house. All I have to do is wait for the game to show up. It's a funny view of "the dying biosphere" that some folks have. Billy has bought into the hoax. Billy has read the numbers and understand them. Billy believes that global warming is man-made; man can reverse it; and if man doesn't reverse it, will be necessarily catastrophic. Bill has drunk the Goron Kool-Aid. Billy doesn't know that there is no longer a consensus. Billy doesn't know that the global temp has dropped .74 since "An Inconvenient Truth." Happy to edify. All I know for sure is people are generally stuck where they live, they can't really move around to where its more comfortable to live. So that brings it down to a singularity of each and every individual, not a global thing. In the U.S. (not the globe), its been more cool up north, much warmer south and west with less precipitation. Central Texas is about to surpass the drought of the 1950's I don't know why, I just know that it is. And it doesn't matter why as we can't do anything about it, climatic or otherwise man-made in a reasonable amount of time. Either way, the time-line for such is too substantial for one generation to see that change for the better. So, therefore, I submit all the political mumbo-jumbo about all this is just that. Either left or right. Just another political opportunity to take jabs at each other when there's no reality basis to begin with. -- Dave |
Hey PETA, Screw Wildlife
There is plenty of room for wildlife, right next to the mashed potatoes.
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Hey PETA, Screw Wildlife
In article pplyinc,
"D. Staples" wrote: There is plenty of room for wildlife, right next to the mashed potatoes. Really old joke, not to mention the wildlife and the mashed potatoes. -- - Billy There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves. Will Rogers http://countercurrents.org/roberts020709.htm http://www.tomdispatch.com/p/zinn |
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Hi, Problem with that option is that when you live in close proximity with other people, there are roaches because others aren't as sanitary as they should be.That's not how it was explained to me at a recent visit to the Nature Center at a State Park. |
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