Re: puppy love

gekko <gekko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <b4tkr49tgse2069s1do8r43rtu9houuuvv@xxxxxxx>,
I.B.Larfin <stutstuttering@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Bernie" <rainbow1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've got a new pet fox. I bought him an entire fried chicken
today. He's my new dog. It may be a female. I need to name
it.

Mark

You won't have it for long, Mark, if you continue feeding it with
chicken.

Bernie.

Bernie, why is that? I thought the proverbial "fox in the henhouse"
meant that they eat chickens when possible. Is that untrue? Are you
talking about it choking on a bone, getting shot in a neighbor's
henhouse, or what?


They can eat raw chicken, although they typically eat bugs, worms, some
fruits, small rodents, reptiles, fresh water shelled critters, and eggs.
They'll eat birds if they can catch them.

Animals should not really be fed cooked human foods. The sorts of foods
you get from the grocery store, packaged chicken, will likely have
hormones and anti-biotics in it, and will not contain the proper
nutrients a wild animal needs because MOST meats that have been prepared
for human consumption is corn-fed rather than grass or wild grain fed.
So much is missing.

Cooked bones splinter readily and could perforate the animal's
intestines.

If you really insist on disturbing the natural pattern's of a wild
carnivore's habitat, then go catch rats, prairie dogs, mice, and small
birds and leave them, still alive, for the animal to get.

Better to just leave the critter and the balance of nature that is
around you alone. Observe them when they're around for you to observe,
but leave them the *** alone.

That was Mark's pet fox, I was just curious about Bernie's comment re
feeding it chicken.

I have a pet rabbit. It lets me see it from time to time. I think
its name is legion but maybe there's only a couple. Or it grows and
shrinks, how would I know for sure. I must be a racist because they
all look the same to me, gray and furry all over.

I also have a pet bobcat, or cougar, or bear, I'm not sure which;
whatever it was it tore up some plastic gas cans for grins, gas cans I
couldn't poke a hole through with an ice pick. I think I don't want
to know for sure.

I do have a pet black bear, I've seen it twice. I said "hey look, a
bear" and it ran off when it heard me. It and the rabbit are my
faves, they seem not likely to eat me if they get hungry.

Freakin' bobcats around here are knee high at the shoulder. Cougars
are severely bigger. Nice kitty kitty kitty...

I'm outside in the middle of the night every night, so I should
probably be a lot more worried. Carry a gun and shoot my foot off or
something. Too complicated for me to figure out, things tend to take
care of themselves. I never wanted to get really old anyway, but I
did hope to get a little closer to good. We'll see, it isn't over
quite yet. As far as I know.

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