Re: Wildly OT: Some thoughts for Thanksgiving

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:48:55 +0000, Chris Rockcliffe
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Ken Cashion24/11/2007 9:06 pm

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 20:29:35 +0000, Chris Rockcliffe
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Geezer24/11/2007 3:50 am


"Dwight" <Dwight@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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David Hajicek wrote:
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Sherm <wheezer1024@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks, Wade. My sentiments, as well. It was good to read.
I'm just thankful WalMart's open so the kids and I can run over there
in the Humvee and grab some ammo on our way to the shooting range.
:-)
Wild turkeys are taking hold in Indian Valley and surrounding tributary
valleys, in one of which we live. It's only a matter of time until our
turkey comes from those flocks. I look forward to this as both the
experience of getting one's own bird and the taste thereof are
delightful.

And today, we, too will be going to the shooting range as my
father-in-law has loaned some of his firearms to our son.

Bull's-eye 'em, Sherm!

--
ha
Iraq is Arabic for Vietnam

We are starting to see wild turkeys here in Minnesota (Minneapolis and
further north). There haven't been wild turkeys this far North in about
100 years! Were seeing possum too. Is Minnesota turning into Tennessee?

Dave Hajicek

I went to see my parents on Wednesday and just before getting to their
house we saw 4 large wild turkeys running down the side of the road. When
we go to their house there was a coyote in the back. An hour later we left
to go get something and there were a couple of deer just down the street,
a big 8 point buck and a doe. Hard to believe we're in the middle of deer
and turkey season and these animals were just walking around in people's
yard.

Dwight

Heh!

I live just outside of Providence, RI in Warwick...not the boonies by any
stretch.
One mile from the airport, on the approach path, one mile from the gas/oil
terminal
on Narragansett Bay.
My neighbors house is about twelve feet from ours.
We have:
coyotes...they wake us up every night
deer.........they've ruined our shrubs
wild turkey....they've scared the hell outta the cats
fox...silver and red
possum...ugliest damn things I've ever seen
racoons....nesting in the tree in our back yard, they stop by to see whats
fer supper any night that we're cooking outside.
And the squirrels knock on the back door if we haven't given them their
daily peanuts.

Geezer

I gotta move to the country for some peace and quiet


LOL !! We'll have to start calling you Dr Disney Doolittle...

Came back up the Ashbourne road early this morning about 1.30am and there
was a bright full moon and a heavy frost - about -6-8 celcius. But the
thing that got to me last night was the sheer volume of traffic roadkill in
a 12 mile stretch of west Derbyshire. 3 foxes, a sheep, a badger, a hare,
several rabbits, and several squirrels - all dead in the middle of the road.
Do they all like bright moonlit nights on main roads or something ?

CR

Chris, my wife and I have driven a zillion miles on British roads and
one time she said that she just realized in all our driving, we had
not seen one dead pet.

It's the law here that you should report the accidental killing of a pet dog
or cat.

How civilized. How humane. There is a lot of stuff going on over
there that should have been imported to this country when we had the
chance.

Not sure if it applies to other things but probably a designer
rabbit would count. I've run over several cats in my time trying to swerve
or brake to avoid actually hitting them with a tyre. You can hear a dull
clunk or thud as they hit a silencer or the axle. But anything I have hit
usually runs off quick so you can't tell what happened.

That was true of deer I hit at night a couple of weeks ago on a country
road. A young doe and she crossed from the right, paused in the middle of
the carriageway; and as I swerved into the opposite carriageway to avoid her
she turned and ran back into my path again. The car slid to a screetching
halt but I caught her on her hind quarters with the front bumber at 5-10mph.
She dived off into the hedge and down the field. At least on country roads
at night you can take such avoiding action more easily and safely.

You are lucky it wasn't on the motorway. The speed limit is 65 at
night in deer hunting hill country in Texas...in the day time, it is
80 -- so we drive 85 without fear of a ticket. Hitting a deer at that
speed would spot the car.

We understood the reasons for this but it was strange to us to realize
that what is commonly dead on our roads aren't on yours.

So do you have a lot of dead domestic pets ?

Most of the dead things on the roads around here are dogs, cats,
squirrels, coons, possums...in that order. Maybe twice as many dogs
as cats.

Your dogs are usually well tended to as a member of the family; ours
run loose.

The thing I do remember in my
USA travels were dead skunks in the road. That's a mammal we don't have
here thankfully. And the smell of those things !!

"There's a dead skunk in the middle of the road,
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
There's a dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high heaven!"

One of my favorite songs...mostly because of the first verse...

"He was walking on the highway late last night,
He should of looked left, He should of looked right.
He didn't see the station wagon car.
Skunk got squished and there you are..."

(I drive a station wagon -- estate car.) <g>

Rabbits are on the increase again are very active at night. Foxes are now
protected from hunting with dogs, but many are being run over on our roads
and are being shot and poisoned by farmers and others. I reckon there are
more foxes living in UK cities particularly London than in the countryside
now. There is a plentiful supply of food in rubbish for them.

Interesting. I have farm friends in E. Sussex (Burwash) and the foxes
have just about wiped out all their chickens and ducks. They used to
allow hunting foxes on their property but it isn't as easily done now
as before.

I was eating breakfast with them one morning in 1982 and there was
this clamor that scared the hell out of me but they kept eating. About
10 horses and hounds went racing past the window about 150 feet away.

I said, "Huh...John...huh..." He said, "I know. I invited them." <g>

As for the moon...I guess animals can be affected by lunacy, as well
as humans. I was told in Australia that roos would hop a mile to
stand in the middle of a paved road to watch headlights approaching
them...and run over them.

I'm supposed to be affected !!

Chris (no hair growing on the palms yet)

Funny.

Ken
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